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2003 Amateur Radio Field Day
plcurechax writes "The 2003 ARRL Field Day is this weekend, June 28-29. Beginning 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 2100 UTC Sunday.
Originally started in 1933 as a test of portable amateur radio operating, it has become an annual event that is a mix of contest, emergency prepareness, and a public relations activity.
Any geeks interested in learning more about amateur (ham) radio, should find out if there is a local club (in Canada)that will be particulating. Most clubs in USA and Canada will have a station on the air.
Visitors welcome."
Froto Poto
MEGAfart
Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)
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It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.
Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."
As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
Is this why you were touching your penis in
I don't get it, you mean participating?
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
What's the frequency Kenneth?
Michael must be a ham, he posts all the ham articles. So are you going to out yourself Michael or do I have too?
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"Particulating?" Another perfectly cromulent word, is it?
What exactly are the job requirements to be an editor? Willingness to modbomb anyone you disagree with?
Amateur == anyone-thats-not-clearchannel
Until the word particulating. Is that some sort of GWB-ism?
Anyone who mods this post down is probably a fat dorky radio geek that has never kissed a girl.
Anybody interested in amateur radio of field day in the Grand Haven/Spring Lake/Muskegon (Michigan) area can come visit the North Ottawa ARC field day site. It is located at Robbins township park (take 120th 1 mile north of M-45)
Come test your mettle in the world of Alter Aeon!
Over the past few years the FCC has changed some of the rules and have simplified the code requirements. Check it out at http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/amateur/.
Accentuate the positive, don't waste your mod points on the negative.
I'll be operating from K2VOA in Piscataway, NJ (usually on 20 meter phone) all weekend. If you happen to make a contact with us, ask if KC2AEI is the operator.
Rob Carlson
It's only a hobby, really there's no need to go falling to pieces!
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
First radio post!
Come test your mettle in the world of Alter Aeon!
Soon to be shut down by the RIAA, DMCA, Patriot Act, and anything else the FCC controllers can think of. Can't have any non-comglomerate controlled broadcast, nosirrebob.
That means it's a field day! In my pants!
Thank you and goodnight. I'll be here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress.
I wonder how long before we see someone modify the *BSD is dying troll for Ham radio... I can see it know "Not OT: *HAM radio is dying..."
Accentuate the positive, don't waste your mod points on the negative.
learn to read you blithering dolt, somebody already answerd that!
As translated
"FIRSTRADIOPOST"
Quite clever PigHogger.
-Tim
Ham Radio is actually one of the origional
forms of electronics hacking. It is a great
way for geeks to get involved in the community
and use some of their own expertice in a great
service. All you have to do to get a license
is pass a 35 question test, and you will get a
callsign from the FCC. If you are not already
involved, take a look!
73, DE KG4QXK
Will he go for a 9th?!?
Seriously, though. I can't imagine a more horrifying website than michaeldot. What a pompous ass. Any one else agree that slashdot would be better cutting this bit of dead weight like they did to Jon Katz?
Ham radio can be a good time. I will be using my ICOM 28H this weekend in Youngstown, OH. If you are in the area my call sign is KC8UFF. I can always find a nearby repeater when my cell phone can't reach a tower!
Many people have also used their ham radio's to contact the police when a tornado or other disaster wipes out other means of communication.
http://tomgould.com/
Press release
Members of the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club will put their emergency communication skills to the test when they participate in "Field Day" June 28 and 29. The annual preparedness exercise brings together Amateur Radio operators from throughout North and South America who are committed to assisting their communities in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Field Day is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national association for Amateur Radio.
"Amateur Radio is a lot of fun, but the serious side can't be stressed enough," says Maggie Leber, editor of the PMRC newsletter "The Blurb" and webmistress of the club website at www.phil-mont.org.
