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Skywarn Recognition Day Special Event

The annual Skywarn Recognition Day special event is this weekend, Friday 30 Nov 7PM (0Z Dec 1) to Saturday 1 Dec 7PM (24Z)

National Weather Service offices around the country will be on the air to celebrate the contributions that volunteer SKYWARN radio operators make to the National Weather Service.

The Cleveland office is planning to operate from 7-11Pm Friday and 9AM-7PM Saturday. We'll be on HF 10/15/20/40, and VHF 6m/2m. We could use a few good hams...to help out with the operation. You don't even have to be a ham to help. Ever want to be on the other end of a special event station? or just wonder what goes on at the NWS office? Contact Don KJ5KB @ 216-701-5593/440-333-8408 or Joe KC8DKF @ 330-388-9099

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The 2007 SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) is just about 24 hours away and begins tomorrow, December 1, 2007 at 0000 UTC. There are 104 NWS stations currently registered to be on the air. To view a complete list of participating stations please visit the official website at http://hamradio.noaa.gov. Sorry for any delays with the official posting, but there seems to have been some snags with the web server again this year. The checklist of all the participating stations should be available in
PDF format early Friday.

There will be a new section on the website tomorrow called “IRLP and Echolink News”. This section will give detailed information regarding the IRLP reflector, local IRLP nodes and a list of NWS offices registered to use Echolink. You can also visit http://www.voipwx.net/ for detailed information regarding information and time slots on the eastern reflector.

As always, have fun tomorrow and Saturday. Take the time to talk with SKYWARN volunteers on the air and thank them for their support and hard work over the past year.

Need Practice Before CQWW Contest?

Morse runner is the most realistic contest simulator out there. Here is a video of what it is like. You may think that this is taken off the air. It is not. All of what you will hear is generated by Morse Runner. You can find the program at http://www.dxatlas.com/MorseRunner/

Take Another Look at Learning the Code

For those who have found learning the code too difficult or if you just hate CW, this e-book at http://www.raes.ab.ca/TASRT/index.html might be worthwhile reading. It may dispel some of the misconceptions that you may have about learning the code.

Every Ham's Nightmare

YouTube Videos

Some of you may not be familiar with YouTube videos. We do
post them here once in a while. They are depicted by an
image with a right arrow in the center. To play the
video, simply click on that arrow. You do need a high
speed Internet connection or it will take for ever to
download. Happy blogging!

K3LR Super Station

Tour the K3LR supersation and antenna farm. You'll see that "super station" is a gross understatement.

How not to put up an antenna

Classical Morse

Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS	DOWN
3 Oldest name in amateur radio	1 Common FM antenna polarization
5 11 year cycle	2 Antenna tuner
7 Home to ARRL	4 Country with the most licensed hams
8 Ham Radio emergency orginazation	5 Carrier with sideband
10 Ham radio club	6 R1+R2+R3
11 Measure of capacitance	9 Feed line suceptable to weather
14 Low noise antenna	12 Hamfest
15 Satellite organization	13 A full gallon
16 Converts ac to dc	14 Send more slowly
18 Skip conditions	17 Voltage x amperes
20 10.000MHz	19 Measure of inductance
21 Can operate cw on 21.125 MHz	22 Electrical pressure
23 Needed to access some repeaters	24 Most common conductor
27 World Communication Conference	25 Should stay below 2:1
28 True power radiating from a system	26 Poor rf conductor
31 First ARRL president	29 Measure of electric current
32 Work 100 countries award	30 Rechargable battery
34 Vhf digital mode	33 Time required to charge a capacitor to full emf
35 Horizontal antenna	38 The core of most transformers
36 Measure of electrical resistence
37 Ac waveform
39 Unbalanced feedline