LHS Episode #374: The Weekender LIX

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This Weekend in Amateur Radio (Segment 1)

• Contests

• CQ Worldwide DX Contest

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/aG

• Contests Next Weekend

• UK/EI DX Contest

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pC

• Special Events

• Frankenstein Halloween Funxpedition

• Veterans Day

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pD

• Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pE (Livonia ARC)

• LHS Ham Radio Challenge

• Check out FST4(/W) digital mode if you haven’t already. It’s included in the last RC of WSJT-X.

This Weekend in Open Source (Segment 2)

• Distros to Try

• DragonOS Focal R4

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pv (Sourceforge)

• Events

• Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference Europe

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pF

• Lenovo Tech World ‘20

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pI

• Introduction to Python for Business and Finance

• Source: https://lhs.fyi/pG

• LHS Open Source Challenge

• Check out FST4(/W) digital mode if you haven’t already. It’s included in the last RC of WSJT-X.

This Weekend in Hedonism (Segment 3)

• Cheryl’s Recipe Corner!

• Apple Pie Quick Bread

• Description

• We are lovers of quick breads… grab a slice for breakfast and on your way.  And since it’s apple season, it’s time for apples in our house!  And, of course, Russ is a huge fan of apples.  This recipe is super quick and easy.

• Ingredients

• 1 can apple pie filling, mashed

• 1 yellow cake mix

• 4 eggs, slightly beaten

• 1 cup self rising flour

• 1 Tbsp cinnamon

• 1 medium chopped apple

• Directions

• Whisk all dry ingredients together, add wet ingredients. Fold in apples. Pour into 2 well greased loaf pans. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top. Bake in 325 oven for 35 to 45 minutes.

• Cheryl’s Mixed Drink Corner

• Strawberry Starburst Martini

• Ingredients

• 2 oz vanilla vodka

• 1 oz strawberry liqueur

• 2 oz strawberry lemonade

• 1/4 cup ice cubes

• 4 pink Starburst for garnish

• Directions

• Add the vanilla vodka, strawberry liqueur, strawberry lemonade and ice cubes to a cocktail shaker.  Shake well and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with pink Starburst.

• Russ’s Drink Corner

• Green Spot Irish Whiskey

• Description

• Green Spot was originally produced exclusively for the Mitchell family who, commenced trading in 1805 on 10 Grafton St. in the heart of Dublin city as purveyors of fine wines and confectionary. Four generations later, the company is still in the wine and spirits business, under the stewardship of Jonathan Mitchell and his son Robert. The Mitchell family expanded into whiskey bonding in 1887, whereby they sent empty wine, sherry and port casks via horse and cart to the local Jameson Distillery, which were then filled and returned to the Mitchell’s cellar warehouse. There, the whiskeys matured for many years under bond until they were ready to be bottled and sold. Green Spot is a non age statement Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey comprising of pot still whiskeys aged between 7 and 10 years. The whiskey has matured in a combination of new bourbon and refill bourbon casks as well as sherry casks.

• Details

• Mashbill: 100% Barley (malted and unmalted)

• Proof: 80 (40% ABV)

• Region: Dublin, Ireland

• Color: Golden honey

• Nose: Aromatic oils, apple, pear, barley, toasted wood

• Taste: Clove, green apple, toasted oak

• Finish: Gentle spice, lingering toasted oak

• Price: $55-60 (750ml)

• Rating: 84

• Bill’s Whatever Corner

• Dry Fly Straight Wheat Whiskey Cask Strength

• Details

• Dry Fly Washington Wheat Whiskey is 100% local soft white wheat. It is distilled twice in traditional American whiskey style. Then it is aged minimum  3 years in new 53-gallon American Oak barrels with a #3 char. Dry Fly Cask Wheat Whiskey is the same whiskey as our 90 proof wheat whiskey, but bottled at cask strength: 120 proof. It is our highest rated whiskey ever, and shows that a 100% wheat whiskey can be bigger and bolder. It typically drinks much softer than its 120 proof.

• Dry Fly Distilling, Spokane, Washington