We're at a dog show in rural Greeley, Colorado, a little north of Denver--and right smack dab next to a huge cattle feedlot. Now, I'm a caveman and a realist--manure is the price we pay for beef--but that stuff sure do stack up and make its presence known. We kennelled QBit and Aero to simplify show logistics, but it's funny not having Aero with us ( Read more... )

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• As I polish up this Odd Lots, I see that Sectorlink.com is down, which is significant to me since they host duntemann.com and copperwood.com. Have no idea what's going on yet, nor how long the outage has existed. (I was over at one of Carol's friends' rebuilding some very ad-hoc tomato shelters in honor of George Ewing until an hour or so ago.) If ( Read more... )

In the wake of George Ewing's passing, my old friend Lee Hart sent me an email full of reminiscences. Some of these were familiar to me, but most of them were new. (Lee had been local to George for a lot of years and saw him far more often than I did.) So let me set them down here with minimal editing, as I'm currently in the center of the vortex ( Read more... )

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I got word the other day that Harry L. Helms W7HLH had died this past Sunday. Harry was a friend for over 20 years, and we met regularly at trade shows including the Borland conferences and ABA/BEA, just to touch base and trade ideas. He and I had a lot in common: We were both longtime hams, we both liked classic radio gear, shortwave listening, ( Read more... )

I am still sick and numb. My good friend Jim Strickland messaged me Friday morning to let me know that our mutual friend Mike Sargent had been killed by a 20-year-old drunk in a pickup truck Thursday night on his way home from work. I've been trying to get myself to write something here since then, and, well, failed.

I hadn't known Mike very long. ( Read more... )