Next Year.
I have decided that I am going to stay away from my computer for the remainder month of December.
I will return in January 2012.
Have a Happy Holiday, and Happy New Year and I will see you again in the new year.
Norm, KI7UP, Scottsdale Arizona.
Stepping Down.
Effective today I’m stepping down from the post of P.I. C. for the ARRL Arizona section.
My reasons are personal.
Section Manager Tom Fagan has the section totally under control.
The truth about the Frist American Thanksgiving.
Russian Taxis.
My assignment on Amateur Radio News Line this week was about Russian Taxis.
To hear the complete report for this week, click on the link to Amateur Radio News Line that you can find on the right side of the page.
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Ercis, Turkey
Amateur Radio is once again playing a major part in providing communications in this area, hit by an earthquake.
Click below to listen to the report filed on Amateur Radio News Line.
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Arizona’s P.I.C.
That’s right I’m the ARRL Public Information Coordinator for Arizona.
I think that in addition to blogging about my adventures on Ham Radio, I should use Amateur Radio Dreaming to let you have additional access to Ham activity in the state of Arizona.
Amateur’s Help in Thailand.
Listen below to the report I did for Amateur Radio News Line on the use of Amateur Radio to help communications in Thailand after recent flooding.
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WSM
This week on Amateur Radio News-line, my report is about an AM station that you just might have heard of, W S M .
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10 Meters
Wanting to take advantage of the activity on 10 meters, that’s where I put the ICOM 707 this afternoon here in a cool Scottsdale Arizona.
That’s where I have been for the last hour and a half.
Scanning manually up and down the band, attempting to find transmission to at least listen to.
For the first time in the past 4 days I actually did find something I could listen to. But, let me be honest, it’s either my hearing or every ham out there speaks so “Damn” fast it was all I could do to get even close to what they were saying.
I also must have been hearing call signs from operators in other countries and I was not familiar with them, so I didn’t under stand the calls. I was able to at least understand several transmission that were not in English, but at least I figured that out.
I was able to understand a fellow ham in Indiana, but that’s all I was able to get, his call sign was sent out so fast I missed all but the last letter of his call, I think, and that was R.
It’s a good thing I’m not working as a radio operator on an ocean going liner.
Now I could be frustrated, and yes to be honest I am a little, but now is not the time to give up. At least today I did here a couple transmissions and yes I was able at least to pick out part of what was being said.
The Solar activity is going to be on 10 meters awhile longer and I just need to get into the habit of spending at least an hour a day, and at different times of the day on 10, just listening.
I’m like 90% sure that the transmit part of my ICOM 707 is working so contacts will come down the road. But I just need to spend more time with my amateur Headphones plug in and the radio being on.
D A C A
A new idea from the FCC as reported on Amateur Radio Newsline .
The first thought that came to mind after recording this story on DACA, is how will this help those in homes with wire line phones, and no accesses to cellular phones. There are those out there you know.
I have other thought too.