A look back at 2024's hamfest and shows.8
The December Scott Antique Market22
An Olson TE-189 C-R Analyzer - The Waiting Game.36
A Waterman OCA-11A “industrial / pocket” oscilloscope - Part 2: Tubes!43
The Heathkit IO-10 Oscilloscope - Part 1: Observations47
Tales from the eBay universe.117
The Heathkit IO-21 Oscilloscope - Part 1: Observations50
An Olson TE-189 C-R Analyzer - Rebuild, part 2 - I only wanted to replace some capacitors.68
The 1970s live in this Elenco M-1200 meter.60
Some miscellaneous NIXIE devices to a new home.63
An Olson TE-189 C-R Analyzer - Intermission: Parts64
An Olson TE-189 C-R Analyzer - Rebuild, part 1.84
An Olson TE-189 C-R Analyzer - Considerations96
My 2025 Hamfest and Show List162
Photos from the November 2024 Scott Antique Market.97
The B&W Model 200 Signal Generator Part 3 - setting it aside for now.91
An Unknown 2-dial TRF radio.104
The B&W Model 200 Signal Generator Part 2 - Diagnosis109
The B&W Model 200 Signal Generator112
Pictures from the 2024 Fort Wayne Hamfest110
Pictures from the Ft. Wayne hamfest on the way!120
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator - Wrapup, set-up, and final thoughts.124
An Olson TE-189 C-R Analyzer - Some notes on parts.135
An Olson TE-198 C-R Analyzer Part 2 - What should we replace?131
An Olson TE-198 C-R Analyzer184
I found the 60Ω resistor in my Heathkit IG-72 socket.175
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 7 - I think we're done...140
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 6 - We're back up and running.129
An EICO 242 FET VOM127
A PACO G-30 RF Signal Generator134
A Westinghouse H-636T6 AA5+1 Radio - It lives*126
The Aerovox Model 97 LC-Checker172
The 2024 Fort Wayne hamfest117
A Waterman OCA-11A "industrial / pocket" oscilloscope.204
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 5 - We're not done yet.136
Pictures from the MARC 2024 Hamfest142
I hit 1000 views on a post - Thank you!200
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 4 - Final - No need for repairs.139
A Hallicrafters S38-C recap.155
A Westinghouse H-636T6 AA5+1 Radio150
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 3 - Do I need parts?154
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 2 - Suspicions. 169
A Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator Part 1 - Observations.224
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Wrapup and final thoughts.234
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 8 - And, we're done.210
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 7 - On the importance of checking your work.205
NTE Electronics is gone.236
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 6e - The rebuild is done.248
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 6d - Almost there!260
Fixing the Heathkit IG-72 Signal Generator236
email services for pygg.xyz have been terminated.206
An interesting Westinghouse Radio248
An audio analyzer project idea from years ago.231
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 6c - I was only going to run a few wires.243
Photos from The Scioto Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest 2024284
That weird lightbulb in Heathkit - and other - test equipment.243
Some notes from The Scioto Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest221
The Aerovox Model 97 Inductor-Capacitor Checker204
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 6b - Continuing the power supply.297
Salary is confidential? Your response should be thanks, but no thanks!209
An interesting modular digital trainer.209
Pictures from the 2024 Cleveland Hamfest.282
The Scioto Valley Amateur Radio Club Hamfest203
Pictures from the Cleveland Hamfest are on the way.211
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 6a - Starting the rebuild281
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Component Notes298
The 50th Annual Cleveland Hamfest is happening this weekend.225
The McMurdo Silver “Sparx” Model 905 Signal Tracer - Photos275
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 5327
The McMurdo Silver “Sparx” Model 905 Signal Tracer - Update271
A couple more Ohio shows that I may get to...245
What were they trying to do here?247
The Phaostron 666 Multimeter from 1958.247
The Findlay Radio Club 2024 Hamfest303
The McMurdo Silver "Sparx" Model 905 Signal Tracer331
The 2024 Findlay Radio Club Hamfest is this weekend.254
Pictures from the 2024 Johnstown Swappers Day343
