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I found a cool calabash gourd pipe in a local antique shop for only $40 but I didn't have a way to store or display it without lying it on its side. So I made my calabash pipe stand from red oak.

All the nice Morse keys I could find were expensive. I built mine out of brass stock from McMaster Carr and red oak for a base.

The Titan is a tugboat sunk in July 2004 as part of NC's artificial reef program. Today Titan sits upright in 60 feet of water about 12 miles out of Beaufort Inlet.

I was looking for a convenient antenna that I could throw in my GoBox. The solution I came up with was a easy-to-stow, roll-up J-Pole I made from 450 Ohm ladder line. It rolls up conveniently and can be stored in my GoBox and deploys easily by throwing a small rope over a tree limb and hoisting it up as high as possible.

A Go-Box is a portable amateur radio station which the radio amateur can take when asked to go to an event which needs support with radio communication. What the Go-Box consists of depends on the extent of the event, and the communication needs.