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How to track Hurricane Irene Live in New York?

Severals kind of services are available online to track Hurricane Irene, which is the first of the 2011 hurricane season in the Atlantic. For the first time also, the City of New York had to be ordered a mandatory evacuation … Continue reading

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Morse Decoder: Android phone apps to decode morse code

Morse Decoder is an Android phone apps to decodes Morse code characters through the built-in microphone of your Android phone. Morse Decoder can be used by Ham Radio operators or anyone else interested in decoding Morse code from a Radio … Continue reading

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Solar storm & Southern Aurora Lights Alert: The season begins!

The recent period of low solar activity seems to be over. Sunspots appear everywhere on the solar disk and one of them the 1226 sunspotactivity shows a very strong, creating a geomagnetic storm on Earth. Solar wind speed 643.2 km / sec, density of 2.4 protons/cm3. So far, none of these blasts had no effect on the earth, but this is changing as the active region turned toward Earth in the coming days. This activity allow us these beautiful pictures of Southern Aurora Lights by Ian Stewart via spaceweather.com, aurora australis, seen in Tasmania, Australia May 29, … Continue reading

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Photos slideshow of Japan Icom Radio Factory Tour

VA7OJ/AB4OJ, Adam Farson of NSARC radio club did a real good job with a complete photos slideshow and full report of his ICOM radio factory tour in Wakaya Japan the 5 november 2010. Website of VA7OJ : http://www.ab4oj.com/ – http://members.shaw.ca/farson/ … Continue reading

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Demographics of americain amateur radio: Who is US ham radio?

Thanks to studies made before with the TOP 20 amateur radio websites in US, we can know a little more about the ham radio users on Internet. The following figures are based on analysis of 570,000 unique visitors and 55 … Continue reading

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Unrevealed! Top 20 US Amateur Radio 2.0 for Google

Google launch a number of innovative services, so many that it’s not so easy to follow and know them all, or sometimes to understand the real value or interest. This may be the case with Google Ad Planner, primarly an … Continue reading

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Clublog : Statistics of amateur radio traffic log online

Discovered thanks to the excellent blog of Laurent F1JKJ, Clublog recently published comprehensive statistics based on QSO logs, ordered by HF bands and transmission mode, for over 40 years, from 1970 to 2010 !

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How to Twitter for hamradio operator

Twitter? Everyone have heard about it but few hamradio actually use it for real. Twitter is a microblogging platform, that allow to broadcast a tweet, a short message of 140 characters to share an information. The platform has proved useful … Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-29

RT @radioamateur @QTC_Podcast Le podcast radioamateur QTC N.3 Hors Série CQWW est en ligne ! http://twurl.nl/julwpw # RT @radioamateur: Video du Radio Club d’Annemasse F6KCF 1970 http://bit.ly/dx4fLG #TSR #radioamateur #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-24

RT @M0TMX: Amateur Radio Quiz http://tiny.ly/xHf #hamr #

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