My latest One-Day Tech Class took place on Saturday 1 June 2024. There were only 13 in this class, fewer than most classes that I teach. I think the main reason for this is that the university school year had already ended, so there were only a couple of students in this class.
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/I recently completed this full report on the RAC 2021 Survey of Canadian Hams. The PDF is downloadable. Further posting with attribution is permitted. Specific topics are scheduled to appear in The Canadian Amateur.
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/My brother, Mike, runs an estate sale company, Metro Detroit Estate Sales (shameless plug intended). From time to time, he’ll call me when a sale he’s conducting includes some electronics or ham radio gear.
A couple of months ago, he called and said that this most recent sale included a bunch of miscellaneous amateur radio-related stuff. The owner of the house, who passed away, was the daughter of W8HZN, and the estate included some of his logbooks, some old QSL cards from the 1930s, and some Popular Electronics magazines from the 1960s.
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