u/MilwaukeeMax

My summer masters class just finished and I have a gap before the fall sessions start. I was wondering if there are any recommended drill books for easily doing sets on my own in the meantime. I suppose I could transfer them to a white board, but does anyone know if there are any laminated spiral back books of swim drills? Seems like a no-brainer but I’m not finding any in my local search, anyway. Thanks!

I adopted a young dog that came up from the South two years ago and the shelter had tested her for heartworm but didn’t see anything at the time. I immediately started her on her monthly milbemycin oxime/ praziquantel treatment ever since.
I got her established at a local vet clinic where she was given her annual antigen test ten months after I adopted her (and after the shelter test). At that time, she was sent home and I was told she was fine and she went on having her regular appointments until a year later (now) when she was administered her next annual antigen test again at that same clinic.

This time, the clinic told me to come back in to have another blood sample taken and sent to another lab for confirmation because they noticed a “faint positive” on her antigen test.

They also told me that she had a faint positive on her test the prior year, but the vet at the clinic on that day had determined her test to be negative.

Now that she’s had the second lab confirm that she does indeed have a positive result (albeit with no signs of microfilariae in her blood), she is going to need to start treatment for her confirmed diagnosis of heartworm.

Am I wrong to be upset that the vet didn’t tell me last year that she had a “faint positive” result on her antigen test and decided to determine it as negative instead of following up with another lab for confirmation? Is this something that normally happens at vet clinics?

I cannot turn back the clock now, but is there likely to be significant damage to my dog’s heart and lung tissues from not being treated for an entire year after a “faint positive” test was disregarded as a negative? What should I be doing now besides trying to get my dog treated as soon as possible for the heartworm that was confirmed? Is this a typical thing that happens and I shouldn’t worry that twelve months have gone by since that faint positive test was not confirmed or is this a problem?
Are faint positive antigen tests often regarded as negative?

My dog is active and doesn’t show any signs or symptoms of having an illness. Thanks.

Can someone please give me a specific answer as to where EXACTLY the rubber grommet access through the firewall is on a 2008 ES 350? I’ve looked on the Lexus boards and people just vaguely refer to it or mention locations on later model ES 350s, but I can’t find anywhere (much preferably with pictures) of where exactly this grommet is, if it indeed exists.
I’ve read some people say there is one on the passenger side behind the glove box.. ok.. But where? Does anyone have pictures?? I’m not finding it. I’ve heard the same about one on the driver’s side. And while I see places where cables are going from the cabin into the bonnet, I can’t find a definitive answer on where I should be running my wiring through from the cabin to the battery.

And, yes, this is a requirement for my project. I have a higher wattage device that needs to be directly wired to the battery and grounded, so I cannot use the cabin power.

Does anyone have the precise answer to this and not just a guess or hunch?

Thanks.

Since I started doing DXing on HF earlier this year, I started to notice something I'm not sure I've heard other hams talk about, and which I'm not even sure what the reason is for, other than my own speculation. It is that (especially when there are pile-ups for a station calling CQ), you'll hear someone whistling on their microphone after another station was picked by the remote station, almost like they are trying to interfere with the QSO since they weren't chosen first. I've heard this multiple times, as well as the occasional long tone from a station on the same frequency. Am I jumping to conclusions that these are salty hams trying to jam/interfere with QSOs that they didn't get or just old timers deciding to whistle into their mics for the hell of it?

I’ve been struggling for years now with (what was said at the time to be a very good system) of ASUS ZenWiFi (ET8 and AX6600), first as a mesh network, and then— after being frustrated by countless issues with the nodes not connecting— running Ethernet in our new house with a single router and the other four wired up as APs. We even changed ISPs and the system still disconnects from the internet on a regular basis for no reason. I’ve rebooted, hard-reset and done everything to try to solve this issue and I’m giving up. I want something reliable that isn’t going to crap out and need resetting all the damn time. I don’t really need POE right now, I just want a good base router that is going to be stable and then four APs that I can wire around the house at the Ethernet jacks I installed on each floor and garage.
The ASUS system has 6G WiFi, so I don’t want something less than that, but I’d prefer not to completely break the bank. What would you guys recommend for replacing my unreliable ASUS network with Ubiquiti?

Thanks.

Does anyone make a custom case/cover or “skin” for the MINI 1300 antenna analyser? It is manufactured with sharp metal edges that didn’t get de-burred in the factory and it’s unpleasant to hold it in your bare hands.
I thought I might file it down myself, but I don’t want to scratch it all up in case I sell it at some point.