WAP-enabled Cellphones Access Call Sign Data Base
Wireless Application Protocol is a feature of some of the latest cellular telephones and facilitates internet
browsing. RAC is pleased to announce that WAP-enabled cellphone users now may access the Canadian
Call Sign Database directly from their cellphone through a site developed by Pontus Hedman - VE3RPH.
Simply enter the following URL into your cellphone: http://www.hedman.ca/cgi-bin/cs
Please Note
PC and Mac computer browsers expect HTML language and most will reject the WML language required by
the cellphone, so don't expect to browse the above site using your computer. If you would like to see how the
system operates using a web-based WAP emulator, first note the above URL, click here and enter the above
URL into the emulator.
sporadic-E season is here... new lists available
Summer is around the corner in the northern hemisphere. The first good opening on FM-band with
sporadic E-propagation is usually a good sign of it. Some good propagation has been noticed around
the world on June 1 and June 2. I wanted to remind that we have two lists for FM and TV-DXers in
Hard-Core-DX.com. FM: This is a list for active FMDXer. Logs, news, equipment reviews etc and
everything related to FMDX is very welcome. TV: The list for TVDXers.
You can join these lists through these addresses:
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/fm
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/tv
Or by sending an empty email to
fm-request@hard-core-dx.com
or
tv-request@hard-core-dx.com.
SSETI Express Launch Date
The launch date for SSETI Express and three 'cubesats' has now been confirmed as 25 August, with the
next day, the 26th, as a back-up. The satellite has now completed all its pre-launch tests and is presently
back in the clean room where everything is having a final checkout and where the cubesats are being
loaded into their launchers. Current plans show that the satellite will be packed and ready for dispatch to
the launch site during the last week of June. SSETI Express will automatically downlink general telemetry
at 9K6 on 70cm and it will also be possible for amateurs to request specific downloads. SSETI also carries
a U/S FM voice transponder that was provided by AMSAT-UK.
Hamming it up in a secondhand suit
A surplus Russian spacesuit on the International Space Station will be deployed as a temporary amateur
radio. The idea was conceived by Russian members of a group of radio hams called Amateur Radio on
the International Space Station (Ariss). "SuitSat" will be made of an outdated Orlan spacesuit stuffed with
electronics and a DVD of artwork by American schoolchildren. The electronics were given by Ariss to Nasa
last week, and will be delivered to the ISS by Russian cosmonauts. SuitSat will then be thrown into orbit
later in the autumn during a space walk. SuitSat will beam down a regular feed of space suit telemetry,
which will allow hams to track its progress. It will also transmit a basic TV image. The amateur radio will
only survive a few weeks until burning up in Earth's atmosphere. If all goes well, a second Orlan spacesuit
could be made available in 2007.
Ten-Tec Co-Founder Al Kahn, K4FW, SK
Albert R. "Al" Kahn, K4FW, of Cassopolis, Michigan, died June 15. He was 98. An ARRL member, Kahn—
with Jack Burchfield, K4JU, co-founded Ten-Tec following his retirement from Electro-Voice, which he'd
also founded and served as president. Kahn remained a member of the Ten-Tec Board of Directors until
his death. Kahn's daughter, Carol Bieneman, said her father had continued his regular CW schedules
with his old friends until just a few days before he died.
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