Whatever happened to 'The wet string chronicles…' ?

‘The wet string chronicles…’ was the title of a Wordpress blog I ran until about March 2011, so called because of my less than optimal amateur radio antenna. Over the years I’ve always used simple wire antennas, some of which have worked better than others. 

'The wet string chronicles' c. 2010

Some of my less performant antennas are, what we in England would say, ‘about as much use as a bit of wet string’! In antenna terms it’s colloquial for ‘a not very good antenna’.

Today, as I was browsing the internet, as we often do, I stumbled across a dead link to a review I wrote on the Yaesu FT-950 radio. I tried to find this old webpage on the Wayback Machine internet archive, and lo and behold, there I found substantial remnants of an old Wordpress blog of mine!

Since that lucky find I have been rummaging through the remains of my old blog with a degree of nostalgia and a smile on my face as I have read long forgotten blog entries about amateur radio, and other things. All great reminders of a different time in my life.

As I dig though my old blog I will copy anything amateur radio related to re-post here. 

PS: I did eventually find that old FT-950 review I was looking for. :)

Recently reposted from 'The wet string chronicles' :