Another quick lesson I learned....

It's been a while since I posted anything at all. I know. My apologies. It's been kinda' nuts lately. Hopefully things are calming down enough to where I can get back to making some updates.

Anyway...got a eye-opener this weekend. Yesterday, my wife was trying to listen to her niece's softball game. They were streaming the radio broadcast over the internet at the start of the game. But, for some reason, about halfway through, they blacked it out online. No problem, I thought, I'll just grab one of my portable AM/FM radios. I know I have several of them. The larger, crank radio is in one of my Bug Out Tubs. Sadly, it was NOT. I'm not sure where the danged thing got off to. I know I had it out a little while ago do a Preparedness demo for a recent CERT class. Apparently, it never got put back where it was supposed to be. Shame on me.

While I was running around the house looking for a different radio, my wife got her radio out of her BOB. The batteries were not only dead in it, they had exploded. I know, I know. Never leave the batteries in ANYTHING. I usually tape a set of batteries to things like radios that won't get used very often. Not in this case I guess. The radio refused to work even with a fresh set of batteries.

Then I got the bright idea of just using my Yaesu VX-6R to listen to the game. Nope. I simply wasn't smart enough to figure out how to tune in AM stations on it. I did get FM stations, but that wasn't what I was trying to get at the moment.

Plan...what am I up to now...G or something? I finally found my little FM/AM/SW radio I bought from County Comm a while back. FINALLY...problem solved!

Needless to say...I was mad at myself for now knowing where the heck all of radios were and not knowing how to operate my HT properly. I couple of replacement Grundigs are on order as I write this. I just need to figure out my danged HT. I do have a manual on a thumb drive. I think I'll try and figure that out right now.

Having a plan doesn't mean crap! Practice...practice...practice. Oh, and...put your crap back when you're done with it!

PJ