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The Hiram Percy Maxim Birthday celebration is back! This year, the ARRL is honoring the 140th anniversary of the birth of the League's first president and cofounder. Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, was born September 2, 1869 and died February 17, 1936, in a Colorado hospital of complications stemming from a throat infection; his widow died just nine days later.
The operating event is open to all amateurs, and the goal is straightforward: Find the stations adding /140 to their call signs, and contact as many as possible during the event period, September 2-9. Who is eligible to sign /140? ARRL members who hold ARRL appointments, ARRL elected volunteers (such as ARRL Directors and Section Managers), ARRL Life Members, ARRL Headquarters staff and VEs, AECs, QSL bureau workers and awards managers (who are ARRL members). The complete list of eligible positions can be found on page 20 of the September 2009 issue of QST. If you work at least 25 /140 stations, an attractive certificate can be yours! The certificate can be endorsed in increments of 25 QSOs, up to 100.
Time Period: 0000 UTC September 2 until 2400 UTC September 9.
Exchange: All stations signing /140 send RS(T), their appointment and their name; others send RS(T) and their name.
Eligibility: All amateur stations may participate. ARRL Life Members, and those persons holding ARRL appointments, elected positions or ARRL HQ staff, may add /140 to their call signs for the duration of the celebration. Volunteer Examiners, Assistant Emergency Coordinators, QSL Bureau workers, Registered Instructors and Awards Managers who are ARRL members are also invited to participate.
Miscellaneous: /140 stations may be contacted on any band or mode for credit. You can work a station once per band and mode. Repeater contacts are valid for credit, but please be considerate of the users during a repeater's busy periods. All /140 stations are encouraged to be as active as possible on local repeaters and nets. The certificate is available for making at least 25 contacts with /140 stations, with endorsement increments of 25, and a maximum endorsement of 100. To receive the award, send in a log extract with the date, time, band, call sign worked and exchange for each /140 contact. Include your name, call sign and address, and tell us how many /140 stations you worked. Mail everything to HPM/140 Celebration, c/o W1AW, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111-1494. You can also send in your entry on a disk or CD in regular text format. All entries must be accompanied by a check or money order for $5 (US) payable to ARRL. Please make sure your entry is postmarked by October 9, 2009.
By Dan Romanchik, KB6NU
I teach One-Day Tech classes. At the start of each class, I go over the following to help focus students on what to keep in mind when taking the test. It occurs to me that these are good tips no matter who is taking the test, so if you know someone who will be testing soon, please feel free to pass along this advice.
Technical Topics
The Tech test is not very technical, but there are three technical topics that you need to know:
* Ohm's Law,
* how to calculate power, and
* the relationship between frequency and wavelength.
Ohm's Law
The basic formula for Ohm's Law is voltage (E) equals current (I) times resistance (R), or E = I x R. On the test, there are several questions where they give you two of the values and ask you to calculate the third. If you're asked to calculate the current, you use the formula, I = E / R. If you need to calculate the resistance, use the formula R = E / I.
How to Calculate Power
The formula for calculating power is power (P) = voltage (E) times current (I), or P = E x I. To calculate the current drawn, when given the power being consumed and the voltage applied to the circuit, use the formula I = P / E.
Relationship Between Frequency and Wavelength
There are several questions that require you to calculate the wavelength of a signal or some fraction of the wavelength. The reason for this is that antennas are often a fraction of a wavelength.
The formula that describes the relationship between frequency and wavelength is wavelength in meters = 300 / frequency in MHz. One question asks for the approximate length of a quarter-wavelength vertical antenna for 146 MHz. To figure that out, you first calculate the wavelength:
wavelength = 300/146 = 2.05 m or about 80 inches
One quarter of 80 inches is 20 inches, and the antenna will actually be a little bit shorter than that because radio travels more slowly in wire than it does in free space. The correct answer to this question is 19 inches.
That's all there is to the technical part of the test!
Safety
There are lots of questions on the test about operating safely and being safe when working on antennas. My advice when answering these questions is to always choose the most conservative answer. The two exceptions are when asked what is the lowest voltage and current that can hurt you. For these questions, the correct answer is the second lowest choices.
