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Today’s musical explorations rediscovered the Ham Band, with their charming album “Seek You”,, as Mike wanted it on his iPod. You can buy and download the album directly. Soulful ballads of “radio widows”, odes to climbing the antenna towers for maintenance, following the greyline, and more. Folk-country style mostly, with brief forays into rock. Looking [...]

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For the curious, and those considering joining the happy-go-lucky ranks of amateur radio volunteers, here are 15 minutes of live SVECS repeater audio from the October 30th earthquake. One of the SVECS (Silicon Valley Emergency Communication Services) members was doing audio capture of something unrelated when the quake hit, and switched his input to get [...]

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Dawn: Flea Market!

We'll be setting up at the Foothill^H Onizuka^H DeAnza ham radio flea market, as part of an ongoing decrufification effort, including such festive riches as a double-NIC 1999 eMachine 500 running a clean OpenBSD install, a 27″ color TV owned by not one but TWO famous sysadmins, and MOAR! Come on down. Say hi. Buy [...]

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The virtual camera pans across a balcony of potted plants in assorted stages of winter dormancy. Passing through the glass doors into the kitchen, it makes a sharp turn around the vase holding magenta carnations and hovers briefly over a tabletop strewn with periodicals ranging from Science News to Nuts & Volts, QST to Silicon [...]

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