In this month of 2005, I competed in my first Bullseye competition.

I’m using PC board to construct some custom enclosures. The materials and construction techniques will be the topic of a future posting here.

… is for younger men.

Regardless, the 40M and 20M dipoles are now installed in the attic. I left a little slippage so that, hopefully, tuning of arm lengths can be done at the feed point – I sure don’t want to crawl out to the end points again. [Phew!]

My wife and I live in Phoenix Arizona. Our house is situated on a nearly square 1960-sized residential lot. I mention the year because city lots have shrunk in the past couple of years and our 100x105 foot property might seem large in some areas these days.

After many years of inactivity in ham radio, I decided to “go all the way” (while I still could) and get my Extra Class ticket. So in the middle of 2009, I bought the ARRL’s Extra Class study guide and started on page one.

Assuming flights are on time today, I’ll be at the customer’s location late this afternoon to re-image the disk drives of our lab systems (via Ghost) with the correct contents for tomorrow’s class.

The following links, requiring a total of a little under 30 minutes of your time, describe the mechanics of the highest court’s operations.

No doubt you remember where you were and what you were doing when you first heard of the 9/11/2001 attacks.

Any split brass in that pile you are about to reload?

In ranked order,

1. I enjoy the camaraderie. (18)
2. I need the distraction it provides. (14)
3. I get a thrill from the Bang! (10)
4. I like to win, tied with I like being out of the house. (8)
5. I like helping others shoot better. (7)
6. I like being needed to help out, tied with It’s good exercise. (4)
7. I don’t honestly know. (3)
8. My boss/spouse isn’t there. (2)
9. Habit, tied with I need the sun, and Other. (1)

Although the sampled number of shooters was small (23), I think most will agree the results are in-line with what they experience at the range.