Saturday, February 27, 2010

Northwest/ Delta Oddity Continues On Air

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The merger between Northwest and Delta Airlines was completed on January 31, 2010. Delta is the surviving company. A few days ago, the fo...

Tsunami Expected in Hawaii 1105 AM HST

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Pacific Tsunami Warning Center : BULLETIN TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 15 NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI 844 AM HST SAT FEB 27 2...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Shouldn't We Have Had This Discussion Before We Defunded eLORAN?

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BBC News : Sat-nav systems under increasing threat from 'jammers' By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Technolo...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

1800 UTC Fishery Fax Confirmed JFX

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Every day at 1800 UTC, a fax is sent over the Japanese Fishery frequency of 8658.0 kHz. Others have been able to identify this transmission ...

Weather Iffy for Sunday Night STS-130 Landing

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NASA: Weather permitting, Endeavour is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility at 10:20 p.m. EST. The STS-1...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

SDO Launches Successfully

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NASA: The SDO spacecraft is in good shape midway through the launch phase that will eventually place it in an elongated orbit reaching more ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Shuttle Docks; SDO Scrubs

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You know about the shuttle already, so let's get to SDO, the Solar Dynamics Observatory. This payload's been awaiting launch forever...
Monday, February 08, 2010

Loran-C Is Gone (at least in southern CONUS)

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The Loran-C navigational chain that has burned up 100 kHz on the US West Coast since the late 1950s is off the air. The switch was pulled s...

New Pchfdl.dat Is Up

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A new version of pchfdl.dat, the ARINC system table #35 (0x0023) file for PC-HFDL, has been tested here and found to work properly. It came ...

Daily Solar Flux Reaches 90

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Solar activity is definitely increasing. New active region #1045 really cranked it up over the weekend. It is now huge, with multiple compl...

Prettiest Space Shuttle Launch Ever

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STS-130 left town in the dead of night early Monday morning, in just about the most spectacular and truly beautiful shuttle launch every tel...

HFDL System Table #35 Now Current

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Actually, it changed last Thursday. Some lucky individuals have probably gotten it off the air. For the rest of us, PCHFDL.DAT is in the f...
Sunday, February 07, 2010

STS-130 Scrubs In Dead Of Night

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As I found out upon awakening, the weather did prevent a launch of Endeavour on Sunday. Clouds. The next launch opportunity is at 4:14 AM ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010

STS-130 Weather Is Deteriorating

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Major concern affecting a launch early Sunday morning is worsening weather, with wind and low clouds to the north of KSC. Weather is now fo...

STS-130 Countdown Remains On Schedule

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Endeavour is still scheduled to launch early Sunday morning, at 4:39 AM Eastern Standard Time (0939 UTC). This mission will add a large cre...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

How To Fix Sigmira

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Sigmira is a popular and free Windows program that does a nice job on several digital modes, notably the difficult STANAG 4285 (a form of 8-...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

WebSDR Hits, Mostly Utility #6:

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From WebSDR , U. of Twente, Netherlands: 10043.4 CW Unid Time signals? 05/30/09 2115 10051.0 USB NY Volmet. 05/30/09 2118 10066.0 HFDL 06 ...

WebSDR Hits, Mostly Utility: #5

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4965.2 STANAG4285 Unid, no decode 01/17/10 0442 4970.0 USB 3 stns in RR(?) using procedures 01/14/10 0701 4996.0 CW RWM, Russia, time pip...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Haiti Emergency HF Use Increases

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Various sources: 8975.4 USN Link Coordination, Haiti area 14300.0 Andrews Global working hams. Yes, THAT Andrews - really! Also heard work...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

US Coast Guard Axes Loran-C

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At 2000 UTC on 8 Feb, 2010, LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) is dead in the United States. It follows such other systems as Omega, DECCA, and ...