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HF Frequencies released for normal use

by @ Wednesday, January 27th, 2010. Filed under Uncategorized

HF Frequencies for Haiti Return to Normal Use (Jan 24, 2010) — Considering the improving communications situation in Haiti, Dr Cesar Pio Santos, HR2P, IARU Region 2 EMCOR, announced the release of HF frequencies, including 7.045 and 3.720 MHz, for normal use. “We thank the world radio amateur community for their support in keeping these frequencies clear during the past days.” [...]

Conspiracy Theorists at it again………

by @ Wednesday, August 5th, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized

There has been a lot of buzz around the internet of a possible report of the FCC supposedly confiscating Ham and CB Radios. In fact there has been a couple of You Tube videos purporting to describe this…. Video #1 Video#2 According to this blog , the purpose of this is for the FCC and [...]

Individual Impact

by @ 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 [...]

John Calipari and UK Basketball

by @ Wednesday, April 1st, 2009. Tags: ,
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Well right now UK is holding a press conference and announcing our next Wildcats coach, John Calipari. Calipari is endearing himself to the Big Blue Faithful, saying the right things and talking about his goals and that UK basketball is his “dream job.” Many of the national media have been raking over the UK fan [...]

UK Basketball and UK Fans

by @ Friday, March 27th, 2009. Tags: ,
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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 [...]

K5D operation

by @ Sunday, February 22nd, 2009. Tags: ,
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The K5D operation for the most part has been a smooth operation, on-air wise. The pileups have seemed to be orderly, the operators seem to be competent operators. There have been some questions about their 40m SSB operations, but you have to stop and think, they are in Region 2 and as thus have to [...]

FCC Calls on Amateur Radio Service for Assistance with Digital TV Conversion

by @ Thursday, December 11th, 2008. Tags:
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Credit: ARRL Earlier this week, the ARRL received a request from the FCC asking that ARRL members to provide technical educational assistance to their communities concerning the FCC-mandated digital television (DTV) conversion scheduled for February 17, 2009. According to ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, Amateur Radio clubs across the country are [...]

10M Contest

by @ Wednesday, December 10th, 2008. Tags:
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The ARRL 10 Meter contest starts this weekend 13 Dec at 0000Z to 14 Dec 2400Z. CW and Phone modes are allowed. HP category is 1500W, Low Power is 150W and QRP is 5 watts. Exchange is RST+state/province.  Novices or Tech must sign with /N or /T on CW. Phone Qso’s are 2 points, CW [...]

FD Results are out

by @ Thursday, October 30th, 2008. Tags: ,
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Every year the one contest I always look forward to is ARRL FD. Perhaps it is a combination of my love of camping and ham radio? But FD always is the highlight of the year for me. Several years ago, being that we are out of the zone for the SMC and at the time, [...]

DX Wiki

by @ Sunday, September 30th, 2007. Tags:
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If you are a dx’er there is a new wiki located at http://dxreference.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Check it out!

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