My daughter graduated college and moved back home, necessitating a need for me moving my work area. After I set up my work desk and ham shack in the former dining room. Further completing the experience, I have the antenna running right out the back of the house up into a tree. I recently built […]
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With the Fiery Furnace trip scheduled, I juggled a few of my days there to maximize my awake time. The itinerary was not hugely different: Day Overnight Original Plan Final Plan 0 Salt Lake City 1 Moab, UT Potter’s Pond, geocaching added hiking in Arches NP 2 Moab Arches National Park Canyonlands, Dead Horse Point;
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One of the rare holidays we receive is Columbus Day. (Seriously?) I’d planned to spend a four-day weekend visiting Arches National Park, when I found some vacation “under the couch,” and extended it to a whole ten days, then added destinations onto that. The plan was to fly to Salt Lake City Friday evening, spend
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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. The overall task is to produce a set of charts for a customer. Python loads an Excel workbook, a time-series data set is updated
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General advice to get started on single call mode in Morse Runner (Ken Tucker, WF6F, Jim Carson, WT8P): Accuracy is more important than speed. Wait until the sending station is done transmitting before you respond. If you respond over him, immediately hit the escape key to stop. Scoring increases as you go along (see below).