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Welcome!
Thanks for popping in. You might notice that there are a few broken links and a whole lot of not much here for now. There’ll be more to come, I promise!
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Christmas practice!
I’m in the process of working out my practice recording setup so that a) I can archive my sessions and listen back; and b) I can post a little of what I’m doing for a combination of selfish and feedback-seeking reasons. I had a quiet Christmas morning – Sara worked a 12-hour shift, necessitating her…
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practice!
I have a tendency to be fairly consistent in my warmups, so I’ll start labeling them here: Today was Daily Warmup #2, an adaptation of one that I got from Travis Harrison through Tonebase: After I got through that I worked on Galamian 3-octave scales (Ab Major), then headed to Billè Etude No. 1 for…
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Scales, scales, scales
Today’s Warmup (17 minutes): I saw a great “KT’s Minute Tips” from @katiethiroux on Instagram about speedwork. Her approach was to take your regular scales (2-octave) and start by finding your maximum fast tempo. The idea was to set your metronome to your fastest bpm divided by 4, so if you were working at 320bpm,…
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Change, change, change
Welcome to the new format of Monday Musings! One of the perks of my job is the generous compensatory-time-off package. One of the drawbacks to this that it requires a lot of weekend work that translates to taking Mondays off in lieu. This past weekend we performed in Memorial Park in Esquimalt to support The…
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102 Hours
This story is going to take a little bit of explaining, but here we go. My paternal grandmother, Byrdeen Anne Wise, passed away last year. She, very generously, left me and her other grandchildren a small inheritance, which I then took to using to acquire a new-to-me double bass. Initially I’d started talking with Trav…
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IslandHF Digimode Presentation
Glenn (VE7GRQ) asked if anyone was interested in doing a presentation on digimodes (FT8/FT4 etc), and I jumped at the chance. For those of you that were on the call, here is a copy of my slides from the presentation. https://www.braydenwise.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Digimodes-2023-03-26.pdf
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Ham FAFO #2
I found a spot not far from home that operates as a three-fer on POTA – there’s a little patch of grass that intersects Beacon Hill Park (CA-5540), Victoria Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary (CA-4258) and The Great Trail (CA-5082). Better still, I had all my stuff in one pannier on my bike and after doing…
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FAFO – Ham Radio Edition
Today’s edition of FAFO in Ham Radio deals with my weekend expedition to Beacon Hill Park (VE-5540) here in Victoria. Everything started just fine on this trip – gear was packed and ready to go, I brought all the necessary accoutrements to be successful on 15m and 10m (random wire plus tuner, and 10m vertical…
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when it rains…
Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s something else, but I am celebrating the fact that I had a banner week for bookings and gigs this week. It started with a quick note from an old pal asking if I’d do a restaurant gig at Pagliacci’s (heck yes). 25 minutes later, I got a text from…
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this ain’t healthy…
I mean, hobbies are supposed to be healthy, right? My current hyperfixation, in case you couldn’t tell, is antenna making. After the making of the antennas, though, comes the using of the antennas, and that takes some time and some doing. I’ve already reported back successes with the vertical dipole and the inverted vees. Where…