KH6JRM's Amateur Radio Blog
Now that the holidays are over, it's back to work at the radio station news room (serving 4 Hawaii Island radio stations). The big item this week is the 47th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival, the premier Hawaiian Cultural event of the year. Most of the on-air staff will be busy with all of the events surrounding the festival, so I'll have to be creative when it comes to ham radio time. Every once in a while, one gets a cheery note that adds a bit of perspective to the daily grind. Today, I received a nice note from John, KS4D (ex-KH6JRN), one of my early contacts when I was a Novice operator. It was so good to hear from him. John found me on my other blog site and brought me up to date. Oh, do I remem- ber those optimistic days when our "peanut whistles" gave us access to the world. Despite all of the truly advanced media in use today, there is a certain warm feeling for launching a signal into the "ether". I must be getting old..but