The world did keep on turning tho, I noticed that Google didn’t (more…)

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 from an orbiting Space Shuttle. Richard has spent a lot of time & money to prepare for this flight, and has hopes of talking to school kids all around the world. He also plans to hook up with a few Boy Scouts during their ‘Jamboree on the Air’ (JOTA)… Another angle of this flight is to use a Kenwood SSTV (Slow-Scan TV) device to transmit still-frame pictures back to earth via ham radio. I’ll try to get back here with some links to follow-up, but in the mean time check my http://wb5rmg.somenet.net website for some more details.

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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 the Texas coast. I was up, and (more…)

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  /;^)

Over the years I saw more pictures, and heard more stories - but nothing was quite as magical as (more…)

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 and Rocket Center. We spent most of the day Saturday at the Huntsville Hamfest, and ran into several illustrious ham-radio buddies who were also in attendance. A very enjoyable weekend Mike, thanks for coming to see us ..!..

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I’m always amazed at how powerful is nature to produce such dramatic visions of simple ‘ordinary’ events - like a typical sunrise at the beach. No amount of pixel-twisting, palette-wrenching, post-production finesse could rival the natural beauty of a shot like this. I rarely even adjust brightness or contrast as I like the vision to speak for itself. The excitement is in finding a shot like this, that is actually more powerful than it was when standing there taking the picture.

Enjoy /;^)

I thought the site could use a refreshing picture, during these hot humid days of summer. This is a pair of sunrise surfers in the Atlantic, just off Pawleys Island. The water temperature there this time of day is actually a little warmer than the air temperature. The early sun turns the humid air into a slightly salty golden glow. You can almost taste the faint sea breeze from here.

Enjoy /;^)

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Really - What’s that ? I sound like a broken record ? ?

Sometimes I think the (more…)