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My Favorite Tennis Racquet: the Head Prestige Classic Mid I took up Tennis in my senior year in college during the Jimmy Connors - Bjorn Borg Tennis Boom of the 70's.  I used to hit exclusively at the UP Tennis Courts.  I stopped playing in 1985.  In 2000, my old hitting buddy, my Pareng Nilo ask me to check out a tennis club in Cainta whose members are from Marikina.  I joined the All Toyo Tennis Club  and have been a member ever since.                                                    Old Video of me hitting at the All Toyo Tennis Club      I struggled in my early years at the club because of my long hiatus away from the sport and general lack of fitness.  The year I decided to take up biking, my fitness started to improve. I now bike to the courts and play doubles in the afternoons on Monda...

Pintasero Isa sa paboritong kong awit. Maaring Mabuhay Singers ang umawit, subalit hindi ko alam ang kompositor. Titik: Mga Ginoo: Ang sarap ng ulam natin ay bale wala Pagkat ang sinaing mo'y pagka lata lata Sa tuwing susubo ako, nakasusuya Kung ganyan din lang nilugaw na ang ibig ko kaysa parang pandikit na nakikita mo Kung lagi nang kay lambot ng kanin mo Ay asahan mong manglalambot na rin ako Mga Ginang: Kung maligat ang palagi mong hinihintay Magbukod na tayo sa tig-isang saingan na hindi laging kita ay nag-aaway Di ko na naaasahang maibigan mo ang sinaing na sintigas ng ulo mo Sa ligat daw ng kanin ng lolo ko, Nahirinan lang nabyuda na ang lola ko Mga Ginoo: kay lamig naman tong sabaw ng sinigang kulang sa sampalok at pagkatabangtabang bakit ba tayo ganyan, sa araw araw? Mga Ginang: pintasero ka naman at nakakainis kung manumbat ay lubhang pagkasakitsakit Sabay: Upang tayo ay di na ...

The Rocky Road to Today's Ham Radio An excerpt from  The World of Ham Radio, 1901–1950   By Richard A. Bartlett

IARU region 3 band plan

A good mp3 player to bring along when you're roughing it! I have been searching for a while for a good cheap MP3 player.  The trouble with most Chinese players around is that order of playback is in sequence and there is no easy way to navigate through your music collection. Well this model has the rare feature of Next Folder and  Previous Folder buttons.  You actually "long press" the next and previous buttons, to navigate through folders.  You can even enter the song number directly on the keypad.  I know cdr -king has some players with remotes but the remote is another thing to keep track of and misplace. The unit can also receive FM and can memorize some stations.  And speaking of memory, if you power it off while playing a particular track, the next time you power it up it starts with the last song you played.  Now that is neat. It will play most mp3 formats , but I had to re-encode some from my archive at constant  192,000 bit ...

Hot-Rod Your ICOM IC-725-Series Transceiver Part 1  by  Jukka Vermasvuori   OH2GF Receiver Issues The receiver in my IC-725 exhibited these drawbacks: Its audio frequency response was too narrow, dropping 6 dB from its maximum by about 2 kHz. High-end rolloff that is this profound filters out speech energy necessary for good SSB intelligibility and severely muffles AM broadcast signals, which carry audio up to at least 4.5 kHz. 4 The AM-mode audio had a “mega bass” quality. The level of in-band intermodulation products seemed to be quite high. 5 On CW, I could hear weak phantom beat notes from out-of-passband signals. The pitch change of these spurs was the opposite of that of desired signals during tuning. In effect, a strong signal would come back into the receiver passband if I tuned in the right direction. Although these spurious signals were weak, they sometimes disrupted communication as I worked weak DX stations in crowded bands. During CW rec...

I bought the Pentax 135mm telephoto lens for my first SLR, a Pentax ME in the 80s.