Emergencies
There are lots of questions about what to do in emergencies. There are two things to keep in mind when answering these questions:
* You should do whatever you can to help someone who is in an emergency situation.
* You can even break the rules to help someone in an emergency situation. This includes operating on frequencies you are normally not allowed to operate on and communicating with other stations in other radio services.
Miscellaneous Tips
Here are a couple of other miscellaneous tips:
* The answer is 'D.' If one of the answers to a question is, "D. All of these answers are correct," chances are that is the correct answer. There are 18 questions with this option, and of those 18 questions, there are only two questions--T3B06 and T5B03--where that is not the correct answer.
* Long-Answer Rule. Where one answer is a lot longer than the other options, chances are that this is the correct answer. I haven't done an exhaustive study of this, but when one answer is very long, take a good, hard look at it.
That's all I have. Good luck on the test!
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When not helping people pass the Tech test and become good amateur radio operators, Dan likes to work CW on the HF bands and collect QSL cards from stations whose callsigns spell words. To see what else he's up to, go to www.kb6nu.com
Amateur Radio Newsline" Report 1672 - August 28, 2009
Are sunspots disappearing for good? Two solar researchers say this is the case. Amateur Radio Newsline's Norm Seeley, KI7UP, has more:
Most hams users know that there is a direct correlation between sunspots and high frequency propagation conditions. In general, the more sunspots there are, the more DX you will be able to work. This usually happens in 11 year cycles with the last solar maximum having taken place in 2000.
The current Solar Cycle which is Cycle 24 should peak in roughly next year in 2010. Only one problem. There have been few sunspots this year and very little easy to work DX. And now there may be an answer as to why.
Spaceweather.com reports that astronomers Bill Livingston and Matt Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, have found that sunspot magnetic fields are definitely waning. Not only that. They say that sunspots could completely disappear within decades.
Livingston and Penn have been measuring solar magnetism since 1992. Their technique is based on a complex system called the Zeeman splitting of infrared spectral lines emitted by iron atoms in the vicinity of sunspots. They reached their conclusion by extrapolating their already collected data into the future.
But Spaceweather also says not to count out sunspots just yet. It notes that while the data of Livingston and Penn is widely thought to be correct, that any far reaching extrapolations may be premature. It says that this type of measurement is relatively new, and the data reaches back less than 17 years. In the end it appears as if the giant solar disk we call the sun is the only one who holds the answers to the future of its spots and how good DX will be in the coming years.
In Scottsdale, Arizona, I'm Norm Seeley, KI7UP, for the Amateur Radio Newsline.
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And a bit of an astro physics lesson before we leave this story. For those not aware, sunspots are made of magnetism. In other words a sunspot is not matter but rather a strong magnetic field that appears dark because it blocks the upward flow of heat from the sun's fiery depths. Spaceweather says that without magnetism, there would be no sunspots. (Spaceweather, others)
Subject: Space Bulletin 006 ARLS006
From: ARRL Headquarters Newington, CT August 26, 2009
To: all radio amateurs
The SuitSat-2 project -- an Amateur Radio satellite housed in a Russian spacesuit -- now has a new name to go with a new shape: ARISSat-1. On Wednesday, August 19, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, announced the new name for the satellite and project. According to ARRL ARISS Program Manager Rosalie White, K1STO, the project team is moving ahead, using the same hardware that was to fly in the Russian Orlan suit. Russia will continue to call the satellite Radioskaf-2, so ARISS is designating it ARISSat-1/Radioskaf-2.
Due to storage considerations, the two surplus Orlan space suits in storage on the ISS were discarded via the Progress Cargo Vessel earlier this year. One of these suits was to be used to house the electronics for the upcoming SuitSat-2 mission; the batteries were to be mounted inside the suit, solar panels attached to the extremities with the electronics, video cameras and antenna mounted on the helmet by the ISS crew prior to deployment during an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), commonly called a spacewalk. The removal of the Orlan space suits from ISS removes the "Suit" component of the deployment and the new name reflects the change in configuration.
White told the ARRL that the ARISSat-1/Radioskaf-2 team, through Gould Smith, WA4SXM, made the final decision for the satellite to be square, with solar panels on all 6 sides. "The team is mounting a 70 cm quarter-wave whip on the bottom and a 2 meter quarter wave whip on the top," she said. "All of the hardware and software goes inside the square, and cameras go on the outside." The experiment being developed by Russia's Kursk State University is expected to be integrated into the electronics once the US-produced equipment is delivered to Russia this fall.
