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J-Poles

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 11, 2010

I don’t think I will fully understand anntennas. A friend gave me a J-Pole for 2 meter ham band, does very well only 1.2 SWR on, it. for fun I tried to do a 70cm transmition on it. I figured I would do it for less then a second thinking that the SWR would be[…]

What a day

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Published on: August 29, 2010

Today I was a bit busy.  After church I did not get home till late since they were doing construction on 66 (I have to go up to Alexandria for church as there are, to my knowledge any good confessional/liturgical churches in SoMD)  So I decided on the way home to stop for some food[…]

New Blog Setup

Categories: Blog Stuff, Web Site
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Published on: August 4, 2010

As you might have noticed I have redone, my blog.  I have also kept my old posts, to do that, I had to first go to WP 2.0 get a script to import my bblog posts (comments and categories) migrate them to WP 2.0, then after that I removed the files for WP 2.0 and[…]

Pictures from a hike I did on Friday

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Published on: August 2, 2010

Cleaned up some files on my web space

Categories: Web Site
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Published on: August 2, 2010

Well I decided to clean up some files on my domain, that are not being used anymore, along with some databases for things that have been removed from my web site a while back, I had a lot of legacy stuff there. But now it is clean, for me to do more stuff to it.

PVGP 2010

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Published on: July 26, 2010

On the weekend of the 24 and 25 of July I helped out in the PVGP again as a ham radio operator. I have a few pictures you can see them at http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=55 (also for the record I did not take these pictures, one of the flag operators took them for me, I am having[…]

Rev. Matthew Harrison First Presidential Address

Categories: Church
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Published on: July 13, 2010

GREAT most excelant news out of the synod today

Categories: Church
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Published on: July 13, 2010

Matthew Harrison defeated the old pres of the synod, maybe we can get the synod to go back to it’s confessional roots. This is truly a gift from God With the attempt of the old president attempt at a power grab, this is just poetic justice. This just might be the start of the path[…]

Pics from back on Field day of this year

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: July 11, 2010

http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=54 enjoy.

Needed a new Battery for my HT radio

Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio
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Published on: July 8, 2010

Well I needed a new Battery for my VX-5. I went into a Batteries+ plus store and find that they are now $104, to much if you ask me. So I decided to be cheap… I built a new Battery see the pics below As you can see from the radio display it is getting[…]

Got my verizon DSL up and cancled comcast

Categories: Technology
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Published on: April 20, 2010

Finally I am off of comcast. When I called in to cancel the comcast account talk about hostal, the person tried to tell me I did not know anything about computers and my setup was all wrong and I was causing my own problem. At that point I got angry and told him 1) I[…]

Just 6 more days

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Published on: April 14, 2010

6 more days and my Verizon DSL will be up and I will be able to cancel comcast. I hope they get it up faster then by the 20th, I got the modem today, I just have to hold till they turn things on.

Well I will be ditching comcast

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Published on: April 12, 2010

As I type this post I am on hold with verizon, I am going to dump comcast and get DSL. Why am I dumping comcast, well I am tired of horrible connectivity to no connectivity. it is every day from 6pm to 8pm. I finally had it today when I called in for the second[…]

Just some music I have played recently

Categories: Irish Tin Whistle
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Published on: March 30, 2010

Just some music I have played recently, hope you all enjoy it, I know I am not the greatest player but still it is some nice music and I enjoy playing it.

Comcast (aka comcrap) in SoMD sucks

Categories: Technology
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Published on: March 28, 2010

For the last 2 weeks I have had the most unstable internet connection, if it was not for the fact that comcrap had a monopoly here I would drop them so fast, but there is on other option, no fios, no other real high speed options, if fios ever comes to Indian Head MD I[…]

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