Productive Weekend…
December 8th, 2013The WWARA membership meeting was Saturday, which was pretty normal. Had a really nice lunch with WA7FUS and N7SS when it was over. On the way home I got a text from KK7TR that the new MotoTRBO repeater was live on Cougar. So when I got home, I got serious about getting the radio on the air. I had put up a simple antenna and run the coax for it a couple weeks ago. All I needed todo was put PowerPoles on the power cable and plug it in. That is all I thought I needed todo until I realized the antenna connector was a mini-UHF connector. I’d never seen one before and I certainly didn’t have any adapters for it.
So after going swimming with Isaac and having lunch at BurgerMaster, we made a trip to Fry’s. Took a while to find, but finally walked out with the necessary adaptor. I was on the air and in a QSO within 10 minutes of getting home. I have to say MotoTRBO sure sounds better then D-STAR. I have lots of playing todo, but it looks fun.
By this time Isaac and Rosie were home with the tree and I helped get it set up. I then attacked the washing machine. It had stopped cycling normally a month ago. We have been using the gentle cycle, since it was the only one that didn’t stop half way through the rense cycle. I had done some internet searches and found a place that diagnoses the problem, helped me order the part and had a video showing how to fix it. The part showed up last week, so I tore into it. The video was a little off, but close enough and now we can wash our cloths normally again.
Now I just need to finish a little work work and I can relax!