AMSAT and ARISS pointed out that the importance of this project to both organizations is not diminished. "ARISS sees this mission as an important component of education outreach, as it will provide an opportunity for students around the world to listen for recorded greetings from space, as well as learn about tracking spacecraft in orbit," White said.
The ARISSat-1/Radioskaf-2 transmitter and receiver will be based on a Software Defined Transponder (SDX) system. It will consist of two major components: The RF Module and the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) module. In the RF module, there will be an upconverter that receives a signal from the DSP module as a 10.7 MHz intermediate frequency RF signal with a 50 kHz bandwidth, and up converts it to 145 MHz signal of 50 kHz bandwidth centered on 145.9375 MHz. The receiver is a downconverter with a 50 kHz bandwidth centered on 437.6125 MHz. The output of the receiver is a 10.7 MHz RF signal with a bandwidth of 50 kHz. The DSP processor receives the 10.7 MHz signal from the receiver downconverter and processes it and outputs a 10.7 MHz signal to the transmitter upconverter. The DSP can also inject signals such as the CW ID, telemetry, audio and packet signals as determined by the software on the DSP.
AMSAT calls the deployment of the SDX "a critical milestone" for the organization. "This upcoming flight provides an opportunity to flight test the next generation of spacecraft hardware," Bertels said. "Lessons learned from this deployment will be applied to future flight opportunities as AMSAT moves towards a 'modularization approach' to spacecraft development with the expectation the future spacecraft missions will utilize a derivative of SDX and the associated hardware."
The ARISS International Team has been informed that there is still space available for shipment of the ARISSat-1/Radioskaf-2 electronics on the projected cargo flight to the ISS in January 2010, and the EVA scheduled for April 2010 still has a SuitSat-2 deployment on the schedule.
Plans to launch a second SuitSat-spacesuit-turned-satellite were the subject of discussions and presentations at the November 2006 AMSAT Space Symposium and ARISS International Delegates' meeting. Despite a weaker-than-anticipated 2 meter signal, SuitSat-1 -- a surplus Russian Orlan spacesuit fitted with an Amateur Radio transmitter -- sparked the imagination of students and the general public and turned into a public relations bonanza for Amateur Radio. ARISS hoped to capitalize on the concept by building an even better SuitSat that will include ham radio transponders.
The SuitSat.org Web site attracted nearly 10 million hits during the mission. Designated by AMSAT as AO-54, SuitSat-1 remained in operation for more than two weeks, easily outlasting initial predictions that it would transmit for about a week. SuitSat-1 re-entered and burned up in Earth's atmosphere in September 2006. ARISSat-1/Radioskaf-2 is expected to be live for at least six months.
www.arrl.org/FandES/field/ares-el/?issue=2009-08-19
The meeting will be held on September 2, 2009 (the first Wednesday of each month). Arrive at 7:00pm for set-up and chat; the meeting starts at 7:30pm. Talk-in on 146.730 MHz repeater. Directions to the Safety Center.
Come early and enjoy an "eyeball" QSO with our members.The September meeting will feature Art, KC6UQH, et al, who will have something to say about amateur radio satellites.
Carlsbad Safety Center
2560 Orion Way
CarlsbadThe following month will be the annual October auction. Start dusting off your old treasures! The auction will be held in a different building a few blocks away from the usual meeting site, at the southwest corner of El Camino Real and Faraday.
