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 […]
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 […]
Our good friend Mike made the journey to Alabama for the weekend.
Traveling all the way from Kingsport TN, Mikey drove over Thursday arriving in time for the RACES/ARES group’s annual picnic on Monte Sano. I took a vacation day to show Mike around town a bit, including the HOSC @ MSFC and the US Space […]
I guess if there is a theme to this years Field Day it would be, “EVERYBODY DID THEIR PART”. For instance, Wendell had family commitments and had to leave after helping set up everything,
Hey, get busy, learn something new, build a kit, experiment with a homebuilt antenna, subscribe to a good ham magazine like CQ VHF, go out this weekend for Field Day, bring your tent and stay the whole weekend, encourage a new ham to get on the Field Day station, help him […]
Reckon the changing weather patterns have a lot to do with the seasonal increase in ham radio balloon launches. Well - spring is in the air, and so are the balloons ! This is a shot of Bill Brown orchestrating a UAH operation last fall at the NSSTC launch site.
