In the Ham Radio world, I’m pretty much not having a lot of luck with HF equipment. My newest unit was sent back to the company for repair. The other, older transceiver is up for sale. I’ve had a couple of bites, but no serious takers just yet. I had an antenna tuner for it that I also listed for sale and it sold very quickly. So, now I have an HF transceiver but need a tuned, resonant antenna for it.

A while ago I bought a portable setup that can be tuned to work in the 20 meter band. It can either be a mobile antenna on the car, or it can be set up as a normal antenna. The other day I set it up in the front yard and got it tuned. It worked pretty well, but was rather obvious in front of our covenant-regulated house.

This afternoon I began the process of moving it to the northeast corner of the backyard. In the process I would be putting it another 8 feet higher in the air. I got about halfway done when a wind and rain storm came over the hill and pretty much drove me back inside. I’ll finish it tomorrow … maybe that’ll be the picture of the day??

Nina and I both had some errands to run, and she needed a new chair for her desk in the computer room. So we went to OfficeMax and found her a nice chair on sale. After that we decided to have our Mothers Day dinner by eating lunch at Costa Vida. We ran into some friends there who had just returned from a two-week cruise through the Panama Canal (me: very envious). We’ll need to go over soon to see them and their pictures.

The new chair is now assembled and Nina is certainly much more comfortable as she works on Family History and on indexing (she’s become quite addicted to the indexing process). Tomorrow we’ll be back to sunshine after a cloudy with occasional showers day today. The lawn needs desperately to be mowed. Dang! That’s a lot of walking.

TTFN!