KE9V - “The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The lawyer group sued thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly file-shared motion pictures belonging to their clients, including the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker. However, it turns out that USCG are not copyright purists either, as they have blatantly copied the website of a competitor without permission.” [via TorrentFreak] “Rights” are slippery little suckers, aren’t they?

SolderSmoke News - Art, KG6ZWD, sent this link to me. Looks like Wired magazine has an interesting article about Radio Shack.http://blakegonzales.com/2010/06/30/growing-up-with-radioshack/ I always liked these stores. They were never perfectly aligned with our needs, and they seem to be drifting even further away, but over the years I picked up lots of good gear and needed parts at these stores. Ideas too! I have

9W2PJU - Event: Hamfest 2010 http://www.hamfest.my Date: 30 July, 31 July and 1 Aug 2010 Time: 10 am to 10 pm Who we are: Malaysian Ubuntu-hams ( Attendee: 9W2PJU, 9W2HDZ and SWL Tony ) What we do here: Promoting Ubuntu to all Malaysia ham radio operator and giving free Ubuntu CDs to them. Pictures: See more photo here http://www.flickr.com/photos/9w2pju/sets/72157624490701603/ Credits: Thanks to all Ubuntu-hams, supporters, Malaysian hamradio operators, 9W2FYI the event manager, Apogee for the great logo, 9M2AR, 9W2PYT, 9W2HDZ, SWL Tony for the picnic table, friends, foes, and big thanks To mypapit 9W2WTF for the non stop supports.

DX World of Ham Radio - Juergen, NF6J plans to be active from Battle Island, NA-044 as VO2/NF6J on 3-10 September, 2010. QRV on 30, 20, 17, 15 and 12 metres, CW only. QSL via H/C, direct or bureau.

DX World of Ham Radio - By Fazlay Rabby, S21RC Finally I received the amateur radio license to operate as HH2/S21RC from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Last week, me and Roberto, YS1RS installed the mast and a 40m inverted V in the office space which is in a big container - we have plan to install a 20m antenna during the weekend. From next Monday (August [...]

9W2PJU - I received lot of questions asking me about Malaysia amateur radio examination sample questions from my non hamradio friends. For your information, this examination is under MCMC, this is just a samples. Uploaded to my Dropbox account and here it goes http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8414601/Contoh_RAE.dochttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/8414601/Contoh_RAE2.doc

MyHamShack.com - Please share this with you clubs. The Drake Radio Group is sponsoring a free class "Google for the Amateur Radio Operator" This class is designed to as a boot camp and for the attendee to follow along. See it today, use it today type of class covering...

WD5GNR - HotSolder - Just in case you want to use PICP with either the 16F883 or 16F886, add this to your picdevrc file: [16F883] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PICSTART [16F883:def] 10 00 3f ff 3f ff 00 7f 00 7f 3f ff 3f ff 00 ff 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 10 20 00 04 20 07 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 22 0f [16F883:defx] 3f ff 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3f ff 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [16F886] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PICSTART [16F886:def] 20 00 3f ff 3f ff 00 7f 00 7f 3f ff 3f ff 00 ff 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 10 20 00 04 20 07 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 22 0f [16F886:defx] 3f ff 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3f ff 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

NQ3X - I'm off to Pennsic in the morning, so I won't be posting or commenting for a couple of weeks.  So you don't forget me, know that this is my new "WANTWANTWANT" toy: It will be mine.  Oh, yes, it will be mine.

Radio For Teens - The building had glass double doors, and when we entered, we came to a lobby. Not sure where to go we looked around for a moment and finally spotted a sign next to a staircase that read: HAM TESTS. So my mother and I followed the signs until eventually, we came to the door that was propped open and read: HAM TESTING ROOM. I gulped a breath and proceeded to enter the room with my mom by my side. About thirteen other people were there, many looked to be over fifty, some a little younger, but sitting in one of the chairs that were lined up on the side of the wall, sitting with what looked to  be her parents was a little girl, who couldn’t have been more than eight years old. My mom and I took a seat to the side of the family and mom began chatting with the little girl’s mother and it turned out that she was here to take her technician test as well. She turned out to be seven, and apparently her dad, whom she was sitting with, had read her the testing material, because she still wasn’t able to read all of the big words that were in the testing booklet. The fact that there was a seven year old girl there to take her test made me more confidant that I would do fine if a seven year old girl could be able to pass, but the other part of me was scared that I would look so stupid if she passed and I failed. I just talked to my mom about unrelated subjects the rest of the time we were waiting in order to clear my mind and make me a little bit more relaxed. But that all changed when the lady that, I would later find out was the VET, walked in. To Be Continued……

