Garrett Fuller – Computers. RF systems. And much more.

Cleaning a classic rotary phone

After coming down with the “phone bug” (or phone-itis), I found my grandparents’ 1972 Stromberg-Carlson 500D rotary telephone in their basement. I decided to give it a good cleaning and test it out.

Roanoke passive reflector towers

What’s better than one passive reflector tower? How about two?

Five months of OpenIndiana: Thoughts

After five months of “daily driving” OpenIndiana Hipster, I have been adjusting to using the descendant of Ma Bell’s operating system — Unix System V.

Horns Across Missouri 2025

I plan to further document former AT&T Long Lines microwave relay sites in Missouri this year.

Reviving the W541 with OpenIndiana

My third Lenovo ThinkPad has a new lease on life.

WordPress or static: Second thoughts

The quandary of whether to continue using WordPress, or continue my transition to a static website created from scratch, lives on.

D&H Media transmitter: ASR 1225874

Southwest of the Windsor AT&T Long Lines site (now used by the State of Missouri for MOSWIN) is a 492-foot guyed mast belonging to D&H Media, of Warrensburg, Missouri. The tower has FM transmitter antennas for KWKJ-FM at 98.5 MHz. A second station, KVWS-FM, has applied for a construction permit in 2023 to broadcast from the site.

Website update

Due to ongoing issues with this WordPress installation — along with wanting to have greater control over the layout of my content, I have converted back to using good, old static HTML and CSS for my personal website.

This updated website lives where the original did: https://garrettfuller.org/personal/

More RF/microwave towers

My previous post led me to look up other local towers that have always piqued my interest.