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Archive for June, 2009

Individual Impact

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 30th, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized

Normally I keep this ham radio blog strictly about ham radio.
Today, please bear with me as I want to make a post about a foundation that I think does extremely good work worldwide.
The Jolkona foundation is a foundation that was started up by Microsoft employees to involve the younger, less affluent people in the world [...]

Field Day 2009

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 30th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under Field Day

Field Day 2009 is in the can.
This FD was a warm one. We had heat index advisories out for both days, with the heat index reaching between 110 and 115.
Even with taking breaks and cooling down we had 2 members that got heat exhaustion which caused us to shut down operations for a few hours.
But [...]

Field Day 2009

by k4sac @ Thursday, June 25th, 2009. Filed under ARRL, Field Day

Once again here in the United States, Field day 2009 is once upon us. Beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 2100 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2009 will be held June 27-28, 2009.
Rules for the 2009 FD contest are here.
I thought I would revisit an earlier post I made about [...]

Earthquake near Bouvet Island

by k4sac @ Tuesday, June 16th, 2009. Tags: , ,
Filed under dx

USGS_Earthquake PRELIM: M6.0 20:05 6/16 54.4S 5.8E 156 km E of Bouvet Island BOUVET ISLAND REGION Z=10km US 2009hybe 33f06

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