Ham Radio Cartoons by Jeff K1NSS

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Halligan's Hallicrafters International is world headquarters for fanciers of this iconic American electronics brand. Keep 'Em Flying!

Surfside, Stoked & Shackadelic!

Ted Randall speaks with famous and fascinating hams the world over -- yet by some fluke he also graciously interviewed the creator of Dash! The Dog-Faced Ham, a certain Jeff K1NSS. Hear that bit of history HERE, and click HERE for a complete selection of Ted's somewhat more prominent guests -- including 73 Magazine Publisher Wayne Green, microphone maven Bob Heil, and ham country music star Ronnie Milsap, WB4KCG. After Ted and I said 73, Dash! was quick to point out that I forgot to plug our book and say hi to Mom. For his part, Dash! crawled back out from under the operating desk, so I submit that our media mastery is on par. OM TV Tim Allen can rest easy, knowing that we're not about to Ashton Kutcher him out of a job on ABC's hamzapoppin' Last Man Standing anytime soon.

Linked to the shadowy Fi-Ni Report as well as the notorious Poisson D'Avril -- amateur radio's most disreputable contest.

The works, courtesy of Hamilton KD0FNR. Like having a friend in the business of time, space, matter and energy...because he is!

Speaking of the universe and stuff like that, click here and see how you can help reanimate Nikola Tesla's last laboratory before the Reptilians take over.

This endorsement is unpaid and unsolicited. Since 2005, QTH.com has been Dashtoons' perfect host and remains our happy home.|

Amateur, Author, Blogger, Podcaster, 21st century Bon Vivant -- we give you Radio Renaissance Man Bill Meara, N2CQR

Huddled masses of radio amateurs yearing to breathe free and speak their darned minds are urged to bathe, pack a toothbrush, a sense of humor and then click their bad selves aboard the Island of Misfit Hams, a forum for extraordinary operators.

Tune in Twitter, tune out those Tweety Lids, Kids and Space Cadeets! Twitter is nice and easy as pie with hamtwitter.net -- filter by radio brand, special ham interest, or run wide open for broadband hamtwitters without the static. See Dash! in banner rotation too. More than ever, we're out there!

There's a FB ham behind this remarkable Made in America antenna who also just happens to be a Charter Dash!Chum. Visit www.gomohu.com for all the good news about the MOHU Leaf Indoor HDTV antenna --America's homegrown high tech marvel.

Check out Jerry KD0BIK's Practical Amateur Radio Podcast. Like they say, PARP is creating Elmers one podcast at a time.

1.27.12 At long last, Dash! and your 'umble beret-topped, Meerschaum -smoking, cane-twirling Bohemian ham radio cartoonist have turned back into slovenly pumpkins after a weeklong decompression following our Parisian hobby electronics holiday. It's back to pumping Regular Gas, drinking Regular Coffee, not bothering to shave and aggressively managing our diversied portfolio of Stonyfield Yogurt and Coke Rewards Points.

Yet we're chuffed.

Lots of new Dash! stuff is revving up in our 6SJ7 Skunkworks and we'll be rolling it out in the weeks to come. We're involved in a number of non-Dash! graphics projects too, the news of which we hope to share in not too long short order.

Meanwhile, we hope our sketchy sketchbook will tide you over until we can get our impending Spruce Goose of a Great Notion airborne.

'Franka visits Lambiek'
poster by Henk Kuijpers

01.22.12 ZIP! BAM! POW! YIPPEE! We made Lambiek's List! Thanks to the good offices of Dash!Chum Jarno PA3DMI, the FB Nederlander op behind hamtwitter.com as well as the Regio04 Amsterdam blog to your right, Dash! The Dog-Faced EuroFlash and I are now listed among some of the world's most famous (and cooly obscure) cartoonists in our longtime field of dreams, the Lambiek Comiclopedia. This online compendium is posted by Europe's first and most famous antiquarian comics shop -- Lambiek -- located in Amsterdam and offering comics of many lands in many languages, plus limited edition and original work by toon masters. Not yet sold in the shop, right now we're just thrilled to have Dash! rubbing elbows with the likes of Tintin, Fritz the Cat, Little Nemo and Steve Canyon. Top of the World, Ma!

01.22.12 Speaking of comix, while in Paris, we discovered something of a Funnybook District along Rue Dante, leading away from the intersection of Rue de St Jaques and Boulevard St-Germain. At the crossing there's couple of big Album comics shops, and down Dante find Pulps Comics, Aaapoum Bapoum, Hayaku Shop and Little Tokyo Manga Shop. We're not big fanboys but we know what we like and enjoy seeing what's shakin' on the shelves these days.

01.22.12 Here's a retro French gizmo we came across at the fleamarkets aka Le Marché aux Puces de St Ouen at the end of Metro line number 4, the Clignacourt station. This sprawling souk is carved into little lanes of stalls variously covered and loaded with a mixed grill of ladeedah and not so nice furniture, plus fancy-dancy knickknacky stuff you don't often see at yard sales in America, sometimes pretty cool and all crazy koo-koo nuts expensive. You'd think downgraded AAA France was the new Switzerland given such optimistic pricing. Plenty o'junk too, but with that rich Corinthian International Coffee patina so your peepers don't feel the need for a boric acid flush quite so soon as after more than one stateside yard sale stop. Nobody got too excited about this boring brown shoe of a something or other, so cousin DitDit led Dash! and I into the teeth of the teeth of the Puces, the fabled Supermarché des Ancres de Bateau, where we hoped to reel-in vintage European radios big as swordfish like a couple of OMs of the sea. Stay tooned, sketches coming soon.