For What its worth
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Yahara Heights County Park Walk
First time waking the Yahara Heights County Park today. There is more to explore here. We’ve had some lovely weather for hiking.
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Sunset from last night
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From Our Room in Waikiki
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/59d50a48-ec2f-4854-924a-a0967c9fb010
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Meshcore
Folk have started playing with Meshcore a decentralized mesh network here in the Madison area. Given my location I wasn’t sure how effective anything I did could be, but I picked up a solar unit, configured it as a repeater and put it on a pole next to the patio. I’m actually quite surprised at…
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Field Day 2026
We’re all getting ready for Field Day 2026!
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First Walk on the trail for the year
I walked on the Ice Age Trail once in 2025 and not much since 2021. I’m not sure what I was doing but today I started again. Walked on and finished the Table Bluff segment. In September of 2021 I walked the southern part of the segment but when I got to Table Bluff Rd…
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Another Monday
Sitting, having a coffee at Memorial Union at UW on the shore of Lake Mendota, waiting for time to walk up Bascom Hill to my Macroeconomics class for today. A few quiet moments before donning my winter coat and draining my cup. Ain’t retirement a hoot!
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Radiosport
I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to “play” radio hardly at all this year. Living where I do I can only set up my antennas temporarily and take them down at the end of the day. Today I had time to set up antennas and stuff and finally play radio. In fact,…
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2nd Amendment Resistance
Lean in to the 2nd Amendment I’ve been haunted by a substack I read. “The Existential Republic: I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%” outlined 4 options for defeating our growing fascism, and while I feel paralyzed when considering what I can, as an individual, do, to resist,…
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Changing the Frequency of repeater VXR-5000
I doubt anyone will need to read this post but I had to write it. We are swapping repeaters between sites and therefore want to swap the frequencies those repeaters use. One of them is an ancient Vertex VXR-5000. It still works fine despite being I-don’t-know-how-old-it-is. Most of the repeater control can be done using…