Oh, the irony. 🤨 I do wish we were still on the air. Maybe, in the Spring, if new meds delivery technology which I have just started becomes as effective as we hope we can acquire a rig that will allow at least RTTY/CW operation. Time will tell.

Join the crowd, Harm! Shelley (K0MKL, HC2UB, P40S, etc) loves RTTY contests, especially with rare(r) prefixes. VE4 is becoming too common. 😉

A great QTH for contest operation. My XYL and I used the P40L/P40Y station in 2012 where she ran the SARTG WW RTTY Contest and placed 3rd in the world (as P40S) in the single operator, all band, low power category. It is a wonderful place to experience amazing world-wide propagation!

A true fish-eye lens system. 😜

Alpha Lyrae is also known as Vega, whose visitors to Earth are known a Vegans. :)

Alpha Lyrae is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). It is one of the three stars comprising the Summer Triangle.

And here I thought you were from α Lyrae! :D

As I commented elsewhere:

"K5UR, kissing the ring before January 20th?! 🤬 I am an ARRL Life Member and have been unhappy with the way things have been run in Newington for a long time. I don't know who Rick and the rest of them are representing but it certainly isn't me!"

And it's companion SX-115 receiver!

Just wait until you have the thrill of seeing that angry red turn to molten yellow. Then either the plate structure starts to sag or a hole appears. :D

BTW, that photo is of the MRAC 1923 Christmas Dinner. It's how the older members continued to dress in 1959. Also, you can barely make it out but the Schlitz Brewing ad is from 1952.

In 1958 I joined the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs' Club which met in a fancy Pabst Brewing meeting hall. Older members, a few of whom were founders of the club (1917), always wore a suit and tie to all club functions. It lent an air of dignity, especially when compared to my scruffy 12-year-old self.

Speaking of 1922, this was the cover of QST for January, 1922, announcing the results of the 1921 Transatlantic Tests. I formerly owned the whole year of QST for 1922 and scanned this historical cover before sending them off for someone else to enjoy.

Welcome! I just created this page after I found too many people were posting non-amateur radio junk on my first effort. I will be more cautious as to whom I follow on this incarnation.

Didn't get my sad little 6-meter vertical up until after you went QRT. At 49°N latitude I have few expectations without some serious aluminum in the air but thanks for trying!