Absinth - for Windows is now available - Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2

22. January 2012 by admin.

Absinth for Windows is now available as of today. Yesterday only the Mac OS X version was available. You can get either version right here:

http://www.guidemyjailbreak.com/how-to-jailbreak-iphone-4s-501/




Video on How To Jailbreak your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 - the method of doing this is pretty much the same for Windows. You download the “absinthe” zipped program, extract it somewhere where you can find it, then run it. You run it with your device already on a cable connected to your computer as if you were going to sync with iTunes. You just run it and click the Jailbreak button. Let it run until it tells you that it is done. It takes awhile. After it is finished there will be an Absinth jailbreak icon on your Apple device. You tap and run that … and let it do its thing. It takes awhile as well. So get a coke or a coffee and be happy that it will be done soon.

* I made a video of my iPhone 4S after jailbreaking was done. I have already installed a bunch of  things from the Cydia repository which is the “open” App Store type of thing for jailbroken iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads. I’ll have that video on this blog post soon … after I upload it to YouTube.com.

* And here it is:





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Alan Spicer

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The Internet, The Web, is Sizzling with news of Untethered (A5 Processor) Jailbreak On iPhone 4S, iPad 2

21. January 2012 by admin.





I got an email at just 4:34 pm today, that’s an hour ago. For those that don’t know, other jailbreaks were already available for older iPhones and iPod Touches up to iPod Touch 4, but not for the new iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. iPhone 4S (and iPad 2???) uses a new A5 Processor … more powerful than the previous model Apple devices CPU’s. Somehow this thwarted the hacking or cracking (the exploiting) of the iOS Operating System. So users of the newer devices, wanting to jailbreak, had to cool their heels and wait … and wait.

News about the jailbreak from GreenPois0n tells that it was VERY DIFFICULT. Exploits within exploits … had to be done to accomplish it. The Mac OS X version of the program file required to perform the jailbreak was released first, causing the Windows PC crowd to pitch a bitch about it. But the group doing the exploit software, called Absinthe A5, program on Apple Computers under the Mac OS X operating system. So the Windows jailbreak crowd will have to wait for Absinthe A5 to be ported to the PC/Windows OS.

The GreenPois0n web site was swamped this evening … I was getting “unavailable” … and supposedly there is an Internet network link involved in the jailbreaking process that has caused problems for some people trying to do the jailbreak. So maybe we’ll have to wait a little longer until this cools down a bit to be able to jailbreak our iPhone 4S’s and iPad 2’s. The following is the supposedly official news from GreenPois0n:

Here’s the official post by GreenPoison;

Greetings, friends & jailbreakers!

We are well-aware of how very many of you, our faithful fans, have been waiting for months for this announcement, so – with no further ado, we are excited to unveil the newest addition to our GreenPois0n toolkit…
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S & iPad 2 !

This release should come as no surprise to those of you who have been following pod2g’s iOS blog for the past few months. Earlier this week, you might have even wet your pants a little when you watched the video demonstration of today’s release (named Absinthe A5) and first witnessed our jailbreak working its magic to liberate both the iPhone 4S & iPad 2.

What you may not fully realize yet is just how hard the exploits in this Apple A5 jailbreak are working behind the scenes – and, though I mentioned it last week on my Twitter – what a glorious hacker’s wet dream the Absinthe A5 toolkit has ultimately evolved into!
Hacking the A5: Not Exactly a Walk in the Park

The ridiculously complex combination of exploits-within-exploits that make this iOS jailbreak possible have consumed thousands of hours of brain-power & effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers, several of whom have been working diligently on this project since the dual-core A5 processor was unveiled by Apple last March. Ten months ago, I myself was live tweeting from a tediously long line at the nearest Apple retail store, where I anxiously waited to become one of the world’s first owners (& hackers) of the newly-released iPad 2.

At that point, I don’t know if any iOS hacker anticipated how much the A5 chip would completely change the game & up the stakes. The endless war we fight to jailbreak has become more & more difficult with each new device released, and our recent battle against A5 only proved this further. After working for months with few tangible results, Chronic Dev hackers tried a new approach – we launched CDevReporter to accumulate all your devices’ crash reports, an invaluable source of information for iOS hacking & research. You answered our call-to-arms quickly & emphatically, sending us more than 10 million of these reports in less than a week. (Keep up the good work!)

