Chris Smolinski W3HFU
@hfunderground
Software, mostly radio, also audio. Radio, mostly pirate and shortwave. Ask me about genealogy or lowcarb/keto at your own risk. Chief bit mangler at I also run a little site known as hfunderground.com
And yet some more semi-recently received shortwave pirate radio #eQSL cards. As always a big thanks to the station operators for sending these.
Box 409 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. One of those bad boxes you get every now and then, I found a Canadian nickel - that's it...
Time for some more semi-recently received shortwave pirate radio #eQSL cards!
Box 408 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I searched 50 customer wrapped rolls from half a dozen branches, and found a 1942-S silver war nickel. That's it...
The TI-99/4A - a 16 bit computer with the performance of a 4 bit computer (not mine, but yes I have one). Horribly bad design choices made every step of the way...
And here's a few more recently and not so recently received shortwave pirate radio #eQSL cards - thanks to the operators for sending them!
Yet more recent and not so recent shortwave pirate radio #eQSL cards.
Box 407 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found a 1919 Buffalo nickel, 1971-S proof nickel, and a Canadian nickel...
A few recently and not so recently received shortwave pirate radio #eQSL cards
Box 406 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found a 1945-S silver war nickel, a Bermuda nickel and a Mexican 1 Peso...
I can't believe it. I repaired a completely disassembled (don't ask - it wasn't me) tape measure. It works, and I didn't cut a finger off in the process.
...a Canadian nickel, Bermuda nickel, and a penny. I've noticed my Liberty nickels seem to come in waves/bursts. I'm still searching for 19 out of 64 Buffalo nickels and 21 out of 33 Liberty nickels. I completed the Jefferson series with box 238. The quest goes on.
Box 405 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found an 1891 Liberty nickel, which I needed! This is the oldest nickel I've found so far. Also a 1943-P silver war nickel...
My last day on the air CHU QSL arrived. I also reported the 6660 harmonic, but to the end they denied it existed :)
Box 404 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found a Type 1 1913-D Buffalo nickel, a 1954-D with a large D over Monticello (I enjoy finding counterstamped coins)...
My CHU QSL card did not arrive today, but the ducklings and goslings did. Thank you USPS for another successful live animal delivery.
Box 403 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found two buffalo nickels: 1935 and 1936, a 1943-P silver war nickel, three Canadian nickels, and a dime...
Several not so recently received shortwave pirate radio #eQSL cards. I'm going to try to be better about posting these more often. Really, I am.
Box 402 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found two silver war nickels: 1942-S and 1945-D...
Box 401 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found two Buffalo nickels: a 1926 and 1937-D, a 1945-P silver war nickel, and a 5 Centavos from Ecuador...
...To date I have found: 19 Liberty 278 Buffalo 334 Silver War 77 Proof 447 Foreign coins (292 from Canada). 2 Henning nickels (both 1939) 1949 D over S in AU Many key/semi-key dates Several fun errors ...
Box 400 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. 800,000 nickels searched! I found a 1942-P silver war nickel, 1959 Black Beauty (improper annealing), two Canadian, one from Panama...
Box 399 of my quest/personal challenge to build complete Liberty and Buffalo nickel collections just from circulation via coin roll hunting. I found two Buffalo nickels: a 1919 and a 1935, also a penny...