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Archive for July, 2009

Sacramento CERT and ARES respond to gas leak

by k4sac @ Thursday, July 30th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under ARES

From ARRL: CERT activated Sacramento City Fire CERT and Sacramento County ARES® for a large natural gas leak in South Sacramento. According to ARRL Sacramento Valley Section DEC and CERT Communications Manager Frank Reshke, N6SNO, a two block area was evacuated due to the leak. “Around 30 people came to a shelter that had been [...]

Radio Spectrum Inventory Act

by k4sac @ Thursday, July 16th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under FCC, NTIA

This is something that has been rumored to be in the works for a while, and was expected to show up. Senators Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts and Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine have introduced a bill in the Senate that mandate an inventory of radio spectrum between 300 Mhz and 3.5 Ghz. The Radio [...]

Cloud computing and Ham Radio

by k4sac @ Friday, July 3rd, 2009. Tags:
Filed under software

Looking at different ham radio blogs, I came upon a cool concept by KE9V, Jeff  about using the cloud for ham radio logging. Looking at his proposal initially, I scoffed, as an IT person, “cloud computing” is the current “buzzword” in IT. But keeping an open mind, I began to consider his thoughts carefully, especially [...]

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