from the Mt. Hood webcam.

Snapshot from: Timberline

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air filter assy. roughed in.

This was built by daryl Schroeder. After a lot of back and forthing, this arrangement seemed to have come out of nowhere and solved a lot of fitment issues. Brian and I brainstormed for about an hour, and this was the positive result.....

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panorama of snow.

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New Ham gear.

Since my last post I got on the air with HF, and I have done so with a vengeance. Anyhow, check out the little station, with a longwire dipole outside and a hamstick dipole on a pole outside, with

W2DU balun on both.

The second picture is of a Yaesu FT-736R, the cadillac of Sattelite transceivers. I just finished installing the tone board (will test tomorrow), and am using a J-pole - but the rig requires separate UHF and VHF inputs, so ... ?? Enjoy!

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention...

.. my ankle surgery was very successful, and I'm out of the cast, out of therapy, etc. etc. I'll be running as soon as the weather FINALLY improves here in Oregon!

Domestic Engineering.

I bought 500 garbage can liners, but they were too small for my garbage can. So, they'd chronically fall in when they got full, as the weight was more than the friction formed by the bag being wrapped around the outside of the trash container. The solution was to put two empty 2 liter plastic pop bottles at the bottom and replace the liner. I am happy to report, two full, and then replaced, liners later, this solution works perfectly! Pictures above: 1: Bottles at bottom of oversized trash can; 2: Liner being installed. 3: Empty liner, with supporting 2 liter bottles seen underneath the bottom of the liner. No more mess!

Jonsrud Viewoint, Sat., April 23rd 2011.

I've probably driven by this place a million times , or at least 1 mile. But, it only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. This is a great viewpoint just across the street from a quiet suburban development - lucky dogs! About 1 p.m. I had to crop and correct the Mt. Hood photos to make them visible... But they turns out o.k. Varying levels of telephoto - not that much needed... but it's nice when needed to draw it in...

Tulip Festival, part II (cropped and corrected images).

Here, I cropped some of the pics, and the one with Mt. St. Helens in the background needed a bit of signal processing to bring out the mountain, hence the darker flowers in the foreground. From April 23rd (I think it hit 70 that day!)

Tulip Festival, Wooden Shoe Nursery, April 23rd, 2011

I have some panoramas up on my facebook page, so check them out. Also I used my Rebel XTI with a 250 mm telephoto. This helps quite a bit for these photos with long rows and so on, to get the shot framed. It was like Woodstock that day! The crowds were HUGE, but the fields are so large, it was actually o.k. Enjoy!

B17 flying over SW Portland, Telephoto..

This was taken on Saturday afternoon around 4 p.m., April 23rd, and it was at the end of a great day of sightseeing I did. At 250 mm, this is almost good enough for at-will good shooting of any plane in the sky. But really 400 or 500 would be better. Just and experiment.

Mobility during my recuperation..

.. if you've been following the blog you know that I had ankle surgery for osteochondritis dissecans (look it up). I rented one of these "knee scooters" , and it's the only way I can get around. I ditched the crutches and the wheelchair. This is the ONLY way. Were it not for this I simply couldn't show up at work and get around.
Enjoy!