Tonight I had a friend of mine (and his wife) over for dinner. My friend Mike is an old collage buddy of mine, that helped me get my current job. I made meatloaf for them. I know what you might be thinking “meatloaf?” but that is because you never had it the way I make[…]
Well today is the last day of Christmas, it is Epiphany or the celebration of the 3 wise man arriving at the nativity. I hope every one had a great Christmas time.
Where are the so called media filters? People say you can not trust Rush Limbaugh, or blogs such as drudge report and the like, because they don’t have the filters that the media has. But I ask where are these filters? Remember the media reporting the rapes and shootings at the supper dome after Katrina,[…]
I have added 2 new blogrolls to my site on the right side. They are “GOP blog roll” and “Pro-Life blog roll” to go along with the “Conservative blogs of PA” blog roll I add. I am listed on the “Conservative blogs of PA” blogroll; I am right now trying to get listed on the[…]
I just added 3 new blogs to my news aggregator that I want to watch, the first is Rick Santorum’s official reelection blog the second is Save the GOP blog a conservative blog in PA. The last of the 3 is ProLife blogs (this one is more of an aggregator, I have also submited my[…]
It been a bit over 2 years since I got my iPod. It is a 40Gb 3g iPod, and I got it for Christmas of 2003 from my parents. It is one of the devices I use every day, and I am glad I have it every day, it is one of the best presents[…]
While going around the web I found this Atheist and Agnostic Pro-Life League. I am not sure they picked the right name for themselves, but it their site, and their self image they are promoting. One thing I think this site will be great for is since not every one is Christian, nor another religion,[…]
Back in 2004 I started my blog. But I did not start reading other’s blogs until this year. I am going to list the blogs that I started to read on a regular basis this year. Rob over at Unspace Pastor Stiegemeyer from Concordia Lutheran Church Power Ball’s blog WA3FKG’s (Ken’s) blog, a fellow Ham[…]
I just looked at the NHC’s web site, and we have Tropical Storm Zeta I wish I was joking but we have one more storm this year. It is a good thing that tomorrow is the last day of the year. I wonder what would happen if another Storm was to form, we have ran[…]
I watched the Pens game tonight. A friend of mine and I went to a “sports bar” at the water front. It was a good game. Really good game. I was impressed that the Pens won so nicely (6-2). The Pens goalie played very well. I did eat too much there.
After 2 years of faithful service, my iPods battery finally is at the end of it’s life. It lasts only about an hour now. So I have bought a new iPod battery, it should be here on the 5th. I also got a belkin backup battery pack. The battery pack uses 4 AA batteries for[…]
I think I pulled something in my back, for the last week it has been having a dull pain. Then on Monday it started to hurt allot. Today (Tuesday) I was doing some work with my Pastor (we or working on the computers for the church) and when I was moving a monitor, felt like[…]
Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good night.
1. Hot Chocolate or apple cider? Hot, spiced apple cider,I don’t like Chocolate 2. Turkey or Ham? Ham, don’t like Turkey 3. Do you get a Fake or Real you cut it yourself christmas tree? Fake. I can not justify blowing that much money on something that is going to be trashed in less then[…]
The Telegraph is running an article about how a young girl (12 years old) has been given cochlear implants and can now hear. It brings joy to my heart to read that. More so to me, then maybe it should, you see when I was born I was also deaf, I was deaf for the[…]
I saw an video recently on youtube where someone was complaining that hobbies have been ruined in recent years, he made his argument. I personally reject his argument. His argument is that influincers on either on Youtube or tiktoc have made it where people feel they have to spend a lot of money to get[…]
A while back my dad was going to get rid of his old telescope as the cover on it would not come off. I had help from a friend to get it off, but it does come off now. All that was missing at that point was an eye piece for it, and I found[…]
I was talking to a ham friend of mine about the new domain I have and said I am thinking of doing a website on the domain along with the email. And he said since it will be a ham radio website, I have to do it in 90’s style since a lot of personal[…]
Today I found out about the .radio TLD. I also found out that while it normally 200+EUR ham radio operators are given a discounted price of 25EUR (about 30USD) a year, and I thought it would be nice to have my call sign as a domain. so I registered kb3hcg.radio right now I have it[…]
I fiannly got the attena tuner today, and have set it up. Now here are some pics of my setup. First here is my setup where I sit to operate the radio. You can see the ham computer I have setup, the ham radio and the tuner, and my late mothers old shortwave radio (a[…]
While my FT-891 works great with my ATAS-120A Antenna on my car. But I been unable to get a good attena working for my FT-710, I been tring to use 2 ham sticks setup in a dipol setup, but I can not get the SWR under 5:1, so I kind of given up, so I[…]
Back on Nov 24th I went out to the DE Ham Radio Outlet, to get a Yaesu FT-710 feild. While I was out there I also picked up a FT-891 for my car, since I recently got my general upgread for my ham license. I have not had a chance to play with the FT-710[…]
The other day I went down to a local home depot to pick up some stuff to build a small attena mast for my balcony. One of the items I needed was a block of wood for the base. When I went to the wood section the guy there was helping another customer cut some[…]
Back on Oct 11, I took the test to upgread my ham licnense from Tech to general, yesterday I got the email from the FCC that my license in the database has been updated. Also last week I decided to join the ARRL. Over the years I have heard of 3 things that the ARRL[…]
Tonight I setup my 40m attena to tune around the 20m band of the ammature radio band, while I did not key up (still have yet to make any contacts on my new privileges that passing my general exam granted me) I did enjoy tuning around. It took me some time to get my attenas[…]
