ARISS International Chairman Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, has posted an email he received on Tuesday from Owen Garriott, W5LFL.
I received the following e-mail today [Tuesday] from Owen Garriott, W5LFL and wanted to share this with the Amateur Community. Please post this and pass it to others in the amateur radio community, as appropriate.
We are setting up some ham radio to show off to the Boy Scouts today.
It is called the “Jamboree On The Air” or JOTA. Google that for more info.
There will be sporadic live video : look for ustream.tv/wb5rmg - and if it says it is broadcasting now, you can click the link for the live […]
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
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 […]
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 /;^)
