Reading about the Midland WR120 I discovered that there is a simple antenna one can make that would help bring in weak signals. There are only five inexpensive parts to it.
The parts are: 1. a wire coat hanger; 2. a 3 or 4 foot piece of RG6 Coaxial Cable with F Type Connectors; 3. a RG6 F-Type female to female adapter; 4. F-Type female to RCA male coaxial cable connector; 5. a F-Type Balun 300-75 ohm TV connector antenna matching transformer.
Below is the YouTube video I followed to construct the antenna. The first 6 min 30 sec are a review of the radio, then comes how the antenna is constructed.
Severe weather is a given whether we are on our RV lot or travel in the western states. This summer we had a warning whenever severe weather was approaching thanks to the weather radio my wife insisted that we buy.
The weather radio we chose was the Midland WR120. Whenever we changed RV parks we would set the channel and location to the broadcast for that area. It was one of better additions we have made and we were never surprised by severe weather either during the trip or since we have been back.
It sprouted a new top during the 2 months we were traveling but today it meets its final fate.
The implement of execution has been bought and assembled.
The tree has been sliced and diced into manageable pieces.
Only stumps are left of multiple generations of our Poinciana tree that grew here.
Twelve years ago we bought our RV lot and selected the plants we wanted planted on it. That was when the first Poinciana tree was planted. That tree spread its seeds and a new generation emerged. Over the ensuing years storms destroyed several generations of that original tree. Today the great grandchild of that original tree was cut down. It was time to change the look of our backyard. We will miss the beauty of the Poinciana covered with bright yellow blooms. We will miss the snap, crackle and pop of the seeds being spewed out from the many hundreds of seed pods as the sun begins to set and the temperature changes. However, we will not miss the dozens of seedings sprouting from those seeds. Change is inevitable and our Poinciana is one of its casualties. Yet life goes on and we will be planting other plants in the backyard in the future. We don’t long for what was, we look forward to what will be.
From his poem Do not go gentle into that good night.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
When young we never think of the “night” coming. When old we think of when we were young as we know the “night” is coming. Live LIFE to it’s fullest every day, for sure as day dawns, the night will come.
