tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post4939686878374958123..comments2024-03-26T20:17:30.126-07:00Comments on Every Blade of Grass: Yard Looks Great, Hamfest Was Fun, and Some Snow On The Waydrjimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-10596958301142877032018-01-25T15:50:57.762-08:002018-01-25T15:50:57.762-08:00Beats the Peoples Democratic Republic of Californi...Beats the Peoples Democratic Republic of California anyway, though!Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-42259024208429257162018-01-22T20:26:32.892-08:002018-01-22T20:26:32.892-08:00Thanks. A mutual friend from the Iowa (Dave Z.) wa...Thanks. A mutual friend from the Iowa (Dave Z.) was just released from the hospital after having a stroke. He appears to be bouncing back pretty well, but no more driving, and his speech will require some therapy.drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-35178262856741446292018-01-22T20:24:43.865-08:002018-01-22T20:24:43.865-08:00I'm waiting to see what, if any, "car sce...I'm waiting to see what, if any, "car scene" is here. I'm almost certain to have the only MKII Supra in Fort Collins.<br /><br />And the radio tribe seems to be a good bunch of guys and gals here. I would have been really upset if there wasn't any Ham Radio community here.<br /><br />The snow this time of year is the dry fluffy stuff the skiers love. You can almost broom it away. The stuff that comes in March and April is the wet nasty stuff that weighs 30 pounds per shovel full!<br /><br />I'm definitely getting a snow blower before that stuff hits.....drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-4917106593891107002018-01-22T16:46:55.664-08:002018-01-22T16:46:55.664-08:00LOL, glad you're settling in!LOL, glad you're settling in!Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-46425004505720205712018-01-22T15:17:38.943-08:002018-01-22T15:17:38.943-08:00Dr. Jim, you sure seem to have settled in out in y...Dr. Jim, you sure seem to have settled in out in your new place. Good that you found all the radio people , I know you miss your cronies on the battleship, but at least there are similar souls in Colorado.<br /><br />You can have that snow. After the appalling weather here for the last few weeks, my appreciation of winter wonderlands has dimmed considerably.<br /><br />Fortunately, we have mild weather and rain now, and nothing "arctic" in the immediate forecast.Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-48741401733592162702018-01-22T11:15:01.773-08:002018-01-22T11:15:01.773-08:00We're under the "normal" snowfall so...We're under the "normal" snowfall so far this year. All our in-laws and the locals we've made friends with are saying when this happens we usually get clobbered in March and early April with heavy, wet late-spring snow. The last time we visited here before we moved was in March about a year ago, and we had a heavy, wet snow that broke branches all over town.<br /><br />The had the National Guard out here helping to clean up!drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-26564289689430882842018-01-21T17:35:33.686-08:002018-01-21T17:35:33.686-08:00Jealous of your snow; we had maybe a centimeter an...Jealous of your snow; we had maybe a centimeter and the county freaked out... saying that, after living in Alberta maybe the Texas heat's better? Tough call!LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-86820796141085354452018-01-21T16:05:53.969-08:002018-01-21T16:05:53.969-08:00I have the mate to your Big Box of Misc!
And 20 o...I have the mate to your Big Box of Misc!<br /><br />And 20 or so 1 cu ft boxes of misc to go with it. It <i>was</i> about 100 boxes, but I consolidated/threw away/gave away most of them.<br /><br />The big swap meet at TRW in SoCal is about 3 times the size of this one, but it's outdoors, and has a lot of commercial vendors, and about 25% of the stuff is NOT radio related.<br /><br />This one had little else BUT Ham Radio gear. And everybody was ambulatory. The numbers of Hams riding scooters was ZERO, unlike in SoCal. It was refreshing to see!drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-41159099661311302442018-01-21T13:32:29.417-08:002018-01-21T13:32:29.417-08:00She hears the word "blizzard" the other ...She hears the word "blizzard" the other day and freaked. <br /><br />Might take more than one winter to get her used to this....drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-43060146669009879932018-01-21T08:13:48.532-08:002018-01-21T08:13:48.532-08:00In and around the couple of shack related projects...In and around the couple of shack related projects I've been documenting, I've been cleaning and trying to organize the shack. It does no good to have a single 32 cubic foot box labelled "miscellaneous", but it was close to that. <br /><br />Our big hamfest of the year is coming in a few weeks, so part of it is making a list of things to keep an eye out for. I have a box about the size of a big shoe box full of bread slicers and a roller inductor or two, so those aren't very tempting. The only amplifier I'd be likely to build would be a 2m/432 amp, and most likely that would be an LDMOS FET. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901205574058136834.post-37669268521900485132018-01-21T05:37:11.276-08:002018-01-21T05:37:11.276-08:00Hope your wife isn't disappointed. Hopefully s...Hope your wife isn't disappointed. Hopefully she will be acclimated before we get one of the epic blizzards that occur every five years or so.Well Seasoned Foolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16670165728759453075noreply@blogger.com