I have not posted here (or uploaded a YouTube video) in some time. Life got busy.
For one thing, I have relocated from Detroit-ish to mid-Michigan. Last summer, my wife and I bought a small place on a wooded double lot, thinking it would be vacation-space and fixer-upper to one day be retirement home. Because both of our jobs are in IT and mostly remote, we found our selves here full time by the end of the year.
Since then I have been building and expanding the radio setup here. As of now I am using an 80 Meter end fed half wave for HF and a discone for VHF/UHF. Neither is perfectly mounted, or perfect at all, but it’s got me on the air and active.
My interest in digital modes has expanded, and I still prefer the chattier modes to ft8 (I get bored quickly just playing contact roulette) and recently have been trying out Packet (finally, after it being one of the modes I was most interested in 1994 when i started this mess). I think Packet will get it’s own post in the future.
Anyway I am still out here. I also just got signed up on mastodon.radio, a, you guessed it, radio-centric Mastodon server.
More to come, he said, knowing full well this could sit a while.