The 2024 Johnstown (Ohio) Swappers Day Flea Market329
It's interesting how old data just keeps kicking around.272
The NRI (Conar 200) "Appliance Tester"303
Has it really been 30 years?360
The PACO B-10 Battery Eliminator and Charger360
These giant selenium rectifier plates337
I've added a mastodon feed to the blog.387
Pretty good for just pulling it out of a junk bin.348
The 2024 Coolspring Power Museum Show346
The 2024 Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association Show363
Have you ever wondered what's inside of that device?293
The Columbus 2024 Hamfest406
My haul from the 2024 Columbus Hamfest344
It's time to clean out some stuff - maybe to Dayton 2025?334
Pictures from recent shows are on the way!292
The dial lamp can be more important than you think.525
Replacing the filter capacitors in a Hallicrafters S-38C444
A recruiter once told me that a company was a poor choice. They were right.304
Creating a useful 404 page for this blog (and flatpress in general?)342
Fun with Chrome?341
The Columbus Ohio hamfest - Saturday August 3rd 2024323
A cheap Chinese radio kit.359
The RCA 151 Oscilloscope440
The Westinghouse 54884B Watt-hour Meter Standard.398
Yet another test box - The Waage Model 066.486
Remember Geocities?399
Pictures from Coolspring Power Museum's Spring Expo on the way.404
Minor imperfections. Priced to sell.445
pygg.xyz, the former home for this blog, is nearing it's end.482
Breezeshooters 2024 - What I brought home.492
Pictures from Breezeshooters 2024 Hamfest.735
Don't stay at toxic workplaces. 474
The Breezeshooter's Hamfest is next weekend - June 9th 2024.497
Finding old wereboar posts in search engines?635
Hamvention 2024 - Sunday's Pictures.719
Hamvention 2024 - Saturday's Pictures.735
Hamvention 2024 - Friday's Pictures.723
I've had a few questions about the images here.441
Hamvention 2024 - Sunday's Stuff I Didn't Need (Ok, I'm just buying it because it's cheap!)518
Hamvention 2024 - Saturday's Stuff I Didn’t Need (mom it followed me home!)550
Hamvention 2024 - Friday's Stuff I Didn't Need (but it jumped in my car I swear!)599
Only one show on the calendar for June.428
The Dayton Hamvention is this weekend!414
My favorite part of opening old devices is...463
MFJ has announced they are closing their doors.483
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 4552
A new LinkedIn scam.504
What I took home from TUSCO 2024483
The 2024 TUSCO ARC Hamfest495
If you're planning on going to the Dayton Hamvention...519
Stuff I brought home from Cuyahoga Falls 2024.258
A Radio Shack 28-177 Crystal Radio Kit - Conclusion661
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 3596
A Radio Shack 28-177 Crystal Radio Kit674
The 2024 Cuyahoga Falls Hamfest556
This 1986 Ford Radio.721
Imagine taking this 29-cent LED bulb back to 1955...542
Just some minor equipment repairs - cord replacements534
Remember these things?543
Tip Plugs for older test equipment are still purchasable.614
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 2649
No amount of whining will get you that information.557
April Hamfests594
Dayton Hamvention is only about 6 weeks away.553
By the power of the sun!604
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 1682
Pictures from the Scott Antique Market604
An Eico 145 Signal Tracer - Part 0578
An unusual 115VAC demand meter.707
I guess making a complaint does work.613
Magic Eye Tube kits from China637
Multiple email SPF records? Yeah, go away kid, we don't care.600
All of the documents currently in wereboar’s archive - Part II.636
An IMD-202-2 for parts...but let's take a quick look anyway!600
Magic Eyes - glowing green magic from the vacuum tube era.596
That oddball connector on old test equipment...615
The Sunday Creek ARF Hamfest 2024675
The Sunday Creek Hamfest has come and gone,566
Stabilizing the oscillator in the IM-1212 Meter, part 2647
Mistakes were made - a long long time ago.619
An odd little part - single plate selenium rectifier.626
Stabilizing the oscillator in the IM-1212 Meter679
Another IM-1212 Meter. For some reason.633
December 2023's Scott Antique Market.656
All of the documents currently in wereboar's archive.597
The Regency EC-175 Frequency Counter Manual712
2024 Hamfest List835
I have to fix the equipment before I fix the equipment.662
An MMD1 8080 Trainer686
Random board shot: The Bell (Model?) Telephone Desk Speaker688
The Heathkit IM-1212 in operation. Kind of.667
I didn't take it because it's not enough money...594
