Michael P. O'Connor

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The Short Wave bands

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Published on: February 20, 2006

Tonight I turned on my Short Wave radio for the first time in about a month and a half, I had not turned it on in a while since back about a month and a half ago the bands seemed to be dead aka I was not getting anything. Well tonight I am getting a lot of stuff, I was getting stuff in the range of 1.6Mhz to 4.8Mhz and I had not really gotten things in that range even 2 months ago. I am getting things all over the short wave radio bands tonight, this is just so great, I love it when things come in all over the place it is such a great thing to listen to, in my opion. So if you are a Short Wave fan, the bands are open tonight, I hope they stay open for a long time.
To give you an idea how open they must be, I live in an apartment so I can not have an outside attena, so I have 450 feet of wire that I strung around my apartment as the attenna, so if you live in a house and can get an outside attena, you will be so happy with what you can recive.

“The Ultimate in Logic” was just used over at QRZ.com

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Ham Radio

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Published on: February 20, 2006

Well as I said in the post “Watch out for the fire storm in Ham radio to start” Well over at QRZ the fire storm did really start around page 10 it is starting to get really funny, there is major hate going on. There is one guy there that when ever someone posts a comment that is in favor of dropping the code and the person is only a Technician class operator, he will respond with the following
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Callsign: Class: Technician
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So I decided to asking him “what does some one’s Class have to do with anything, unless you believe they are less of a person or ham because they are not as high as you.” and I got the following responded (and I kid you not)
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If you don’t have a CDL, then how should your opinions about over-the-road hauling be taken?
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{sarcasm}Wow what logic, I am blown away by that brilliant logic{/sarcasm}
The problem with that logic, is it says unless you have license or degree in an area you are not allowed to have an opine in it, aka the contour example I gave is that by that logic maybe most people should not vote since most people don’t have a license to practice law, I was trying to show how stupid that logic the person gave was.

Watch out for the fire storm in Ham radio to start

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Ham Radio

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Published on: February 20, 2006

QRZ is running store on how the FCC is highly likely to drop the CW tests for entry into the HF bands of Armature Radio
I will say watch out for the Holy Wars on CW to start, I am thinking I might not want to go on the air for a while; it is bound to get very heated. For those of you that are not ham radio people but are Linux people here is something that will let you know how heated it can be, just think about how heated the Emacs vs. VI holy wars.
If you head over to QRZ to look at the story, look at the comments, they seem to be tame this time around, but I am sure if the FCC drops CW there is going to be a bit of a backlash against no-coders. Oh well, time moves on things change, and anger will eventually get soothed over.

Irish Lutherans

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Church, Misc (no other place to put this stuff), Random Thoughts

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Published on: February 16, 2006

On a lark I decided to start up a new yahoo group. I call it Irish Lutherans. I know of one other Irish Lutheran, but I wonder how many people out there have Irish ancestry and are Lutheran, not a common combo to my knolage. The group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IrishLutherans/ I have not really set down any group plan my idea is for any one that has Irish ancestry and is a Lutheran can join and talk about what ever.
I hope that there will be some talk about Celtic Music, I have found that I do like Celtic Music.
Maybe since it is a Lutheran group, we could get some talk about Lutheran Thelogy going too. I still have not picked a logo for the group, I am thinking of doing some kind of cross between the Luther Seal, and an Celtic Cross.
Yes I know that the 2 limits I have put on the list, will make it smaller, but I am sure for those of you that fall into those groups, will be glad to have it small like that and people in that group set.

The Olympic Hockey

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Hockey

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Published on: February 15, 2006

I is nice to see that the Olympics does not have that stupid trapazoid behind the goalie net. I want to know what drunk thought up that for the NHL. I really wish the NHL would get ride of the new rules, they have really hurt the game of hockey. I will admit I miss the old hockey game.
I will admit I do not like the automatic iceing rule that the Olympics have, but I can see the logic behind it.

DVR’s are great, and hockey stuff

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Hockey, Technology

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Published on: February 15, 2006

I would have to say that DVR’s are great things to have. I wanted to watch the hockey games of the Olympic, but since they are on during the time that most people are at work, how can one watch them. Well I have setup the DVR to grab them for me (except for the ones that run during the 3:30pm to 4:30pm time periods, it is because of the bug in the comcast DVR bug) I do have a lot of stuff on the DVR to watch now, but it is going to be fun. I am right now watching Sweeden vs. Kazakhstan.
Also another thing I am looking forward to, a friend of mine, a friend of his, and I are going to go to the March 7 Penguins game.
Finally I have to say that the mens Olympic hockey game seems to flow a bit more like the NHL. I hope to see some good fights in this one, I will admit I like the hockey fights. I know there are some that don’t like the fights, but I love them. I am exicted about a site my friend told me about http://www.hockeyfights.com/ they have stuff about hockey fights, and videos, all I can say is sweet.