ND2E's Blog

This has been a really nice week, the sun has been shining and I haven’t been stuck inside except by choice. Monday before last we also had a bit of sun and even though it was a cold day I used a bit of it to hang the 40 meter hamstick dipole. It is sitting at 12 feet so it didn’t want to tune down to the CW/PSK end of the band. I used a bit of copper wire off the ends to move the resonance down to where my AT-897 could handle the SWR. It isn’t pretty but it is working. I have even made a couple of contacts with it.

I have also been working on getting caught up on the QSLs. I have a batch ready to go to the bureau and have mailed several US QSLs. Having lost the old database, I can not be sure of covering all of the offshore QSLs, so If you need a paper copy for DXCC use the contact form on my web site to let me know. Same for folks needing paper for WAS. I apologize for the delays but things have just been out of hand for a while here.

In the last couple of months, several of my friends have had significant computer problems and I have been called in to fix the problems. In all but one case it appears that the problem has been anti-virus malware causing the problems. Compounding the problems has been dirty heat exchangers/cpu coolers. They have to be cleaned every now and then.

I will be sending my ts-2000 in for service shortly to ensure that it is working properly before I sell it. I want a Elecraft K3 but need to sell off a bunch of equipment that I don’t use.

73 de ND2E