Meanwhile, the iPhone 4S was released with resounding success – more than four million devices were sold in the first weekend alone. As a result, demand for an untethered A5 jailbreak grew exponentially overnight, and a mob-like mentality was adopted by many of the (usually courteous) Apple fan-kids. Suddenly, every iOS hacker found himself the target of constant clamoring – on Twitter, in our (& other) blog’s comments, in forums & tech news blurbs. Their message was loud & clear: “We want our new iPhones jailbroken, & we want it NOW!”
Introducing the 2012 iOS Hacking “Dream Team”

We finally admitted that the escalated obstacles presented by Apple’s new A5 processor would not likely be overcome by one individual or team – but all together, we should be more than able to conquer any challenges encountered. As such, a diverse group of iOS hackers all decided to set aside our personal goals & egos, relax our die-hard team loyalties, and pool our respective skill-sets, talents & exploits to form an iOS Super-Hacking “Dream Team.”

Numerous prominent iOS hackers contributed time & expertise to the project through their troubleshooting, brilliant obstacle-clearing ideas & other support. We’d like to extend special thanks to saurik & MuscleNerd, both core members of iPhone Dev Team.

Of the 4 hackers who deserve extra recognition & gratitude for completing the lion’s share of the research, development & programming of this jailbreak, 3 are members of Chronic Dev Team: myself (posixninja), pod2g & nikias. The fourth & most legendary member of our “Dream Team” is planetbeing, the globally-admired iOS hacker/developer responsible for initially porting both Linux & Android to the iPhone (among his many other contributions).

As to the amazingly innovative fusion of exploits used in this iOS jailbreak – we plan to save most of that discussion for a panel/presentation we hope to give at a conference later this year. If you want to learn more now, pod2g wrote an excellent blog post after the release of Corona, in which he describes in detail the userland & kernel exploits we used, both for the A4 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak and as a starting point for this Absinthe A5 toolkit.

Help Advance our Ongoing iOS Research & Support the Future of Jailbreaks!
CONTRIBUTE HERE directly to Chronic Dev Team

Say “THANK YOU!” to Developers of this A5 Jailbreak for a Job Well Done!
CONTRIBUTE HERE to iOS Hacking “Dream Team”
Download GreenPois0n Absinthe Now

To jailbreak your iPhone 4S (running iOS 5.0 or either 4S version of 5.0.1**) and/or your iPad 2 (all Wi-Fi only, GSM & CDMA devices supported; must be running iOS 5.0.1**) – select one of the links below to download your Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak. Simply unzip the file, then install on your iOS A5 mobile device with one click of a button! As always MacOSX version is being released first, and Windows and Linux versions will be released shortly after.

Windows » Coming Soon…

Mac OS X » GreenPois0n Absinthe v0.1.2-1

Linux » Coming Soon…

**NOTE: If you haven’t yet heeded the advice I gave weeks ago – before you take one step further, upgrade your firmware to iOS 5.0.1 NOW! (Unless you need an iPhone4s Unlock) Also, we don’t mean to beat you over the head with this warning, but please remember: you should not update to iOS 5.0.2 when it’s released, or you will lose your jailbreak! Bookmark our GreenPois0n blog now, and be the first to know the next time we advise our jailbreak users to safely update their iOS firmware.

As with all our previous GreenPois0n releases, should you run into any bugs in the A5 jailbreak, leave us a comment below or contact us on Twitter (via Chronic Dev Team, GreenPois0n, or directly to “Dream Team” hackers posixninja, pod2g or nikias). Even if we aren’t able to respond to your messages individually, we depend on all users to let us know about any issues you run into so that we can address them & fix the most-reported problems as quickly as possible.
Muchas Gracias

First & foremost, THANK YOU to all our loyal fans & readers for your enduring patience over the past several months. We’ve been toiling night & day in order to perform the serious hacking ninja magic required to develop the most advanced iPhone jailbreak yet – we only hope it was worth your wait! And as always, thank you for your never-ending support of Chronic Dev Team & all our GreenPois0n releases!

I also want to express my personal gratitude to:

saurik – for all your guidance & support, especially in helping us out of the sandbox, and for acting as administrator to the “Dream Team” donation fund;
Chronic-Dev, LLC – for hosting the web servers that will inevitably crash due to the sheer number of simultaneous download requests; and
finally & especially, the other “Dream Team” members – for all your expertise, dedication, cooperation & countless hours of hard work! It was a true pleasure to work closely with each of you, and without your contributions, this jailbreak would not have been possible.

