Adventures in Ham Radio

[Rastus]

Not yet. We decided we are going to sell our house. <snip>

We should me through this MESS by the end of summer. (I hope)

Get that thing sold yet?  My son and daughter-in-law got a pre-approved person to sign a contract on their house in Baton Rouge in just 1 week...

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

Get that thing sold yet?  My son and daughter-in-law got a pre-approved person to sign a contract on their house in Baton Rouge in just 1 week...

Hard to pack and sell a 4000 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 full bath, handicap accessible, with elevator to a fully finished basement. We have accumulated SOO much stuff we need to pack/donate/trash, and neither of us are spring chicks anymore.
\2.5 acres, wooded with a creek running through the property.

It is taking us forever to pack. Between radio equipment, guns, safes, and the actual stuff we need to live it is getting really stressful.

[alfsauve]

We moved 10 times in our first 15 years of marriage.  The longest we stayed in any one place was 3 years.  6mo was the shortest.  Of course we owned a lot less back then.  Now however we've lived in this house for 40 years and while we're gradually cleaning out it's still daunting to think about moving. 

We've put it on the list of very-old-age-options to do what our neighbors have done and fix up the basement for us, install chair lift to the main floor and let one of the kids live in the upstairs level.

[Big Frank]

I'm lucky to have only moved twice, but have accumulated so much "stuff" in the past 34 years, I can't even find it all when I'm looking for it. Moving would be a real nightmare.

[Rastus]

Hard to pack and sell a 4000 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 full bath, handicap accessible, with elevator to a fully finished basement. We have accumulated SOO much stuff we need to pack/donate/trash, and neither of us are spring chicks anymore.
\2.5 acres, wooded with a creek running through the property.

It is taking us forever to pack. Between radio equipment, guns, safes, and the actual stuff we need to live it is getting really stressful.

I understand...we sold our house last year that we had been in for 28 years or so.  I have two 40' sea-land containers, an old camp house and the back of a little cinder block house full of stuff.  Cost me $1,400 to move two gun safes....

If we hadn't had this place in the Ozarks away from everyone we would have stayed where we were....that moving was a real big pain. 

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[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

I understand...we sold our house last year that we had been in for 28 years or so.  I have two 40' sea-land containers, an old camp house and the back of a little cinder block house full of stuff.  Cost me $1,400 to move two gun safes....

If we hadn't had this place in the Ozarks away from everyone we would have stayed where we were....that moving was a real big pain.

Like you I have to move 2 safes and (quite) a bit of ammo.

[Big Frank]

Like you I have to move 2 safes and (quite) a bit of ammo.

That's one thing I have going for me on a limited budget.

[MikeBjerum]

Hard to pack and sell a 4000 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 full bath, handicap accessible, with elevator to a fully finished basement. We have accumulated SOO much stuff we need to pack/donate/trash, and neither of us are spring chicks anymore.
\2.5 acres, wooded with a creek running through the property.

It is taking us forever to pack. Between radio equipment, guns, safes, and the actual stuff we need to live it is getting really stressful.

July 10, 1989, we had an electrical house fire that took 99.9% of our personal goods, including the house. Summer of 1991 my aunt and uncle had lightning strike their house during a thunderstorm and they lost much and would have been better off rebuilding than the repairs they did. Ended up with a beautiful home in the end, but what it takes to redo an extensively fire damaged home is unreal.

After the experience both of our families went through my uncle used to joke that everyone needs to have a house fire every twenty years to clean out the accumulated crap. Having gone through a major move eight years ago, I AGREE!

[Rastus]

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After the experience both of our families went through my uncle used to joke that everyone needs to have a house fire every twenty years to clean out the accumulated crap. Having gone through a major move eight years ago, I AGREE!

Heck no.  I have not had the time to enjoy it yet.

[alfsauve]

FIELD DAY 2025

Only worked on FT8 (digital) but jumped between the bands.  Amassed a whopping 27 contacts, including W1AW on 10m.
Got interrupted about 2pm on Sunday with a family situation that required my attention.  I was out of the house until 7:30pm so missed the last couple of hours.
Not that I was "competeting" but with so many on-the-air (almost said on-line) I thought I might get contact with the last couple of states I needed.  No such luck.  Oh well.

Still waiting on LOTW to come on line.  YES, YES, I know LOTW isn't the contest site, but it is where I and many others log our contacts whether in a contest or not for the credit towards other awards.  e.g., Work All States, Worked 100 Countries, etc.

LOTW, for the non-ham, is LOG BOOK OF THE WORLD.  It's a service of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL).  And for whatever reason they thought that this past weekend would be the best time to do a major overhaul and update to the software.  Whoever thought that on the weekend of the largest event in hamdom would be a good time to take down the most popular and most used service of the organization?  Let's assume they had their reasons.  My biggest complaint is the lack of communications.  Did they post it on the LOTW Forum?  No!  Have they given any anticipated schedule?  No!  Does the web site give any hints as to the progress?  No!   Total lack of respect for their users.  <Calm down.  Calm Down.  Breath deeply.  It's just a hobby>  Still I don't like be treated as a subject as opposed to a member of the organization.