Every year many people (students) get mad that CMU does not have Martin Luther King Jr. Day off. But I think in an odd way this is very good. No I am not against the observance of Martin Luther King on this day. Here is why I think in an odd way it is good[…]
WEll today I found how bad the internet has made things. First I was tring to buy something at microcenter, tried to use samsung wallet. Well again it wanted me to open unlock the phone so it chould show me some random ad. I did that quickly and quickly closed the phone and tried again,[…]
Years ago I use to have a radio shack police scanner, but since most places have gone to digital/trunced system, it no longer worked. So today while I was at Ham Radio Outlet, I deceded to get one that they had as a open box deal. It is a Uniden BCD436HP. It is a nice[…]
(Originally posted this over on my ham radio only site https://kb3hcg.radio) Well I found a good reason to have both 2m and 70cm calling freqs progreammed into ones mobile radio when traveling. I always knew the value of 2m National calling Freq, I found out that having the 70cm National calling freq also is also[…]
At around 8:30pm a fire broke out in the apartment below the one I live in. Good news is the damage appently is only in that apartment, the rest of the apartments have been deamed livable, so at 10:30pm we were able to return to our homes. My poor cat was scared by all the[…]
I been getting so many scam calls lately it was once a week, then 2 times a week then once a day, today I got 5. I am so tired of it I just want to block all phone calls. I have found that if I put my phone in do not disturb, I can[…]
For a bit over 10 years I have wanted to get a 3D printer. Last Sunday I was down at Microcenter and the bambu A1 combo was on sale. So I picked it up with some Filament. I thought it would be fun to maybe try to make some stuff. But what I did not[…]
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[…]