Download Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak Tool
Download Absinthe for Windows (coming soon)

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* Years ago … nobody had computers … except in Big Computer Centers. You paid for time sharing of such large computer systems. When Personal Computers came along it kind of broke that “Centralized” method of computing. There is a sort of ressurection of “centralized” computing and storage being pushed on the masses via “Cloud Computing” where the Internet is the Cloud but it really means centralized (not at your home or office) servers doing the storage of your files and in many cases doing some of the calculating (processing … CPU job.) A lot of people like myself thinks this is an attempt to make everyones computer back into a DUMB TERMINAL … only sending and receiving information but having no Horsepower locally. A lot of people like to have the power to do whatever they want with the Computing Horsepower being owned by them. In the Apple portable device crowd a similar kind of thing is going on. Apple wants to lock everyone down to only installing “Apps” (Application Programs) that they approve of … and that are available via their APP STORE and such infrastructure. * I don’t like that because they are denying me access to WiFi Scanning and Diagnostic Programs that I can use in my work. Its a censorship and “centralized control” kind of thing … somewhat akin to the old Central Computer thing. Your portable Apple Computer device is YOURS but in a way it’s not really. You can’t do what you want to do with it. In the Apple Doctrine this is supposed to protect the Mother Ship (them) and to protect us, the users, from unstable devices because of being able to freely install programs, apps, device drivers, etc. onto the Apple Portable Computing Devices.

Anyway, phewwwww!!!! Having said that, I have jailbroken an iPod Touch 4th Generation. The exploiting program for that was called RedSn0w. So I have seen first hand the ability to use another “repository” for APPs on a portable Apple Device. I could get my WiFi Tools and many other programs that were no available from the Apple “Matrix” described above.

[That’s all for now]

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Alan Spicer … reporting live from the Internet somewhere

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Please sign my petition to get WSVN Channel 7 back on DirecTV

20. January 2012 by admin.

Sign it here: http://www.change.org/petitions/sunbeam-television-owners-of-channel-7-wsvn-drop-their-reported-rate-increase-of-over-300-to-directv?share_id=EyawixfcuO&

Read more about it here: http://www.downtownmiaminews.com/news/business/wsvn-and-directv-cannot-reach-a-deal/1954/

WSVN blames DirecTV and says please call THEM and insist they allow their ureasonable rate hike to get them back on the Satellite here: http://www.wsvn.com/ (see it on right side Side Bar.)

DirecTV Press Release RE: Sunbeam Broadcasting
 
Sunbeam Television Shuts Out DIRECTV NFL Fans in Miami In Attempt to Extract 300 Percent Pay Increase
 Sunbeam Pulls WSVN (Miami) and WHDH/ WLVI (Boston) Off Of DIRECTV, Refuses Request to Keep Channels Up While Talks Continue Leaving Their Viewers Out in the Cold
 
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2012 – Sunbeam Television, a Miami-based station owner, today denied DIRECTV customers in its south Florida hometown access to their local FOX station, blacking out this Saturday’s and Sunday’s NFL divisional playoff games in an egregious attempt to extract a more than 300 percent increase in fees. As a result of Sunbeam’s actions, DIRECTV customers in Boston have also lost their local NBC and CW affiliates.
 
DIRECTV made repeated requests to extend its agreement to carry Sunbeam Television stations so negotiations could continue and to avoid the loss of this afternoon’s NFC playoff game between the San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints, as well as tomorrow afternoon’s contest between the NY Giants and defending NFL Champion Green Bay Packers.
 
Not only did Sunbeam flat out refuse this request, they sent a demand letter today dictating that the channels be removed immediately from DIRECTV. This decision rests solely on the shoulders of Sunbeam executives, so customers should call Sunbeam’s corporate offices and insist the channels be restored so customers aren’t placed in the middle while both sides work toward a deal to enable everyone to move on.
 
Over the past 12 months, DIRECTV has achieved fair and equitable agreements with more than 70 local station owners representing hundreds of different TV channels (including stations in Boston and Miami) and without any programming disruptions. More than 20 of those agreements came within the past several weeks alone.
 
