16. June 2010 by admin.

KA4UDX - Going in on 10 Meters FM “split frequency 2 vfo’s” 29.640 Mhz down 100 Khz for transmit on 29.540 Mhz, I contacted KJ1Q on this FM 10 meter link into a larger interlinked system in Rocky Hill, Connecticut today. His signal, the 10 meter repeater transmission, was behind another stronger FM 10 meter repeater system signal making it a bit tricky to hold a conversation. But we did…

http://www.nerepeaters.com/nets.htm#KJ1Q Net

http://www.af1hs.com/kj1q.html

http://aprs.fi/?call=KB1CDI-B

KJ1Q Net (8)
29.640 - CT Terryville KJ1Q 88.5 82.5  Litchfield   RX in Rocky Hill CT 2009/05/02,21:04:35
53.390 - CT Rocky Hill KJ1Q 88.5 TS OFF Hartford   RX in Terryville CT 2009/09/26,00:08:22
147.135 + CT East Hampton KB1CDI 88.5   Middlesex  13782 Part time 2009/10/13,01:17:49
147.315 + CT Terryville KB1CDI 88.5 TS  Litchfield  13782   
147.375 + CT Rocky Hill KB1CDI 82.5   Hartford  13782  2009/05/02,21:04:17
442.300 + CT Rocky Hill KJ1Q 88.5 TS*  Hartford   Part time 2007/11/13,11:01:34
444.400 + CT Rocky Hill KB1CDI 88.5 TS*  Hartford   Part time 2009/09/25,23:02:41
    N1OTW Net        Part time 2007/11/13,12:16:44

* This repeater system, was behind a stronger signal from another repeater system (not sure where yet?) but I contacted and had a long (if difficult) QSO with KJ1Q who was handheld 2 meters FM into the 147 Mhz (KB1CDI) part of a nicely interlinked system.

* This is similar to how, with band conditions opening on 10 meters (28 and 29 Mhz) recently we have been getting into W2FLA on 29.620 Mhz - 100 Khz transmit, in Northern New York State … with interlinked VHF, UHF systems in several places in New York (including NYC, and New Jersey.)

Amateur-FM-2-Meters-Plus-Plus-Google-Earth-Geography

Including the one I identified today and the placemarks for the NY area systems that I plotted earlier…

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73 de KA4UDX,

Alan Spicer

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16. June 2010 by admin.

Has anybody read this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_drilling_rig_explosion

It has more information than you’ll get in the daily news media doses that you get about the Gulf Oil Rig BP Disaster.

I’m not going to quote it because you can go there an read it yourself. But … Do go read it! Let me know if it makes you Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take it any more? (That’s a quote from some old movie…)

Let me know if this information seems similar to the Nasa Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster? What I mean is there were advisors, professionals, that know what they are doing … that say WHOAH! STOP! SOMETHINGS WRONG. But yet the wrong persons get to decide to continue with an operation anyway, despite critical safety concerns and/or concerns over equipment or parts being operated (or to be operated) well beyond their specifications.

In the Movie Crimson Tide … Commander Hunter took the keys to the Submarine and said “These are the keys to the entire submarine”. In these situations the keys to the Entire Platform need to reside with someone else. Maybe one of those professionals that say WHOAH!!!! … And would turn the darned thing OFF. The wrong people got too much power … too much greed for something … accolades … money … whatever. That power needed to be in check. Checks and Balances you know from old school politics. Someone that can be trusted, who knows The Platform, needs to have the ultimate power and capability of throwing the OFF SWITCH.

This doesn’t fix the current problem, the current situation. But if our government does anything they need to (Quote from the Wikipedia Article: President Barack Obama authorized SWAT teams to investigate 29 oil rigs in the Gulf in an effort to determine the cause of the disaster.) send SWAT teams to make sure that the persons that know, that can be trusted for safety … have the Keys to the whole Platform and can turn it OFF if they deem there to be any sort of problem in their professional opinion that can put people, the platform, or the environment at risk.

(Another quote: The explosion was followed by a fire that engulfed the platform. According to an unnamed witness, Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell, an employee of Transocean, was speaking to someone in Houston, Texas when the fire started, and was heard screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”)

He told them this was gonna happen? Why weren’t they required under LAW to shutdown when anyone told them any such thing “was gonna happen”?

* More from Crimson Tide … Didn’t we learn anything?

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Hunter: Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons we cannot launch our missiles unless both you, and I agree.
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] COB, what’re you waiting for?
Hunter: This is not a formality sir, this is *expressly* why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I *do not* give it and further more, you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first…
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] Son of a bitch. As commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama I order you to place the X-O under arrest under charges of mutiny.
Hunter: I will act, backed by the rules of precedence…
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting at COB, over Hunter] I say again, as commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I *order you*…
Hunter: -authority in command, regulations number 815, to relieve, you, of, command, captain.
Capt. Ramsey: -to place the X-O under arrest, under charges of mutiny!
[Silence all round]
Capt. Ramsey: COB!
Chief of the Boat: Captain, please, the X-O is right. We can’t launch unless he concurs.

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* The operation of such a platform, drilling rig, should not be allowed to continue unless Chief Engineer or someone Technically competent agrees with the other Commanding Officer (or person) that such operation should continue.

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Capt. Ramsey: Gimme the missile key.
[Hunter does nothing and Ramsey punches Hunter in the face]
Capt. Ramsey: [sternly] Gimme the missile key Mr. Hunter.
[Hunter takes the keys out and puts it around his neck and Ramsey punches Hunter in the face again]
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting] I am the commander of this fuckin’ ship! Gimme the goddamn key!

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Nope! Mr. Oil Platform Commander (executive?) you cannot have the key — signed Executive Officer or Chief Engineer … because IT’S JUST NOT SAFE PERIOD.

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This is the dilemma that will
occupy this panel, this navy,

and this country’s armed forces as a whole

long after you leave this room.

Off the record, you’ve both

created one hell of a mess -
* Yah … this is the dilema that will occupy this country long after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion.

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73 de KA4UDX, Alan Spicer

http://www.marinetelecom.net - http://www.wifiyacht.net

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

+1 954 683 3426

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16. June 2010 by admin.

KA4UDX Contact: IZ5HPQ @ 22:56 Z on 20 Meters (14.247 Mhz) - Toscany, Italy

http://www.qrz.com/db/iz5hpq

IZ5HPQ-QRZ-IMAGE-1

HPQ-QRZ-IMAGE-2

IZ5HPQ-RADIO-PATH-Google-Earth-Geography

IZ5HPQ-Google-Earth-Geography




Someone made a Video on YouTube of contact with IZ5HPQ

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73 de KA4UDX, Alan Spicer

http://www.marinetelecom.net

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16. June 2010 by admin.

KA4UDX Contact: OZ5EV @ 22:10 Z on 20 Meters (14.260 Mhz) - Koege, Denmark

http://www.qrz.com/db/oz5ev

OZ5EV-QRZ-IMAGE-1

OZ5EV-QRZ-IMAGE-2

OZ5EV-Denmark-RADIO-PATH–Google-Earth-Geography

OZ5EV-Denmark-Google-Earth-Geography

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73 de KA4UDX, Alan Spicer

http://www.marinetelecom.net - http://www.wifiyacht.net

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

+1 954 683 3426

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