Riding the Radio Waves By K4SAC

Contesting, Dxing, and Ham Radio in general

Archive for March, 2009

Real-time info-contest style

by k4sac @ Sunday, March 29th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under CQ, Multi-milti, contests, real-time

The contest team at Radio Arcala has embarked upon a mission to educate the public about Ham Radio Contesting.  According to the Radio Arcala website “With the power of internet as well as large population gatherings such as  DX Summit, Radio Arcala is poised to challenge all historical scenarios by  bringing  live contest monitoring and [...]

Radio Spectrum Inventory Act

by k4sac @ Saturday, March 28th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under FCC, NTIA

There has been a new bill introduced in the Senate called the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act. This act which was sponsered by John Kerry of Mass. and Olympia Snowe of Maine, would require  all frequencies between 300Mhz and 3.5Ghz to be inventoried by the NTIA and the FCC . The law will require that 180 [...]

UK Basketball and UK Fans

by k4sac @ Friday, March 27th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under Uncategorized

I try to keep this blog about Ham Radio or SWL’ing but today I feel the need to comment on some of the things I am reading on the internet about UK Fans. The current media swirl about Coach Gillispie has certainly been a hot topic here in Kentucky. Many of the sports commentators have [...]

From the VK9GMW website……

by k4sac @ Friday, March 27th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

They have made it! Team on Mellish (03-27-2009 from AA7JV) March 27, 0800 UTC, Mellish Reef. At 0600 UTC we have dropped anchor in the lagoon at Mellish Reef (well, OK, we lowered it gently, given our make-shift gear). We have ferried some gear ashore this evening and will complete the station and camp set-up [...]

Sunspots? Are we in a Maunder Minimum?

by k4sac @ Friday, March 20th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under space, sunspots

Sunspots have been looked at by people for centuries, but tracking the sunspots is a fairly recent process, only having been done for 400 years when Galileo invented the telescope.  The earliest sightings of sunspots was by Chinese astronomers in 28 BC and again at the time of Charlemagne‘s death in A.D. 813. Sunspots are regions of [...]

Mellish Reef Update

by k4sac @ Wednesday, March 18th, 2009. Tags: , ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

I had talked previously about the Mellish Reef Dxpedition VK9GMW slated to take place 22 March 2009. This is a casual dxpedition put on by AA7JV and HA7RY. They plan to focus on low band activity from Mellish, although they say they will operate all ham bands. The Mellish Reef dxpedition webpage www.vk9gmw.com From the [...]

Beacon system-Service or QRM?

by k4sac @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under ARRL, FCC, beacons, contests, dx, space, sunspots

NCDXF beacon system is a set of beacons, scattered around the world, that operate to informs hams of potential propagation openings. Each beacon transmits every three minutes, day and night. A transmission consists of the callsign of the beacon sent at 22 words per minute followed by four one-second dashes. The callsign and the first [...]

Computer-aided dxpeditions

by k4sac @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under cw, dx, dxpedition, skimmer, software, space

EDIT 2010/Jan/18 I was contacted by several members of the ZL7T dxpedition about this blog post. My only intent of this blog post was to get discussion going about the use CW skimmer type software at a time when this software was relativly new. The post was NOT a attack on the ZL7T dxpedition who [...]

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