welcome to my radio world
May 13
Dayton Hamvention 2011
Going to Dayton 2012? Friends of mine are biking from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Dayton. These crazy guys are John VE3JC, Ken VE3ELA and Russ KB8U. Ric VE3RLX is the driver of the accompanying vehicle. Good luck guys and, if I get any pictures from them on their trip, I will post them.
Dayton Hamvention link
FDIM (Four Days In May) link
Apr 27
April 27th is Morse Code Day, to commemorate the birthday of Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse code.
Apr 07
RCI will bear the brunt of the 10 per cent funding cut to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced in the last federal budget. RCI is going off the air. The international service will no longer be heard on shortwave or satellite broadcasts. A budget cut of more than 80% at RCI will mean only limited service will be offered on the Internet in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic. Russian and Portuguese services will be dropped. A total of 650 jobs will be lost at the CBC over the next three years and there will be changes in programming. To generate additional revenue, CBC plans to introduce advertising on its CBC Radio 2 and Espace Musique channels. CBC TV will also shut down 620 analog transmitters and cut its in-house documentary unit. Marc Montgomery discusses the changes with The Link’s producer, Levon Sevunts.
Link:
http://www.rcinet.ca/english/news/15_56_27_2012-04-04-rci-slashed/
What a shame! What a loss!
Mar 02
In existence for more than a quarter of a century, the Ontario DX Association promotes the hobby of short wave listening. On their website, there are monthly updates on various aspects of the hbby and they also have an active Yahoo group.
Jan 10
Hint: this picture was taken in 1956
A friend of mine forwarded this to me…
It’s a hard disk drive back in 1956… with 5 MB of storage.
In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.
Do you appreciate your 8 GB memory stick a little more now?
73, Al
