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02/29/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: It’s a Jungle Down There

It’s Wednesday. The evening meal has been cooked and consumed. The dishes have been washed. My wife Nancy has curled up with a murder mystery and our dog Ariel is busy dismantling a rawhide bone. Checking my watch, I see that it’s time to go down to my sh
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08/30/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Virtually There

My wife Nancy and I were sitting in a Mexican restaurant having lunch. Between bites of my taco, I described the preparations I was taking to be a net controller for our ARES® packet net.
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07/23/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Fun, Fatigue and Fur

My wife Nancy and I have a very sweet dog named Ariel. As near as we can make out, Ariel is 95 percent Swedish Lapphund, absolutely beautiful and as furry as they come. During the summer months in Missouri, she sheds and the whole house becomes furry. The
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02/22/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: The Net Controller’s Speech

You’ve probably heard something surprising on the air. It may have been something unpleasant, like cursing or an off-color joke. It may have been an unexpected opportunity, such as a close-out sale at a local electronic store. Or it may have been somethin
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