Moving Forward or Stuck in the Past?

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Are you moving forward or stuck in the past? This all started with a blog posting by Dan KB6NU appropriately titled I’m Tired of Pessimism. Dan basically said he has grown weary of the folks that specialize in displaying a negative attitude in ham radio. Jeff KE9V responded with a post of his own, writing: … Read more

More on Netbooks

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The so-called “Netbook” category continues to get quite a bit of attention. Acer has introduced several new models in the Aspire One line and is intent on winning in this category (aiming for 50% of the market in 2009). Some pundits have pointed out that even though this category is growing dramatically, you may not … Read more

Making Plans for Hamcon Colorado

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I attended the planning meeting for the 2009 Hamcon Colorado this morning. This event is the ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention, held in Colorado every three years as it rotates between Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. In 2009, it will be held on May 29-31 in Estes Park, a super vacation spot. Hamcon Colorado’s main … Read more

Trying SIT Tones for Phone Spam

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Having recently commented (whined?) about the huge about of email spam clogging the internet, I now turn to the same issue with POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service). At our house, we use caller ID and answering machine call screening to deal with most solicitors. This has been remarkably effective. With the election growing near, the … Read more

Got Spam?

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How’s your email inbox doing these days? Spamhaus says that spam (also called Unsolicited Commercial Email or UCE) makes up 90% of the email sent in most parts of the world. Since Spamhaus is in the business of providing anti-spam services, it might have a tendency to overestimate the amount of spam. I have several … Read more

ARISS Update October 21

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I pulled this from the AMSAT-BB email list (a good update on the NA1SS activity this week by Richard Garriott): Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:48:26 -0400 From: “Frank H. Bauer” <ka3hdo@comcast.net> Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISS Update October 21, 2008 To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org> All, I think you all can agree that this has been a stellar and … Read more