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WB5RMG update

Posted: November 30, 2008 by alan
Filed under: Linky, WOW!, amateur radio, internet, software, space No Comments

See the site !!!   Thanks    /;^)

Happy Birthday Alpha !

Posted: November 20, 2008 by alan
Filed under: WOW!, amateur radio, space 2 Comments

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 […]

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 […]

I always loved the Blackbird

Posted: August 21, 2008 by alan
Filed under: Linky, WOW!, photo, rant, space 2 Comments

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 […]