Darrell

It was a nice day for a motorcycle ride yesterday, and I came across this near Georgetown. Sorry about the poor pic, I didn't have a "real" phone with me and had to use my phone, with which I have NO practice. Still, I thought the car and the service station were really cool.

I keep trying to find a compact, portable QRP antenna that works as well as a five-element yagi tri-bander at 60 feet. No luck so far, though.

Thank you for posting this. My brother's widow lives in London, and I didn't even know about that damage. I've heard from her and she's okay, but she knows a couple of people who were killed. Very sad!

PM on the way.

And for me, HF is way more interesting than VHF. I enjoy talking to people in Europe or Asia, but if I want to talk to someone nearby I can call them on the phone. That's one of the cool things about Ham radio: there are avenues to persue a wide variety of interests.

There's a sporterized Argentine Mauser listed in the classifieds that's in your price range. But as you mentioned, it's pretty tough to find bargain milsurps anymore.

Holy Cow! I hope that didn't do any damage. We got a bit of hail, but it was just little ice-pellet stuff.

I walked through some knee-high grass a few days ago, realizing as I walked that it was prime tick habitat. I thought I'd checked myself out pretty carefully when I showered, but that night I pulled two off my body. Whenever I remove a tick I get a welt that itches for two or three days, but so far nothing worse than that. Knock on wood.

Aren't all holidays invented? Cinco De Mayo has morphed over the years, as you know. It's become a festival that celebrates Hispanic culture, and just about nobody knows about the battle you mentioned, nor do they care. I've been to some pretty great Cinco de Mayo celebrations and enjoyed some pretty great Mexican food and music. Live and let live.

@Grand Torino does excellent work and prices his knives very reasonably. I've bought a couple from him, and they're genuinely nice knives that I'll keep until I die. You need to be quick, though, when he advertises a couple of new knives for sale. They usually go very quickly.

Keep us informed, please. I load 30 carbine for a Blackhawk and a rifle, and have never had the problem you describe. I do have to be careful, though, as my Blackhawk is much more particular than the rifle, and sometimes a reload won't fit fully into the Blackhawk cylinder when it will work just fine in the rifle. I found that the Lee Factory Crimp die solved the problem for me, but that's not going to help with your situation.

I have a few dozen RC airplanes, including a couple of drones, a few of which have cameras. I don't use any of them professionally, and I often fly my drones over my own rural property. I'm sure that my drones have often flown over my neighbors' properties, but I doubt if any of them have ever noticed. The vast majority of RC pilots are just having fun, not "spying" on anyone, and not doing any harm. I do recognize, of course, that the potential for misuse is there and the sound of a drone can be annoying. (It sure is to my dog, Katy!) But then I find the sound of loud exhausts annoying, and I often hear them passing on the road near my house. Shooting at a flying drone in a populated area would be a cure far worse than the disease itself. I'm pretty sure my neighbors would be a lot more concerned about shot falling on their heads than they would be about a drone passing overhead. At least I would be.

Ill take #1. Great looking knife!