We forgot to have the party .!. SomeNet has been here for 10 years now.
The world did keep on turning tho, I noticed that Google didn’t Read the rest…
Richard Garriott is scheduled to launch Oct.12, 2008.
You may have seen recent press or news bulletins about this, but if you are into ham radio - this is hot stuff. Richard Garriott is the son of SkyLab Astronaut Owen Garriott, who 25 years ago this month was the first to operate ham radio as W5LFL from an orbiting Space Shuttle. Richard has spent a lot of time & money to prepare for this flight, and has hopes of talking to school kids all around the world. He also plans to hook up with a few Boy Scouts during their ‘Jamboree on the Air’ (JOTA)… Another angle of this flight is to use a Kenwood SSTV (Slow-Scan TV) device to transmit still-frame pictures back to earth via ham radio. I’ll try to get back here with some links to follow-up, but in the mean time check my http://wb5rmg.somenet.net website for some more details.
/;^)
I’m sure the residents of Galveston Texas are wondering how, not to mention why… something like this chose them. It was bad.
But Hurricane Ike could have been much much worse.
Likely not many of us were up at 4:15 to check on things, or you could have seen this live image of the NWS radar from the Texas coast. I was up, and Read the rest…
Today I have updated a quick reference page that I first built while living on the South Carolina coast. Lots of interesting imagery and links for further study. Please visit (and bookmark as a favorite) my Atlantic Hurricane resource selector .
Enjoy /;^)
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