WT8P's Notes to Self

After a year, my new Elecraft K4D has arrived.

The second half of my geocation was in Colorado.

In 2004, I was pondering saving for my kids’ college tuition, considering my options between Washington’s Guaranteed Education Tuition program and the Missouri MOST 529.

Day 1: Denver Intergalactic Airport to Arikaree (GC31) and Mingo (GC30) I took the early flight from Seattle to Denver, not checking a bag to hasten my departure from the airport in hopes of grabbing Mingo (GC30) — the oldest active geocache — and Arikaree

When the immunization rate in western WA got high enough, the state began opening up a little, leading our first requests to support public events in nearly 18 months.

[From mid-2008] My dishwasher’s been making a bad grinding noise that, I think, is the remnant of a broken coffee cup sloshing around in the sprayer assembly.

During the latter part of my Basic class, when students were becoming more engaged, we ran into several problems with the email and text messaging.

During the last week of June, there was a crazy forecast.

To celebrate the oven’s 10th birthday, the “hot surface” light would come on more often (such as running the oven, but not burner) and stay on up to three hours (!)

There is also a walkthrough of N1MM+ here that I did for my intermediate class earlier this week.

Sending in-class: Compose two “Dad Jokes” to send.

We’re at the two-thirds/homestretch-ish point in the class.

For Session 8 sending in class: What are your three most valued (to you) household appliances and/or power tools?

As we all have felt, it’s quite normal to feel self-induced pressure at not maintaining perfection and, God forbid, be tempted to drop out and do it another time.

Sessions 4 and 5 repeat the prior sessions, but bump up the Farnsworth speed to 5 then 6.

The basic class — which I really wish existed when I took CW Academy – serves as a bridge between beginner and intermediate.

I will be teaching my adult children how to drive and found it helpful to cobble together a syllabus of activities.

For our last, unstructured session, we’ll do some more sending and copying using these lists of fruits and vegetables, and animals.

This is the ad hoc, unscripted part of the course.

For the bonus homework: Compose an amateur radio-related haiku, a three-line poem where the lines are 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively.

For the bonus homework: The session includes abbreviations and pro signs.

Prepare to send QSO information about the weather, rig (if you don’t have one, what you would buy with unfettered use of the CW Academy AmEx card), and the year you became a ham.

In the official CWOPS Beginner Book, session 11 is divided into copying segments: [Your callsign] de k6rbur rst 579 nr sf name rob hw?

Session 10 covers Q, X, Z and .

Session 9 covers ****, 8, J and K, and introduces the first pro-sign, ****.

Session 8, introduces the letters B and V.

Session 7, introduces the letters G and P, the numbers 7 and 9, and the / character.

Session 6, introduces the letters F and Y.

Session 5, introduces the letters M and W, the numbers **3 **and 6, and our first punctuation, ?.

Session 4 introduced the letters U and C.

Session 3 introduced the letters D, H, L (my favorite Morse letter), R and the numbers 2 and 5.

Note: In the official CWOPS Beginner Book, session 2 covers the letters **I, O, S **and the numbers 1 and 4.

Note: In the official CWOPS Beginner Book, session 1 covers the letters A, E, N and T.

**Note:**I’m advising a Morse Code (CW) beginner course and wanted to capture my notes, questions that have come up, as well as making updates and corrections.

I have had some interest in experimenting with satellite radio.

Here it is in August, and it feels like the year has been a dumpster-full-of-doo-doo on fire, about to be hit by murder hornets riding an asteroid.

My daughter graduated college and moved back home, necessitating a need for me moving my work area.

Solo Travel Breakfast of Champions With the Fiery Furnace trip scheduled, I juggled a few of my days there to maximize my awake time.

One of the rare holidays we receive is Columbus Day.

Python searches a variety of directories for its libraries, something I had largely lived in peace with until I had to modify some legacy code to address a suspected timing bug.

Last update: 2024-04-14 TL;DR We are extremely lazy and uninterested in collecting your personal data.

General advice to get started on single call mode in Morse Runner (Ken Tucker, WF6F, Jim Carson, WT8P): Accuracy is more important than speed.

Some time ago, I’d been in hiring mode for a business analyst for my team and “had a few thoughts” that I have kept in draft form for some time.

The Seattle area is large enough that there are regular college fairs where throngs of potential students and parents wander aisles of a cacophonous hall of the Washington State Convention Center, seeking out schools they’ve possibly heard of and picking…

(Notes to self, Continued from part 1.)

Happy Lighthouse is Happy Finding a time that all of the family schedules line up, and is not so last-minute that activities are sold out or excessively expensive, led to an over-accumulation of vacation time at the end of the year.

There were scant formalized opportunities for field day this year as local clubs either didn’t have a formal program (Redmond) or weren’t actively open (Issaquah), so I joined my friend K7IP in Ocean Shores to mess around with radios and do some geocachin…

Part of my volunteer work for Eastside Fire & Rescue Fire Corps involved helping out with non-suppression activities at the Washington State fire training facility east of Seattle.

I’ve finished a month of QSOs and thought it’d be fun to look at the results.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.