Archive for September, 2009

ScanMuncie.com

Internet and Radio/Police ScannersScanMuncie.com, Serving the City of Muncie and Delaware County, Indiana with Public Safety Radio Scanners and Online Interactive Forums Available 24 hours a day

PstRotator

Software/Antenna rotor controlPstRotator handles just about every controllable rotator in common use: Prosistel, Green Heron, HyGain, RC1 MDS, Rotor-EZ Idiom Press, Yaesu Az and many more PstRotator includes automatic tracking for satellite or EME communications, using programs like WSJT, VQLog, TACLog, Z-Track, GJTracker, EME System, Trak_SM, WXtrack, WinOrbit, Orbitron, Nova for Windows, Sat_Explorer, SatPC32, Win-Test. [...]

K4BFT Huntsville Amateur Radio Club

Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/AlabamaHuntsville Area Active Amateur Radio Organization

Why use CW?

Operating Modes/Morse codeWhy Learn and Use CW? by Bill Weinhardt W9PPG

Calculate azimuth and elevation

Operating Modes/SatellitesUse this online calculator if you need to know your azimuth/elevation relative to a satellite

ITU Map

Operating Aids/MapsOfficial ITU-R zone map at ITU Broadcasting services division

Drupal Ham Radio Module

Software/UtilitiesImport ADIF logbook , Display and search logbook, Display and statistics

W5OKT Wonderful 5 Oklahoma Kansas Texas

Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/OklahomaLocated in beautiful rural Woodward, Oklahoma.

Newly Elected Section Managers Converge on Newington

This weekend, 12 Section Managers who are new — or returning after a long absence — to their post are in Newington for an orientation. The primary purposes of the Workshop sessions are to share ideas and to provide basic administrative, management, leadership and motivational training.

More CubeSats Reach Orbit

Early this morning (UTC), an Indian PSLV-C14 rocket carried the Oceansat-2 satellite to orbit, along with four CubeSats and two RubinSats. The RubinSats are 8 kg research modules that will remain attached to the PSLV-C14 booster.

ARRL to Welcome USTTI Students

Next month — October 12-16 — the ARRL will welcome students from various countries from all over the world who want to learn how to administer and regulate Amateur Radio programs in their home countries. This course, offered by the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI), will help participants create, administer and foster an Amateur [...]

Preparations Underway for WRC-12

Approximately 200 participants came together in an ITU preliminary meeting that ended September 16 in Geneva, Switzerland in preparation for the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12). The six regional telecommunications organizations — APT (Asia-Pacific), ASMG (Arab States), ATU (Africa), CEPT (Europe), CITEL (the Americas) and RCC (independent states of the former Soviet Union) — were [...]

Amateur Radio and ARRL Now Part of Massachusetts’ Interoperability Plan

In 2007, Massachusetts Governor Duvall Patrick signed Executive Order 493, calling for the establishment of a State Interoperability Executive Committee. The Massachusetts SIEC includes the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works, the Director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, the Adjutant General of the Massachusetts National Guard, the Colonel of the State Police and the [...]

Reflections on My First Dayton Hamvention

I arrived on Friday afternoon and was amazed at how big the Hamvention was. There were hundreds of commercial vendors in the several indoor arenas and even more private vendors in the outdoor flea market. In addition, there were numerous seminars covering topics such as contesting, emergency communications, bicycle mobile, spectrum enforcement, ham station audio, [...]

The K7RA Solar Update

The STEREO mission (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) Web site shows a new display, where the Sun is visible via an animated image that rotates to show the whole Sun. The small portion on the Sun’s far side — which is not yet visible to the spacecraft — is shown as a dark area. Currently (early [...]