The Writer's Almanac - JUNE 6 - 12, 2005

The Calf Path by Sam Walter Foss. For some reason this struck a chord with me.

ARRL June QSO party 2005

The June QSO party for 2005 is over. The 222 HT I bought worked OK - added a few more points and mults to the score. It has a sticky PTT button when it gets hot, and boy was it hot this weekend! Temps in the 90s and humidity never below the 90% mark even at night. My score came in around 14,500 points or so.

Because of the humidity, 24 and 47 GHz were mostly non-players, which stunk. I need a bigger dish for 24 I guess.

I did manage to work WA2IID in a couple of grids and that helped a lot! :-) He has a very nice rover setup ARRL Soapbox and it was nice to see him and Tom KB2SSS again.

On the positive side of the ledger, my 2304 MHz and 3456 MHz transverters worked fine, as did the dish that Dennis N2LBT loaned me. I didn't get a chance to break out the 902 MHz transverter. Next step is to add some power to those guys. I have amps from Pyro Joe for 2.3 and 3.4; John K2JJB gave me 55 watts for 902. I just need to get them integrated.... yeah, just.

CR-282

CR-282

Some good instructions on installing a CR-282 high stability reference in an Icom 706 mkIIG.

IEEE - Apollo 13 anniversary

Web Only News

IBM System/3 model 15D 

Royal Navy Battleships

Royal Navy Battleships

Battle of Jutland Order of Battle - World War 1 Naval Combat

Battle of Jutland Order of Battle - World War 1 Naval Combat

All the ships who were present at the battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.

CPYFRMIMPF at V5R3

IBM made some changes in their V5R3 implementation of CPYFRMIMPF. It turns out that they are really starting to obey the CCSID set for the file, so if your system value is set to 65535 (binary/no translation) then you'll really get no translation. Read the below APAR for an explanation, and the PTF that's available to restore the V5R2 behaviour.

IBM eServer iSeries Authorized Problem Analysis Reports (APAR): II13784

IBM eServer iSeries Recommended Fixes - Database: SI16664

PTF SI16664 - Operating System/400

PTF/FIX #: SI16752 - Operating System/400

Linrad home page

Linrad is a software designed radio that runs under Linux. It uses the sound card as a DSP.

USS San Francisco

USS San Francisco SSN 711
USS San Francisco SSN 711
USS San Francisco SSN 711

USS Sanfrancisco crashed into an uncharted undersea mountain south of Guam. These are some photos of the damage. One sailor was killed, 23 seriously injured. Obviously, the crew sailed the boat pack to port.