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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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Tying the room together
Last night’s tsunami advisory made for an unexpected and interesting hasty setup of a radio room in my house. I received the notification from the Alertable app after having a couple of lovely happy hour beers at the local pub with my son, and thought to myself that it would be a good time to…
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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…