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Happenings After more than 40 years, the popular weekly Houston AMSAT Net went QRT on October 13th.

A nice Friday morning in the Heartland despite a little rain.

I hate anyone who rings my front door bell trying to sell me something.

Happenings Zero Retries Digital Conference (ZRDC) 2026 will be held on Friday, October 16, 2026 at the Roundhouse Conference Center in San Ramon, California (San Francisco Bay Area), USA.

The cold wind was stiff enough that Don was having some trouble walking across the field behind his cabin.

My buddy Mitch, N8XS, recently took a photo of the moon from southwestern Ohio using a Nikon P1100 bridge camera.

An old man was rocking on the porch after dinner one evening at the local choke and puke, intent on his whittling.

I jumped on the Kindle bandwagon when it was first announced in 2008.

Happenings ERMINAZ-2 Satellites in Orbit - a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifted off from Vandenberg in California after a slight delay.

Seasons are changing, and it’s not just the weather.

Happenings WSJT-X 3.2.0 introduces a new mode, JTTY, along with new capabilities in Q65, MAP65, and QMAP and a large number of improvements and bug fixes.

I believe any difficulty in attracting and retaining new amateur radio enthusiasts comes down to a shortage of a very particular kind of imagination, not curiosity in general, which I don’t think is in decline, but the sprawling, restless kind that used to

Click here to register for ZRDC 2026 We are excited to announce the registration for our second Zero Retries Digital Conference (ZRDC 2026) is now open!

The name for the festival of the Autumn Equinox in Druidry is Alban Elfed, which means ‘The Light of the Water’ The Wheel turns and the time of balance returns.

Happenings Doug Hendricks, KI6DS co-founder of NorCal, the Northern California QRP Club, became a Silent Key this week.

Steve, K9ZW recently summarized his visit to the W9DXCC convention near Chicago.

My biggest time sink had grown to become YouTube.

Happenings The remarkably long daily streak of making at least one QRP CW contact each day came to an end at 11,654 days when popular Western Pennsylvania radioman John Shannon, K3WWP was hospitalized for several months this summer.

9/11 Memorial 2026 - Muncie, Indiana I remember where I was when the news began to break on September 11, 2001.

Question, is World War Three already underway?

Happenings Still don't have the primary station back on the air.

Handy to have my log and DX stats available wherever I roam in a phone app.

Well.

Welcome September!

Can you believe it’s almost September, already?

Forty-eight years ago today my wife and I were wed at a small church in East Central Indiana.

Look for me, Bumblebee 10, in the upcoming fall edition of the FOBB.

Having become firmly convinced that climate change has terraformed Indiana into the globe’s next major rainforest, my feed lines have been disconnected for the last ten days.