ARRL trumpeted the addition of the online archive of the complimentary bird cage liner known as QST. Every now and then there is something worthwhile, although even the ads are out of date before it reaches you.
An eham.net review heralded the change.
Now, ARRL taketh away after two years:
Diamond Club members at the Brass level and above (contributing $250 a year or more) enjoy access to the complete QST on-line archive, including the most recent four years of the archive, not available to other ARRL members.
That's besides the $39 dollars or less that kept a more frugal, Connecticut Yankee run ARRL going from December, 1915 until about 1995 !
Were these Midwestern staff the Connecticut Old Timers hired during the 1970s from Grosse Pointe or what ?
See, what happened is they were given hundreds of thousands in federal DHS grants through the Corporation for National Service (CNCS) and private ones through United Technologies Corporation (UTC) to formalize the communications backup that hams have done for 75 years.
The staff lived free off those grants from an unlikely indirect patron for that Democrat top-heavy org, George W. Bush.
So now they're choking and need to secure their pensions between the grants evaporating so that Obama can take a $1.74 million vacation in Hawaii where he has We Are Change Members beat up by local police who then pretend to apologize after after damage was done.
Friday, December 31, 2010
ARRL rolled back the clock on your member benefits but not staff size
ARRL trumpeted the addition of the online archive of the complimentary bird cage liner known as QST. Every now and then there is something worthwhile, although even the ads are out of date before it reaches you.
An eham.net review heralded the change.
Now, ARRL taketh away after two years:
Diamond Club members at the Brass level and above (contributing $250 a year or more) enjoy access to the complete QST on-line archive, including the most recent four years of the archive, not available to other ARRL members.
That's besides the $39 dollars or less that kept a more frugal, Connecticut Yankee run ARRL going from December, 1915 until about 1995 !
Were these Midwestern staff the Connecticut Old Timers hired during the 1970s from Grosse Pointe or what ?
See, what happened is they were given hundreds of thousands in federal DHS grants through the Corporation for National Service (CNCS) and private ones through United Technologies Corporation (UTC) to formalize the communications backup that hams have done for 75 years.
The staff lived free off those grants from an unlikely indirect patron for that Democrat top-heavy org, George W. Bush.
So now they're choking and need to secure their pensions between the grants evaporating so that Obama can take a $1.74 million vacation in Hawaii where he has We Are Change Members beat up by local police who then pretend to apologize after after damage was done.
An eham.net review heralded the change.
Now, ARRL taketh away after two years:
Diamond Club members at the Brass level and above (contributing $250 a year or more) enjoy access to the complete QST on-line archive, including the most recent four years of the archive, not available to other ARRL members.
That's besides the $39 dollars or less that kept a more frugal, Connecticut Yankee run ARRL going from December, 1915 until about 1995 !
Were these Midwestern staff the Connecticut Old Timers hired during the 1970s from Grosse Pointe or what ?
See, what happened is they were given hundreds of thousands in federal DHS grants through the Corporation for National Service (CNCS) and private ones through United Technologies Corporation (UTC) to formalize the communications backup that hams have done for 75 years.
The staff lived free off those grants from an unlikely indirect patron for that Democrat top-heavy org, George W. Bush.
So now they're choking and need to secure their pensions between the grants evaporating so that Obama can take a $1.74 million vacation in Hawaii where he has We Are Change Members beat up by local police who then pretend to apologize after after damage was done.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
WWVB and Radio Controlled Clocks: Social engineering ?
I've been watching the reviews and comments on atomic clocks for a number of years and from the user end there is a distinct pattern.
All of a sudden, people across the country will report the stoppage of the self-setting of their clocks, or it will be come very spotty.
Then, the buying starts. You'll see the reviews pop up on the different sites. Even if they don't reference this, as someone with reliable clocks from a few brands, it's obvious.
When this occurs, WWVB becomes rock solid for months until this cycle starts anew. Do the people whose clocks "broke" ever go back and compare them to be sure they did break, reset them or pop the batteries out ?
