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Sunday, September 21, 2014

A decade of decline?

I found this interesting while checking out Google Trends.

If you enter certain search terms, you can see the amount of traffic generated by the search terms going back to 2004.

So I tried "ham radio" and "amateur radio" for comparison:

Check out the full report and see what you think.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Keep Austin weird...

Steven Anthony Garza
An Austin man is facing charges after police say he tossed a drone and a ham radio over the fence because he was tired of his neighbor “getting in his head.”

Steven Anthony Garza faces an assault charge in connection with the incident. According to the arrest affidavit filed by Austin Police, Garza stormed into Matthew Hammons’ yard while Hammons was using his amateur radio equipment to talk with his father. Hammons told police Garza charged him while making gestures indicating he was looking to fight. Hammons told officers Garza first broke his radio’s antenna and then headbutted him; Hammons went inside.

While inside his home, Hammons told police he watched as Garza threw his Yaesu 857-D radio and a personal DJI Phantom drone over the fence causing $4,000 in damage.

More of the story here: http://bit.ly/1vKTVcf