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Sad.  But failure has consequences my friends. http://hamhijinks.com/finger-pointing-name-calling-as-club-fails-miserably-at-field-day/...

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that this chain of stores is sometimes referred to as "America's Temple of Pseudo-Sci...

I decided to make my book "Us and Them -- An American Family Spends Ten Years with FOREIGNERS" available to a wider audience. T...

First, I need to make clear that that is NOT me in the picture above.  This year I chose to compete as an "E" station:  ...

More like this one here: http://marsmobile.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/resources/mars-posters-explorers-wanted/ Bill, Doesn't this fa...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/230637-flat-science-budgets-could-kill-the-arecibo-observatory-the-worlds-largest-telescope

Hi Bill, Pete "The Crossword Guy" K4PHS here again. In the New York Times Crossword for Tuesday June 21, 2016 the clue for 52...

I was quite pleased with the valuable items obtained at the Manassas Virginia Hamfest this morning.  Armand WA1UQO and I once again combi...

We have featured the amazing homebrew work of PA3GSV before: http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-mate-for-mighty-midget-thermatr...

I found this in my junk box.   I've put it in my old Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver, in the place of the Toyo  CM455 crystal-m...

Our ace correspondent Bob Crane W8SX caught up with Eric Schwartz WA6HHQ of Elecraft at the FDIM event n Dayton last month.    Here is Bob...

Steve Silverman sent me this link .  This web site has been getting a lot of attention from the solder melting community.  And justifiabl...