Is this one of two MIC stunts ?
1. A social engineering experiment to see if this part of the MIC can control people's buying habits. Does the consumer wait patiently or jump the shark.
2. A simple MIC stunt to get you to keep the clock companies in business by buying new clocks thinking yours are broken, or that newer ones will be better. This of course is the measurement of how useful WWV and its employees are, especially after Congress threatened cuts to WWVB a few years ago given NTP and GPS.
For the number of engineers that have told me that the WWVB signal is not impacted by lightning or solar activity, it is clear that there is some issue here because these lapses, seen by virtually everyone at once, are almost never (99 percent) the result of posted outages.
I'm going to listen to an independent engineer before someone beholden to tax money. I like to use WWVB and WWV, but if games are being played, it's just more of the same "gimme grants" bologna.
All of a sudden, people across the country will report the stoppage of the self-setting of their clocks, or it will be come very spotty.
Then, the buying starts. You'll see the reviews pop up on the different sites. Even if they don't reference this, as someone with reliable clocks from a few brands, it's obvious.
When this occurs, WWVB becomes rock solid for months until this cycle starts anew. Do the people whose clocks "broke" ever go back and compare them to be sure they did break, reset them or pop the batteries out ?
Is this one of two MIC stunts ?
1. A social engineering experiment to see if this part of the MIC can control people's buying habits. Does the consumer wait patiently or jump the shark.
2. A simple MIC stunt to get you to keep the clock companies in business by buying new clocks thinking yours are broken, or that newer ones will be better. This of course is the measurement of how useful WWV and its employees are, especially after Congress threatened cuts to WWVB a few years ago given NTP and GPS.
For the number of engineers that have told me that the WWVB signal is not impacted by lightning or solar activity, it is clear that there is some issue here because these lapses, seen by virtually everyone at once, are almost never (99 percent) the result of posted outages.
I'm going to listen to an independent engineer before someone beholden to tax money. I like to use WWVB and WWV, but if games are being played, it's just more of the same "gimme grants" bologna.
WWVB and Radio Controlled Clocks: Social engineering ?
I've been watching the reviews and comments on atomic clocks for a number of years and from the user end there is a distinct pattern.
All of a sudden, people across the country will report the stoppage of the self-setting of their clocks, or it will be come very spotty.
Then, the buying starts. You'll see the reviews pop up on the different sites. Even if they don't reference this, as someone with reliable clocks from a few brands, it's obvious.
When this occurs, WWVB becomes rock solid for months until this cycle starts anew. Do the people whose clocks "broke" ever go back and compare them to be sure they did break, reset them or pop the batteries out ?
Is this one of two MIC stunts ?
1. A social engineering experiment to see if this part of the MIC can control people's buying habits. Does the consumer wait patiently or jump the shark.
2. A simple MIC stunt to get you to keep the clock companies in business by buying new clocks thinking yours are broken, or that newer ones will be better. This of course is the measurement of how useful WWV and its employees are, especially after Congress threatened cuts to WWVB a few years ago given NTP and GPS.
For the number of engineers that have told me that the WWVB signal is not impacted by lightning or solar activity, it is clear that there is some issue here because these lapses, seen by virtually everyone at once, are almost never (99 percent) the result of posted outages.
I'm going to listen to an independent engineer before someone beholden to tax money. I like to use WWVB and WWV, but if games are being played, it's just more of the same "gimme grants" bologna.
All of a sudden, people across the country will report the stoppage of the self-setting of their clocks, or it will be come very spotty.
Then, the buying starts. You'll see the reviews pop up on the different sites. Even if they don't reference this, as someone with reliable clocks from a few brands, it's obvious.
When this occurs, WWVB becomes rock solid for months until this cycle starts anew. Do the people whose clocks "broke" ever go back and compare them to be sure they did break, reset them or pop the batteries out ?
Is this one of two MIC stunts ?
1. A social engineering experiment to see if this part of the MIC can control people's buying habits. Does the consumer wait patiently or jump the shark.
