{"id":1876,"date":"2010-05-18T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2010-05-18T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:50:51","slug":"almost-moved-an-antenna-and-a-picture-for-may-18-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Almost Moved an Antenna &#8230; and a Picture for May 18, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1877\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1877\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1877\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1877\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1877\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?fit=1489%2C1027&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1489,1027\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Revealed: Costco Pharmacy Low Price Strategy\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Medicare prescription plans are strange beasts. Because I&amp;#8217;m a veteran, I can get my meds from the VA now that I&amp;#8217;m 65 rather than having to use a Medicare Part D plan. The VA nurse practitioner writing my prescriptions said that some of them would be cheaper to buy at Costco than from the VA. However, he couldn&amp;#8217;t write those prescriptions, he could only write scripts to be filled by the VA pharmacy.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;So, I went to my regular doctor on Monday. He faxed the needed scripts to Costco. I went there &amp;#8230; and the pharmacy was closed. It would open again in a little more than a half hour. I needed some other stuff, so I got that, took that out to the car, came back in and had a Costco Hot Dog and Sprite (good hot dog and nice sized drink for $1.59), and continued to kill time until the pharmacy opened.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Then I had to wait another half hour while they actually filled the prescriptions that had been faxed in. I did their paperwork which brings down the prices a bit more, and wandered around the store until the prescriptions were filled.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;However, they didn&amp;#8217;t have a full 90-day supply of one of the meds. The pharmacy tech said that the rest would be in on Tuesday morning and I could come back then to get the remainder.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;So, this afternoon after having lunch with Nina, I went over to Costco to pick up a couple of items Nina needed (frozen beans and corn) and to get the remainder of the prescription. &lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The pharmacy was closed. It would be a bit over another half-hour before it opened again. I left. I can do this on another day. But first, I&amp;#8217;ll call to find out when the pharmacy is actually open!&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m suspect this is how the prices remain low. You can&amp;#8217;t buy anything&amp;#8230;.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Revealed: Costco Pharmacy Low Price Strategy&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?fit=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?fit=604%2C416&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1877\" title=\"Revealed: Costco Pharmacy Low Price Strategy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?resize=300%2C206&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Revealed: Costco Pharmacy Low Price Strategy\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?resize=150%2C103&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?resize=1024%2C706&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?w=1489&amp;ssl=1 1489w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_2919.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revealed: Costco Pharmacy Low Price Strategy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the Ham Radio world, I&#8217;m pretty much not having a lot of luck with HF equipment. My newest unit was sent back to the company for repair. The other, older transceiver is up for sale. I&#8217;ve had a couple of bites, but no serious takers just yet. I had an antenna tuner for it that I also listed for sale and it sold very quickly. So, now I have an HF transceiver but need a tuned, resonant antenna for it.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago I bought a portable setup that can be tuned to work in the 20 meter band. It can either be a mobile antenna on the car, or it can be set up as a normal antenna. The other day I set it up in the front yard and got it tuned. It worked pretty well, but was rather obvious in front of our covenant-regulated house.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I began the process of moving it to the northeast corner of the backyard. In the process I would be putting it another 8 feet higher in the air. I got about halfway done when a wind and rain storm came over the hill and pretty much drove me back inside. I&#8217;ll finish it tomorrow &#8230; maybe that&#8217;ll be the picture of the day??<\/p>\n<p>Nina and I both had some errands to run, and she needed a new chair for her desk in the computer room. So we went to OfficeMax and found her a nice chair on sale. After that we decided to have our Mothers Day dinner by eating lunch at Costa Vida. We ran into some friends there who had just returned from a two-week cruise through the Panama Canal (me: very envious). We&#8217;ll need to go over soon to see them and their pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The new chair is now assembled and Nina is certainly much more comfortable as she works on Family History and on indexing (she&#8217;s become quite addicted to the indexing process). Tomorrow we&#8217;ll be back to sunshine after a cloudy with occasional showers day today. The lawn needs desperately to be mowed. Dang! That&#8217;s a lot of walking.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Ham Radio world, I&#8217;m pretty much not having a lot of luck with HF equipment. My newest unit was sent back to the company for repair. The other, older transceiver is up for sale. I&#8217;ve had a couple of bites, but no serious takers just yet. I had an antenna tuner for it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost Moved an Antenna &#8230; and a Picture for May 18, 2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-ug","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}