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Hurricane Rita

Categories: News
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Published on: September 19, 2005

The NHC is now tracking Hurrican Rita in the Atlantic plus a sceond one (there are 3 in the Pacific) There is also another Tropical System that might form into something in the next 36 hours. We are flying though the names this year, I wonder if we are going to go to Tropical Storm[…]

The first scanner net podcast is up

Categories: Ham Radio, Technology
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Published on: September 18, 2005

We finished up the scanner net at 10:05 EDT tonight. I have then cut some of the empty space from in front of the net and behind the net off, but other than that I left it pretty much the way it came across the air. You can find the podcast at http://scanner.hamradiobb.com I have[…]

Google blog search

Categories: Technology
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Published on: September 18, 2005

I was just looking though my logs and found a hit that came from blogsearch.google.com looks like google now has a search that returns only blogs, maybe they can use this to remove blogs from their main search site. That would be a good idea, when I go to google I am not looking for[…]

Video blogs (I hope this never happens)

Categories: Technology, Web Site
Comments: 5 Comments
Published on: September 18, 2005

We now have normal blogs, photo blogs, and audio blogs (podcasts) I partly dread the day that Video blogs (or vblogs) start to hit be done. Just what we all want, to see some fat guy sitting at a desk talking about what he does not like or what he likes doing nothing. I can[…]

HamRadioBB.com

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Published on: September 18, 2005

I am going to see if I can get my Ham Radio forums going again. This time I am going to work on defining it better. First I am going to define it for Western Pennsylvania, aka the Pittsburgh region. I am also going to add a scanner section. Now that we are Podcasting I[…]

Oh man, we have a lot of tropical storm activity right now

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Published on: September 17, 2005

I just looked over at the NHC’s web page. As of right now we have in the Atlantic we have Tropical Storm Ophelia and Philippe. We also have Tropical Depression 18. They are forecasting that Tropical Depression 18 will be a tropical storm then a Hurricane. The problem with #18 is that it is going[…]

International Radio traffic

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 17, 2005

While doing the traffic net tonight we were talking about how we should send traffic out, just for practice on handling traffic. Some one suggested that we should use the handling instructions of “HXG” so we would get a return on the traffic. I was thinking since my sister is in Austria I was wondering[…]

More on the Scanner net podcast

Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio, Web Site
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Published on: September 17, 2005

This is the RSS feed for the Trama Podcast of the Sunday Night Pittsburgh Area Scanner Net I found a php podcasting software called Loudblog. It is not the greatest, but it does the job, and I only have to update it once a week. The software does put up a little site with it.[…]

Podcasting of the Pittsburgh area Scanner net from the 147.090 repeater

Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 17, 2005

A friend of mine Ken Sprouse (WA3FKG) and I have been talking about Podcasting the Pittsburgh area Scanner net. We are trying to work out who should record the net, He is going to make some tests tonight and I will be making the same tests, we are trying to figure out how to record[…]

My data in the FCC database

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 17, 2005

Well 2 days ago I finally got all my information in the FCC database correct. And as of today, the information has prorogated out to the other web sites on the net (read qrz.com and arrl.org) so now my information on the internet that is attached to my call sign is correct so my ham[…]

Sent out my first out of section message today.

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 17, 2005

Today on the traffic net I sent out my first out of section message. It was mainly a delivery report, so it was not much. Its final destination is On, Canada. It was the first time I ever sent out a message so I did make a few mistakes but I got though it. But[…]

My Nerd score

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Published on: September 16, 2005

But inner geek only rates me as 55.42406% Extreme Geek :'( I wish I had gotten in the 90’s% which is Dysfunctional Geek I guess I have to try hard here. But nerd tests rated me higher in the geek area then innnergeek.

Pictures of my newest Betta

Categories: Aquarium
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Published on: September 16, 2005

Last week I got a 4th Betta. I named him Marconi. He is red with some blue in him. I have taken some pictures of him, you can not see the blue in the pictures but it is there. I also go a new tank, that I would like to setup for a female Betta[…]

Updating my address in the last 2 places I have not updated it since I moved last year.

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Published on: September 16, 2005

It took me long enough but I finally updated my address for my Driver’s License. I had not though about it, since my old car died in October, and I ditched it in April, and I have been living car free since then. I decided to fix up my address on my drivers license since[…]

It is finally fully correct (my info in the FCC database)

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: September 16, 2005

I just check the FCC website. And now my name is correct, and so is my address. Finally it is all update to the correct information. The time is now about 2:00am EST (11:00pm PST, the time zone that this server is set too) so in a few hours qrz will have my call sign[…]

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