Follow That Qar Post Bin
They Didn't Make the Cut
I started on Blogger in 2005 with "follow that qar" (not realizing at the time that QAR could mean question-and-answer relationships, but in retrospect it kind of fit), then made forays into Textpattern and Drupal while searching for an independent alternative. When CMS upkeep became more bane than blessing, I gravitated back to the behemoth.
In 2025, as part of my well intended but possibly futile Google emigration, I began transferring some posts to Eleventy and deleting most of the rest. Before the doomed posts hit the recycle bin, I made some effort to save their dates and titles for the record. Those that didn't slip through the cracks are listed here, oldest at the bottom.
- 2021/09/19: SOTA: Pine Mountain, September 18, 2021... multipurpose activation
- 2021/01/02: 20 Years of amateur radio on the International Space Station... an SSTV event
- 2020/12/31: SOTA: Parker Mountain, December 31, 2020... 27 QSOs, including the first on 30m for the peak
- 2020/09/25: SOTA: Blue Job Mountain, September 25, 2020... 18 QSOs
- 2020/09/01: FN53 Activation, September 1, 2020... 48 contacts on FM satellites
- 2019/02/20: Distance record on AO-92... 4936 km U/v with EB1AO, which stood for a year and a half
- 2019/01/11: Red Claws vs. Drive, March 29, 2015
- 2017/02/04: Red Claws vs. Swarm, January 28, 2017
- 2016/07/27: Red Claws vs. Drive, March 13, 2016
- 2015/05/23: Sea Dogs fall to Fightin' Phils
- 2014/01/12: XW-1 output power
- 2013/04/19: XW-1 output power
- 2013/04/14: Titanic special event W0S via AO-27
- 2013/04/13: Rilke coincidence (A god can do it)
- 2013/04/06: Name that poet... After a Wesley McNair reading. He said "Hope and affirmation are the wellsprings of poetry."
- 2013/03/16: Mad Hat Tea
- 2013/03/10: XW-1 output power
- 2013/03/01: XW-1 output power
- 2013/02/23: XW-1 output power
- 2012/11/03: AOU check-list changes
- 2012/10/03: Wells Reserve bird walk
- 2012/10/01: Wells Reserve nature walk features a buckeye
- 2012/09/12: Mystery caterpillar
- 2012/08/22: Sawfly larva on a dogwood
- 2012/08/12: Fruit of fakir?
- 2012/05/04: Drupal to Blogger import done
- 2012/02/12: Faith matching for fun... Recounting Belief-O-Matic results from 2007 that delivered these top 3 (of 27): Unitarian Universalism, Liberal Quakers, Neo-Pagan. My upbringing affiliation came in fourth.
- 2012/01/06: ARISSat-1 summary of reception
- 2011/10/21: José Feliciano, Souled (-) Consider "Hitchcock Railway" grooviness and "Hi-Heel Sneakers" sultriness; otherwise, ornate vocal styling does not equate to emotional storytelling.
- 2011/07/21: Drupal account 5 years, 18 hours old at 6:18 am Eastern "Was just wondering last night if I should abandon it."
- 2011/04/02: Red Claws vs Legends, March 20, 2011
- 2010/11/14: SEEDS SSTV reception (see Flickr)
- 2010/06/09: Recounting loss of access to Drupal admin
- 2010/01/05: Rokia Traore, Tchamantche review (+)
- 2010/01/02: Xi Wàng (to hope, to wish for, to desire); my first QSO via HO-68 was on January 1
- 2009/11/08: SumbandilaSat Success... worked K8YSE for my first SO-67 QSO
- 2009/07/21: SSTV reception from Apollo 11 special event on AO-51 (see Flickr)
- 2009/07/18: Remembering the moon landing
- 2009/06/02: FX + X30 = XVII "The Winbook FX turns 13 in 10 days. The Axim X30 will be 4."
- 2009/02/17: BWK GBBC... 22 species over the weekend, including redpoll, pine grosbeak, and bohemian waxwing
- 2009/01/04: Martin Simpson, The Prodigal Son (~)
- 2009/01/04: Juana Molina, Un Dia (+)
- 2008/12/15: Used APRS-XO on OLPC laptop and N1AIA appeared on findu.com
- 2008/12/03: The Oregonian's Margie Boulé on letterboxing: "To hear or read about the hobby of letterboxing might make it seem odd, or pathetic."
- 2008/11/26: SV1BSX on antenna circular polarization (link dead but here https://www.qsl.net/sv1bsx/antenna-pol/polarization.html)
- 2008/11/17: Arrow II satellite antenna
- 2008/11/03: 198 QSOs in ARRL SS CW. Number of years since licensed = 40.38 ±12.58. Just one check from the 21st century.