2. A simple MIC stunt to get you to keep the clock companies in business by buying new clocks thinking yours are broken, or that newer ones will be better. This of course is the measurement of how useful WWV and its employees are, especially after Congress threatened cuts to WWVB a few years ago given NTP and GPS.
For the number of engineers that have told me that the WWVB signal is not impacted by lightning or solar activity, it is clear that there is some issue here because these lapses, seen by virtually everyone at once, are almost never (99 percent) the result of posted outages.
I'm going to listen to an independent engineer before someone beholden to tax money. I like to use WWVB and WWV, but if games are being played, it's just more of the same "gimme grants" bologna.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
How many new radios did you buy in the last 30 years, Mr Millionaire Democrat ?
K1ZZ just had to get a snipe in at incoming Republican chair of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, Greg Walden, W7EQI :
ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, was pleased to hear the news: “We’re delighted that the subcommittee is in the hands of such a well-qualified chairman. Greg was an early cosponsor of HR2160, and while he may not always be able to agree with every ARRL position, we know his door will always be open to us.”
That's because every ARRL position is now dictated by the Democrats' "gimme gimme," "dumb-down" and "the Constitution is a rag" agendas.
Hey Dave ! Why don't you stop hiring Midwestern DNC shills for your jobs program ?
I'm so sick of you hiring Midwesterners like yourself that I wish the state of Michigan would secede if you're what's there. That's where you're taking your fat Connecticut adjusted ARRL salary like the rest of the salaried staff after you retire, isn't it ?
Those poor exiled ARRL staffers and officers. They couldn't get jobs where they were from because instead of getting a 20 WPM Extra and a Phi Beta Kappa key, they were too busy working DX and contesting.
It's the Revenge of the Radio Geeks. They turned ARRL into a works program for nerds who were too busy contesting in high school.
Will you be a real traitor to America and move to Canada and prepare for the "end times" like so many post 9/11 millionaire hams buying huge tracts in the woods or another country and disguising them as contest stations ?
It's just another discriminatory WASP Democrat.
And where's my November QST ? By my count they sent three, or lied three times. I have received zero. If you'd stop hiring every apartment dwelling Midwestern contester who needs a job, they'd stay at ARRL longer and QST could be replaced if it's late for whatever reason including renewal as it used to be until last year, in a week or two.
The biggest mistake the Connecticut Yankees made was being open minded in the 1970s and hiring you people to drive the hobby into the ground for your corporate and government handlers. Many of you went on to work for them directly... after 9/11 they should have told their catatonic bosses in the intelligence community what ham radio was instead of letting them turn it into busy work they knew was a lie.
Capice, Dave ? Maybe you don't even know. Maybe you do.
So what was that federal motor pool registered van doing there day after day and week after week ? The one the staff pretended to not know was parked there ?
"Gee, what van ?"
Which way did the Zamboni go ? I'm the driver.
Yessir, the old Yankees hired anyone without regard to race, ethnicity or religion and you hire WASP contester Democrats from the Midwest for every post you create.
Rep. Walden should have tweeted "now the ARRL can act in a non-partisan way instead of being the Democrat standard bearer for a hobby that's supposed to be non-partisan."
I once was told by a Connecticut ham that Dave did more than he or I would ever know. Yes, all that shoveling to dig a hole for ham radio was exhausting, first by hanging on to an antiquated 20 WPM code test until anyone my age in 1987 to 1991 was safely repulsed by the hobby.
Then he finished it off by encouraging DSP based garbage products he didn't buy for ten years into the process until they were marginally improved. Next after trashing the license structure and blaming the nasty FCC, he encouraged $5,000 to $10,000 dollar radios to be the new barrier to entry, along with the ARRL do-nothing about tower fights mantra. All the while he performed the typical distraction tactics of NGOs and government, such as hand wringing over antennas at condominiums even as the ARRL let private home owners hang.
I thought all you Democrats like Catholic, disabled / maimed Italians' votes for your Constitution shredding Globalist candidates... and that's for playing games with QST.
ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, was pleased to hear the news: “We’re delighted that the subcommittee is in the hands of such a well-qualified chairman. Greg was an early cosponsor of HR2160, and while he may not always be able to agree with every ARRL position, we know his door will always be open to us.”
That's because every ARRL position is now dictated by the Democrats' "gimme gimme," "dumb-down" and "the Constitution is a rag" agendas.
Hey Dave ! Why don't you stop hiring Midwestern DNC shills for your jobs program ?
I'm so sick of you hiring Midwesterners like yourself that I wish the state of Michigan would secede if you're what's there. That's where you're taking your fat Connecticut adjusted ARRL salary like the rest of the salaried staff after you retire, isn't it ?
Those poor exiled ARRL staffers and officers. They couldn't get jobs where they were from because instead of getting a 20 WPM Extra and a Phi Beta Kappa key, they were too busy working DX and contesting.
It's the Revenge of the Radio Geeks. They turned ARRL into a works program for nerds who were too busy contesting in high school.
Will you be a real traitor to America and move to Canada and prepare for the "end times" like so many post 9/11 millionaire hams buying huge tracts in the woods or another country and disguising them as contest stations ?
It's just another discriminatory WASP Democrat.
And where's my November QST ? By my count they sent three, or lied three times. I have received zero. If you'd stop hiring every apartment dwelling Midwestern contester who needs a job, they'd stay at ARRL longer and QST could be replaced if it's late for whatever reason including renewal as it used to be until last year, in a week or two.
The biggest mistake the Connecticut Yankees made was being open minded in the 1970s and hiring you people to drive the hobby into the ground for your corporate and government handlers. Many of you went on to work for them directly... after 9/11 they should have told their catatonic bosses in the intelligence community what ham radio was instead of letting them turn it into busy work they knew was a lie.
Capice, Dave ? Maybe you don't even know. Maybe you do.
So what was that federal motor pool registered van doing there day after day and week after week ? The one the staff pretended to not know was parked there ?
"Gee, what van ?"
Which way did the Zamboni go ? I'm the driver.
Yessir, the old Yankees hired anyone without regard to race, ethnicity or religion and you hire WASP contester Democrats from the Midwest for every post you create.
Rep. Walden should have tweeted "now the ARRL can act in a non-partisan way instead of being the Democrat standard bearer for a hobby that's supposed to be non-partisan."
I once was told by a Connecticut ham that Dave did more than he or I would ever know. Yes, all that shoveling to dig a hole for ham radio was exhausting, first by hanging on to an antiquated 20 WPM code test until anyone my age in 1987 to 1991 was safely repulsed by the hobby.
Then he finished it off by encouraging DSP based garbage products he didn't buy for ten years into the process until they were marginally improved. Next after trashing the license structure and blaming the nasty FCC, he encouraged $5,000 to $10,000 dollar radios to be the new barrier to entry, along with the ARRL do-nothing about tower fights mantra. All the while he performed the typical distraction tactics of NGOs and government, such as hand wringing over antennas at condominiums even as the ARRL let private home owners hang.
I thought all you Democrats like Catholic, disabled / maimed Italians' votes for your Constitution shredding Globalist candidates... and that's for playing games with QST.
How many new radios did you buy in the last 30 years, Mr Millionaire Democrat ?
K1ZZ just had to get a snipe in at incoming Republican chair of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, Greg Walden, W7EQI :
ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, was pleased to hear the news: “We’re delighted that the subcommittee is in the hands of such a well-qualified chairman. Greg was an early cosponsor of HR2160, and while he may not always be able to agree with every ARRL position, we know his door will always be open to us.”
That's because every ARRL position is now dictated by the Democrats' "gimme gimme," "dumb-down" and "the Constitution is a rag" agendas.
Hey Dave ! Why don't you stop hiring Midwestern DNC shills for your jobs program ?
I'm so sick of you hiring Midwesterners like yourself that I wish the state of Michigan would secede if you're what's there. That's where you're taking your fat Connecticut adjusted ARRL salary like the rest of the salaried staff after you retire, isn't it ?
