Thursday, April 30, 2009

2009 Armed Forces Day (Pt. 2: SECDEF Message)

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PART II. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MESSAGE TEST VIA DIGITAL MODES. The Secretary of Defense message will be transmitted via digital modes includi...

2009 Armed Forces Day (Pt. 1: Crossband Tests)

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This one usually brings out some good military/ MARS stations. They do it the week before so people can go to Dayton. ------ ANNUAL ARMED F...

Tentative May 11 Launch for STS-125

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After the flight readiness review, NASA has voted unanimously to give the Space Shuttle a go for launch on May 11. This is the STS-125 miss...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

National Public Health Radio Network Activates

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Sporadic US East Coast ALE activity is being reported on the US Federal interagency National Public Health Radio Network (NPHRN). So far not...

QRP Update

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Here are some updates to the information in the latest Utility World column dealing with amateur weak-signal modes. QRSS Beacons: 10140.000 ...
Monday, April 06, 2009

Some SW Broadcasters Still In 40 Meters

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It would appear that the new rules which move broadcasting to above 7300 kHz are being ignored in China. Asian listeners are hearing multip...

7100-7200 Now Amateur

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At the end of March, the long awaited radio regulation change became final on the spectrum between 7100 and 7200 kHz in ITU Regions 1 and 3....
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

New PLT Product Brings HF Doom A Step Closer

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Let's forget the tech speak, and the engineering talk of decibels and signal levels. Here's what is happening, in plain English: Wha...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

STS-119 Is On Orbit

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Do check out the pictures of the launch. It was right at twilight and absolutely gorgeous.

STS-119 On Time for 2343 UTC Launch

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The Discovery countdown continues. Crew is in the vehicle and last close-outs are in progress. For the first time I can ever remember, ther...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

STS-119 Count Continues

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Discovery is still on target for a Sunday launch at 7:43 PM EDT (2343 UTC). The Rotating Service Structure was rolled back at 0030 Saturday...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

ISS Crew Back In Station

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The space debris has passed without incident, and the crew has left the Soyuz and gone back to normal operations.

Space Station on Debris Watch

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The crew of the ISS has put the station on auto and evacuated to a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station. This is after space debris from ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Just In: LORAN-C Is Dead in the USA!

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In a major policy reversal required by economic belt-tightening in this year's US government budget, the US Coast Guard has announced th...

STS-119 Now No Earlier Than Sunday

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Following the meeting mentioned in the last post, the STS-119 launch to the space station has been postponed until this Sunday at the earlie...

STS-119 Scrubs 10 Minutes After My Last Post

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Launch count has recycled one day. New launch target is 8:54 PM EDT Thursday, but this is contingent on a meeting of the mission directors ...

Revised MT NASA Guide Now Available

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Larry Van Horn has just announced an update of the Monitoring Times guide to monitoring NASA. It's at the MT Web site . Download is fre...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Shuttle Still Counting for Wednesday Night Launch

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STS-119 is targeted to launch at 9:20 PM Wednesday evening local time, or 0120 Thursday UTC. The flight is going to the International Space...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

WSPR@Home

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I've been running WSPR fed by my own radio instead of the WebSDR. Guess what: it's active in the USA too! Here are some hits: 1013...

The Great WebSDR Tour - Part 4 (40m)

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We conclude The Great WebSDR Tour with some stuff found on 40 meters. 7033.3 (listed 7037.9) I probably should have switched to LSB before g...