With the death of my beloved Kenwood TS-480SAT in September of 2009 and numerous personal and health problems, I dropped off the air. The shack filled up with unread QST's, CQ's and unopened QSL cards. It became difficult to even enter the room; I had to push aside piles of junk. At some point I became overcome with inertia. Just the thought of cleaning out the shack and getting back on the air was just too much for me.
On April first (how appropriate) I finally got up the gumption to shovel out the shack, pull out my old TS-440, added the new Rigblaster Advantage I bought, and wonders of wonders, my G5RV was still up and working like the champ it is. My first contact was a RTTY contact with Bob Brown, W4YJF in Selma, AL. When I looked at his shack on QRZ.com I saw that I had a Long way to go!
That's neater than any 
operating position I ever had while working for the feds! Well it gives me a target to shoot for. Of course, now I'm too busy working digital DX to clean up the shack and build the shelves I need. It's a vicious circle!
operating position I ever had while working for the feds! Well it gives me a target to shoot for. Of course, now I'm too busy working digital DX to clean up the shack and build the shelves I need. It's a vicious circle! Well, the next thing I have to do is to get the TS-480 working again. It sends and receives just fine, but the RS-232 has stopped working and I'm unable to control it with my computer.
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