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Galaxy Season

by Al March 19, 2026
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Here’s an interesting astronomical tidbit that people who don’t follow astronomy probably are unaware of. If you look into the night sky in the spring between March and June, the sky will seem dull and relatively few stars will be visible. Contrast this to looking at the same sky in the fall and early winter where you will view all sorts of bright stars and, if you’re in a dark site, you might even see the arc of the Milky Way and the faint glow of nebulae and star clusters. This is a result of the Earth’s rotation around the sun. If you remember your basic astronomy, the sun is located in the Milky Way galaxy and is positioned about …

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March 19, 2026 0 comments
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Personal

The Wind Storm of 26

by Al March 18, 2026
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We had a pretty intense and unexpected wind storm on Monday night. Some wind had been predicted by the weather prognosticators, but unless I missed something, the storm was much more violent than what they were saying it would be. I’m pretty sure that I had read winds at about 15 to 20 miles an hour with gusts hitting 40 miles an hour but I suspect it was a lot worse than that. There was also some heavy rain that came at the beginning of the storm but that quickly dissipated leaving only the winds behind. We both ended up sleeping downstairs because there appeared to be potential for falling trees and at least with the second floor between us …

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March 18, 2026 0 comments
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The Obnoxious Award Show

by Al March 17, 2026
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The Academy Awards took place on Sunday night and as usual, I went out of my way not to watch. Why is it that so called ‘creatives’ always feel the need to get together, pat themselves on the backs and tell the world how special they are? Possible low self esteem? You don’t see awards ceremonies for plumbers, factory workers or garbage men and I would say that each of those groups do more to benefit society than any of the people that play pretend for a living. It’s not bad enough that they’re obsessed with themselves, but they also believe that their ability to act somehow gives them the right to lecture the rest of us about politics and …

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March 17, 2026 0 comments
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The Plant

by Al March 16, 2026
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I’m not a gardener. I have little interest in gardening and frankly, I don’t have the patience to plant something, take care of it and invest time and money into it while hoping that the bugs, birds and animals won’t eat it. That said, a number of years back I was shopping at Target looking for a notebook and while browsing through the aisle, came across a small little plant that had been abandoned by someone and was sitting on the shelf all by itself. Now, I’m not a particularly sensitive guy (ask my wife), but I felt bad for the little thing. It was kind of cute and it was just sad to see it sitting there by itself, …

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The Thirty Eight Hundred Dollar Mouse

by Al March 15, 2026
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Throughout the winter my wife’s Subaru Forester, kept having battery problems. One day it would start, a few days later it wouldn’t. I trickle charged it a number of times (a really fun task when the temperature outside is five degrees) to get it up and running again but it didn’t seem to help, a few days would pass and I’d have to go through the whole process again. The battery was pretty new, I had just bought it last year, but I assumed it was just a defective battery so I pulled it out one morning and took it to Advance Auto Parts to get it charged and tested. They called back in the afternoon and told me it …

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March 15, 2026 0 comments
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Amateur RadioTechnology

Configuring N1MM Logger for use with Yaesu FTDX101D

by Al March 14, 2026
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This is the second in a series of articles that I’m posting that will describe the process you need to go through to configure different programs to work with the Yaesu FTDX101D transceiver. I’m doing these articles because I just recently went through the setup process on my own system and found while there’s plenty of information out there, it’s sometimes confusing and often doesn’t fully describe what is happening during configuration process. I hope that these articles will simplify things and help other users that might be intimidated by the complexity of setting up their hardware. Before starting the process, you should review my previous post, ‘Installing and Configuring Device Drivers for the Yaesu FTDX101D’ to make sure your …

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MoviesReviews

Barry Lyndon

by Al March 13, 2026
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I was looking for a movie to watch the other night and after doing a bit of searching, came across Barry Lyndon. The movie came out in 1975 and was directed by Stanley Kubrick, a man whose movies are almost always interesting. I’ve seen a lot of Kubrick’s movies such as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket and found all of them worth watching. Somehow though I had missed out on Barry Lyndon. I was aware of the movie but I just never thought it looked interesting enough to spend time watching. I checked out its IMDB rating which was …

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March 13, 2026 0 comments
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Amateur RadioTechnology

Installing and Configuring Device Drivers for the Yaesu FTDX101D

by Al March 12, 2026
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Overview This document is an attempt to explain the connections that are needed to interface a computer with the Yaesu FTDX101D, what each of those connections does and what you need to do to get your computer talking to your rig. While it’s written for the FTDX101D, I suspect the same information will apply to any modern Yaesu transceiver and with some minor changes could also be used to set up non-Yaesu rigs. Connecting your computer to your transceiver allows you to do all sorts of interesting things. You can control your rig from your computer, automate the logging process, run software that allows you to communicate with others using the various digital modes and many other things. While researching …

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March 12, 2026 0 comments
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Amateur Radio

Understanding VC Tune for the Yaesu FTDX-101D

by Al March 4, 2026
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I just upgrade my amateur radio setup with a new FTDX-101D and was trying to understand how VC tuning is accomplished on the radio. The manual didn’t really explain why two buttons of the same name were used and a search on the Internet found no information. Even AI didn’t have an answer. So I dug in the old fashioned way and started experimenting. I’m sharing what I found out here, hoping it might help someone else. VC-Tune (Variable Capacitor Tune) – it can attenuate interfering signals directly at the receiving frequency.  It can be turned on to attenuate the strong jamming signals that cannot be removed even with BPF (Band Pass Filter).  If there is no interfering signal, turn …

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March 4, 2026 0 comments
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Cookie Inflation

by Al March 13, 2023
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I purchased some Lemon Oreos yesterday and when I opened them today found that each row in the package was missing either two or three cookies. (See above photo) I don’t know if this was a packaging mistake or just the way they sell them. It’s possible that they share packaging between the different types of Oreos and that the lemon version are more expensive so they put in less. It’s also possible that they just started including fewer Oreos to keep from having to raise the price as a consequence of Biden’s inflation. No matter what, it doesn’t give the customer a good first impression of the product when you open the package. On the same store trip, while …

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March 13, 2023 0 comments
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