Not a lot under the sun
It has been a busy few weeks, but without much going on in ham-radio land. I did attend the HARC meeting early in the month, where we talked about my possibly taking over their newsletter, and where Tom showed a pretty interesting video of David Hathaway—NASA’s expert on the solar cycle and space weather—giving a talk at last year’s Huntsville Hamfest. And while his earlier predictions and hopes for a big cycle 24 are not really bearing out among his peers, it was pretty interesting to see him talk about the models experts use and their interactions in specialists’ literature and behind the scenes at their conferences.
In a somewhat more optimistic light, I did manage to remove the case screws on my Yaesu HF rig—big whoop, I know—and briefly test the output of its companion power supply. I didn’t have the tools I needed at the bench to do more than that, but it’s a start.
