The NHC is tracking another Tropical Wave in the Alantic (well in the Gulf) They don’t expect it to become much of anything, but just keep an eye down there as the end of the week comes by. Lets hope it dies out before it can form into anything, that is the last thing that the gulf coast needs, even if it is just a Tropical Storm the ground down there is so wet that it probably could not absorbe anything else.
Well the new home page is done, it will site in the root of my space for a while, then I will create a location in the directory tree for it, to site by itself, and point the server to it, that probably will break any site that points to http://www.mikeoconnor.net/blog or anything like that, but I have notified all the people I know that links to my site about the major change and warned them that in a few day that the URL http://www.mikeoconnor.net/blog will not work and that they should update their links and book marks to http://blog.mikeoconnor.net it all the links should stay pritty much the same except the www is now blog and the /blog is dropped.
When the www.mikeoconnor.net is changed over I will be cleanning up the directories of the site, and after a few days after the change over you will not be able to access the blog via the www.mikeoconnor.net/blog address as that address will not exist, target date will be around September 30 of this year. This is just a heads up for those of you that have links or bookmarks to my site.
I have added a “News aggregator” And over time I will be move all the RSS feeds I read from the RSS readers on my computers to the web based system, so I can have access to it anywhere. Also I am making it available to every one on the net since these are things that I find interesting, and I hope every one here might find them of uses. Unfortunately the system I am using only understands RSS and does not understand ATOM feeds. But I did find that feed burner does allow people to create a RSS feed from any ATOM feeds (and the other way around too) so when I find a blot that is on blogger I will just get a new feed address from feedburner to get an RSS feed for my news aggregator.
I will be remapping my web site. You will see the following changes to the address for my web site.
http://blog.mikeoconnor.net – This blog
http://rpg.mikeoconnor.net – The WiKi for the rpg game some of my friends and I are playing
http://news.mikeoconnor.net – A news aggregator of the rss feeds I read
http://www.mikeoconnor.net – A new intro page
http://photos.mikeoconnor.net – A link to my photo gallary
http://videos.mikeoconnor.net – A link to my video gallary
I finally got some audio from Radio Sweden. I got it tonight, and it is up here, as an mp3 It is about an anniversary of some boat that did trade with China. They don’t seam to be very forgiving of their ancestors though, the had some very harsh words for the people that did trade.
I was tuning around the Short Wave Radio band tonight, and there seems to be more active now then it has been for a while. I wonder exactly what is causing the upsurge in activity tonight. It is nice to have more stations to listen to. They are coming very nicely, I am still having some signal strength problems, but I think the main problems for me on that are that one I am inside the city, and two that I have the antenna in my apartment, both of those are not very conducive to receiving radio signals. I do try to compensate for the disadvantages I have there by having a very long antenna in my apartment, I have about 450 feet of wire wrapped around my apartment to compensate for the fact that I am in the city and have the antenna in my apartment.
And for those of you who are into the creative commons copyright, it looks like Radio China will be doing an article on it in the near future. The freq is somewhere between 9.2 and 9.8Mhz. Sorry that I can not be more exact with the freq, but I am using an older radio where the marker is a little bit off, and the bandspread is not dead on the freq and its marker is a little bit off too. It is about 500Khz off when the bandspread is set to 0, but it does change as you raise the bandspread is at about 90, I am trying to adjust for the bandspread missaliment here (it reads about 20 but to the best guess I can come to is that the aliment is about 70 off) And for the freq marker it is readding ~9.1Mhz. so I would guess about 9.69Mhz or about there somewhere.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette is running an artical on how the Fire union is backing Republican canidate for mayor of Pittsburgh: Joe Weinroth. I did not belive this when I read it at first. But being this is Pittsburgh I will still put my money on the Democrate canidate to win. You know the 2 parties are Democrate and out of office, been that way since the 1930’s.
Bush has asked people to conserve gas again. I have a way people can conserve gas. I have posted about this before. But I will restate it since I think it is a good idea. You can bike to work. The good thing about this, is it just might save you time in your day. Here is how, if you take time out of your day to go to the gym, you can cut that out since you will get your exercise going to work and back home. Also depending on where you live it could be faster on the bike then in a car. Think about how much time you waste in traffic, I know that if I want to go from the Oakland section of Pittsburgh to the Point, I can make it in 20 minutes no mater what time of day it is. I can even make this 20 minutes during rush hour, where it could take over an hour, in a car. And to the question of “well how can you do this if you obey the laws” well here is how, I go down to the jail trail which is a bike trail so I don’t have to worry about being stuck behind cars or having to stop at lights since there are no cars or traffic lights.
The latest scanner net is now up on the podcast site for it at http://scanner.hamradiobb.com
I went on the bike ride I was working on getting together. I had only one person show up. It was still fun even though there were not many that showed up. But it did make it easier to get things together since both of us were hams and we were able to make contact via the radio before we saw each other.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the bike ride, for any one that wants to go. This is mainly for hams, so meet around the North Shore around 2pm and give a call out to me (KB3HCG) on 147.48.
I just checked the NHC web site and saw that Rita’s wind speed is down to 135MPH, that is still high but only a Cat 3 level. So maybe it might loss some more speed before hitting land, and lets hope and pray that there is no major damage or that there is no loss of life.
Last night (Sep 22) I got together with some friends to play some RPG. Well not really play just plan for it. We worked on making our characters for the game. The game is The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying game. We probably will not get to play till sometime in October, we are working on mainly the history of our characters, and from there building in the attributes they might have and might need, to work with what drives them. I have put up a wiki for the group to use. I have made it so only people in the group can make changes. I hope the games turns out as fun as the character building meetings we have been having are.
The Trama podcast is now listed on the Pittsburgh Bloggers website The web master did have a nice thing to say about ham radio in the Pittsburgh area, “The Ham Radio community is thriving in Pittsburgh!”
UPDATE: some one made a note, it is org not come, I have fixed that type oh.
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Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
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