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Going Ham

Getting Started with KH8WW I’ve made a career out of computers, had intensive electrical training, and picked up some communications experience along the way. A visit from amateur radio operator KH8WW (https://www.lral.lv/kh8ww/index.html) gave me the push to start putting those pieces together—and finding the gaps between them. Radio brings a familiar collection of problems: hardware, …

Tava'e white-tailed tropicbird has long feathers
Reading Short Stories

Tama’s Nest – Don Nelson

Once upon a time, in a dense Pacific jungle on the island of Samoa, a young hunter named Tama followed his curiosities, limited only by his grandma’s ghost stories. His unfinished chores left behind, he wandered deeper into the jungle and came across a chirping bird’s nest perched high up in a tree. Tama knew …