VA3QV - As you know (if your call starts with VA3 or VE3) that this is a Long Weekend in Ontario with Monday being a “Stat Holiday”… Enjoy your weekend…. 73bob

VA3QV - If you follow me on “Twitter” or noticed the comments “Bob said on Twitter” on the top right side of your screen you will know that I headed out in the afternoon to test out an 88 foot doublet and a home brewed 4:1 balun… Now you get a little more detail… I walked over to Hutton Park which is about a 10 min walk from home and set up… View Larger Map [The radio was my FT 817 with my LDG QRP Autotuner and I set up at the baseball diamond at the park... Anyway although the band conditions were not the best the antenna loaded up on 10-80m with no problems and did load up even on 160m but the tuner did fight it a bit… Contacts were made on 40m and stations were heard on 20 and 80m… It was an hour well spent… 73bob

DX World of Ham Radio - Message from Markus Schuler, HB9DIZ We have responded to all those who sent their QSLs direct. QSL Manager Leo, HB9DWL, mailed more than 1000 letters around the world. Letters received with insufficient return postage or expired IRCs were QSL’d via the bureau. Following our return from Vietnam, we corrected various errors that arose when entering [...]

G3XBM - A new DX record for terrestrial (non EME) communication has been set with a QSO between D44 and CT on July 10th over an incredible 2696km. See http://www.hyperatlantica.ch/ for more information.

DX World of Ham Radio - Willi, DJ7RJ will be QRV from Reunion Island between September 23 to October 3, then he will operate as 5R8RJ on Madagascar from October 4 to 29, 2010. He hopes to operate 160-10 CW/SSB and possibly 6 meters. QSL to H/C. AA1M/ADXO

AE5X - Check it out here – nice photos too. Pre-built, not a kit. No mention of QSK capabilities yet. But also read this. . .

DX World of Ham Radio - Tony, G0WFV will be active from Cyprus between 3-15 August using the callsigns ZC4WFV and 5B/GØWFV. Operation will be sporadic. Equipment in use will be a Yaesu FT-817 to a homebrew vertical, using mainly 20m SSB, but other bands and modes possible too.

AE5X - After pondering tree geometry with the idea of putting up an inverted L for the coming fall/winter season, I decided to just make further use of what I already have – an 80m dipole & its feedline. The idea isn’t original – it came from my well-worn copy of ON4UN’s book on lowband DXing. Below is a modification of a diagram in the book that more accurately reflects what I want to do. My main concerns are avoiding ground loops and in utilizing the right relay that will provide minimal loss and maximum isolation for my 100-watt station. Ground loops and relays at RF are both gray areas for me so I plan on picking the brains of those more worthy in this area than I am… I suppose the relay shown here would be referred to as a DP3T 3PDT (thanks Mike!). I began the radial installation this weekend by mowing the grass short and using lawn staples (75 for $10 at Lowe’s) to hold down the wires. According to several sources, the wires should be invisible within a week or two. I’ll be able to use elevated radials along the fencelines of my yard. Click for link to Lowe's After several mowings of the yard, laying additional radials each time, I will have a radial system as good as it’s gonna get around here. . .

NG3K-ADXO - Dec 8-13, 2010 -- St Lucia -- J6 -- QSL: LotW -- Source: N7UN (Jul 30, 2010) -- By W3FF N7UN K8EAB W7ZT N4LA K4MK NX8L W4OKW as TBD; 160-10m; CW SSB RTTY; QSL also OK via home_call (w/ SASE) or eQSL; requested J6BP for ARRL 10m Contest

DX World of Ham Radio - Message from Guy, N7UN: The Buddies in the Caribbean DXpedition group which specializes in 100 watt or less low power radios and the Buddipole portable antenna systems is back again to St Lucia (J6) on Dec 5 – 13, 2010. The north shore Villa location was magnificent on our first visit in Feb 2010 and we want [...]