“There is always one outlier, like Sunbeam, who has no problem committing an unthinkable abuse of the public trust in an effort to shake down an excessive financial arrangement for themselves,” said Derek Chang, executive vice president of Programming for DIRECTV. “We have no problem compensating Sunbeam fairly, but we have to take a stand against runaway greed and a shameless attempt to extort a more than 300 percent fee increase that our customers risk having to absorb. Sunbeam has completely disregarded its obligations to the public, NFL fans and hundreds of thousands of our loyal customers.”
 
Local broadcast station owners like Sunbeam operate under Federal license to freely use the airwaves and have a responsibility to all consumers to provide reasonable access to their programming. Threats by station owners and forced blackouts are a rising trend affecting other pay TV distributors, which has not escaped the attention of the Federal Communications Commission and members of Congress. DIRECTV will bring the Sunbeam matter to the attention of both the Federal Communications Commission and Congressional representatives from Sunbeam districts.

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Alan Spicer

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Wikipedia Blackout (Google gets in on this too!!!!) … images (screen shots)

18. January 2012 by admin.

Wikipedia is DOWN … Blacked Out …

Pre-Blackout (T-Minus less than 1 hour) to Blackout Time: 00:00 Eastern, 05:00 UTC

(This is YOUR BRAIN)

AfterTime-Zero - Wikipedia Blackout “Engaged” …

(and this is your brain on SOPA and PIPA legislation.)

Google SOPA - PIPA Blackout initiative …

 

Google Additional on the link from their logo blacked out …

Get the PDF on that page … I believe you have to be a member on Google, Google Docs anyway. I got a document not found or such and had to click on a button for Get Original or such.

Anyway according to this a LOT of people oppose this legislation.

… And the Washington Post - Monica Hesse puked the following onto the worldwide web, maybe they should have BLACKED HER OUT. I guess she can’t see any good in the Wikipedia … She thinks it is only used by School Students to cheat on writing papers and such (Drunken Disputes?). She can’t see the good in being able to look up things in a FREE online encyclopedia for many reasons, personal, business, and educational. She can’t the forest for the trees or something.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/with-sopapipa-blackout-some-rest-for-the-wikied/2012/01/17/gIQATE6Y6P_story.html?tid=pm_lifestyle_pop

By Monica Hesse, Published: January 17

Wikipedia, the completer of homework assignments and mediator of drunken disputes, was set to go black Wednesday, in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two bills that purport to crack down on online piracy, but which detractors say just give the government undue power to shut down Web sites.

By Tuesday afternoon, Wikipedia searches had achieved a deranged, panicked quality, much like the ritualistic scarfing of ice cream that happens before a scheduled power outage. If we do not learn the difference between an oligarchy and a plutocracy now, right now, this moment, then when? Wikipeda has meant a lot of things, but most of all it — and Google — has meant the end of wondering. We do not wonder anymore, we find. Our most errant, absurd, obscure questions (What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s dog?) are now answered with minimal keystrokes (Blondi).

(more was up chucked at the Washington Post link above.) 

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Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom and WiFiYacht.net

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English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout (SOPA, PIPA)

18. January 2012 by admin.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout

To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate – that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
 
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:
It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web. Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a “blackout” of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support. On careful review of this discussion, the closing administrators note the broad-based support for action from Wikipedians around the world, not just from within the United States. The primary objection to a global blackout came from those who preferred that the blackout be limited to readers from the United States, with the rest of the world seeing a simple banner notice instead. We also noted that roughly 55% of those supporting a blackout preferred that it be a global one, with many pointing to concerns about similar legislation in other nations.

In making this decision, Wikipedians will be criticized for seeming to abandon neutrality to take a political position. That’s a real, legitimate issue. We want people to trust Wikipedia, not worry that it is trying to propagandize them.
 
But although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. As Wikimedia Foundation board member Kat Walsh wrote on one of our mailing lists recently,
We depend on a legal infrastructure that makes it possible for us to operate. And we depend on a legal infrastructure that also allows other sites to host user-contributed material, both information and expression. For the most part, Wikimedia projects are organizing and summarizing and collecting the world’s knowledge. We’re putting it in context, and showing people how to make to sense of it. But that knowledge has to be published somewhere for anyone to find and use it. Where it can be censored without due process, it hurts the speaker, the public, and Wikimedia. Where you can only speak if you have sufficient resources to fight legal challenges, or if your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ideas already popular will continue to be all anyone has meaningful access to.

