Monday, January 31 Logging and............. Bands and Modes
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Logging, What Logging Programs do you Use?
Just one, Or Many? QRZ, WSJTX, LOG BOOK OF THE WORLD, Ham Radio Deluxe, HAMRS, And Others? Let's have a talk on logging.
Bands And Modes
What are your preferences. USB, LSB, CW, AM, FM, FT4, FT8, PSK, RTTY, SJT, 80 METERS, 40 METERS, 20 METERS, or VHF frequencies. moon bounce, satellite work? ISS repeater or to the astronaut/hams on the ISS?
Special Edition: Thursday, January 27 PARKS ON THE AIR
Hello 6 O'Clock Net Friends,
This evening's special subject net will be devoted to discussion of Parks on The Air (POTA).
Wanted: Those hams interested in getting started with POTA, those interested in finding out if they may be interested, and those with some POTA experience to share.
Objective: Create a forum for sharing on information about POTA
Provide basics of what POTA is
Hear from several hams who have "done" POTA
Share important resources to know and understand if interested in "operation" of a POTA station or "hunting" POTA stations operating that are from a designated park (in the U.S. or non-U.S. entities)
Get the hams with any interest to register with POTA, just in case............ No cost, all upside! Now 25,000 registered users world-wide and numbers increasing daily!
Get your questions answered.
See resources below if interested. These will also be posted on the 6 O'Clock Website.
Hope to "see" you tonight!
73,
Kevin, K1KL
Parks On The Air Websites and Resources
POTA Multi Apps Site- Spots, Your Logs, Map, Parks List, Your Stats, Activations, Add Activation Park Stats and Leaders and More !
Register Your Call with POTA
POTA Home Page
Frequently Asked Questions
Official Resources
Official Resources
Parks on the Air provides some video and online guides suitable for in-depth study for both activators and hunters.
Activator Training
Activator Training
Activator References
Activator References
N3FJP setup guide
POTA 1 page handout
Hunter Training
Hunter Training
Social Media
Social Media
Community Resources
Community Resources
Friends of POTA: The POTA community has a wealth of resources available to both activators and hunters. These contributors have demonstrated a commitment to POTA have produced content showing their activations, radios, antennas, and helpful hints for portable amateur radio.
Topics for January 26: David Ortiz and................... The Jetsons
David Ortiz, the ebullient slugger who carried the Red Sox and their fans to unimagined heights, is the newest member of baseball’s Hall of Fame.
The news only a few players ever receive came Tuesday night in a call that traveled from Cooperstown, N.Y., to the Dominican Republic. Ortiz was in with 77.9 percent of the votes cast by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Three other former stars, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling, failed to gain admission on their final time on the ballot.
The company behind a Slovakian hybrid half-car, half-plane vehicle said in a press release that it had received certification of airworthiness for its innovation.
KleinVision claims that approval for its AirCar opens the path for the "mass production of very efficient flying cars."
Aircraft mode at the touch of a button
Aircraft mode at the touch of a button
The transformation from the vehicle's road-going setup to its flight mode takes less than 3 minutes. The process is entirely automated — with the push of a single button needed to start it.
Before it could be certified, the car had to complete 70 hours of flight testing — having successfully completed more than 200 takeoffs and landings.
Powered by a 1.6-liter BMW engine, the futuristic vehicle needs a runway of only 300 meters (nearly 1,000 feet) long to take off.
It can reach flight speeds of up to 170 kilometers per hour (just over 100 mph) and has a range of roughly 1,000 kilometers.
AirCar completed its first intercity flight in June 2021.
Topic for January 24: Art counterfeiter, Han van Meegeren
Were it not for a knock on the door in 1945 Amsterdam, Han van Meegeren might have been forgotten. He was a small and dapper man, a Dutch artist of limited ability. He was also a forger — and the force behind what a new book says was the greatest art hoax of the 20th century.
Van Meegeren passed his paintings off as newly discovered works by renowned 17th century artist Jan Vermeer. He fooled experts and collectors, including the second-most powerful man in Nazi Germany, Hermann Goering, and pocketed the equivalent of $30 million before he was unmasked.
Edward Dolnick, author of The Forger's Spell, says there were several reasons why van Meegeren, who tried his hand at imitating Franz Hals and other Dutch painters, decided to make a career of Vermeer.
"One was that he was just about the greatest brand name of them all," Dolnick tells guest host Linda Wertheimer. "In art, this is the equivalent of Rolls-Royce or Tiffany or something — if you can get away with Vermeer, that shows how terrific you are and it's where the money is.
In addition, Dolnick notes, Vermeer's biography is almost a complete blank. The absence of information left "lots of elbow room to fill in the gaps as you saw fit because nobody knew what the real story was," he says.
Topics for January 19: Media and News Outlets and.........QRZ
What is your primary source of news? Secondary?
What do you think about the news media and its accuracy and/or bias?
Do you trust the media?
Do you use QRZ? For what purpose?
Topics for January 12: Grocery Stores and.... All In The Family (50 Years Ago)
GROCERY STORE SHORTAGES ARE BACK
Expect shortages in your area as shortages multiply.
Omicron
Labor Shortages
Trucking and Shipping
Winter Storms & Climate Change
Have you seen shortages yet?
How did 2020 shortages affect you?
What supplies are you most concerned about now?
All in the Family, American television situation comedy that aired on CBS for eight seasons (January 12, 1971–79). The show continued from 1979 to 1983 under the title Archie Bunker’s Place.
Topic for January 10: Gobekli Tepe and ......Old Broadcast Radios
Gobekli Tepe Turkey, 9000 B.C.
Considered to be the world's first temple, the Gobekli Tepe contains at least 20 circular installations that contain several pillars surrounded by walls, some 200 pillars throughout the whole temple. The site is also home to rock statues with carvings of animals—foxes, snakes, wild boars, cranes and wild ducks—that could date back as far as 10,000 BC. Perhaps most interestingly, some of the construction features pillars that are T-shaped and weigh over 60 tons, leaving experts unsure of how such primitive humans accomplished such a difficult and complex task.
Old Broadcast radios do you still own any?
Topic for January 5: River Dan and.... the Predicted Friday Storm
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former hermit in New Hampshire whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three decades on the property that he was ordered to leave has been charged with trespassing there once again, turning a shed that survived the fire into a makeshift home outfitted with a wood stove.
There had been an outpouring of support for David Lidstone, 81 — better known as “River Dave" —since he was arrested in July and accused of squatting on property owned by a Vermont man. His cabin burned down in August while he was jailed.
Friday brings in a winter storm and a First Alert day for snow. The forecast models are in agreement that we will see plowable snow for Boston and much of New England. We also see agreement on a quick moving storm, impacting the Friday morning commute the most.
We are uncertain on the track or where the rain/snow line will set up. This will affect our snow totals and who could see more snowfall versus rain. For now, several inches of snow are expected for Boston (4 to 6 inches, roughly), and 1 to 4 inches in northern and western New England.
Topic for January 3: Pets of All Kinds.... Who is Your Best Friend?
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