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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: May 2015
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Hamvention 2015 - A trip 16 years in the making. Yeah, it's a selfie! In May of 1999, my wife and I were celebrating the news that we were expecting our first child (soon-to-be Lauren, K4LRN), and we broke the news to several of our friends as we trekked to Dayton, Ohio for our 3rd trip to Hamvention. To end all hamfests. It is a bucket list. Only to be awakened 4 hours.
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: January 2014
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Monday, January 6, 2014. Wouxun.us no longer selling (some) Wouxun radios. It seems that US/China relations are a bit rocky for Import Communications. The distributor for Wouxun radios.until now. Reports that Ed Griffin (W4KMA) at Import Communications has been unhappy with the support that the Wouxun - pronounced "Oh-sheng" - folks have provided (or rather haven't. When you go to Wouxun.us...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: Radio Shack (1921-2015)
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Is about to file for Bankruptcy, selling 1/3 of it's stores to Sprint Corporation, the remaining stored being liquidated. That focused less on the tech and more on the bottom line. Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III. And walking into the back of the store and tinker with the TRS-80's (affectionately called " Trash-80's. That were on sale. I'd have loved to own one, but...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: February 2015
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Is about to file for Bankruptcy, selling 1/3 of it's stores to Sprint Corporation, the remaining stored being liquidated. That focused less on the tech and more on the bottom line. Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III. And walking into the back of the store and tinker with the TRS-80's (affectionately called " Trash-80's. That were on sale. I'd have loved to own one, but...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: November 2014
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Saturday, November 8, 2014. Jason Roach, KF4VDX, SK. Jason Roach, KF4VDX, and his wife Kris. This is a post I've been dreading to publish for awhile now. One of my best friends ever, Jason Roach, KF4VDX, became a "silent key" this past Thursday after an 18-month battle with prostate cancer. It's been almost 2 years since another friend of ours, Tom Ogle, passed away. During a "dark period", whi...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: September 2013
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Wayne Green, W2NSD "Never Say Die" is now dead. I just found out Wayne Green passed away recently. He was 91 years of age. You may recall I posted. About an "exchange" we had a while back about his old magazine, 73. It didn't go very well and my naivete had a bit to do with that. S old syndicated overnight radio show " Coast to Coast. Links to this post. But it's too...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: September 2014
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Sunday, September 21, 2014. A decade of decline? I found this interesting while checking out Google Trends. If you enter certain search terms, you can see the amount of traffic generated by the search terms going back to 2004. So I tried "ham radio" and "amateur radio" for comparison:. Check out the full report. And see what you think. Links to this post. Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Picture Win...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: US-based BridgeCom producing sub-$100 220 MHz HT
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. US-based BridgeCom producing sub-$100 220 MHz HT. I find it rather ironic that 20 years ago, a lot of the "old timers" in ham radio were saying that the expense. Of the hobby was going to kill. Ham radio, how $200 HT's and $300 mobiles and $500 HF rigs were going to suck the life out of the hobby and that it was going to deter new hams from coming in. Hams, into gett...
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: July 2015
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Sunday, July 19, 2015. SSTV from the ISS. Apollo-Soyuz: July 17-19, 1975. Is doing a special event. This weekend commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz. Linkup by sending some slow-scan television ( SSTV. Images earthward to stations on the ground who can pick up their signal on 145.800 FM. To the settings necessary and waited. And this is the image I received, unfiltered:.
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files: November 2013
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The "Hot Spicy Mustard" Files. A weblog by Greg Williams, K4HSM discussing mostly amateur radio and FCC issues. Sunday, November 10, 2013. A movie short about Radio Hams, circa 1939. Taken from the description on Youtube. This little vintage film, a rather more serious film than many of Pete Smith's other presentations, takes a look at how ham radios can become priceless aids during emergencies. The two stories shown, one dealing with the sudden illness of noted movie Cameraman Clyde de Vinna (W6OJ).
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