An odd thing with Flatpress...653
Pictures from the November 2023 Scott Antique Market677
Pictures from the Fort Wayne Hamfest 2023676
November 2023's Scott Antique Market638
A Heathkit IM-1212 from the Fort Wayne Hamfest - making it work again.741
DC Calibration of the Heathkit IM-1212 NIXIE DVM735
Notes from the Fort Wayne Hamfest668
Testing the Aliexpress Supercapacitor UPS.727
I finally got around to testing the supercapacitor UPS.630
pygg.xyz is gone.693
Did Espressif fix their RF spurs?774
An infrared camera for about $40694
Pictures from Findlay 2023653
A Supercapacitor UPS? Does it work?669
Findlay 2023 has come and gone.268
Neat things at the Johnstown Swapper's Day 2023755
The Findlay Radio Club Hamfest AND The Johnstown Swapper's Day661
Pictures from the 2015 Dayton Hamvention715
Pictures from the 2015 Findlay Radio Club Hamfest680
The only two pictures I took at the 2016 Hamvention686
My haul from the Columbus 2023 Hamfest717
The Columbus 2023 Hamfest684
Checking out a Heathkit AG-7 Signal Generator691
Random board shot: The Atari 2600772
Pictures from The Dayton Hamvention 2003604
Checking out an Eico 145 Signal Tracer768
Random board shot: AT&T PBX Surge Suppressor722
This little werepig has settled in his new home.707
I didn't drag home much stuff from Butler, but...687
My new home for my project blog is here!743
The Breezeshooters' Hamfest 2023 - Butler, PA.777
Dayton purchase: An HP3440 NIXIE DVM671
Dayton 2023: Stuff I drug home.785
The Columbus (OH) Hamfest - August 5th 2023.739
The Breezeshooter's Hamfest - June 4th 2023680
The Dayton Hamvention 2023884
The Dayton Hamvention 2023 has come and gone.699
Monster.com has become nothing but noise.282
Random board shot - The Textolite "T"696
The TUSCO Amateur Radio Club 2023 Show - Junk I Took Home.836
The TUSCO Amateur Radio Club 2023 Show768
The 2023 Dayton Hamvention is almost upon us!696
My haul from the Cuyahoga Falls Hamfest.930
Returning a Kaypro 2 to it's original owner... but,995
Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club Hamfest, 2023 show pictures717
The Tusco ARC Hamfest 775
The 67th Cuyahoga Falls ARC Hamfest812
The TMRA Hamfest Haul703
Random board shot - a commercial weather radio.729
A General Electric T-125A “All American Five” Radio, Part III919
The Breezeshooter's Hamfest 2023681
A General Electric T-125A “All American Five” Radio, Part II739
A General Electric T-125A "All American Five" Radio901
Addendum to the hamfest list...730
StatusNet: Cleaning up the main page.912
My 2023 Hamfest list. See you there!746
The TechTran 980 standalone 5 1/4" disk drive.928
It's not a job requisition, it's just spam.764
Fort Wayne Hamfest this weekend.397
The comments are locked.805
Deleting bad files in Windows851
StatusNet: Sending email instead of SMS with a new post?926
The SwitchBOARd, a general purpose I/O device using the ESP-03.308
Re-opened my github account.854
The Fort Wayne (Indiana) Hamfest855
Didn't make it to the Findlay radio show...827
Allow access to a webpage only if inside the LAN?846
Blonder-Tongue Audio Baton (BT B-9) Schematics1,005
email misadventures - security is important!883
The Hallicrafters S-41G: Found the Sams folder.860
The Findlay Radio Club Hamfest - September 11 2022.831
The Hallicrafters S-41G: Found a schematic.885
The Hallicrafters S-41G Skyrider Jr.938
My haul from the 2022 Columbus Hamfest922
Pictures from the 2022 Columbus Hamfest893
Columbus, Ohio Hamfest 2022278
Unusual and interesting light sensors996
Breezeshooter's (Butler, PA) Hamfest cancelled for 2022455
Pictures from the Dayton Hamvention 2022919
An EAS-1 Emergency Alert Decoder946
A potato of a board.923
Revisiting an old project with new ideas. 1,031
My 1996 group photo from Lucent Technologies.936
1959 Blonder-Tongue Audio Baton (B9) Graphic EQ Rebuild1,004
My haul from the 2022 Cuyahoga Falls Hamfest945
Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club Hamfest - Show pictures922
The "gotchas" of cheap technology.976
Updating the Linksys WML11B media player for the modern age938
Pictures from the Findlay, Ohio Hamfest 2021.888
Breezeshooters Hamfest - June 4th and 5th, 2022891
Dayton Hamvention - May 20, 21, and 22 2022957
Pictures from the Columbus Hamfest 2021880
Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club Hamfest - April 9 2022639
Just because it fits doesn't mean it will work...982
Don't overlook the power cord.1,100
I don't know if I want to.703
Columbus, Ohio Hamfest 2021626
Getting set up.665