The decision to shut down the English Wikipedia wasn’t made by me; it was made by editors, through a consensus decision-making process. But I support it.
 
Like Kat and the rest of the Wikimedia Foundation Board, I have increasingly begun to think of Wikipedia’s public voice, and the goodwill people have for Wikipedia, as a resource that wants to be used for the benefit of the public. Readers trust Wikipedia because they know that despite its faults, Wikipedia’s heart is in the right place. It’s not aiming to monetize their eyeballs or make them believe some particular thing, or sell them a product. Wikipedia has no hidden agenda: it just wants to be helpful.
 
That’s less true of other sites. Most are commercially motivated: their purpose is to make money. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a desire to make the world a better place – many do! – but it does mean that their positions and actions need to be understood in the context of conflicting interests.
 
My hope is that when Wikipedia shuts down on January 18, people will understand that we’re doing it for our readers. We support everyone’s right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression. We think everyone should have access to educational material on a wide range of subjects, even if they can’t pay for it. We believe in a free and open Internet where information can be shared without impediment. We believe that new proposed laws like SOPA and PIPA, and other similar laws under discussion inside and outside the United States, don’t advance the interests of the general public. You can read a very good list of reasons to oppose SOPA and PIPA here, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech

Why is this a global action, rather than US-only? And why now, if some American legislators appear to be in tactical retreat on SOPA?
 
The reality is that we don’t think SOPA is going away, and PIPA is still quite active. Moreover, SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. All around the world, we’re seeing the development of legislation intended to fight online piracy, and regulate the Internet in other ways, that hurt online freedoms. Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, everywhere, for everyone.
 
  Make your voice heard!
On January 18, we hope you’ll agree with us, and will do what you can to make your own voice heard.
 
Sue Gardner,
 Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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Alan Spicer
Alan Spicer Marine Telecom and WiFiYacht.net

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Amateur Radio Contact: F5GN - LAMILLARIE, France (Nice QRZ page image) - 4630 mi

26. November 2011 by admin.

KA4UDX, Alan Spicer to F5GN - 40 Meters - 7.185 Mhz

QSL Card Sample - his QRZ.COM page image

http://www.qrz.com/db/f5GN

F5GN - France - Google Earth Image

~ 4,630 miles from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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73 from KA4UDX,

Alan Spicer

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Working on replacing / repairing computers on several yachts … Internet system updates, etc.

22. November 2011 by admin.

I’ve been a bit busy here is October and November … working on several yachts in Southeast Florida replacing and repairing important computer systems. There’s been a number of viruses that caught some by surprise. One laptop got the Fedex virus that seems to come from a false email indicating a delivery report that should be clicked on. Well it shouldn’t have been clicked on! Another virus on a PC used in a engine room dropped 2 really bad “root kit”’s and caused a re-installation of the operating system to be required. Replacing Navigation, Ships PC, Camera System PC, and Ship Systems Monitoring PC on a large motor yacht. Providing WiFi System for another yacht and making recommendations for Internet systems in general.

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Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

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

communications @ marinetelecom.net

+1 954-683-3426

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I’ve updated my Amateur Radio “QSL Cards” online page …

22. November 2011 by admin.

I’ve made a new Web Album - updating my Amateur Radio Contact QSL cards received by Alan Spicer KA4UDX for Radio Contacts on HF/SSB Radio pages. Some of the cards are plain jane and/or generic from eqsl.cc web site, but others are quite colorful and interesting. Some other images from operating ham radio have been included in there either because someone had interesting images on their QRZ.COM page or I had something I thought was interesting to include in there. Please enjoy at:

http://www.marinetelecom.net/AmateurRadioQSLCardsAlanSpicerKA4UDX/

Some of my interesting operating statistics are:

