Intertype Machine (equivalent to Linotype).
Photo: AK4OL CC-BY-3.0-US.
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It isn’t ARRL field day. It isn’t even a ham radio event. But it will interest many hams interested in old technology. It is an annual event with Steam Engines, Tractors, Humongous Diesel Engine, Saw mills, Machine Shops, Blacksmith Shop, Wood Shop, Rock crushers, steam shovels, Print shop including Intertype machine (similar to linotype), Wooden Spoon factory, Weaving Looms, spinning wheels, and sewing machines, Tools, corn shellers, cotton gin, sorgam mill, Petting Zoo, Panning for Gold, Old Fire Engines.… Read the rest

Wayne Green from his Last 73 Editorial Column.

Wayne Green died September 13, 2013. He was editor of CQ magzine for 5 years and then publisher of a number of Ham Radio and Computing magazines, as well as some other publications considerably less grounded in reality, including: 73, Byte Magazine, Kilobaud Microcomputing, 80 Micro, CD Review, Cold Fusion, RUN, InCider, and Pico.… Read the rest

Garmin Nuvi 255W GPS
Photo: AK4OL, CC-BY-3.0-US

Do you know how to get coordinates in and out of your GPS? As staggering as this is, given that latitude and longitude are the fundamental units a GPS works with, many older car GPS units don’t let you enter or retrieve these coordinates.… Read the rest

Preliminary sketchup model of future makerspace.
Photo: Michael Asaro and Google

The local maker group organizer is taking possession of the rental property to be used for his woodworking business and the future local makerspace (Community Shop) on Nov 1. The shopping center which houses this happens to be having an open house from 2PM to 6PM this saturday 2013-09-14 and the Maker Group will have a table set out.… Read the rest

Hot Air Balloon over Panera
During AARC Breakfast Gathering
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Photo Credit: Mark Whitis AK4OL
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Mike Gilmore K8RVR writes:

Coffee and Danish sound good to you?

This is a reminder for those not going to the VA Beach Hamfest, this Saturday is our bi-weekly breakfast gathering.

Here is the book Bob K4DU held up at the picnic, the self-published memoirs of our our own blind ham Joe Giovanelli, W2PVY. You can buy it at iUniverse or Amazon Amazon; but you might check with Joe first about the best place to buy it; he might have copies locally or prefer exposure on one site or another and the authors cut may vary depending on source.… Read the rest