This week, Paul K2FX holds the usual holliday weekend open forum. Mike N2QDK asks the net if other folks have noticed National Weather Service's All Hazards Weather Radio not SAME-encoding weather watches. Brad KB2CHY and others discuss the recent high wind gusts and associated power outages in the Rochester area.
This week, Paul K2FX takes a trip around the world in 30 minutes, by disucssing everything world-band (shortwave) broadcast radio has to offer.
This week, Paul K2FX talks about Morse Code (CW) operation and best practices.
This week, Paul K2FX discusses the importance of keeping accurate stations records, including written documentation of your on-air station.
Paul K2FX talks about RF environmental safety practices.
This week, Paul K2FX discusses the importance of choosing the correct antenna system for an amateur radio station. Also, Lynn KC2PCD announces that the Rochester Hamfest has not been canceled, but has been moved to a new location. The 2009 RARA Rochester Hamfest will be held on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at the Barnard Fireman's Field.
Paul K2FX introduces the newest of the newbies to the world of Amateur Radio. He covers the origins of ham radio, who is the "typical" ham operator, the modes of operation, and the appeal of operating. It's the "getting back to basics" edition of the Newbie Net.
The week the N3FE repeater system in Tioga County, Pennsylvania joined the net for the first time, along with the N2HLT repeater group joining the net for the second week.
The Ray Pickens Memorial Newbie Net podcast has been accepted by Apple's iTunes Music Store! Ham and non-hams can find and subscribe to the Newbie Net podcast in iTunes by browsing the Technology podcast category, or by searching "Newbie Net", "Ham Radio", "Amateur Radio", etc.
Alternatively, folks with iTunes installed may subscribe to the podcast by hitting this link.
Thanks to Paul K2FX for his weekly efforts in discussing topics of interest to both new and old hams alike, and Brad KB2CHY / RRRA for use of the flagship repeater, K2RRA 146.880 MHz in Rochester.
This week, Paul K2FX discusses classified ads for the amateur radio operator: DXzone.com, K1DWU.com, eHam.net, QRZ.com, and QTH.com. Hea also reminds radio amateurs to be careful when buying or selling anything on eBay.com.
Also this week, Leon N2HLT's repeater system carried the Newbie Net for the first time! Leon went through the extensive list of linked repeater frequencies and cities in his system, which includes Corning, Bath, Watertown, Syracuse, Attica, Elmira, Candice/Rochester, Waterloo, Dansville, Branchport, Penn Yan, and Ithaca.
Testing... eventually this will be a home weather station and APRS digipeater located in Long Beach, Long Island, New York. This will be a battery backed up solution, hopefully 100% solar-powered.
Hopefully this station will be online spring 2009.
Home weather station located in Deer Park, NY, reporting via the Internet to CWOP/APRS-IS as N2QDK-4, and via the web as weather.dipino.com and Weather Underground as KNYDEERP3.
Testing... eventually this will be a weather station and digipeater will be located somewhere in the Adirondack Park of New York State.
The primary goal for this digipeater is to provide APRS coverage to the High Peaks region, which currently is a huge hole for APRS. Secondarily, transmitting weather information four times an hour to the amateur radio and meteorological communities from a remote location, from which weather reporting is traditionally difficult (mountaintop).
I am currently looking for a high elevation secure location to site this station. It will be 100% solar-powered.
Tentative online date is spring 2009.
As Richard Garriott W5KWQ starts to go through his checklists and rounding up his stuff after a week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), he's still finding time to make contacts and send down the occasional slow scan TV (SSTV) images.
He's really been a fantastic ambassador for amateur radio and space tourism.
Here's a collection of the sights and sounds I've collected during todays passes.
I talked to Richard again during the 12:40 UTC pass, here's the audio (all 19 seconds of it). This time around, he said my full callsign, so I have confirmation it's correct in his logbook.
Below is additional audio I recieved from Richard Garriott aboard the International Space Station (ISS) from today, 21 Oct 2008, while passing over the East Coast of the United States.
I'm new to satellite work, but is it considered bad form to call a bird twice in the same pass? Or each pass? I'd love to hear from the ham community on this.
21 Oct 2008 12:40 UTC
21 Oct 2008 11:06 UTC
