A Purpose For Amateur Radio

Imagine, you’re in an earthquake zone and you just had an earthquake… the internet and cell phones are out, power is spotty… or… Imagine you live in an hurricane prone area you just had a hurricane roll through… 95% of the cell towers were destroyed, downed trees have knocked out power over a wide area … Read more

Security is hard

Recent and not-so-recent revelations in the online world show lots of breaches in security in corporate and government spaces. It’s easy to figure out if you’ve been pwned at haveibeenpwned.com. What’s hard is securing stuff that’s been leaked. Take, for instance, LastPass., I was an all-in user of LastPass. Then came their breaches… plural. I … Read more

Yaesu FT-857D

I’m going to attempt to work my 857D into my truck. I last had it in a Ford Escape that I traded for a Jeep. I’ve owned 2 vehicles since then over 11 years. I have located everything that goes with it and also bought an MFJ-1927Y screwdriver controller for it to control the Lil’ … Read more