| Checking Balance June 30, 2009 |
$2,852.10 |
| Petty Cash Balance June 30, 2009 |
$30.03 |
| Total |
$2,882.13 |
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JULY INCOME |
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| ARRL Dues | $39.00 |
| FARC Membership Dues |
$105.00 |
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$144.00 |
| JULY EXPENSES |
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| Membership Dues Over Payment Refund | $5.00 |
| ARRL Dues |
$37.00 |
| Total |
$42.00 |
| Checking Balance July 31, 2009 | $2,954.10 |
| Petty Cash Balance July 31, 2009 | $30.03 |
| Total |
$ 2,984.13 |
| ARRL Southwestern Division Newsletter Richard Norton, N6AA n6aa@arrl.org |
| Because of early meeting date, not received yet this month. |
| ARRL San Diego Section Monthly Summary Steve Early-AD6VI, San Diego Section Manager, ad6vi@arrl.org |
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Because of early meeting date, not received yet this month. |
| ARRL Club Newsletter Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, Editor clubs@arrl.org August 15, 2009 |
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IN THIS ISSUE:
+ Club Resource + Cruise-In The Local Club Resource I am very fortunate to be in a position at ARRL which allows me significant interaction with our members. It is very fulfilling to be able to put a smile on someone's face by helping them find a solution to their problem regardless of the complexity. Sometimes it is not possible to be as helpful over the telephone or with e-mail so I will try to direct the individual to a local club where they may be able to get some side-by-side coaching. The local radio club is without a doubt the place where most of us received our ham radio education. The club is where we learned the jargon and techno-speak used on the air and where we met folks to emulate and folks who we swore we would never be like. Everything that we know about ham radio that didn't come from a book was probably learned at club meetings or late night Field Day chats over burnt coffee. Personally I have made many longtime friendships from my involvement in local radio clubs and I am sure many others can say this as well. Clubs, by definition, are groups of like-minded people who share a common interest. In reality a club is an eclectic assembly of individuals each with a unique perspective of their activity. The dynamic of a club is no different than that of a large family. Think of your last family get-together and then take a look at your radio club. If everybody was the same, life would be very boring. In every club there is the usual cast of characters that add their distinctive flavors to the stew and make things interesting. It is diversity that makes a club work well. I have seen that no matter how varied the personalities are in a club, most of these personalities are also eager to help. Helping each other is characteristic of radio amateurs. How often have you experienced something like this: Two hams will be in QSO, perhaps discussing an antenna installation or radio repair when another radio operator will break-in with a helpful suggestion? This situation may have happened to you or you may have even been the breaking station. The same thing happens (or should happen) at club meetings. If you need help with something the closest resource is your local club. On the surface the club may appear to be dysfunctional, but once you are involved you will find that it is actually very productive. The Pareto principle, commonly know as the eighty-twenty rule is a simple expression that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. As applied in the business world this would be 80% of the sales are driven by 20% of the customers. In a club the percentages may be slightly different but the fact remains that a small percentage of the membership is responsible for making things happen. This is not to suggest that eighty percent of the members do not participate, but without a "sparkplug" some things would never get started. These people are the doers. The doers don't take no for an answer and are always willing to take on more responsibility. But where is the fun in jump-starting a project without someone telling you it would never work? Of course it would be much more fun without the negative comments but that goes against human nature. Ever since man tried to open a coconut with a rock someone was right beside him offering a thousand excuses why it won't work. "You'll smash your thumb." "The rock will break." "You should invent a wheel and roll it over the coconut." "Let's just eat the bananas." The cynics of the world are an essential part of society, and of our clubs. They challenge us and make us work harder to prove them wrong. Learn to accept these people but never let them distract you from moving forward. You only get as much from a club as you put into it. A majority of the club bashers tend to be long time hams with a "been there, done that" attitude asking what a club has to offer them for them. To borrow from President John F. Kennedy, "ask what you can do for your club." Of course we took more than we had to offer when we were younger and inexperienced. But over the years we have gathered knowledge that we can share with the