Tools I Used To Call NA1SS After several years of trying to contact NA1SS, I finally found success. It’s quite an experience to make contact with a dedicated astronaut or cosmonaut that is orbiting around our planet. I’ve also seen the space station in the sky. That’s quite an experience as well. Exhilarating. Unique. Track The ISS: [...]

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EchoLink Conference Server-NODE 355800 On Saturday August 14, 2010, DODROPIN kicked off their fourth year of activity on EchoLink. EchoLinksters can check in at the DODROPIN Conference on Node 355800. *DODROPIN* Net Schedule Saturday 9:00 PM Eastern | *DODROPIN* Saturday Night Net/Newsline Sunday 8:00 PM Eastern | OCARC Sunday Nite Net Monday 8:30 PM Eastern [...]

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Waiting For The Solar Wind To Arrive KP Index – Begin (3 hour data) Aurora Forecast: University of Alaska Fairbanks NOAA POES Auroral Activity: NOAA SolarCycle 24.com: Daily Report Aurora Photos: Photo Gallery SWPC Tips: Viewing Aurora WEBCAMS 1. Anchorage – Mt McKinley Cam 2. Juneau – Downtown Looking Northeast 3. Pedro Bay – Lake [...]

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Any Ham Radio Club Is Welcome To Set Up Special Event WELCOME: Railfans come in all sizes!  Railfan friendly train watching locations available! Amateur Radio Amateur radio operators may communicate locally on 146.555 MHz FM-Simplex. Any “ham” radio club is welcome to set up a special event from here, however you’ll need your own electrical power, get [...]

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The Last In Europe To Have Digital Voice Modes All other countries in Europe have D-Star (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio). That is, with the exception of France. Digital voice modes such as APCO25, MOTOTRBO, TETRA and D-STAR with Internet access are prohibited in France at this current time. According to the DR@F website: [...]

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Urgent: Project 25 Certified, But Still Not Working May 27, 2010 - “Today the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation held a hearing to review the status of interoperability for public safety communications systems that enable first responders from multiple agencies and jurisdictions to communicate. Specifically, the hearing discussed the status [...]

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EchoLink Has Gone Wi-Fi EchoLink on iPhone or iPod Touch? Believe it! If you are a validated EchoLink user you can use this edition of the program. It is available at the App Store, free of  charge of course. If you are not already validated, you can download and install the Windows version on a [...]

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Programming Memory Channels Programming frequencies into the ICOM V8000 isn’t that bad at all. Seriously. But, after a few months or years, one tends to forget the exact procedure. Then it’s time to scramble for the owner’s manual. Okay, can’t find the manual… USING FRONT OF RADIO 1. Setting a frequency In VFO mode, set the desired [...]

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If you use EchoLink, you will need to configure the port forwarding on your provider, in order to get it to work correctly. First you need to know the address to your router management interface. For example: If you have a SpeedStream router, type speedstream in your address bar, and it should go right to [...]

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Who Uses UTC? Countries that use UTC as their standard time: Iceland, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, and Senegal. The United Kingdom and the Republic Of Ireland use UTC in the winter, but not summer because they use a daylight saving period (summer time). What is UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and where is it used? [...]

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