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Archive for June, 2008

Field Day 2008

by k4sac @ Sunday, June 29th, 2008. Tags:
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Field Day 2008 has come and gone. This year saw 15 meters open up and even 10 meters for some periods of time. Many special event stations were noticed on the bands. The KY Indiana DX Association consisting of K4SAC, AA4RL, KJ4EVH, and KY4COE operated FD from EM67. We made just a shade over 1020 [...]

Firefox phones home…….

by k4sac @ Thursday, June 26th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under software

I was disturbed to learn that Firefox makes unrequested connections….I thought those of you that read this blog may want to know….Click on my title to go to the original article. 73, Jack K4SAC Firefox makes unrequested connections Some people are particularly concerned about the connections Firefox makes to the internet, especially when such connections [...]

Technology Tip

by k4sac @ Thursday, June 26th, 2008. Tags:
Filed under tech

If you need to share files between computers and have an internet connection at each computer, Microsoft has come out with a free(for now) service. That you can hold up to 5 GB online. You have to have a Microsoft Live ID (which I think hotmail accounts work for that) below is the blurb from [...]

New Worked All KY Counties Award

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 24th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under awards

The QCWA Bluegrass Chapter 214 is sponsoring a new Worked ALL Kentucky Counties Award. The rules are: Requirements: Contact and confirm with each of the 120 counties of Kentucky Any Band Any Mode No date restrictions SWL’s may also apply No Endorsements are available Applicants must use The Bluegrass Chapter 214 application form and county [...]

Amateur Radio Week in KY

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 24th, 2008. Tags:
Filed under KY SECTION

Gov Steve Beshear, Governor of Kentucky has proclaimed June 22nd-29th as Amateur Radio Week in Kentucky. A copy of the proclamation can be found at this link here

CQD or SOS????

by k4sac @ Friday, June 20th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under cw

As a avid CW operator, I had always thought that SOS stood for ‘Save Our Souls’ The BBC recently published an article outlining the history of CQ, CQD, and SOS. In the early days of radio there was no voice communication. It was all morse code. Before radio, ships in distress could only signal other [...]

Sunspots

by k4sac @ Thursday, June 19th, 2008. Tags:
Filed under sunspots

As most hams know, the solar cycle controls the amount of sunspots on the sun, which in turn affects the propagation here on Earth. The solar cycle tends to run in 11 year cycles, where the maximum activity occurs in the middle of the sunspot cycle and the minimum occurs at the bottom of the [...]

Blog List….

by k4sac @ Thursday, June 19th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under blog

On the right of my blog, you can see that I am posting excerpts from other ham radio blogs around the blogosphere. There are many ham radio blogs out here, so I can’t post them all, but check out my blog list and links for other information. K9JY has a good series running on Club [...]

Field Day History

by k4sac @ Wednesday, June 18th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under Field Day, contests

Field Day is coming upon us June 28th and June 29th and I thought I would write a bit about how Field Day began. In 1933, The June 1933 QST announced that the second Saturday in June, for a period of 27 hours, starting at 4 pm local time, that hams would go into the [...]

Dayton Hamfest-The Future????

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 17th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under hamfests

Inspired by a post on K9ZW’s blog , He is having a discussion about the future of Dayton hamfest. I was going to go to Dayton this year, but due to work issues at the last minute I was not able to attend. Many of the posters on Steve’s blog say that Hara Arena was [...]

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