I went to the ham shop (“the candy store”) on Saturday all excited because I was going to buy a Yaesu FT-857D for the truck. Much to my disappointment, they were all sold out as of Friday. I hope to have my grubby hands on a unit this week sometime. I hear the Belton hamfest coming up is pretty hot, I’m curious to see what I can pick up. I’d like to lay my hands on an antenna analyzer and ridiculously expensive coax.
Morse is coming along nicely. I realized today that I’d also have to test on numbers, punctuation, and some extra symbols, blah.
I think my partner bruised a rib or cracked my breastbone or something from practice the other day. I’ve got this spot on my chest, where if I press it or am leaned forward when breathing hard, it’s a dull uncomfortable pain.
