A Convenience Store Based Antenna Ham radio operators world-wide would love an antenna that is cheap, easily built out of locally available parts – and outperforms both standard dipole antennas and other commonly-built wires. Well, here it is…. After almost a year of modeling our ideas for a “Super Antenna” the design was locked. It …
Ear Yee! Ear Yee! Hear all about it! This is a fine weekend to work on your home sound system, isn’t it? We are going through a modest upgrade to the home studio here at UrbanSurvival in order to get back into podcasting with gear that sounds (slightly) better than run-of-the-mill podcasts. In the process, …
Site Work Done — (Yes???) Done!!! (?) OK, Frisbee – check it out. UrbanSurvival should be loading a bit faster now and says on all the fancy software ‘meters’ it’s working. Links seem to be there, people comments and remarks are appearing…and so forth. It will take a little time to move around the web, as …
While we’re waiting for the market to crater tomorrow… [May load slow due to length and a zillion graphics] This may be a bit on the “longish” today, so if you need to pee or get coffee…better do that first. We’ll wait for you…. Four topics this morning: Best first ham radio stations, how to …
Why is it 4:15 AM and why is Ure running antenna models? The answer is simple: The end of summer is upon us. When the weather cools down, things here heat up. Hot coffee on a cool more, clear head, and a zillion ideas to run down. But first…. Goodbye Swamp Cooler A couple of …
If you were to drop by for a cup of coffee in real life – you wouldn’t be welcomed. We’re still “hot zone” mode out here. If you follow the virus numbers, looks like 18-million will be passed tomorrow. And 19-million this coming week. Thursday? Dream Shop Progresses Up early this morning to take advantage …
My bad. I missed Ham Radio Field Day. It was last weekend. As happens the last weekend in June each year, amateur radio operators (include from our club in town) and my buddy The Major‘s club is up in the Seattle area; he and some buds headed for the hills and remotest of places. From …
One of the great lessons of management is knowing when to “hire an expert.” Well, Brian at our hosting provider, EMWD.com is the Man today. All of our server-side woes are fixed! “Hi George, I found the problem and fixed it. You had a .htaccess file from a plugin called WebP Express (https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/) that was …