Moving on up

Like the Jeffersons, I have moved on up – to my own web site, actually. My blog now lives at Imaginary Three Dimensional Blackboard, a concept that intrigues me. If you came here as a result of a stale link, please update your bookmarks.

Thanks,

John

(P.S. I find, though, that when I exported this blog to XML  to move it to the new blog, URLs pointing here didn’t morph to point there, so sometimes you get back here unexpectedly. And I’m too lazy to fix all of the links, so that’ll happen on occasion.)

Holy CRAP! The radio works!

Those of you who are truly fans (OK, all one of you) might remember that I asked for a radio kit (the Rock-Mite) for Christmas. Well, my brother-in-law Art drew my name in the Secret Santa list, and bought the thing for me.

I had some time off between Christmas and New Year’s, and I built it. It’s finally encased in an Altoids tin (the preferred radio enclosure for the QRP crowd), and it actually works! I haven’t made a contact on it yet, but it does put in a booming signal to my “big” radio, an Icom IC-756Pro.

Here’s a picture:

I even bought it a toy – That aluminum block to the right is a KK1 “straight key” from American Morse Equipment which also came as a kit. When I get a few bucks ahead in my “war chest” I’m planning to buy the KK2 paddle kit to go with it. This isn’t to say that I really know Morse Code all that well, but I’m practicing and getting better.