"We can play a vital communications role during emergencies, and events such as Field Day ensure that we're ready to handle any type of disaster. We will provide our own electrical power and operate all kinds of radio communications, everything from Morse code to amateur television and amateur satellite radio. We'll be in direct digital communications with the Montgomerty County Emergency Operations center, and will be able to transmit e-mail and other text message through facilities located there."
Field Day is designed to test operators' abilities to set up and operate stations in the field under emergency conditions, such as the loss of commercial electricity. During the weekend, radio operators try to contact as many other Field Day stations as possible, simulating the fast on-air skills needed to assist town officials and served agencies during an emergency. Approximately 35,000 Amateur Radio operators across the country participated in last year's event. The first Field Day was held in 1933.
Ham radio operators typically help with communication during weather-related emergencies such as the devastating tornadoes in the Midwest earlier this spring. But, the need for their services doesn't stop there. A federal grant awarded for emergency communications training in 2002 emphasizes support for ham radio's role in homeland defense.
PMRC will set up its Field Day stations in Lot #4 at Fort Washington State Park, and will be operating from 2pm Staurday until 2pm Sunday. "We hope that the public will come out and see firsthand what this event--and Amateur Radio--is all about," says Ms. Leber, whose amateur callsign is K3XS.
Today there are nearly 700,000 Amateur Radio operators in the United States and more than 2.5 million worldwide. Information on how to become involved in Amateur Radio is available from ARRL -- the national association for Amateur Radio, 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111 or by calling 1-800-32-NEW HAM. Visit ARRL on the Web at www.arrl.org.
-=Maggie Leber=-
Kate Fent is a No Code Tech!
If you don't believe me, here is the picture of kate CQ'ing Rob.
The Clay County club is doing field day near Liberty. Great location, lots of fun.
Field day is a hoot. If you've got any interest at all in radio, find a local club. You may find a few other linux geeks there also. It's a fun technical hobby. Just ask, maybe GW4PTS sometime.
My phone can make calls waaaay more than 20 meters. Why don't you Amateurs goto a Sprint and get a prophesional PDA-Phone doolygag.
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Or maybe, you have a bad antenna. If your not getting far, try relocating the offending antenna. You people should know all about Part 15 of the FCC rules, right? You realy do have an offending antenna if it only transmitts 20 meters. And what is with metric system being used in the FCC? I mean c'mon, use English feet!
You actually called your radio club PMRC? That's hilarious.
If your a ham you'll understand this:
fucking lid, hams don't send BT between words.
Between sentences yes, but not between words.
just a quick how do ya do from your pal handybundler! enjoy, have fun, and keep slashdot alive!
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CQiNet - Open Source implementation of Voice over IP (VoIP) software specifically for Ham Radio. Currently there are three popular VoIP packages used by Ham Radio operators, IRLP, ILink and EchoLink. Since none of these packages are open source it is difficult to contribute to the their development and learn from them by studying their source code. Let's face it for many of us Ham Radio is more about playing with technology than it is about yacking on the radio or Internet. (Hmmm... maybe some folks on Slashdot could learn something....)
Hamsoft - A great HAM/Linux database. (not to be confused with GNU/Linux)
TAPR! - These geeks will whoop yer ass in a second! A lot of them are commited to open source. They actually help fund HARDWARE projects (we could learn something). Check out their LINUX sig.
Flex-Radio - An open source software defined radio!
GnuRadio - Signal Processing in oepn source software
Heil Sig! -Rob
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For those who would like to expand their technical horizons, here is a high-performance shortwave receiver that is defined almost entirely in software!
http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linroot
No kidding, it runs under Linux, and it will outperform some of the most expensive shortwave receivers ever built, and it's FREE!
Anti-troll spell cast at the "who cares" crowd.
All I can say is that I was doing TCP/IP over radio way before twisted pair took over from thick and thin ethernet.
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Many wireless advances were spawned out of work done by engineers who also happened to be Hams, or by Hams who happened to be engineers. Packet Radio is but one.
an old coot of 40 from VE7 land...
