An Outstanding Links Page
by Ron Chester ★ Monday, September 28, 2020

Last night I stumbled onto the website of George Heron, N2APB. I met George through the Norcal QRP Club during a period when Norcal started an affiliation with some QRPers on the east coast, George included, to start the American QRP Club, which eventually dissolved. Sometime during or after that time, George started his ham hobby business, Midnight Design Solutions. This was the website I discovered & most particularly because it includes a page of useful links. In the old days, anyone starting a website would include a section or page of recommended links. But when Google became such a dominant search engine, they kind of fell out of use. Why bother, when you could find anything you wanted with a Google search?  

Well, George has demonstrated why a links page can be super useful. The night I discovered it, I spent about four hours following a lot of the links there and discovering all kinds of cool stuff. I found stuff I didn't know to even search for in Google!  And that is why links pages are still useful, especially one as jam packed as the one George has created. If your interests are anything like my own (QRP and Homebrewing), check it out. You might find yourself using it for four hours as well.

As I think about the pros & cons of retiring, I think how nice it would be to follow it up with a ham hobby business, as George did.