In addition to the first packet of QSL cards from the W2 bureau (see previous post), I received a card from Hugh, NT5O. Hugh writes, “Hello, and thank you very much for the ‘wrong number’ QSO in the 2009 Texas QSO Party.” That confused me for a second. I thought, “Did we send him the [...]

WA2HOM, the club station at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, of which I am station manager, received its first pack of DX QSLs from the W2 incoming bureau. There was one card from the Bahamas (C6AGU), one from Spain (EE5E), and two from Germany (DL7ON, DL3YM). EE5E claims to have the “shortest CW callsign in [...]

On the Glowbugs mailing list—a mailing list devoted to the discussion of vacuum tubes and tube circuits—Jason, W6IEE, lamented:
Having worked the better part of this year as an electronics technician for a not-so-great (and not-so-great-paying) little company who makes mostly LCD, but some CRT displays for flight simulator systems… I think I can finally say [...]

Brad, KG6IOE, spotted this recently on SpaceWeather.Com and posted it to the Glow Bugs mailing list:
*CALLING ALL HAMS:* No hobby is more sensitive to solar activity and space weather than ham radio. So here is a call to ham radio operators: Is spaceweather.com meeting your needs? We welcome your suggestions to improve our website. Submit [...]

This came from the ARRL PR Mailing List:
Manager, Emergency Preparedness and Response
Primary Objective of Position:
Develop and maintain ARRL’s Emergency Communications and Emergency Preparedness functions, both internally and externally.
Accountability:
The Manager, Emergency Preparedness and Response reports to the Manager of the Membership and Volunteer Programs Department.
Qualifications:

At least five years experience with amateur radio emergency communications [...]

Previously, I blogged about what every ham should know how to do. On a related note, the HamRadioHelpGroup now has a thread on what every ham should have in the shack. This is actually a revival of an older thread; the original poster, Jean, W4TYU, is now an SK.
Jean wrote:
There are basic tools that a [...]

This item is from RadioWorld:
Snowe Introduces Bill to Add Tech Experts to FCC Commissioners Staffs
12.18.209
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, has introduced a bill that would potentially add one electrical engineer or computer scientist to the staffs of each commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.
This would be an additional position; the bill does not seek to replace [...]

At first, I wasn’t going to blog about this, but one of my readers persuaded me that it was noteworthy. This is a condensation of a news item on the ARRL website. Read the complete article, then contact your representative and tell him or her that you support this bill……Dan
On Monday, December 14, S 1755 [...]

From the 12/9/09 issue of IEEE-USA’s Today’s Engineer
Electronic Marvels on Display at National Electronics Museum
By George F. McClure
A valuable, but little known, resource tracing the development of electronics for defense, space, and other applications is located near the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Washington International Airport and the BWI Rail station.
The National Electronics Museum (NEM), renamed in 2009 [...]

This is from the 12/15/09 edition of NIST Tech Beat, a publication of the National Institute of Technology. Shouldn’t hams be doing something like this?…..Dan
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have announced plans to create a demonstration broadband communications network for the nation’s emergency services [...]