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Wayne, NY and ORCO, CA ...

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:00:39 -0700

Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting 'Working Amateur Satellites
With Your HT' session at two clubs in August. Admission is absolutely
free, and visitors are WELCOME to attend!

Monday, August 10, 2015 - 7:30PM Eastern
Wayne (New Jersey) Amateur Radio Club
Wayne Public Library
461 Valley Road,
Wayne, NJ 07470
Talk-in on 440.950MHz+ 97.4

Monday, August 17, 2015 - 7:00PM Pacific
SOARA - South Orange County (CA) Radio Association
Norman P. Murray Community Center
24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo CA 92692
Talk-in available on either of these SOARA repeaters:
147.645- 110.9 -or- 447.180- 131.8

Between the material presented, the free downloads available on the
support Work-Sat.com Web site, and the always-lively Q&A afterward,
attendees will be provided with all the information they will need to work
FM amateur satellites - and more.

Pre-presentation questions are welcomed - send email to:

k6lcs@ham-sat.info

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Thank you, AMSAT-UK!

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:05:56 -0700

THANK YOU to AMSAT-UK for publishing my "Work FM Satellites With Your HT" article in the current issue of their quarterly AMSAT-UK OSCAR NEWS magazine!

There are a couple membership "levels" with AMSAT-UK - one gets you a hard copy of their magazine mailed to you, and another allows the downloading of .pdf copies.

Head over to http://work-sat.com/Shack_Aids.html for a copy!

Another great show

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:35:06 -0700

THANK YOU to those I met today out at the Palm Springs HamFest!

We had a blast ... worked SO-50, AO-73, and APRS on the ISS - all before noon.

And when a guest speaker had a personal emergency crop up minutes before his scheduled time, the convention manager snagged me and declared, "Clint, you're on!"

So I conducted a completely off-the-cuff "Q&A" session - and we all had a great time.

Wonderful event ... well-attended ... not too hot for Palm Springs ... ARRL reps were there, and AMSAT's FOX-1A project promoted to all within earshot (grin).

For raffle prizes, I acquired a Heil PR-10 Set from Dr. Heil, a gift certificate from RT Systems, and I offered a new Arrow 146/437-10WBP for $50 off to a happy ham.

If you are in the Southern California region, please make it a point to attend this wonderful event next year - the second Saturday in March.

Clint Bradford K6LCS

PS - There was obviously a LOT more going on than just working satellites ... Plenty of vendors, informative sessions, a keynote by Gordon West, the history of military radios (it was amusing seeing a booth full of 50-year-old military radios immediately next to Elecraft's booth ... MY how comms have advanced (grin)).

Recent visitors ...

Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:06:51 -0800

I am always amazed when I run my “recent visitors” map ...

I already have an iWatch ...

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:29:27 -0700

I have been thinking about the new Apple watch that was announced this week. Personally, I like my own "Apple watch" - an iPod nano 6th gen in a Lunatik watch band.
It's a fairly impressive device that can view photos, track calories burned, count your steps, play music , listen to FM radio, and record voice memos. It is actually more feature-filled than several other devices calling themselves "smart watches."
So ... if you cannot wait until 1Q 2015 for the "official" Apple watch, here's some 6th Gen iPod nanos offered on Amazon ...
http://tinyurl.com/CLINTS-IWATCH
... and here's the watch band firm that began as a Kickstarter project and went HUGE ...
https://www.lunatik.com/products/ipod-nano/lunatik ...