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MyHamShack.com - Tower back up but at 32ft instead of 50. That's how it goes when you put too much on top in a high wind area. 32 if fine. Also moved the shack upstairs to one of the spare bed rooms. Now I have a quiet retreat away from the TV and cell phone chatter to ...

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73s.org - I’ve dabbled with selling at Hamfests before, but yesterday was really the first one I focused on. I gotta say I enjoyed having a table at Ellijay and talking to the people as the came by. Mainly my inventory came from cleaning out the shack and my closets. I tend to gather stuff. I made about 3 sales an hour, and I made a little bit of a profit. I didn’t sell everything I expected to, but it gave me a new appreciation for some of the stuff I have. So, my advise, make a couple of boxes, get a table and go ahead and sell!

KA3DRR - I'm writing my post off my Droid keyboard this evening after activating the mobile features at my blog. The new world of mobile blogging has taken hold afterall the world is our shack. Mobile wireless is the frontier of today and likely tomorrow as well.There is much to explore with this device held in the palm of my hand. It is the power to transform and communicate ideas from anywhere, anytime that makes this technology so compelling.I caught up with my bureau QSLing this morning and have a shipment ready for the League later this week. Six meters west of the great propagation divide was rather quiet through the day. I maybe a little impatient at the moment.This is a Droid test message from the anywhere, anytime shack. 73.Has anyone noticed a lot of broken links after Newington rolled out its new website? There are a lot of dead ends on the digital highway leading to headquarters.

VA3QV - What a beautiful day…. Saturday morning… Jose VA3PCJ and myself headed out to the south end of Ottawa and set up 2 QRP stations  very close to the Ottawa Airport at Eccolands Park. View Larger Map Jose used his IC703 which had just returned from ICOM after some waranty work and I used my FT817.  If you know your radios…Saturday was a QRP Day… For antennas Jose started with a G5RV then switched to a 35 foot vertical using a 9:1 balun and one radial.  I started with my W3EDP then switched to my Buddistick and finished up with the W3EDP. Jose with the IC703 Now you might notice that the pics of me seem to be missing…  well Jose took them with his camera so I am waiting for the pics (along with his logs) but I was there and we did have fun.  I managed contacts on 17m, 20m, 40m and 80m.  Nothing was real DX but contacts across North America on 4 different bands when I am QRP/P was a good thing… . I even managed to check into the Second Region Net (1345hrs at 3.925) and represent Ontario for the Ontario Phone Net So we had a great time…  The WX was great…  The bands were not the best but they have been worse and the company was fantastic… 73bob

Wireless Institute of Australia - WIANEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING JULY 25 2010. - WIA Centenary Update - Club News- WIERD & WONDERFUL - AMATEURS WANTED FOR REALITY TV SHOW - INTERESTING PROJECTS IN MAKE MAGAZINE - ALL UP AND COMING IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING AUGUST 1 2010.

KE2YK - All, These photos are not directly related to Ham Radio but I thought you like to view this nice slide show collection.  The 2010 Air Show was based out of Jones Beach, Long Island NY. Awesome Photos From The 2010 NY Air Show

AE5X - . 1 Aug update – Scroll down for email responses from both OM-Power and YouKits… . When does “close” become “same”? A couple people have emailed me to let me know that the YouKits HF2K I blogged about a coupla posts ago looks eerily similar to a series of amplifiers made by a Slovakian company, OM-Power.  Here are the photos of each company’s 2kw amplifier – you be the judge:   HF2K from YouKits OM2000 from OM-Power   I did email both YouKits and OM-Power seeking clarification. YouKits: I can’t say they are the same, but they are close design the material. OM is made in China.   OM-Power: Hi John, Thank you for information! I know about it, that is a pirate copy from China, call sign is BA7… . Have you more details? I am wondering on control board, because our PA is controlled with CPU, if he has somehow read our software (which is locked!). Our OM2000 HF (2 kW + out) is cheaper like his copy with FU728 …..HI 73 Tibi John, I would like to add the following: OM Power strictly refuses any kind of connection with this pirate copy and the parts used in it. I do not know what software is used in the PA because in our PA the CPU is locked! 73 Tibi OM3RM OM Power Slovakia . .

VA3STL - Image by permission from KE9V Jeff, KE9V, has recently released a podcast called Cornbread Road.  It is quite a different type of amateur radio podcast.  It is not a commentary or discussion of amateur radio, it is a story with amateur radio involved in it.  The production quality is high and I have found the story captivating.  Jeff tells me the next episode, number 6, is out tomorrow (Sunday 1st Aug.). If you have not already sampled Cornbread Road give it a try, I recommend it.

