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Launching soon . . . W5KWQ

Posted: September 30, 2008 by wb5rmg
Filed under: Linky, amateur radio, internet, space 1 Comment

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 [...]

Break it on down - Top 10

Posted: September 22, 2008 by KG4RCP
Filed under: Kevin, Uncategorized No Comments

Remember how I shared that last year, Fresno County California reinforced its long-held position as America’s #1 ranked agricultural production county… with $5,300,000,000 of production?
Fresno’s Top 10 Crops

Grapes
$613,710,000
Total grape value was up $50,959,000 or 9.06 percent from 2006. The value of fresh table variety grapes decreased by 23.20 percent and the total [...]

Prepare_For_The_Worst

Posted: September 20, 2008 by alan
Filed under: WOW!, amateur radio, internet, rant, space, weather 1 Comment

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 [...]