Those poor exiled ARRL staffers and officers. They couldn't get jobs where they were from because instead of getting a 20 WPM Extra and a Phi Beta Kappa key, they were too busy working DX and contesting.
It's the Revenge of the Radio Geeks. They turned ARRL into a works program for nerds who were too busy contesting in high school.
Will you be a real traitor to America and move to Canada and prepare for the "end times" like so many post 9/11 millionaire hams buying huge tracts in the woods or another country and disguising them as contest stations ?
It's just another discriminatory WASP Democrat.
And where's my November QST ? By my count they sent three, or lied three times. I have received zero. If you'd stop hiring every apartment dwelling Midwestern contester who needs a job, they'd stay at ARRL longer and QST could be replaced if it's late for whatever reason including renewal as it used to be until last year, in a week or two.
The biggest mistake the Connecticut Yankees made was being open minded in the 1970s and hiring you people to drive the hobby into the ground for your corporate and government handlers. Many of you went on to work for them directly... after 9/11 they should have told their catatonic bosses in the intelligence community what ham radio was instead of letting them turn it into busy work they knew was a lie.
Capice, Dave ? Maybe you don't even know. Maybe you do.
So what was that federal motor pool registered van doing there day after day and week after week ? The one the staff pretended to not know was parked there ?
"Gee, what van ?"
Which way did the Zamboni go ? I'm the driver.
Yessir, the old Yankees hired anyone without regard to race, ethnicity or religion and you hire WASP contester Democrats from the Midwest for every post you create.
Rep. Walden should have tweeted "now the ARRL can act in a non-partisan way instead of being the Democrat standard bearer for a hobby that's supposed to be non-partisan."
I once was told by a Connecticut ham that Dave did more than he or I would ever know. Yes, all that shoveling to dig a hole for ham radio was exhausting, first by hanging on to an antiquated 20 WPM code test until anyone my age in 1987 to 1991 was safely repulsed by the hobby.
Then he finished it off by encouraging DSP based garbage products he didn't buy for ten years into the process until they were marginally improved. Next after trashing the license structure and blaming the nasty FCC, he encouraged $5,000 to $10,000 dollar radios to be the new barrier to entry, along with the ARRL do-nothing about tower fights mantra. All the while he performed the typical distraction tactics of NGOs and government, such as hand wringing over antennas at condominiums even as the ARRL let private home owners hang.
I thought all you Democrats like Catholic, disabled / maimed Italians' votes for your Constitution shredding Globalist candidates... and that's for playing games with QST.
ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, was pleased to hear the news: “We’re delighted that the subcommittee is in the hands of such a well-qualified chairman. Greg was an early cosponsor of HR2160, and while he may not always be able to agree with every ARRL position, we know his door will always be open to us.”
That's because every ARRL position is now dictated by the Democrats' "gimme gimme," "dumb-down" and "the Constitution is a rag" agendas.
Hey Dave ! Why don't you stop hiring Midwestern DNC shills for your jobs program ?
I'm so sick of you hiring Midwesterners like yourself that I wish the state of Michigan would secede if you're what's there. That's where you're taking your fat Connecticut adjusted ARRL salary like the rest of the salaried staff after you retire, isn't it ?
Those poor exiled ARRL staffers and officers. They couldn't get jobs where they were from because instead of getting a 20 WPM Extra and a Phi Beta Kappa key, they were too busy working DX and contesting.
It's the Revenge of the Radio Geeks. They turned ARRL into a works program for nerds who were too busy contesting in high school.
Will you be a real traitor to America and move to Canada and prepare for the "end times" like so many post 9/11 millionaire hams buying huge tracts in the woods or another country and disguising them as contest stations ?
It's just another discriminatory WASP Democrat.
And where's my November QST ? By my count they sent three, or lied three times. I have received zero. If you'd stop hiring every apartment dwelling Midwestern contester who needs a job, they'd stay at ARRL longer and QST could be replaced if it's late for whatever reason including renewal as it used to be until last year, in a week or two.
