Why Ham Radio?

June 6, 2010

Some folks ask why would anyone have an interest in Amateur Radio. Our world is so different today with Facebook, Twitter, Email, Websites, Skype, etc., etc.,etc. The world grows smaller each day as we download our Itunes, text message our friends on the Iphone and carry the internet, essentially, in our pockets. In the early […]

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Spinning the clock

June 2, 2010

What spins your clock? For me, there are activities so absorbing that I realize, a bit stunned, that the hours have slipped by without my awareness. It’s as I might  imagine a time machine to which one enters and becomes so engrossed that the clock begins to spin in a blur. I’ve come to believe […]

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Avatar – the movie. A few thoughts.

January 24, 2010

We saw Avatar twice – both in 3-D.  It is a visually stunning  work of art. It is a creative triumph for James Cameron and his team of  amazing craftsmen. Our second time was at an IMAX 3-D in Orlando – even more stunning.  I recommend this movie to anyone. The setting is a forested […]

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POCKETS

January 10, 2010

As a fellow of a few years I have watched styles come and go. My short hair of the early 70’s was spurned by most every one of my peers most of whom sported the long, even shoulder-length hair. Yet look around today. Young folks have their hair cropped to nothing. The longer haired folks […]

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An Old Dog – New Lessons.

November 24, 2009

Learning is a lifetime experience. Being humble or being able to be humbled is skill that I think some of us lose – to our own detriment. I’ve been a pilot, as of this writing, for over 37 years. I’ve lost friends to the sport but have many, many more who are alive and well […]

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Paul Harvey was a National Treasure

November 22, 2009

In 1964, the late radio commentator Paul Harvey broadcast the following commentary. It bears repeating today. America has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically outnumbered by the incompetents, are being corralled, restrained, confined and milked like barnyard cattle. The giants who created our skyscraper civilization are now ordered to obey Lilliputian […]

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Father and Son and one airplane.

November 14, 2009

Bryan and I finished our trip today (Monday 2 Aug 1999). We were gone 10 days (9 nights) and covered 19 states with highlights in Branson Missouri, the Tuskeegee Airmen training field in Alabama, Ozarks of Arkansas, a Flight Service Station in Nebraska, the Badlands, Custer, Mount Rushmore and Wind Cave in South Dakota, Devil’s […]

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Pictures are worth (di da di da di da)

October 3, 2009
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Greensleeves

August 24, 2009

Have always found this to be a simple but beautiful melody from days gone by. Like many of us I first heard it as “What Child is This” during Christmas season. I’ve got two cameras running and am recording this with an MAudio Board, and a Sonar 7 setup. All is put together in Media […]

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Night and Day by Cole Porter

August 24, 2009

I wrote a piece about my mother (posted on KenRisley.com). There I spoke of a dream (nightmare actually) I had as a young boy as I drifted off to sleep to my mother’s playing of this song on the piano. For years I did not like the melody not realizing the association. In my mid […]

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