Recent content by John David Trolinger

I have a mimic panel with metering on my old UPS and 12DC systems. The digital meters are relatively new, MORNING GROUP PZEM-022 for the AC and Bayite PZEM-051 for the DC side. The temperature probes are glued onto the battery cases.

It is a joke on all of us at this point. The fed workers will spend lots of time on these things and in the end it is just a paid vacation at our expense.

There was also a QRZ.com outage. Related? I don't know.

1976; I remember the year because of all the centennial events like the tall ships in Newport Rhode Island. That summer my grandfather helped me build a "black box" that had a small door on the top. I put an AM/FM radio inside and then for school show&tell tuned the AM radio away from any...

N5ZXO and myself are in a small house 1 mile West of the courthouse in Kerrville. We can and do have all the antennas that we want. One of the neighbors gave us an old push up mast and we put that up too. The lot is small so we have a folded dipole for 160m, 40m is on a tower, 30m inverted...

I will never forget hearing Crazy Train on my walkman that first time.

Awesome Ozzy.

My station has been featured on the national news the past couple of weeks. I was awake and monitoring during the Kerrville Kerr County Independence Day Flood at 3am. I had a camera running along with radio recorders. The city and county are tight lipped and militarized so monitoring of the...

I was able to pull the dome light out to get to the hole but some of the headliner needs to come down to run the cable. Doesn't take that long considering the payoff.

We had a firestick on a tri-mag mount. Worked great for a couple thousand miles or more.

I live in Kerrville Texas. This is my home. My family has been here for over 100 years. Think about all the worst things possible and that is what happened. Here is what I am playing this summer.