The biggest mistake the Connecticut Yankees made was being open minded in the 1970s and hiring you people to drive the hobby into the ground for your corporate and government handlers. Many of you went on to work for them directly... after 9/11 they should have told their catatonic bosses in the intelligence community what ham radio was instead of letting them turn it into busy work they knew was a lie.
Capice, Dave ? Maybe you don't even know. Maybe you do.
So what was that federal motor pool registered van doing there day after day and week after week ? The one the staff pretended to not know was parked there ?
"Gee, what van ?"
Which way did the Zamboni go ? I'm the driver.
Yessir, the old Yankees hired anyone without regard to race, ethnicity or religion and you hire WASP contester Democrats from the Midwest for every post you create.
Rep. Walden should have tweeted "now the ARRL can act in a non-partisan way instead of being the Democrat standard bearer for a hobby that's supposed to be non-partisan."
I once was told by a Connecticut ham that Dave did more than he or I would ever know. Yes, all that shoveling to dig a hole for ham radio was exhausting, first by hanging on to an antiquated 20 WPM code test until anyone my age in 1987 to 1991 was safely repulsed by the hobby.
Then he finished it off by encouraging DSP based garbage products he didn't buy for ten years into the process until they were marginally improved. Next after trashing the license structure and blaming the nasty FCC, he encouraged $5,000 to $10,000 dollar radios to be the new barrier to entry, along with the ARRL do-nothing about tower fights mantra. All the while he performed the typical distraction tactics of NGOs and government, such as hand wringing over antennas at condominiums even as the ARRL let private home owners hang.
I thought all you Democrats like Catholic, disabled / maimed Italians' votes for your Constitution shredding Globalist candidates... and that's for playing games with QST.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Solar Alchemy: How to make a mystery Solar Cycle into taxpayer money
Spaceweather.com is what the Weather Channel is to weather. Couple that with the majority of news being NASA regurgitation, from an agency where job security is determined by grant writing and trips to Congress looking for grants.
Spaceweather.com hyper ventilates over nothing to make you read it, if you're ill informed:
The sun is in the midst of an extremely active period of its 11-year solar weather cycle after a long lull in activity.
This latest solar filament follows on the heels of a similar prominent sun eruption last month. That earlier solar filament was spotted on Nov. 16 and stretched across just over 372,800 miles (600,000 km), making it a shorter than the new filament spotted today.
Last month ! At the height of Cycle 23 (we're now in 24) those words would be "every day" if not "several hours ago." The distances they speak of might seem large, but we're talking infinity, here. Yawn.
The facts remain the same:
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2010 Dec 08 0305 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 December follow.
Solar flux 87 and mid-latitude A-index 3.
The mid-latitude K-index at 0300 UTC on 08 December was 1 (9 nT).
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.
In the immortal words of Yukon Cornelius: "Nothing !"
Solar Alchemy: How to make a mystery Solar Cycle into taxpayer money
Spaceweather.com is what the Weather Channel is to weather. Couple that with the majority of news being NASA regurgitation, from an agency where job security is determined by grant writing and trips to Congress looking for grants.
Spaceweather.com hyper ventilates over nothing to make you read it, if you're ill informed:
The sun is in the midst of an extremely active period of its 11-year solar weather cycle after a long lull in activity.
This latest solar filament follows on the heels of a similar prominent sun eruption last month. That earlier solar filament was spotted on Nov. 16 and stretched across just over 372,800 miles (600,000 km), making it a shorter than the new filament spotted today.
Last month ! At the height of Cycle 23 (we're now in 24) those words would be "every day" if not "several hours ago." The distances they speak of might seem large, but we're talking infinity, here. Yawn.
The facts remain the same:
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2010 Dec 08 0305 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 07 December follow.
Solar flux 87 and mid-latitude A-index 3.
The mid-latitude K-index at 0300 UTC on 08 December was 1 (9 nT).
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.
In the immortal words of Yukon Cornelius: "Nothing !"
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