newcomers. Based upon my countless interactions with hams of all levels of experience, the novice has much to offer the old-timer even if it is just reliving the joy of discovery. The local radio club has something for everybody who is willing to get involved. Don't know where you local club is? Use the ARRL Affiliated Club search. http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/clubsearch.phtml --- Cruise-In by Jim Aylward, KC8PD President, Portage County Amateur Radio Service (PCARS) aylwardjim@aol.com Is your club looking for an easy, virtually free way to bring members together and meet with hams from throughout your area? Try sponsoring a Mobile Radio Cruise-In Many of us are familiar with cruise-in events at restaurants, drive-ins, or other venues, where participants bring their cars, trucks, motorcycles, whatever, to display and compete for awards. The owners of the vehicles take pride in their efforts to restore, modify or otherwise spruce them up and enjoy displaying them as much as the spectators enjoy seeing them. Mobile radio operators are also proud of the time, effort and more than a few dollars that they have invested into their transportable Amateur Radio stations. Our club, Portage County Amateur Radio Service decided to organize a Mobile Radio Cruise-In where these roadway radio ops could display there tricked out sleds. The owner of the A&W Restaurant in Ravenna, Ohio, graciously agreed to allow PCARS to use the large, spare parking lot adjacent to the restaurant. If you are not familiar with A&W it is a franchised root beer/drive-in restaurant operation. We created a flier and sent it along with a brief news article to the ham radio club newsletter editors in the surrounding counties. Fliers were also posted at the AES Cleveland store and at area hamfests. The event was scheduled to run from five to nine in the evening. We arrived early to set up a canopy and tables for a radio to assist with "talk-ins" as well as posting fliers for the club and our Fall Technician course. The weather was perfect for an Ohio August evening. When the first participants showed up before five o'clock we knew things were looking good for this first-time event. The Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club was holding one of its biweekly Fox Hunts that night and Gay, WB8VNO, the sly fox, parked in the A&W lot where she was eventually found by all the hunters. All together there were nearly fifty vehicles and almost seventy attendees from a half-dozen counties. Seventeen vehicles (including one motorcycle) were entered in the Best Installation contest. Prizes were given for the top five, including an AES gift certificate for the winner and A&W mugs and PCARS coffee cups for the runners-up. It was a great evening of ham radio camaraderie and fun, with positive feedback from everyone. PCARS plans on making this an annual event. Why not give it try at your club? The ARRL CLUB NEWS is published on the first Wednesday of each month by the American Radio Relay League--The National Association For Amateur Radio--225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111; tel 860-594-0200; fax 860-594-0259; www.arrl.org. Joel Harrison, W5ZN, President. The ARRL CLUB NEWS is an e-mail digest of news and information of interest to active members of ARRL Affiliated Clubs. Material from The ARRL CLUB NEWS may be republished or reproduced in whole or in part in any form without additional permission. Credit must be given to The ARRL CLUB NEWS and The American Radio Relay League. Editorial questions or comments: Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, clubs@arrl.org Past issues of The ARRL CLUB NEWS are available at www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/clubnews/. |
Dewey ECC Committee
Bigs-KG6GIU, Ron-KG6HSQ, Ken-W6MF, Randy-KD6UAK, Bob-W6VR, Hayden-KG6YVD
Technical Committee
Bob-W6VR, AA4CD-Chris, Bob-WB6DIJ, Paul-W6SJL, Daryl-WA5QMV, Ron-KG6HSQ
| News Items from CGC Communicator Newsletter Robert Gonsett - W6VR Editor |
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o The FCC's effort to "bring
the powerful benefits of broadband to all Americans" is being soldered together
now. For one thing, the Commission will need RF spectrum to make this happen,
and that in turn will put pressure on some incumbent spectrum users:
THE KEVIN BONDY RADIO JAMMING CASE - UPDATE An informed source indicates that Kevin W. Bondy may "walk" from the most serious criminal charges levied against him. Mr. Bondy, as you may recall, was accused of jamming the radio channels licensed to The Oaks Shopping Center in Thousand Oaks, CA, and attempting to force the shopping center to change at least one of its assigned channel pairs (CGC #906). It is possible that a Ventura county attorney filed the wrong charges -- a wiretapping charge being at the heart of the matter. The presiding judge dismissed that charge on July 23, and another charge stemming from it. The short story is that the only prevailing criminal charge against Mr. Bondy is one of making annoying phone calls -- small potatoes compared to other possible findings including extortion and possession of stolen equipment. FCC action against Mr. Bondy continues on a separate track, however. So, the story isn't finished yet. See: KEVIN