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KE9V - It’s another Saturday morning with nothing notable to report. I stopped by the local Starbucks for my daily caffeine injection and while there I got a phone call from Brenda. Her and Jamie were traveling to northern Indiana for some school function and she was calling to let me know not to worry, our oldest son would be looking in on the dog. Having a little time to kill I decided to catch up on email. I hadn’t been there ten minutes when our second oldest son sent me an instant message. He and his wife are in San Jose, Costa Rica where they have managed to blend a little work and pleasure. We chatted for awhile and then I went back to reading the news and email until I was interrupted by a text message from my oldest son letting me know that he was indeed at our house right then taking care of the dog. Good, things are all taken care of I thought. Before I got out of the coffee shop I had another instant message – this time from my friend Niranjan who is in Bangalore, India. He saw me pop up on IM and just wanted to say hello and to say that life and work was good. About then my wife called, she was three hours north of home, driving through a thunderstorm and wanted me to take a look at a weather map and let her know if she could expect to drive in that kind of weather for the entire trip. Luckily, the heavy stuff was mostly isolated. Among the emails were a few from readers of this site scattered all over, along with one from a friend in California, and another from a friend in Cincinnati who had attached a photo he took while on a recent hiking trip. Data bouncing around from Georgia, Indiana, Costa Rica, Bangalore, California, Cincinnati – all before breakfast and all on my cell phone. Folks would have killed for this sort of instant communication technology just fifty years ago, but we’ve become fairly jaded by it all. After all, it’s as common as pouring a cold, clean glass of water these days – something else our ancestors would likely have killed for.

IARU Region 2 - They came from 15 states and four foreign countries. In their suitcases were radio sets, antennas, sun block and running shoes, but they left some room in hopes of taking home a medal or two. They were the hams and future hams — ranging from age 12 to older than 70 — who went to Southwest Ohio in the third week of May for the 10th Annual USA Championships of Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF). ARDF is done on 80 meter CW and 2 meter AM in separate events, each with five “fox” transmitters. Your mission is to find your assigned foxes, depending on which of the 11 age/gender categories you are in. Each transmitter is on for one minute at a time in a five-fox cycle that repeats. You must find your way on foot with just your direction-finding gear, the map you’re given and your compass. GPS help is not allowed. Read more here. http://www.arrl.org/news/ardf-update-radio-foxhunters-find-their-champions-in-ohio Thanks to ARRL and ARRL ARDF Coordinator Joe Moell, K0OV for the text and photo.

NG3K-ADXO - Mar 1-31, 2011 -- Sierra Leone -- 9L5MS -- QSL: PA3AWW -- Source: MM0NDX (Jul 31, 2010) -- By PA3A PD0CAV PA8AD PA3AN; 160-10m; spiderbeam + verticals; 3 stations; QSL also OK via OQRS; call sign requested; 3 weeks in March 2011, exact dates not set

DX World of Ham Radio - Dedicated to the work of Mercy Ships In close co-operation between the DAGOE Foundation, Mercy Ships and 4 Dutch radio amateurs are planning a DX-pedition to Sierra Leone. The Team will stay in Sierra Leone for 3 weeks in March 2011 and foresee to participate in the Russian DX Contest. The location will be in [...]

frrl.net - There may be a new kind of Internet emerging — one more about connecting people to people than people to Websites.  — FORTUNE Magazine, Fall 2003 Facebook, now with 500 million (July 2010) users was created by four students – Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin - in a dorm room at Harvard University back in 2003.   The rest is history.  Today, Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook at age 26 is worth an estimated $4B dollars.  Good for you guys! Could a movie be far behind?  No.  Due out October 1,2010 – The Social Network See the trailer Read our article on the book - The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal http://frrl.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/the-accidental-billionaires-the-founding-of-facebook-a-tale-of-sex-money-genius-and-betrayal/ Is there any doubt?  “The best way to predict the future is to create it”

AE5X - . “No invention of modern times has extended its influence so rapidly as that of the electric telegraph”. The Scientific American, 1852  . History is at its most interesting when it can be applied personally. For most reading this, as Morse operators and internet users, The Victorian Internet touches on that connection, if only tangentially. The book is a highly readable and engaging look at the parallels between today’s internet generation and the 19th century’s development of the landline telegraph network where, almost overnight, the speed of information went from the pace of the fastest horse to that of light. That milestone changed many aspects of life & the language used by those describing the changes is uncanny in its similarity to how the tech-savvy speak of the internet today. In its heyday, ‘telegraph’ was commonly used as a verb & the first known example of someone telegraphing a message was in 1746 when the French scientist Jean Nollet connected 200 monks into a mile-long series circuit with segments of iron wire and then connected that wire to a primitive electric battery. Their simultaneous contortions confirmed for Nollet the speed of electricity as being PDQ. Wouldn’t you love to have been able to eavesdrop on that experiment… From this, the idea of sending complex messages over long distances was planted. Nollet's electrified monks But more than a technological development, the network of this new medium changed the psyche of society in profound ways. Into the fold came hackers, schemers and con men. Loves blossomed; feuds emerged. Information and disinformation spread with equal rapidity. Hype, crime and new social adjustments to perceptions of the outside world were the order of the day. And their chronocentricity – the belief that one’s own generation is living in the most important era  in history – may well have been justified. In his book, Standage says, “If any generation has the right to claim that it bore the full bewildering, world-shrinking brunt of such a revolution, it is not us – it is our 19th century forbears. Time traveling Victorians would no doubt be unimpressed with our internet. They would surely find space flight & routine intercontinental air travel far more impressive technological achievements than our much-trumpeted global communications network. Heavier-than-air flying machines were, after all, thought to be impossible. But as for the internet – well, thay had one of their own”. The Victorian Internet makes that case, and does so entertainingly, with numerous anecdotes throughout. . .

KE9V - Steve, Peanut and Rooster are up to it again. This time for a short run in Flight of the Bumble Bees from Blodgett Peak, Colorado. Direct link to this video and this one to all of the GoatTube productions…

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