Nate Bargmann

Amateur radio op, Linux user, farmer/cattleman.

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@jrsalzman @BlntInstrmnt His reward for surviving the '80s.

I love everything about the '80s except that being in ag at that time was a pressure cooker.

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@carrierwhisper1 Saw one of the Air Tractors fly NW past here Saturday.

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@KellyGarrett75 I'll take a cob getting in the wrong place and derailing the chopper belt as happened this evening on the 9500. Used to happen all the time on the 7720, first time for this one.

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@ElecNotes The book *A Man of High Fidelity* is an excellent biography of Armstrong. Marconi gets the title "Father of Radio", but I'm not so sure. Without Armstrong coherers might have been in use much longer.

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@DanBigham Ryan was a neighbor and member of the Logan Township Fire Department. Such a tragedy. R.I.P.

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@TractorZoom Interesting that 18 were allowed to escape the factory without a ROPS.

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@30SV086 Bought mine back in '94. Still works perfectly.

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@MachineryPete @landollcorp1963 In '73 Dad bought a new Landoll stock rack for his new 4x4 pickup. I recall us stopping at the original Landoll shop at least once. By that time operations were also at the "radio factory" in northeast Marysville near the hospital and Lions park.

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@maxarmstrong His passing is certainly the end of an era for this area.

Don's obituary: https://t.co/9JYcNx75oM

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@thequeenofrust That trailer would sit level with an older pickup, built prior to 2000. Since then pickups have gotten taller. We had to lower the fifth wheel stem for a newer pickup. Flatbeds are popular so the trailer can be level without hitting bed sides.

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@hendricksonfarm Better there than in a tire...

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@Mullin_95 The next AGCO rebrand?

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@Garrett_Ruskamp C that leads to A.

A lot happens in a decade. If someone had told me at HS graduation that a decade later I'd be graduating from electronics tech school and taking a job hours away, I'd not have believed them. That's what happened and I'm farming today.

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@Mullin_95 Must be headed to the scrap yard...

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@farmerjim13 Yeah, it'll buff out...

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@W6MOQ @HamRadioGizmos @grok @HamRadioWayback It served me rather well for over two years but started having issues and I replaced in late '86 with a TS-830S. I wanted 160m which the '5400 lacked. I later traded it for an Explorer 14 yagi which stored away since '93.

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@W6MOQ @HamRadioGizmos @grok @HamRadioWayback He called back and said it was fine. The supply was heavy enough that dad and I drove down one rainy day in June and after about a half hour had found the problem and we came home with a working radio. No charge!

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