...just have a field day with this stuff.
goatse goatse goatse, goatse goatse! GAPING anus GAPING anus!! lololololol goatse!
... a chance to learn how to push more buttons and operate more neat-looking equipment full of blinkenlights. A chance to learn how a lot of electronic circuits work. A chance to digitally communicate over thousands of miles with just 4 watts (which you're aware you could do with wires, but that would require the use of a lot more than 4 watts on a complex, expensive carrier network to accomplish the same result). Oh, and you also meet a lot of nice people (and the occaisional troll), and assist others, when you're not talking to people in the space station, sending television signals, or whatever it is you end up doing with ham radio.
I'm a 26-year-old Extra, which I'll admit is somewhat young for the hobby, but the older folks like me (despite the nose ring) because I posess two very important traits: When I do not know, I say so, and shut up and observe. When I do know, I help. If this sounds like you, you'll make a brilliant amateur radio operator, and you should pursue this license, because after only 35 multiple-choice questions, you are rewarded with a federal license to screw with more stuff.
For the interested, those 35 questions are divided into 10 objectives, only a few questions on each. And those questions come completely from this question pool (July, 2003 edition), which if you look at for a second, probably doesn't strike you as particularly difficult. The resulting Technician-class license lets you use up to 1500 watts on all amateur bands (VHF, UHF, and beyond) over 50MHz, or more simply, everything but shortwave (HF). That includes talking to astronauts, long-distance 802.11b, packet radio, and a bunch of other things I don't know about, aside from the usual voice communications.
So, come see us tomorrow, ask a lot of questions, and bring your own station next year instead of just watching.
Hopefully in a few months there will be no morse code test at all for ham radio in America. Sadly Morse Code has hampered ham radio growth, almost 33% of todays USA ham radio operators are no code technicians that are restricted to VHF 50 MHz or higher frequencies. With the aboltion of morse code for HF radio tests there could be a increase of ham radio operators of up to 2 million.
Ham radio isn't just about morse code and voice there are many interesting modes and sadly the FCC and ARRL have discouraged the ham radio hobby by requiring silly morse code tests.
Not anymore, anyway. According to most interpretations, the letters don't stand for anything so don't write it in all caps! The actual origin of the term 'ham' has been lost to history.
/. eds don't like me, since I posted the same topic three days ago and was rejected.
And true, ham radio is not dying. (It could be, though, without younger people getting interested and bringing in the new technology.) This weekend should be a fine example.
-- Me, still wondering why the
the University of Minnesota Ham club will be runing our field day on a 3000W generator we're borrowing from an ISP... we've got a 1500W amplifier for our HF rig, now all we need to do is find a nice big tent to tx from because weather reports say it's supposed to thunderstorm in the morning.. bleh!
if you're in minnesota, check out our web page, http://w0yc.umn.edu
-KC0NBY
Apparently you ain't been to Dayton. I never encountered any bad attitudes there... not even at 4AM on a beer crawl. FUBAR!
I am so looking forward to this years feild day, I will be going to the feild day of my old collage ham club, W3YI. we are going up to the mountins of western PA for it, that should give us some good propigation. I probably see if I can get some 2m FM contacts. I know what some of the others hams are saying 2M? well I like 2m and 70cm alot, and I feel that I can try it, there is no rules against it, I know I will not get my club many points, but we are not doing it just for the points, we are just doing it for the fun of it. I be leaving Oakland (just out side of Pittsburgh) after I get off work and head up (that will be around 8am) Well 73 to all the hams here.
The reason I am doing it with my old friends from pitt, is because last year I did it with my current club (w3wkh) and all they cared about was the contacts and points, I want to have fun, is that not part of what feild day is about, a day where we can have some fun while practising emergancy comunications.
Are you mad?
The ARRL or FCC do not control what you can do on the airwaves. This is as pointless as a breathalizer on a steering wheel; a drunk man can fool the device by shoving the breathalizer up his ass.
