Ham Radio Cartoons by Jeff K1NSS

That's right. For Real. Click this link for my brother the defense attorney, as in New York City criminal lawyer.

This is one Hudson Valley architect you won't have to convince about the importance of integrating amateur radio with your residential design. He understands the difference between a shack and a shack. And one reason is, he's another brother.

My third brother is a retired Hudson Valley mail carrier obsessed with trying to find a vintage Delta band saw with the cast iron base. Sez my Bro, "I really just want the base but they normally are found with saws on them. So, condition of the saw is less important than condition of the base and whether it has it's original switch box and the 8 knurled thumb nuts that hold it together etc." Click my brother the IronMan.

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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.

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.

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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.

02.05.12 A bomber Command Pup named Brownie is but one of many once-in-a-lifetime characters you'll encounter in the fascinating, fun and most heartwarming Rod Newkirk Collection. Published by the K9YA Telegraph, this ideal shack/bedside companion showcases the wit and style of ham's ham journalist OM Rod Newkirk, former QST editor of How's DX from 1948 to 1972. The Rod Newkirk Collection is available from LULU.com for $6.84. Click HERE for this keeper.

02.03.11 THIS JUST IN: Our OM in Jersey, Grumpy The KB2, a fixture of vintage boat anchor immovability at Manasquan's legendary Osprey Bar, has confirmed rumors that MTV's reality show Jersey Shore will go ham-o y ham-o with Tim Allen's Last Man Standing breakout family sit-com hamapalooza.

Every last Guido and Guidette on set from Snooki on down is sendin' out for appetizahs and up to their hair product in Gordon West study guides -- crammin' for the hammin' like it's 1965 at some suburban Sunbelt Explorer Scout Post.

Word on the beach is that instead of working in close co-ordination with the American Radio Relay League like Last Man Standing, producers of Jersey Shore are hooking up with badboy ham humor site hamsexy.com to bring back the raunchy and keep it real in the Field Day with authentic stylist touches like wackerwhip-pierced Crown Vics and Tribal Telrex Monobander Tattoos.

Tentatively titled Season of the Freakin' Ham, Jersey Shore's new episodes are targeted to crash and dominate the ham radio wave first caught by Last Man Standing and currently sweeping American pop culture in a Tsunami of QSL cards, Handi-Talkies and rioting Ham Radio Outlet shoppers.

In a related story, Dash! The Dog-Faced Ham, Dashtoons' own Situation Normal, has taken the extraordinary step of preemptively reaching out Jersey Shore's producers, inviting them to product place one of our Dash!Mugs, or stuff a wild Dash!Tee with Snooki, their call.

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 diversified portfolio of Stonyfield Yogurt and Coke Rewards Points.

Yet we're chuffed.

We're revving up new secret Dash! vehicles in our 6SJ7 Skunkworks and we'll be rolling 'em 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 launch our NEXT Spruce Goose of a Great Notion.

More sketchbook coming too! We brought back the inside story how America's First Geek Ambassador Ben Franklin invented hobby electronics in a rented shack behind the oldest restaurant in Paris.

And get this. Think you could taste test gourmet grilled ham and cheese sandwiches for a living in a country where you can lose you head over making a bad one? That's how a certain dog-faced amateur radio operator of our acquaintance earns his living in Paris -- a living of sufficient gravitas that he is able to spend eight months of the year on Aegean DXpeditions, primarily at his Cycladic hideaway table for twelve on permanent reserve in Santorini's very fun 1800 Restaurant.

Don't kid yourself. Let us do that. Like you're gonna read stories in CQ and QST with this kind of magical mirth?

Listen Buster. Keep your browser tuned to Dashtoons and you'll never miss a tick.

'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 coolly 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!