My ham radio arrived yesterday, and my call sign showed up this morning in the FCC database!* Now I’m investigating an antenna, and I need to see if I have a transformer I can use at home for DC power (it’s a mobile unit that can also be used as a base station, and the …

One modification to the parameters I set up for this blog: I can write 15 minutes only on those workdays when I’m in the office. So you’ll probably not see any posts on weekends. One aspect of homesteading is having to do lots of things for yourself that you used to pay others to do …

3.11.2009 In a hurry as always. I’ll have time to set up this blog tomorrow. I went long at lunch because I was up at the meat place getting our pig-in-boxes for the freezer, which I realized during the drive would not carry us through till next year because it’ll take our pigs longer than …