Why is it difficult for your skull to retain the knowledge that God lets you do whatever you want on God's radio waves? Sure, orderly communication is a good thing, but the FCC is in complete violation of Freedom of Speach and Freedom of Expression. And don't tell us we don't have a right shout at you as loud as possible from far away! The law is a personal relationship between you and the law; not to be construed to be effective on others outside of your body. This rule defines the separation of Churches and States.
Emergency coordinators may take an interest in one thing we've done. We use a single generator to power our entire site. Using experience from the construction industry, some of our members knew that most equipment rental shops have large generators and transformers that can be used to step down to 120AC. So we use a transformer near each cluster of station tents to build our own little power grid for the site.
And something just for the Silicon Valley touch, I guess I should mention how I'm on the web from my station tent. We have a data network across the site with a fiber backbone. Yes, we've implemented "fiber to the tent" for a weekend event, for the third year in a row. Though it's easy to just say a member picked up the fiber hubs at a dot-com surplus, there's more to it. When we first started experimenting with networking the site, we discovered that Cat5 ethernet cables longer than 6 feet interferes with and accepts interference from 10m amateur radios. So fiber was the only way to do a site-wide network, Come and take a look!
Does the modem interface to HPIB?
True scientists use HPIB, not the RS232/RS422/USB/Firewire neanderthal crud.
I was a active ham from 1978 till this past year when I realized I had pissed half my life away on a damn radio and screwing around with a bunch of social retards. Hamming is only for poeple who cant develop face to face relationships with real poeple, so they do it at arms length thru a mike. Word. I quit the radio, went on a diet, lost 75 pounds, started bike riding, got a girlfriend, and FUCK HAM RADIO, BABY!!!!
I wasted half my life fucking with radios and shit when I could have been fucking chicks. What a waste. Dont have ANYTHING to do with these ham freaks, they all are social misfits and screwballs that cant relate to another person unless they are hiding behind a radio.
FUCK HAM RADIO. FUCK FIELD DAY. WASTED TIME.
Anybody interested in amateur radio field day is welcome to join the Santa Clarita ARC in Valencia near Magic Mountain. It is located at the Castaic Lake Water District on Bouquet Cyn. For directions go to www.w6jw.org
CUL OM de KC6WGR
Ah, ham radio. It hasn't been the same since the old guys retired their Vibroplexes.
SM5 BSZ would be: Leif Asbrink, a Swedish Amateur Radio Operator
Just look at the number of comments on this thread. Nobody cares.
The Internet killed amateur radio, it's that simple. You can more easily (no skill needed) talk to more people than were ever on the radio.
Yes, I'm a ham (extra for more than 10 years) and I think the no-code technician license should give you full privileges (same as extra). In other words, I think there should only be one ham license class. That might save the hobby.
And shut up all you old whiners about the degradation from n00bs, you'll be dead soon anyway. The quality of the operators won't matter one lick when there's no one on the air anyway.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
Just look at the number of comments on this thread. Nobody cares.
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The Internet killed amateur radio, it's that simple. You can more easily (no skill needed) talk to more people than were ever on the radio
Killed amateur radio? Not hardly. New licensees are are increasing at a greater rate than SK's and non-renewals combined. At least that's what the FCC's numbers say, as well as Industry Canada and from what I saw in an RSGB item last year, the same in the U.K.
Take a listen across those few HF bands that have propagation this weekend and see just how "dead" ham radio has become. Take a listen during any of the big contests -- and just *try* to hold a QSO on the top fringe of 20 Meters during CQWW.
Tune PSK-31 on 14.070 some evening and try to find a little sliver of the band to get in on. Listen to most big-city 2M/450 repeaters during rush hours.
Go have a listen to 75 at night. Sure, it's the GallBladder Network most of the time, but still...it's a pretty full spectrum most evenings.
Next time (if only) a P5, KP1, KP5 or VU7 shows up on HF take a spin across the band and see how "dead" the hobby is. I *still* can't bust the Iraq or Afghanistan pileups when those entities show up.