Bands	2m	9
		6m	124
		10M	303
		12m	31
		15m	277
		17m	20
		20m	835
		30M	8
		40M	648
		80m	93
		70cm	2
	Modes	CW	4
		FM	25
		PSK31	185
		RTTY	61
		SSB	2073
		VOI	2
	Propagation Modes	EchoLink	3
		Internet	2
		IRLP	3
	Dates	2005 January	1
		2009 December	3
		2010 January	49
		2010 February	57
		2010 March	108
		2010 April	87
		2010 May	78
		2010 June	83
		2010 July	92
		2010 August	29
		2010 October	82
		2010 November	70
		2010 December	33
		2011 January	119
		2011 February	76
		2011 March	270
		2011 April	162
		2011 May	82
		2011 June	224
		2011 July	218
		2011 August	65
		2011 September	42
		2011 October	151
		2011 November	169
	Countries (Only includes cards to members of eQSL.cc)		3
		ALASKA	8
		ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA	1
		ARGENTINA	34
		ARUBA	9
		AUSTRALIA	4
		AUSTRIA	17
		AZORES	3
		BALEARIC ISL.	2
		BARBADOS	4
		BELGIUM	14
		BELIZE	4
		BONAIRE/CURACAO NETH. ANTILLE	8
		BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA	4
		BRAZIL	52
		BRITISH VIRGIN ISL.	1
		BULGARIA	11
		CANADA	60
		CANARY ISL.	23
		CAPE VERDE	4
		CAYMAN ISL.	1
		CEUTA AND MELILLA	1
		CHILE	3
		COLOMBIA	12
		COSTA RICA	18
		CRETE	2
		CROATIA	9
		CUBA	4
		CURACAO	1
		CZECH REP.	7
		DENMARK	7
		DOMINICA	3
		DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	20
		ECUADOR	10
		ENGLAND	22
		ESTONIA	3
		FINLAND	1
		FRANCE	35
		FRENCH GUIANA	2
		GERMANY	18
		GREECE	5
		GRENADA	2
		GUADELOUPE	3
		GUANTANAMO BAY	1
		GUATEMALA	8
		HAITI	1
		HAWAII	7
		HONDURAS	5
		HUNGARY	7
		INDIA	1
		IRELAND	5
		ISLE OF MAN	2
		ISRAEL	1
		ITALY	73
		JAMAICA	3
		JAPAN	1
		KUWAIT	1
		LATVIA	2
		LITHUANIA	5
		LUXEMBOURG	1
		MADEIRA ISL.	2
		MARTINIQUE	8
		MEXICO	13
		MOLDOVA	4
		MOROCCO	4
		NAMIBIA	1
		NETHERLANDS	8
		NICARAGUA	1
		NORTHERN IRELAND	2
		NORWAY	3
		OMAN	1
		PANAMA	1
		PERU	2
		POLAND	18
		PORTUGAL	7
		PUERTO RICO	21
		ROMANIA	3
		RUSSIA (EUROPEAN)	26
		SAINT MARTIN	1
		SARDINIA	1
		SAUDI ARABIA	1
		SCOTLAND	5
		SENEGAL	1
		SERBIA	3
		SLOVAK REP.	5
		SLOVENIA	11
		SOUTH AFRICA	2
		SPAIN	15
		ST. EUSTATIUS AND SABA	2
		ST. MAARTEN/SABA/ST. EUST	3
		ST. VINCENT	2
		SURINAME	1
		SWEDEN	4
		SWITZERLAND	2
		TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	11
		UKRAINE	20
		URUGUAY	3
		USA	861
		VENEZUELA	23
		VIRGIN ISL.	2
		WALES	4
	Entire Logbook/OutBox Selector		2350

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73 from KA4UDX,

Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom and WiFiYacht.net

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

communications @ marinetelecom.net

+1 954-683-3426

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Amateur Radio: November “Sweeps” or SS - Sweepstake Contest

22. November 2011 by admin.

I, KA4UDX, participated in the November Sweeps on Ham Radio on the H.F. / SSB bands. I won’t be pulling any awards for it but I did dabble in the contest for a bunch of hours starting late Saturday night and working some more on Sunday until the close at 10:00 PM local time. I made 114 contacts in the U.S. and Canada and contacted I think it was 54 out of 80 ARRL (U.S.) and RAC (Canadian) “Sections”. I could get a Participation Pin for participating and making over 100 contacts. I did make contacts in all 10 US Call Districts which cover the majority of the U.S. as well as 6 contacts into Canada.

Here is my ending contest log program screen shot.

And here is the MAP with colorized areas that I had 2 way radio contact with in the contest …

I started in 80 meters when I accidentally discovered the contest Saturday night and I worked a lot of stations on 80 meters. The next day I started way up at 28 Mhz on the 10 meter band and worked my way through 15 meters, 20 meters, and finally 40 meters before the contest ended.

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73 from KA4UDX,

Alan Spicer

Alan Spicer Marine Telecom and WiFiYacht.net

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communications @ marinetelecom.net

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1. November 2011 by admin.




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