[Today’s run: 5 miles, Monday: 5 miles]<\/p>\n
I was supposed to run eight miles today but I got a phone call from work and cut it short.\u00a0 I may go back out later to finish that up.<\/p>\n
I’ve been working on a few things recently.<\/p>\n
After getting that CB radio to work I also fooled around with my collection of garage sale CB antennas for a bit.\u00a0 All of that was looking pretty good.\u00a0 But I took the CB over to my neighbor’s house and tried it in his truck.\u00a0 It decided not to work in his truck like it had at home.\u00a0 We changed out some bad fuses but it still wouldn’t work.\u00a0 I think I’m going to let him get a new CB and have it installed at the local CB shop.<\/p>\n
On a related front, I’ve been studying for my CDL learner’s permit.\u00a0 I’m not 100% sure why I am doing this.\u00a0 It looks like there may be opportunity to do a little bit of dirt hauling for the neighbor on weekends.\u00a0 But I can’t do anything with that opportunity unless I have a CDL.\u00a0 The study book was $2.\u00a0 Taking the test will cost a small amount.\u00a0 We shall see what develops, maybe nothing.<\/p>\n
Also, I heard that the FCC is going to open up an application window for Low Power FM Broadcast licenses in about mid-October.\u00a0 So I have been contemplating whether I want to apply and what that would mean.\u00a0 I’m on the fence about it.\u00a0 Pondering.\u00a0 Low Power FM is for non-profit organizations.\u00a0 The licenses are kind of hard to get.\u00a0 The only kinds of broadcasting I can think of that I could contribute to would be 1) an outlet for recorded preaching\/sermons or 2) readings from classic books from the librivox.org collection.\u00a0 I guess the question is whether anyone would be inclined to listen to either of those.\u00a0 It would take $50 to start a Mississippi non-profit corporation.\u00a0 The FCC application is free.\u00a0 If we didn’t get a license it might take another $50 to close down the non-profit.\u00a0 So $100 to try out the idea and fail.\u00a0 More than that if we did get the license.<\/p>\n
On other projects, my SCAF breadboard seems to work ok.\u00a0 I need to eventually get it into a real box.\u00a0 I have purchased a couple of things from surplus auctions recently, a signal generator and a spectrum analyzer.\u00a0 Those should start arriving yet this week.\u00a0 I may have some repairs to do to get them running.<\/p>\n
And we are on track with our running schedule to do the Mt Desert Island marathon in October.\u00a0 I’m going to take 10 days of vacation and we will do a little bit of relaxing in the Northeast.\u00a0 I wonder if there will be snow?<\/p>\n
We still have connections in Colorado and have been watching the news with the floods along the Front Range area.\u00a0 What a mess.\u00a0 I expect the main roads will be repaired\/replaced fairly quickly once they can get in to them.\u00a0 But the complete recovery is going to take awhile.\u00a0 And they are still pulling people out of cabins and houses up in the hills which are now inaccessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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