Go to Dayton next year and tell me how dead the hobby is. Granted, attendance is down a bit, but still, 25,000 hams at one show ain't a bad gathering.
The hobby is what you make it. I've just finished DXCC on three bands in the last 2 years with 100W and a dipole. I'm now getting back into VHF, since the solar cycle is on the wain, and I'll try 40 and 80M DXing this coming winter. I just got hooked on PSK and RTTY, and can't wait to play with SSTV a bit more. Oh, but wait...I don't like CW so I can't be a real ham. Sorry, never mind.
If you're in NYC and want to have some fun this weekend, check out the Hall of Scinece club's fun field-day station in the hall's back parking lot. If you hear us on the air, please listen for WB2JSM and say hi -- and ask if W2IRT's at the mic! 5-9 NLI!
Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
If you are in central Iowa, we are having Field Day at the Red Cross in downtown Ames, IA as a 3F station. This is a joint operation between the ISU radio club (CARC) and the Story county radio club (SCARC).
Good luck!
73's
Although I agree with what you're saying, I think ham radio has advantages over the internet, thus it could have a new life if ham operators would start advertising as such.
For just gabbing, although others can listen to your conversation, at least noone is saving or tracking what you're clicking or typing.
More importantly, because radio can send data, it can be used where the internet won't go (far at least). Two things that come to mind are video links for remote controlled planes or do it yourself space exploration and many other projects I haven't thought of at this moment.
The Plano Texas Amateur Radio club is having field day this weekend at Hoblitzelle park in Plano.
There will be lots of interesting equipment and modes, including packet radio.
There will also be barbeque. Come check it out. Details available at the PARK website.
If anyone on Slashdot is in the Lafayette/Rayne, Louisiana area, AARA (Lafayette amature radio club) will be celebrating field day in Rayne, at the Civic center. Directions can be found on www.w5ddl.org
Myself, I'm going to work as many PSK31 contacts as possible, our mobile opperations van and 100 foot trailer tower will do just fine...although, i could get extra points for opperating QRP, 20 meters will be probably be pretty crowded...
Happy Field day to all!
Mike
KD5UTQ
Three dits, four dits, two dits, dah! Radio! Radio! Rah! Rah! Rah!
The Bay Area's NBC11 (KNTV) News is here planning to do a live shot from our Field Day site during the 5PM newscast.
I heard that NBC took some of the video for national distribution. But they have no way to know which local affiliates will choose to air it.
I recently bought a house and since there weren't many houses available without restrictive covenents I did a lot of research about this. There is movement in congress to apply PRB-1 to restrictive covenents (which, again, would not allow everything, but rather make homeowners associations reasonably accomodate and not outright ban), but nothing has passed yet.
If you had actually read the URL you posted you would have realized this.
Pictures from my day at feild day http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3sxhy/FD2003/f ield_day_2003_for_w3yi.htm
this is only the second year that we have done a field day. It was alot of fun, I wish I was still there but I had to work tonight so, I had to leave early.
And the other (harder and more geeky) contests/events are ignored.
0 -ghz.htm l [10 GHz and up contest] - try doing THAT with your Pringles Can antenna (hint: Leave the pringles can at home in the garbage and get a real dish.)
f .h tml [June VHF QSO Party] - put a whole crapload of directional antennas up on bands that are supposed to be "local" communications bands and then talk hundreds of miles away on them.
Here's a good one...
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2003/1
Or maybe a little more realistic...
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2003/june-vh
The highly technical contests are in need of more geeks in most areas of the country. Field Day is fun, but not nearly as challenging (unless you keep spilling your beer) as the VHF and up contests that never make Slashdot.
Satellites, super-low-power repetitive digital modes (Amateurs are confirming moon-bounce "satellite" contacts with minimal gear on UHF and EXCELLENT DSP processing in PC's now), and the highly technical stuff never gets the accolades or the press -- but it's all WAY better than Field Day.
73 DE WY0X
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