BONDY FINED $24,000, PUT ON PROBATION Kevin William Bondy, 25, was put on two years probation, fined $24,000, and had to forfeit his radio gear as part of a plea agreement according to the Ventura County Star. Mr. Bondy had interfered with the radio operations at The Oaks Shopping Center in Thousand Oaks, CA and "told the [mall's security] officers they would have to give their radio frequencies to him." For background, see CGC #906, 917, 919 & 924. COMPUTERIZED PANORAMAS Find out the names and distances of mountain peaks around you. Hit the "New panorama" button to enter your location. Check out the "visibility cloak" feature too. A very interesting program: GPS JAMMER GRABS FCC'S ATTENTION The Spy Store, Inc. has been cited for marketing a GPS jamming device: BLUE DROOP The blue light-emitting diode, one of the greatest opto- electronic advances of the past 25 years, harbors a dark secret: Crank up the current and its efficiency plummets. The problem is known as droop, and it's not only puzzling the brightest minds in the field, it's also threatening the future of the electric lighting industry. BOB HEIL TO PERFORM ORGAN CONCERT Bob Heil, K9EID, will perform on the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ at the California Auto Museum in Sacramento on Sunday, September 27, 2009, at 2 pm. Heil learned his craft as a student of legendary organist Stan Kann. "I've always loved the rich, pretty sounds of the Wurlitzer, and I look forward to sharing them with my amateur radio friends and my theater organ fans in Sacramento." The concert is free with Museum admission ($8 adults, $7 seniors). For more information, call (916) 442-6802 or go to www.sierrachapteratos.org Dave Sauer, K6QFS, davesauer (at) comcast.net FCC NEWS BRIEFS o Comments sought on defining "broadband:" o What speed is "broadband" anyway? WSJ article, subscription may be required: o FCC launches "Blogband" to chronicle the upcoming national broadband plan. Also launches Microblog on Twitter: FCC ENFORCEMENT WATCH o Wal-Mart issued a Citation for selling a wireless security camera that reportedly violates Part 15 radiation limits and interferes with Sprint-Nextel's 800 & 900 MHz iDEN network: o Costco, ditto: FCC ENFORCEMENT WATCH The FCC has issued a Citation to Irma Frausto of Compton, CA. Ms. Frausto was reportedly using a "Philips amplified television antenna, model Mant300, installed on top of a television set in the residence." Apparently the amplifier had broken into self-oscillation on 840.356 MHz and the spur was strong enough to interfere with the input to a Verizon cell site. If only Ms. Frausto had used a spectrum analyzer, she could have avoided this problem! 
NEWS BRIEFS o A state law that took effect December 1, and a drop in copper prices, have all but ended bulk metal theft in California according to this article: o To drum up more communications business, some wireless providers want machines to talk to machines: o Vatican Radio is accepting ads for the first time in its 80 year history -- although just from the power company for now: o Texting while driving appears to be much more dangerous than previously thought: o Curbing potentially hazardous stray voltages: o Radio Shack to re-brand as "The Shack" in advertising, but to remain "Radio Shack" in fact: o States could seek permission to conduct cellular phone jamming in prisons under a measure approved a week ago by a U.S. Senate committee: o KFMB-TV, San Diego, raises power to counter dropouts, wants more power yet: o Tech Talk: Biological computer circuits: o FCC to power company: Don't look to your customers to pay you for locating and correcting RFI: o More on free over-the-air Mobile TV: o Wireless security: WPA encryption cracked in one minute, but other forms on encryption appear safe for now: o Learn the basics of Nanotechnology at this easy to understand Website (mention health concerns): o News Corp. is encouraging major newspapers to charge for on-line content: o Two astronomers predict sunspots will soon completely disappear (but their data are limited): GRADE A OFF TOPIC MATERIAL o Make the frogs swap sides, one jump at a time. It's fun figuring this one out: o Saturn 5 rocket launch, scale model style: o Tennessee Ernie Ford with his son and other children. Watch his son, on his right: o Silhouette art set to music: A pleasant a cappella. The sound starts soon enough. Be patient. And be prepared to be delighted: o Segway inventor Dean Kamen has taken his private island off the grid. Video tech tour of his tiny island empire (3 mins): o The SR-71 Blackbird jetcraft "grows" over 8 inches and the nose glows cherry red at high altitude cruise (90-100,000'). The plane will cover 180 miles if it has to turn around. This is a slide show produced by one of the 93 people to ever pilot the Blackbird: o Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire: The best tap team ever: o The Hubble Space Telescope, the video: o HEMA is a giant Dutch department store that has a sense of humor and a GREAT computer programmer. Take a look at this product page. Don't click on any of the items pictured. Just wait a few seconds and see what happens: o "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (1885 - 1962): |
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