ON3JT

Once in a while I enjoy listening to webradio’s. There is sometimes a technical problem. They all use different codecs and so on. But the package of Screamer Radio tries to solve this problem. Follow this link to read more and download it : http://www.screamer-radio.com/

It also has a nice collection of radio’s preprogrammed, way too much for me. But it allows me to discover some really weird stations like old school games tunes/songs/audio. Or a bunch of online scanners.

But my favorite is the music that can be found at http://bluemars.org/
It streams 3 music channels for the Space traveller. I like the concept of their music and site.

I was recently designing labels for the few qsl cards that I have to sent. I’m not making 3000 plus qso’s a year, so my share in the sorting service is limited.

But I learned that the qsl cards for UBA members are sorted in The Netherlands. The guys over there type in the callsign and the software tells them in which box the card has to go. Sometimes this goes wrong, very wrong. In our local club we have a member with the callsign ON4AVP, the cards we receive are for ON4AUP. Not everyone writes clearly, including myself .

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This is what I call Maritime Mobile

Picture taken from http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-w/cc2.htm 

It started yesterday. A small mail arrives from my blog with a comment to moderate.  Oh nice a comment, let’s read it :
Comment:
<strong>ekibastos…</strong>

ekibastos…

Not what I was expecting, so deleted it.
This morning, 5 mails to moderate some comments. What do you think ?
All spam from some spambot.  Time to prepare my blog for future spam attacks.
So I’m now testing out a new plugin. Hope this helps.

Just added a viewable sitemap to my blog. Click on the menu item “Sitemap“ to see it in action and let it help you to navigate to the desired page.

On november 9, 2005 I received a part of a qso between the astronaut Steve McArthur flying in the International Space Station and some students in the United Kingdom.

The setup was very basic back then. A kenwood TM-G707 with a homemade J-antenna. The antenna was located next to my desk. Not the ideal setup, but I managed to get a clear copy of the ongoing conversation.

As a proof : download or listen to this mp3 file.

Noticed that in some projects a wire has an AWG number ?
For example = ‘the loop is made of #17 stranded wire…’
AWG is short for American Wire Gauge and is a standard for the wire diameter. It is not in use here in Europe, we use a metric standard.
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