Friday May 18, 2012 01:19 PM PDT In Cooperation
with
ST. FRANCIS
HOME
for
CRIPPLED
COLLIES

Email me:
DAVID
DALTON

AMATEUR RADIO
STATION
K9WQ
SAN FRANCISCO
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Where's David?
Portable radio
Car radio
GPS/Ham radio locator

NASA SPACE WEATHER
Solar X-rays:
Geomagnetic
field:

[Real-time
NOAA data]

AFFILIATIONS:
International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
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International Morse Preservation Society
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American Radio Relay League
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Mad Scientists Amateur Radio Club
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Dalton Genealogical Society
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American Theatre Organ Society
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Northern California Theatre Organ Society


Magnetic loops

My article at www.eham.net on magnetic loop antennas. The small size and efficiency of these antennas make them excellent for apartment use.


What's a vacuum variable capacitor?
Vacuum variable capacitors are very useful objects in you're a ham radio operator. Here's a photo and a description.


Usal Road...
Usal Road is an old logging road that leads from Highway 1 north of Fort Bragg, California, into the "Lost Coast." It's a good place to explore in a Jeep...


Got time to read?
I've been known to write a paragraph or two. Here are a few well-censored selections.


To Gavin from Paris: I discovered that some of my Paris photographs -- in particular the tomb of Victor Noir -- were getting a lot of hits from search engines, even though I broke the link some time ago. Here are my Paris photos again, along with a long letter -- To Gavin from Paris, November 2000.

French verbs...
This is my database of 1,446 French verbs conjugated in six tenses.


Baldwin HT-2: This Baldwin HT-2 home theatre organ was built around 1966. I bought it in March 2004 from a thrift shop in San Rafael, California. I don't know a great deal about its history, but I believe the organ came out of a home in Sausalito. I've made the Owner's Manual available on line.

And now for something
completely different...




After 16 years, the time is soon coming for me to leave San Francisco. I'm going to build a house in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Follow my progress here...

It's in Stokes County, North Carolina. That's Mayberry country.