10 Meter Propagation Tool
Keep an eye on the 10 meter ham band with this comprehensive set of propagation tools. UTC time is coded for Arizona, but can be easily adjusted for your time zone.
Ham Shack Cam
Live images of the K7LOL comm center. View the ham shack as radio, dipole and Dave operate as one. Or maybe just see him picking his nose.
SSTV Images
Slow Scan Television pictures recently received in the K7LOL shack. Not quite 1080p.
A Few Farts
Gas up without spending a fortune. You won't even need a can of Glade unless you have a really vivid imagination.
Flatulence Films »
Freedom Countdown
The current administration will ultimately get booted out of office. Americans are increasingly disenchanted with our constitution stomping, self absorbed, community organizer. Socialist clown Obama will be ousted in 247 days.
Robot Comic Brain
Our swelling, itching Joke-A-Matic Brain cranks out one liners, limericks and jokes that kill. Like an Austrian Death Machine Terminator on nitrous oxide.
Its NOT a Tumor »
Translation Frustration
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? Should I speak louder? Try our Rosetta Stoned language quiz.
Yell at Foreigners »
Space Weather
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2012 May 17 1810 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 May follow. Solar flux 131 and estimated planetary A-index 9. The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 17 May was 1. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level occurred. Radio blackouts reaching the R2 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Solar radiation storms reaching the S1 level are expected.
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K7LOL Ham Radio Shack Photos
If you look very carefully at the photo below you might notice a couple of antennas. Cleverly disguised as a ten foot stalagmite is a fiberglass 2 meter vertical. Directly underneath the stick are the driven elements from a Mosley TA-53 which beautify the neighborhood while inconspicuously handling HF on five bands from 20 to 10 meters. Below that is a stealthy 41 foot random wire used on 30 and 40 meters with a tuner.
Here is the K7LOL ham radio shack pre-battery backup. The Icom 2100H does just fine on 2 meters and the Icom 718 rig works great on 10 through 40 meters despite the limited antenna configuration. The Motorola P25 trunked XTS5000 portable in the corner costs more than the entire room.
The mobile setup consists of a Yaesu FT-60 portable feeding a Mirage dual band amp for VHF / UHF. Also running the RCI-2950 on 10 meters. Recently worked XE1GRR, KH6CW, E51JD and T32TV from the car with 25 watts! I really dig 10m.
Set the way back machine to 1977 and you've got the Carl Sandburg HS Amateur Radio Club promoting ham radio in a Chicago area mall. I'm the slickster ( WB9VMW ) in the leisure suit. Look carefully and you might notice my cool etched circuit board call sign name tag. Sincere thanks to Jim Watt ( W9ATT ) for providing this embarassing photo.
I finally got around to designing my QSL card. Many thanks to Lee at PhotoQSLs.com for an outstanding print job. All I need now is a few hundred address labels, envelopes, and a huge roll of stamps.
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, 73s