Posted: November 28, 2008
by wb5rmg
Filed under: Linky, amateur radio, internet
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If you have a ham radio license, you can now easily find hams in your neighborhood (if there are any). Thanks to AA7BQ & his QRZ.com website.
Read the article where Fred introduces this new feature utilizing GoogleMaps. There are quite a few more hams in my neighborhood than I would have suspected. I’ll have to [...]
Posted: October 18, 2008
by wb5rmg
Filed under: Linky, amateur radio, internet, photo
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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 [...]
Posted: October 6, 2008
by alan
Filed under: Linky, amateur radio, internet, software, space
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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
Posted: September 30, 2008
by wb5rmg
Filed under: Linky, amateur radio, internet, space
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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 [...]
Posted: August 28, 2008
by alan
Filed under: Linky, internet, weather
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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 /;^)
Posted: August 21, 2008
by alan
Filed under: Linky, WOW!, photo, rant, space
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Never really understanding why; I just had always accepted that the SR-71 was the coolest flying machine that ever had been. It was a picture like this one that first clued me in that this was no ordinary aircraft - and that was probably early-1980s. It may be a while before anything this significant flys [...]