Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2006
Last night at a party Burton and I got a craving for brisket. It was around midnight, which guaranteed everything was close. Apparently that wasn’t the case, a place called Sam’s BBQ on east 12th stays open until 2 AM. We went there and it was pretty typical east Austin, but they had some good […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2006
I finally finished installing my new Tarheel antenna on the truck. I needed a way to mount it up on the bed rail for the best performance yet be able to easily fold it down to clear the parking garage at work. I spent all week looking for a fold-down mount that would readily mount […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2006
This morning I ventured up to Belton to the hamfest. It was an early crowd, when I got there at 11:30 people were already packing up their tables and leaving. Some new kit, but mostly old odd gear. I decided a while back I wasn’t going to get a Yaesu ATAS-120 after readng the horror […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2006
After careful consideration, I’ve decided the ham radio community is exactly like the Linux community. Except instead of teenagers, you’re dealing with fairly articulate greybeards. People who take themselves way too seriously, more with strong opinions that can’t *possibly* be proven incorrect, and lots of smackdown to anyone who is unaware or ignorant (usually newbies) […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2006
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2006
The FCC issued my callsign today. I’m KE5KOA.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2006
Yay! I passed my element 2 and element 3 amateur license tests! This will give me a Technician license whenever the FCC gets around to processing it over the next couple of weeks. When I solve Morse, I’ll be able to get my General license. They let me keep taking tests until I failed, so […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
I got my Yaesu VX-7R today. Rigged up with the 50 MHz extension, I was flipping through the shortwave radio stations from my apartment. I managed to pick up Radio Nederland (very faint), Radio Italia, China Radio International, and some French station. Went outside and picked up 5-6 stations really clear. So awesome, it was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2006
I saw Snakes On A Plane tonight. I was expecting it to be cheesy, and it didn’t let me down. I laughed hard, a lot. The entire audience erupted into cheers when Samuel Jackson said his hotly anticipated line. After a while I got the idea they were going to use the rapper’s anti-bacterial lotion […]
