Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Welcome to Handiham World.

Cartoon world with radio tower

Horn of plenty with fruit and Yaesu HT.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Handiham office will be closed for the 2014 United States Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday, November 27-28.  We will reopen on Monday morning, December 1.  There will be no weekly new audio notification on Thursday or Friday. 
Handiham nets continue on their usual schedule, though if there is no net control station available the net will be a simple roundtable. In past years people have discussed things for which they are thankful. 

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Switching between antennas? 

Let's think about this a little.  Do you have more than one antenna and use these antennas with a single radio?  If so, you are either using antenna switches or connecting and disconnecting coaxial lines manually. 
two position antenna switch
Manually switching feedlines gets old quickly.  It's okay if you are running a short test or some such thing, but if you have a need to change antennas on a regular basis, you will want to have an antenna switch in place.

Read or listen to the entire podcast here.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 12 November 2014

The problem with clouds

Guy shaking fist at broken computer
No, I'm not talking about the kind of clouds that float in the sky above us.  The ones that are bugging me lately are the computing "clouds", which store data and perform operations for us from some computer server farm so that the data or the data processing software do not have to be stored locally on our own computers or devices.  

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 05 November 2014

This special event exceeded expectations!

TS-590S and antenna tuner
The 2014 "Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald" Split Rock Lighthouse Special Event is now history.  It's been a long-standing tradition in my radio club, but I had never participated. This year things worked out and my wife and I planned a weekend getaway that would allow us to stop by the event location on the first day of setup and operation.  It turned out to be a good decision, because everything about it exceeded our expectations.

Read or listen to the entire edition here.