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-=> Randall Schad wrote to jimmy anderson <=-

 RS> On 19 Nov 2025, jimmy anderson said the following...

 ja> I did tech with the intention of doing general for HF later, but went
 ja> ahead and did both the same day. My wife did tech only because her
 ja> interest is not 'talking' but doing weather. She likes to chase storms,
 ja> or at least used to... Lots of stormy water under the bridge - medical
 ja> issues now, with us and her mom, etc.

 RS> This is almost exactly the situation with my wife. She love the
 RS> weather/storm chasing aspect. (She's a huge Ryan Hall of Youtube fame
 RS> fan as well.) She's had the study guides for nearly a year now. Refuses
 RS> to let me help her learn. (She's an independent Millennial woman. Yeah,
 RS> I robbed the cradle. LOL)

My wife is a year and 17 days older than me. :-) 

 RS> She did build a 3-element 2-meter Yagi out of tape measure and PVC for
 RS> our Halloween fox hunt, though. Fantastic job of it. 1.04:1 SWR on the
 RS> meter.

Nice!!!

 RS> I found a template for a loading coil that I intend to print this
 RS> weekend. Wrap the coil around that template, wind up another
 RS> transformer, and hopefully have a vertical very similar to that Comet
 RS> to keep in the truck for mobile HF.

 ja> Interesting!!! Let us know how that goes!

 RS> Maaaaan, I need to get more routine about my BBS rounds. I'm sorry it's
 RS> been nearly a month. ADHD or SADD or WTH or something.

I've not done a mail run in forever either... And it's been at least three
days and still going through this SINGLE qwk file. :-)

 RS> I never did get around to printing that thing. I thought I didn't have
 RS> the wire for the winding, but then while cleaning last night I found
 RS> it. Someone needs to keep kicking me in the butt to stay on task. :)



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