Today, I sent my Ham IV rotor and CDE controller to Norm's Rotor Service (http://www.rotorservice.com/) for a complete rebuild. I should have it back in about a month. By then the triband yagi will be rebuilt and ready to be put into position!

Until then, I will run the mystery antenna or use the Buddipole!

Well I can't have a better day than this, I started the day with a 3ish hour breakfast with KC9ECI, KC9IKU and W9UUM. I got lots so of yard work done and am enjoying the subject in the title. Even spent a bit of time burning ozone on the N0EXE repeater chatting with them again. Gotta love 'em all.
The best part, by far, was Jim falling off his chair when I actually responded to a call on the repeater...hi hi.
Hearing a Vulcan say 'the ball is in our court' is funny.
Puffcorn should be a controlled substance....
What is it about Andorians...blue skin...or or the antenna things?

I was surprised to find an organized group on Linux around here. They meet on the 3rd Thursday each month at the meeting room off the lunch room at Franciscan Skemp Hospital. I found many of them to be pretty knowledgeable on the little details that make Linux really work well. Many of them use it at work and keep up with the latest developments. Most like and use Ubuntu. Personally I have Linux Mint. It works best my AcerAspireOne (second gen).
Here is the group:

http://groups.google.com/group/lacrosselug/web/about-lclug?pli=1

I thought I might post occasionally and describe a bit of my kit building experience.

My Genesis Q5 30M transmitter kit showed up a few days ago. I felt it prudent to start small, hence the Q5. I'm the only one home at the moment so I thought this would be a good opportunity to get started on it.

I have a new soldering iron on order, FedEx claims it will be here tomorrow. I dug out my trusty old Radio Shack 40W pencil iron in the meantime. The first thing I did was find some fine grit sandpaper and scoured up the tip. Then with flux and 60/40 rosin core solder in hand I tinned it.