- 2008/10/19: Collecting ideas... for gifts of music
- 2008/10/09: Devobama logo
- 2008/10/04: Progrography (a bad name, he knows, says David Connolly)
- 2008/10/01: Jackson Gillman leads Punkinfiddlers through his Pledge to the Planet (Anna assist)
- 2008/07/07: Good pass... copied 15 callsigns plus 2 partials on AO-51
- 2008/06/30: Prepping for SuitSat-2
- 2008/06/24: AMSAT-DL fundraiser almost got me but 10+ years later project was dead
- 2008/03/30: Axim X30 digitizer replacement surgery is successful
- 2008/02/25: K1 + G5 = VP6... Got Ducie on 40 with 25 kHz split using ad hoc setup
- 2008/02/19: You're right there with Gandhi!... My Political Compass plots to -4.75,-2.62
- 2007/12/31: Radio workbench 2007 recap touching on K1, WBR, HTX-100, ARDF, NEScaf, SoftRock, Warbler, charge controller, Maine Bug
- 2007/12/25: Razor Scooter
- 2007/12/03: First satellite station... Kitchen counter just after my first satellite QSO.
- 2007/11/21: Kitchen output... chocolate chip cookies, cranberry orange nut bread, octopus cookies, pumpkin pie, boiled cider pie
- 2007/11/13: one laptop per child... ordered the XO
- 2007/11/01: Albert Kuvezin & Yat Kha, Re-Covers (+)
- 2007/10/17: Easy Sat?... recounting first satellite QSOs and preparations making them possible
- 2007/03/03: WBR update... Success and progress on my N1BYT Wheatstone bridge regenerative receiver, set up for 60 meters
- 2007/02/14: Ubuntu beginnings... made my first blog post using Linux
- 2007/01/15: Joining the SDR club... with a $10 SoftRock Lite for 80m that worked on first power-up
- 2006/12/16: FCC drops Morse code requirement for ham licenses... against my wishes
- 2006/12/10: Obama personable, poised... in Portsmouth on a book tour. "The atmosphere around Obama accounted for more of the discussion than what he actually said." -- James Pindell at boston.com
- 2006/10/28: Some new tea... Satrupa and Miami Ice from Portsmouth Tea Company
- 2006/10/28: The Common Myna at Midway Atoll: Review and Status
- 2006/10/11: Email client loop... Evaluated Opera, Pegasus, Eudora, Thunderbird, and Outlook
- 2006/08/06: BTW Happy Anniversary... "My third flurry of copy-paste entries from Blogger..."
- 2006/08/02: Somethin' fishy's goin' on aroun' here...
- 2006/07/21: It's now Drupal
- 2006/05/17: Our yard's rain total for a week = 11.6" (Mother's Day flood)
- 2006/03/30: Sold Collins 75S-1 for $250 to fourth inquirer via ARRL RadiosOnline Ads
- 2006/03/09: Not intermediate, but cattle?... That Midway egret, ever inconclusive.
- 2006/03/04: Taking shape… …ever so slowly
- 2006/02/10: phpGEDview install went smoothly
- 2006/01/26: A test article, just for fun
- 2006/01/14: The Autism Quotient... I was off the spectrum but not by far
- 2005/11/27: Why supporting feral cat colonies is wrong
- 2005/11/26: one red paperclip... I began following the adventure that started in July
- 2005/11/24: Thanksgiving Snowman... C & A proved an inch of snow can be enough
- 2005/11/19: Liz Carroll and John Doyle set lists
- 2005/10/29: FCC input: Futile effort?... Comment 20051031740215 on NPRM, WT Docket No. 05-235: "Keep the code. Licensed radio amateurs at every level should know Morse code, allowing them to operate the simplest kind of radio equipment, which is for continuous wave communication. Solid capabilities at a basic level should be a fundamental expectation for every licensed radio amateur."
- 2005/10/26: Oh, no! Web 2.0!... Using the CMS Matrix to narrow the field of contenders -- "hope I don't spend more time figuring out the system than using it"
- 2005/10/16: Adventure Gamers: Alex Louis... Creator of Bad Mojo, among our favorites during our late-90s video game era
- 2005/09/26: UNC Bld-201 NDT server... tested Comcast: 375 Kb/s outbound, 375 Mb/s inbound
- 2005/09/16: Regenerative Receiver -- Before... Recording initial enclosure for posterity, my N1BYT WBR
- 2005/08/24: Getting it right... Greg Fishbone writes
- 2005/08/08: Jawbreaker milestone... finally broke 1000 in my 100th game
- 2005/08/06: Why TrackSat caused me to begin a blog... "Blogger can be a convenient place to collect clips and questions."
- 2005/08/06: It's always best to start at the beginning...
Notes
- Last modified April 5, 2026.