Use MNLink to search all at once, and use interlibrary loan to get stuff sent to your favorite location. Need an active library
card, however.
https://www.mnlinkgateway.org/zportal/zengine?VDXaction=LoginPage
Can register a card from one county and any and all other counties (takes legwork to go to each), but that allows you to have (most)
privileges as if a resident of another county.
I prefer the web layout and features of Hennepin (Southdale/ York) to Dakota so I mostly use that, but can return to a Dakota site
to avoid driving when I have nothing to pick up.
Dakota charges rentals on DVDs but Hennepin does not, so I go to/through Hennepin\. Hennepin also has more generous checkout and
renewal options (partly due ILL regs differing by county).
TIP: I make a notepad shortcut that has my library info (card number, phone numbers, hours open, etc) as a desktop convenience, and
also have shortsuts to MnLink, HCL, Dakota, etc, so I can copy and paste my library card number (22 digits?) in without typos as
signon and go searching and requesting with no hassle.
Every library I've looked in had ARRL stuff, but I haven't looked for that in a long time.
ANTENNAS for sale: I have some serious tower type panel antenna "segments" I don't use and should sell. One is dual WiFi cell
2.4GHz and 900 MHz, another is mainly cell. These are about 17dbi things with NICE specs. Have the specs somewhere.
Chuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org
> [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org]On Behalf Of Matthew Johnson
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:34 PM
> To: S. Earl Jarosh; Matthew Genelin; TCWUG-List
> Subject: Re: [tcwug-list] [Fwd: Yagi at 2.4Ghz for sale on ebay]
>
>
> The library is a good idea. I've browsed the ARRL antenna handbook at Radio City and it cost like $55! I wonder which
> local library would have arrl stuff.
>
> Anyway I have another ARRL book to study. I have to study my ARRL book on passing the tech license.
>
> -Matt Johnson
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:28:59 -0500, "S. Earl Jarosh" <earl at jarosh.org> said:
> > A good source of PCB antennas that work and won't cost you and arm and a
> > leg.
> >
> > www.wa5vjb.com
> >
> > Kent's site is a good source of antenna information. You really don't
> > need
> > a 17dbi yagi for most point to point bridging needs. Most cantennas are
> > built by people that have not done the correct math and so the stub
> > length
> > is wrong, the placement is wrong, the connector is wrong and the coax is
> > inappropriate for the use. Antennas are simply math. Everyone here
> > should
> > go down to the library, pick up a copy of the ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook
> > and read the chapters on antennas and feed lines. You can build
> > something
> > much better and a little of the black magic will have been lifted.
> >
> >
> >
> > S. Earl Jarosh, N0HZ
> > V.P. of Information Technology
> > Cell: 612.868.1313
> > Off: 763.545.3275
> > Fax: 763.546.0027
> > Money Centers of America, Inc. - I.T. Dept
> > 5955 Golden Valley Rd., Suite 206
> > Golden Valley, MN 55422
> > 6128681313 at cingularme.com
> > earl at moneycenters.com
> > www.moneycenters.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org]
> > On
> > Behalf Of Matthew Johnson
> > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:44 PM
> > To: mgenelin at fastcomputerserviceco.com; tcwug-list at tcwug.org
> > Subject: [tcwug-list] [Fwd: Yagi at 2.4Ghz for sale on ebay]
> >
> >
> > And there is the cantenna:
> > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270212994514>
> > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270212994514>
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Yagi at 2.4Ghz for sale on ebay
> > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:40:16 -0500
> > From: Matthew Johnson <mailto:mattjohnson2005 at gmail.com>
> > <mattjohnson2005 at gmail.com>
> > To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org
> > References:
> > <mailto:7d3948c70907261147v38f19436j1e51f0a1681d4ed4 at mail.gmail.com>
> > <7d3948c70907261147v38f19436j1e51f0a1681d4ed4 at mail.gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > One of the topics today was point-to-point wireless bridging. Here is
> >
> > a yagi for sale on ebay that might be useful for that kind of thing.
> >
> > I haven't done wireless bridging before so I'd like to learn about it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yagi at 2.4Ghz for sale on ebay:
> >
> >
> > <http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400063773418&ssPageName=A
> > DME:B:FSEL:CA:1123>
> > <http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400063773418&ssPageName=A
> > DME:B:FSEL:CA:1123>
>
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