Victoria in Memphis
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Archive for April, 2007
Victoria in Florida
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Where Is Red
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Austin Area-man frequently loses track of Victoria, creates website to track her.
If it Had Not Been for 15 Minutes
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve got quite a bit of interest in numbers stations, which are spy radio stations that (illegally) transmit endless strings of numbers that usually only mean things to their intended recipients. In researching this so I can try to monitor some, I came across this story, which is the most interesting thing I’ve read all [...]
State of the Airstream
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Photos Here are photos I took in ’05 shortly after purchasing Madeline and bringing her back from Michigan. We set to work pulling the interior and taking a serious survey of what was going on with the trailer; and then a month or two later decided to move to the Seattle area, which we did [...]
Airstream Globe Trotter – Spec Coverlet
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Here is a scan of the specification cover for the manual of our ’64 Airstream GT. I don’t know what the current weights on ours (Madeline) are (it’s dry, and 3/4 gutted). I threw in a note that elsewhere in the manual the trailer/dura torque axle is rated at 3500# GVWR. I started to scan [...]
Camp Muir WX
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
A recently installed weather station at Camp Muir is now providing data online at nwac.us.
Airstream
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Speaking of things coming full-circle, I dug up the Airstream paperwork – the original owner(s) kept it all, bless them. Looking through I see that the trailer was purchased in Tacoma in June 11 ’64. It later lived in Gig Harbor. I purchased it in ’05 out of Michigan from a guy who wanted to [...]
Hot Potato!
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Photos This weekend Alex and I packed up Remington and made our way to Moscow, Idaho, the home of the University of Idaho. We came to this little town on the border to visit our friend Kate, a local journalist. We arrived mid-afternoon after a lovely drive through the rolling green hills of Western Washington. [...]
Yaesu, Meet TSA
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2007 No Comments »
This is what happens when you try to carry a lot of HAM radio equipment onto an aircraft these days (or at least, one man’s story). I myself have carried lots of electronics on before, and I usually get special “treatment” although I’ve never had anything refused into the cabin. Usually, particularly with cameras, I [...]