Here are pictures before and after the earthquake and tsunami, available on Google Earth.

Picture of Yuriage in Natori (Japan)

Fukushima nuclear plant after Japan Quake

Sendai aeroport before/after picture

Tomioka near Fukushima after japan quake tsunami

Fukushima nuclear plant explosion Japan

To view high resolution images of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan on Google Earth, download the KML file available.

Satellite pictures source: Google Latlong blog

Website of VA7OJ : http://www.ab4oj.com/ – http://members.shaw.ca/farson/ – http://www.qsl.net/icom/

Icom Japan Global Website : http://www.icom.co.jp/world/

The following figures are based on analysis of 570,000 unique visitors and 55 million page views, only for the month of December 2010, using Google Ad Planner.

Gooole says: Ham radio in US is a male at 66% more than 35 years old for 80%, mainly with some college education for 52% and a household income more than 50 000 $ for 59% of them.

Did you reconognize yourself in this description ?

World cup of Rugby 2007 TM0RWC Contest have received several projects of activation for this World cup, the REF-Union named F5UDW coordinator of this activity DCMR (Diploma World cup of Rugby). The project of the ARALA (Association of the Radio hams of Loire-Atlantique) was adopted, F5UDW thus directed all Om having good ideas towards Rene F5APM responsible for this project.

A special callsign will be activated in each city where the matches of Rugby will proceed:

• TM0RWC Saint-Denis (93) for the stage where the final – Stage of France will be played

• TM1RWC Paris (75) for the stage where the 3°place – Park of the Princes will be played

• TM2RWC Bordeaux (33)

• TM3RWC Lens (62)

• TM4RWC Lyon (69)

• TM5RWC Marseilles (13)

• TM6RWC Montpellier (34)

• TM7RWC Nantes (44)

• TM8RWC Saint-Etienne (42)

• TM9RWC Toulouse (31)

Calendar of these activations:

TM0RWC: 7 and 8/09, 13 and 14/09, 20 and 21/09, 6 and 7/10, 12, 13 and 14/10, 18, 19 and 20/10

TM1RWC: 8,9 and 10/09, 18,19 and 20/09, 27/09 to the 01/10, 18, 19 and 20/10

TM2RWC: 8,9 and 10/09, 14,15 and 16/09, of the 24/09 to the 01/10

TM3RWC: 7,8 and 10/09, of the 17 to the 27/09

TM4RWC: from the 7 to the 20/09

TM5RWC: 7 and 8/09, 11 and 12/09, 21 and 22/09, of the 30/09 to the 02/10, the 05 to the 09/10

TM6RWC: from the 11 to the 17/09, the 21 to the 24/09, the 30/09 to the 02/10

TM7RWC: from the 08 to the 11/09, the 20 to the 29/09

TM8RWC: from the 08 to the 12/09, the 25/09 to the 03/10

TM9RWC: from the 11 to the 17/09, the 23 to the 29/09

OPERATION AND QSL.

The World cup of Rugby 2007 Diploma is opened to all the radio hams and SWL, throughout World cup of Rugby 2007, i.e. of September 7 00h00 to October 20, 2007 24h00.

• the QSO are realizable on all bands and modes of transmission regularly allotted to the radio hams. ECHOLINK are excluded.

• To obtain the diploma QSL (financed by the Ref.-Union), follow the instructions of each operator of the participating cities to know the QSL Manager.

• Each callsign will be activated during 14 days distributed over all the duration of the CMR and according to the calendar above.

CONDITIONS Of OBTAINING DIPLOMA World cup of Rugby 2007

The Diploma QSL Manager is F5IL. To require the diplomas the QSL are not necessary, only an extract of the notebook of traffic is required. The requests will have to arrive at the Diploma Manager before end on December 31, 2008 and to mention the name and first name of the applicant, his call sign and the address where he wants to receive the diploma of the World cup of Rugby. Join 7 € (10 $ or 10 IRC) to your request, to cover the costs of impression and dispatch.

For each diploma it will be necessary to contact:

Diploma CMR Gold: the 10 TMxRWC stations. Diploma CMR Money: 8 TMxRWC for the stations of Europe and 5 for the others. Diplôme CMR Bronzes: 5 TMxRWC for the stations of Europe and 3 for the others. Diploma CMR VHF: 3 TMxRWC

Address Diploma World cup of Rugby 2007 Manager :

Ref-union, Service of the Diplomas, BP 77429, 37074 – Tours Cedex 2 FRANCE

Official international website fo the World Cup of Rugby 2007 : http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/

Source : http://www.passion-radio.org/blog/tm0rwc-coupe-du-monde-de-rugby-2007/293

It wasn’t long ago when we had more sunspots, but the accompanying geomagnetic activity made conditions difficult. Check the Planetary A index in October 2002, April, June, September and December 2003, and into January 2004. For 2003, check http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/2003_DGD.txt. For any other year, just change 2003 toward the end of the URL, and to check sunspot numbers change DGD to DSD at the end of the URL.

If you read ARRL Propagation Bulletins from back then, in addition to complaints about the higher geomagnetic activity, you’ll find stories of better VHF propagation during periods of geomagnetic disturbance. You can see old bulletins back through 1995 at, http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/.

The Australian Ionospheric Prediction Service sent out a warning of increased geomagnetic activity centered on September 1 due to a wind stream from a solar coronal hole. They predict, August 31, will be quiet with increasing activity late in the day, unsettled to active conditions with possible minor storm on Saturday, September 1, and mostly unsettled conditions September 2.

Geophysical Institute Prague predicted earlier that August 31 would be quiet to unsettled, September 1 unsettled to active, unsettled conditions September 2-3, quiet September 4-5, and unsettled to active again on September 6.

Over the same period the US Air Force predicts a Planetary A index of 15, 25, 12, 12, 8, 5 and 15 for August 31 through September 6.

From the same prediction, it looks like September 8-17 may see a return of 0 sunspot days.

QST de W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin 36 ARLP036 From Tad Cook, K7RA Seattle, WA August 31, 2007 To all radio amateurs

FG5JK proposed original hiring of bungalow in Guadeloupe with a radio shack, and others things. I wrote a article before to know him and meet him by chance on a beach in Guadeloupe Island thanks to his wife who, while passing on the road, saw the antennas that I had deployed on a beach towards La Pointe des chateaux.

Then Gerard come and asks me “Radio ham? ”, I answer a little surprised “Yes !”. It was really my lucky day, precisely the day when my IC 706mkIIG breaks down on HF bands.

Gerard then proposes me, by an extraordinary chance, a same icom ic 706mkiig, that it had bought on ebay and never used.

Without its help I would never be able to continue activation TO1USB thanks to his assistance.

We will activate in homage to his memory with other OM’ S here on guadeloupe, on Thursday 16 August 2007 on 20m and 10m.

Gerard, the life did not have leave us enought time to know you more each other and it is my greater regret. I send you last once my 73 QRO and to your family.

Here is a short presentation of TM5KD radio station at Mers les Bains :

The impressive 4×14 elements VHF

TM5KD radio ham station and ham radio equipement

See the quality of the equipement, everything is homemade that’s very “rare” nowadays, that sounds F5PMB amazing work behind

More pictures of TM5KD Contest IARU VHF 2006.

F5KKD Radio Team

Thanks you all, for the great job you make years after years at F5KKD for the community and our hobbie.