Dah-Dit! Music for Ham Radio

Today’s musical explorations rediscovered the Ham Band, with their charming album “Seek You”,, as Mike wanted it on his iPod. You can buy and download the album directly. Soulful ballads of “radio widows”, odes to climbing the antenna towers for maintenance, following the greyline, and more. Folk-country style mostly, with brief forays [...]

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Quick Quake Quack

For the curious, and those considering joining the happy-go-lucky ranks of amateur radio volunteers, here are 15 minutes of live SVECS repeater audio from the October 30th earthquake. One of the SVECS (Silicon Valley Emergency Communication Services) members was doing audio capture of something unrelated when the quake hit, and switched his input to [...]

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Dawn: Flea Market!

We'll be setting up at the Foothill^H Onizuka^H DeAnza ham radio flea market, as part of an ongoing decrufification effort, including such festive riches as a double-NIC 1999 eMachine 500 running a clean OpenBSD install, a 27″ color TV owned by not one but TWO famous sysadmins, and MOAR!
Come on down. Say hi. [...]

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Charming Domestic Scenes of the 21st Century

The virtual camera pans across a balcony of potted plants in assorted
stages of winter dormancy. Passing through the glass doors into the
kitchen, it makes a sharp turn around the vase holding magenta
carnations and hovers briefly over a tabletop strewn with periodicals
ranging from Science News to Nuts & Volts, QST to Silicon Valley
Business Ink.
Our invisible [...]

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