If I get some time I will stick some music “stuff” together for you – but today is a parts gathering day to finish the 30 foot vertical antenna – hopefully sometime this next week . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
If you haven’t seen it – it’s well worth the watch – or watch it again!
If you want the Cliff Notes version . . .
the actors did an incredible job through body language/mannerisms and such of conveying “But for the Grace of God – there go I” – there was no cheering of celebratory moments in the actual (according to witnesses) course of events – naval surface engagements ARE NOT something of a cheerful nature . . .
The Iowa class “Fast Battleships” changed naval warfare – every 30 seconds nine rounds of 16 inch dropped into a 90 foot circle – at roughly 23 miles – DAMN! – for a reference book start with “Battleship Commander” The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. “Ching” Lee by Paul Stillwell – and that will start you down quite a rabbit hole . . .
The Iowa class was simply the epitome of naval surface warfare . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! (or 9 of them-LOL!) – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
Those of us who are young (at heart) have a musical soundtrack that remind us that we are still young – maybe not our knees/hips/back/hairline etc. – but we still enjoy traveling to younger days at least in our heads . . .
Here are some that will take you back to the halcyon days of our youth – traveling in/on that time machine known as music – Enjoy!
Just about any city of any size had the park – Joy Land – Play Land – Peony Park – Do YOU recall YOUR local park?
On the 24th of this month – MAY – 85 years ago – this naval engagement occurred . . .
How many of you saw midsummer sunrises over south central Kansas? – while listening to this on KLEO AM? – this one is for YOU . . .
My personal favorite by The Cyrkle . . .
This could literally go on all day – so many genres – so many memories – so much time listening to the radio – AM and FM . . .
I have so much going on and I keep adding to this – oh why not – here’s one more – and then I must go (now) . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads Are Cheap!!
From 1988(?) – View from the House GOOD Stuff for YOUR Friday – Enjoy!
(one of those click once and it goes through the whole album for you)
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
There just are not many fence sitters with David Allan Coe – people either love him or hate – me? I’ll miss him . . .
And there is a whole bunch of folks who love him but will never admit to it . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
Everybody remembers them – they were all good stuff – but not much “chart” follow up – Enjoy YOUR Friday!
what one hit groups/songs were YOUR favorites?
And of course I had to throw this in here! – LOL
And still making the karaoke rounds – King Harvest lives on . . .
Foghat? Slowride? The entire album was good stuff!
My own personal favorite “One Hit Wonder” . . .
Released in 1969 – 2525 was still getting quite a bit of airplay in 1970 – and still shows up today!
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
Hi there – you need to climb in this and fly it – it flies good on paper . . .
Not my cup of tea – but hey – you do you!
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
Here’s some “stuff” for YOUR favorite idiot – because HR AND the police frown upon what your coworker(s) and or acquaintances so richly deserve – just saying . . .
Here’s hoping Friday comes quickly for YOU!
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
(upper left / RSPDXr2 – upper right / Airspy HF+ Discovery / lower left / RSPDX – lower right / RSP1B – bottom center / RSP nRSP-ST)
(allows me to swap the bottom center monitor – fed off the laptop – and put short-wave info in front instead of the RSP nRSP-ST – just drag and drop)
This mess here?
It is actually starting to be manageable – LOL!
I only have 3 antennas at the point – took the dipole down and replaced the deck so we are not worried about it falling apart if you were sitting out there and sneezed – not really that bad but not far from it.
I’m putting a lay down mount with a 10 foot mast on the back deck so I will be able to swap out antennas easily – I have several different loops as well as a mini-whip and I will use the coax running out there to try them – makes it relatively easy to compare performance with the different antennas. I will add another switch on the input to the wire random wire antenna distribution block to be able to easily switch to test antennas – and be able to try them with various radios.
Different antenna / radio combinations do make a difference. Right now – 4pm CDST / 2100 UCT the Airspy switched to the random wire is outperforming everything except RSPDXr2 running on the DX Engineering loop antenna at 15.034mHz usb (Canadian military aviation weather / volmet) – go figure – a 31 foot (approximate) piece of wire and a 9:1 UNUN out performs $800 plus dollars of loop on everything but one radio . . .
Differing conditions – different frequencies – different radios – different antennas – all react together differently – I can say this much – pick a radio / antenna setup and start listening – it is interesting hobby to say the least – then start “improving” your setup. That becomes quite the rabbit hole . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
(all 3 albums are great and well worth listening to – Kim Carnes didn’t just drop out of the sky into the 80’s MTV video music thing . . .)
From her first solo album in 1971 “Rest on Me” she went on to really make her place in the music industry . . .
She released her self titled second album “Kim Carnes” in 1975 . . .
And her third album released in 1976 “Sailin’ ” . . .
This should help get you through your Friday – I hope . . .
I will do some more Kim Carnes later – however – you just can’t go there without going here . . .
And since it is MY website – here’s a twofer bonus from me to YOU! – you’re welcome . . .
Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!
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