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1. September 2010 by admin.
Hurricane Earl might be going to North Carolina? HURRICANE EARL ADVISORY # 26 (AUGUST 31 2010) 5PM
Here is video of HURRICANE EARL ADVISORY # 26 (AUGUST 31 2010) 5PM from YouTube
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communications @ marinetelecom.net
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19. August 2010 by admin.
Someone on Youtube said:
Pretty sure it’s a joke. Gabby Wondeland sounds too close to Abby Sunderland to not be a joke. And the story of being lost in the Indian Ocean was Abby’s story. It looks like satire to me.
* Alan Spicer says… well despite it being a joke … how is she uploading 360p progressive scan video to YouTube? That’s gotta be taking some megabytes. In the video it looks like she is outside of WiFi range. Might be getting a bit far for Cellular 3 or 4G. I don’t see another satellite dish on that boat. And I don’t think she would be uploading that kind of video over that handheld sattellite phone. It doesn’t look like she has the fixed mount kit for it or an external antenna.
Anyway there goes your satire video bloopers and mistakes for this time.
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Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
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+1 954-683-3426
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10. August 2010 by admin.
* Not too many people care about the activity of the sun. Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) operators that use the HF bands might care a little bit. We are a Solar Minimum, a Sunspot Cycle Minimum. But we are in Cycle 24 and on the way up.
This page: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/10jan_solarcycle24/ says:
“Solar cycles usually take a few years to build from solar minimum (where we are now) to Solar Max, expected in 2011 or 2012.”
And this page: http://www.arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere tells you why Amateur Radio Operators would care about this. But basically radio propogation (getting distance or DX) has been in the pits for awhile. When we get to the max then supposedly a lot ham radio bands will jump to life. A lot of frequency bands will open up that haven’t been of much use maybe all the way up to VHF bands.
“allowing the ionosphere to refract higher frequencies (15, 12, 10, and even 6 meters) back to Earth for DX contacts. ”
* But anyway back to Solar Tsunami thing …
http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=1435611044
That’s a good read … supposedly this solar activity, storms even, Coronal Mass Ejections, can wreak havock on a lot of things that we take for grant it. For example modern power and communications infrastructures.
I found this video, out of many that I found on YouTube, to be interesting … even though it wasn’t a current 2010 Solar Tsunami video … it did show and explain a whole lot more about this stuff. So it got my vote:
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Alan Spicer
DBA Alan Spicer Telcom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
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Instructions, and Support after the Sale *
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Mobile Internet! Step up to the HSPA 3G Fast Internet!
Ericsson W35 released in the USA. This you’ve gotta SEE!!
Better looking presentation than W25 (you might not want to
hide this one in the Doghouse!) + High Speed Upload which
the W25 did not have.
http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35/
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1. May 2010 by admin.
I don’t always beer drink but do I when? I prefer … well I don’t always drink beer…
The Most Interesting Man in the World, interviewed (from YouTube)
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* You may not always call me … but even when you don’t … you wanted to! Stay Thirsty - Friends of Mine!
Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
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communications(at)marinetelecom.net
+1 954-683-3426
Disclaimer … this is an ad parody … and may be protected by certain protections … somewhere …
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17. April 2010 by admin.
Reminder bulletin … we have a used Ericsson W35 for sale. Don’t like the price they are selling it for? So propose a price and contact us.
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21. March 2010 by admin.
Inmarsat FleetBroadband Case Study - Maltese Falcon
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Alan Spicer Telecom / Marine Telecom
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21. March 2010 by admin.
The Tracphone V7 - Mini VSAT Broadband - Satellite System
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Alan Spicer Telecom / Marine Telecom
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6. March 2010 by admin.
I was just talking on the phone with a long time friend from my Navy days aboard USS Recovery ARS-43, Bill Lockwood. Bill has Sailboat Productions - a Video Recording and Production Company. I’m going to embed one of his videos from Youtube on here. You can click through the video on my blog to get to YouTube and see his other videos, as well as contact him for any Video Recording and Productions that you might need done. Bill says the following:
Hey Alan, it’s funny I know what I do, but I do so many different things, here is what you can say about Sailboat Video Productions.
Sailboat Video Productions is a full service production company specializing in fishing videos, events, live music performances and corporate convention video’s to assist your representatives in presentation as well as video’s for your sales people for an on site presentation.
Here’s a link to the website I’ve been building today and if you go to the Video Page you will see the fishing video I was talking about, it’s in quick time around 147 meg, but at least you dont have to download divx to watch…
http://billl.net/gofastfishing/index.html
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Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
http://www.marinetelecom.net - htttp://www.wifiyacht.net
http://www.youtube.com/user/alanspicertelecom
+1 954-683-3426 communications (at) marinetelecom.net
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18. February 2010 by admin.
Possibly powerline noise (QRM) (RFI) still at KA4UDX, shot this video today 02-18-2010. Please excuse the “shaky cam” as I was hand holding the camera.
You’ll notice it starts down at 80 meters (probably lower as well) and I can find it all the way up to 6 meters into VHF (50 / 51 Mhz). It definately has a pulsing but random nature to it which has been seen here before and seems to match up with some piece of powerline hardware dangling in the wind and having a good “sparky” and arc’y at a nice high voltage level. I hope that isn’t the feed to someone’s business or home.
Anyway Florida Power and Light is supposed to have the latest RFI report / hardware broken problem found - thing fixed by this week. So we’ll see what happens. Maybe this is another one.
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73 de KA4UDX
Alan Spicer
http://www.marinetelecom.net - http://www.wifiyacht.net (and more)
+1 954 683 3426
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3. February 2010 by admin.
Watching satellite TV from home, yah, fairly easy, on a boat / yacht a little bit more of a challenge - but most of the work is done by those nice white radomes with the 3-axis tracking antenna system to take care of keeping you on the “bird” (The satellite) so that you can watch TV. Now grant it many yacht sat tv users have had to deal with things like changing satellites and even changing LNB (Low Noise Block) to watch satellite TV in different geographic areas as they travel.
But *this* looks like more of a challenge! Amateur Satellite a part of Amateur Radio - and this can all be done with relatively inexpensive equipment. If you already had the dual band handheld radio, and many of us hams already do, then all we would need is that fancy antenna - and maybe the duplexer that’s needed with it! I was already looking at the UHF antenna as someone recommended it for use in tracking down “noisy” power poles in your area that cause Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) on the ham bands. See my other posts about RFI on here.
I want this arrow antenna. And I might just get the VHF and UHF “Satellite” version instead of just getting the 7-element UHF Yagi. That would let me use it for satellite (VHF and UHF) as well as on single bands UHF or VHF, along with the RFI tracking that I was wanting to do anyway.
What can be more fun than tracking and talking through satellites by hand? Tracking and locating noise electrical power poles by hand?
Here’s a satellite video showing this antenna system:
How to GET and put together the ARROW Satellite Antenna for Amateur Radio / Satellite Use:
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Alan Spicer - Radio Amateur KA4UDX
(See my other contact info elsewhere on this blog)
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