[Vision]

Evenin’, you’re being hit with that storm?

[Viking2002]

Not directly, but it’s interacting with the cold fronts pushing this direction, and pulling moisture up from the Gulf. They were only calling for a 50/50 chance of rain tomorrow, then sunny and low/mid 70’s for highs and low/mid 50’s for lows the rest of the week, but that storm had other plans. Now we’re looking a cloudy skies and a chance of rain through Thursday morning. There goes fishing Wednesday.

[Viking2002]

You should somewhat appreciate this: I've been threatening to do it off and on for the last 45 years, so now I have the time. I'm brushing up on some basic circuitry, broadcasting law, and mathematical equations to go sit for my FCC Amateur Technician class license. Proctored exam, they administer them all the time around here. Nowadays, you don't need to pass the 5 WPM CW exam part, since they eliminated the Novice class license, but I used to be proficient enough with Morse that I'll probably eventually get a key for it. I figure I'd start early, and got this sitting beside my 11 meter SSB CB rig - a Heathkit HW-101 multi-band ham transceiver. Got it from a ham online who buys and sells gear from silent key estate auctions. Supposedly functional, but I still need to get an Electro-Voice mic and external power supply for it. Then I'll have to get a dummy load antenna and take it to a local ham to help me/show me how to tune the finals, etc. The transceiver and power supply are tube driven, so I may be doing some organ transplants, but that comes with the territory. Then I'll have to have a mini-tower or mast and antenna erected, so this is going to be a bit of a longer term project, but it's been something I always swore I wanted to do.