Posted: April 11, 2009
by wb5rmg
Filed under: Linky, WOW!, amateur radio, internet, weather
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It is that time of year again - the warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico would like to come back and take it’s place over the the southeastern states, but the cooler dry air in place over the northern states keeps trying to push it back. Seems this goes on every spring, and [...]
Posted: November 30, 2008
by alan
Filed under: Linky, WOW!, amateur radio, internet, software, space
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See the site !!! Thanks /;^)
Posted: November 20, 2008
by alan
Filed under: WOW!, amateur radio, space
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This week marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first piece of what has become the International Space Station, also known as Space Station Alpha. The Russian name for this first component, the ‘functional cargo block‘ or FCB is Zarya, which translates as Dawn. This was truly a new beginning for a new [...]
Posted: September 20, 2008
by alan
Filed under: WOW!, amateur radio, internet, rant, space, weather
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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 [...]
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 [...]