Colorado Color
I am not really sure where I was when I took this photo. I was taking some backcountry roads over the contential divide and then came out on the otherside and hit this highway. (GPS & maps are a great thing.)
Thinking of castles
I stumbled across this on the Peak-to-Peak Highway south of Estes Park. It is an incredible structure and something right out of a novel like The Hobbit.
Colorado Color
South of Estes Park just off of the Peak-to-Peak Highway in Rocky Mountain National Park.
End of season rhubarb
Camera Phone Pics
We were expecting a hard freeze (in the 20's F) last night so I figured that we should cut the rhubarb and get it hauled into the house. Four plants filled up the wagon behind the tractor. Once we trimmed the leaves off we had two five-gallon buckets full of rhubarb stocks. I think that once Cristy cut them up and washed them we had about four gallons worth of rhubarb headed to the freezer.
Normally we will cut down the rhubarb a couple of times during the season. It appears that we were busy this year and only cut them back this one time.
Colorado Color
Dodging light rain & snow someplace off of the Peak-to-Peak Highway.
Sept 2012 VHF Contest
A very part time effort.. about 4-5 causal hours. I left the radios on in the shack while I was doing other things around the house. The bands were unusually poor so projects at the workbench were more interesting.
73 de NG0R
Sunday Project
I started the weekend playing in the ARRL VHF contest but the bands conditions in my area sucked so I decided that it was going to be a part effort at best.
I have some kits that have been sitting in boxes for a while waiting for some quality time on work bench so that I could bond with them. I decided to work in the K1EL K42c CW keyboard interface & cw reader.
The project takes about three hours to assemble. It has plenty of testing steps so actually assmebly time is probably about 2 hours.
The project has two interesting items:
- It allows you to plug in a PS2 keyboard and send CW without an external computer or laptop.
- It has a CW decoder
The kit tests out fine so the next step is integrating it into my SO3R/S04R station. I need to reroute an AF cable and split the audio and I should be good to go.
Like my previous experiences with K1EL kits... simple, fast, and hassle free.
73 de NG0R
September 2012 Rain
trace -------- September 4th
trace -------- September 6th
Pretty dry so far.