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ten meter air

My best year of DCM, CMP and NRA-High-Power competition followed a winter where I had an international-style ten-meter air rifle on loan and a ten meter air gun range in my basement.

Here in our riverside paradise, I once again have a ten-meter air-gun range. In the years since my first international-level air gun experience, I also acquired one each adequately accurate rifle and pistol to shoot on it.

Sadly, I have not used them much at all recently.

A couple of days ago, I celebrated a long overdue clear sally port floor and clean workbench by shooting both […]

July 26th, 2017 | Category: guns'n'gear | Comments are closed

become an amateur radio operator

Thursdays 4:30-6:30pm Darby Library meeting room July 13th – September 7th Handy in many situations, radio communications can be life saving when phones and Internet are down or out of reach

Ham radios start where walkie-talkies leave off, with licensed radio operators communicating around the corner and around the world.

ARRL License Manual costs $29.95 includes chapters on every aspect of the licensing exam and numerous practice tests

Darby Thursday study sessions are FREE YOU can be an amateur radio operator No electronics background required

Click this link for a .pdf poster advertising the class:Ham-radio-class-poster-7-2017

Below […]

July 13th, 2017 | Category: amateur radio, community, preparing, radio, teaching, technology | Comments are closed

Tor – what for?

Wondoze Exploder is still the big dog in Internet browsing tools. Mozilla Firefox escapes some of its more onerous aspects, and is a strong second. Firefox adds a modicum of resistance to The Great Database accumulating everything there is to know about everybody they wish to control – roughly everybody.

The best computer brains on the planet include many who are less than in love with Big Brother. They are freedom of thought’s friends. Somewhere much lower on that food chain are those who have sold their souls to The Man … the programming prostitutes.

Fortunately, the A […]

July 8th, 2017 | Category: security, technology | Comments are closed

repair, re-use trumps recycle, re-purchase

These scissors have been a part of my ‘riverside tool box’ for a lot of years. They have a nice edge, cut well, seem heavy enough for shop use, and have required no maintenance.

Until a couple days ago when the pivot pin broke, turning the pair of scissors into two useless pieces of plastic and steel.

Fortunately I have tools, assorted hardware and ingenuity. Rather than a trip to the new scissor store, I drilled the pivot point out to fit a bolt I had on hand. After reassembly, the reunited PAIR of scissors now works as […]

July 6th, 2017 | Category: household, sociology | Comments are closed

Become a HAM radio operator

Thursdays 4:30-6:30pm Darby Library meeting room July 13th – September 7th Handy in many situations, radio communications can be life saving when phones and Internet are down or out of reach

Ham radios start where walkie-talkies leave off, with licensed radio operators communicating around the corner and around the world.

ARRL License Manual costs $29.95 includes chapters on every aspect of the licensing exam and numerous practice tests

Darby Thursday study sessions are FREE YOU can be an amateur radio operator No electronics background required

Click below for a .pdf poster advertising the class

Ham radio class […]

July 1st, 2017 | Category: amateur radio, community | Comments are closed