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scott's blogServer change timewasterLost admin access to my website. Three hours (over three days) later, found it again. To DH support:
Time to upgrade. EDIT Got a lickety-split response:
So, coincidence? Beats me.
Empid Annivfyee-byoh (how would you say it?) Alder Flycatcher singing from the wet spot a few hundred feet to the west of the deck late this afternoon. Ten years to the day since the first one heard here. Just a dozen "in the yard" all that time, with none in '02, '07, or '08, but otherwise reasonably predictable: 5/27 X Always a pleasure.
Equinox for the agesA pass. Bikes. S is for stegosaurus. Red-bellied woodpecker. Tuna. Locomotion. Selected timeworn beach stones. Sup. Tick. Night.
Rokia Traore, TchamantcheSanta granted, but not to me. Very fine. KCRW kudos.
Xī Wàng : to hopeWith 37 sounds and 4 tones, Mandarin is beyond my imminent learning, but I have this start: Xī Wàng (to hope, to wish for, to desire). Hope OSCAR 68 is the designated name for XW-1, the Chinese satellite that launched December 14 and soon began supporting communications by amateur radio. The first North American pass with the FM transponder activated was immensely crowded, hampering almost everyone's ability to make a contact or upload a packet. Mostly I listened to chaos. Occasionally, I would transmit a partial syllable and quickly determine I was having no luck with low power and an indoor Arrow antenna. A day or two later, I managed to get in "1AIA" while the satellite was coming over from the north, prompting a persistent KC9ELU to try an exchange. But no go.
SumbandilaSat Success
I unexpectedly heard nothing at the appointed hour, but when I cast my callsign skyward the downlink was clear and then I had a call from K8YSE. Success on SO-67! John kindly shared a recording of the entire pass, and ZR1JAK mapped stations heard during this and the subsequent pass (which was out of range for me) based on John's captured audio.
Catching Castor and Pollux before they fallI haven't tracked and recorded the ANDE-2 experimental satellites yet, to say nothing of decoding and submitting any data. Best intentions...
Papahānaumokuākea `Ahahui Alaka`i...or PA`A... still keeping an eye on it...
Sorry around the SoundOne hundred three at SeaTac today? That's more than uncomfortable, it's "excessive heat." Hard to think that I have nothing to complain about when suffering under temps in the eighties, dew points well past seventy, and sticky everything. Seattle's all-time record high. Wonder when -- in this extreme-weather-event century -- that'll be broken. Meanwhile, sorry to all the wilters out there. And be sure to get that heat cleared out well before the twelfth so my visit isn't stifled!
Moon LandingI was awakened to watch it. Age 10. Groggy memories. Wood cabinet black and white, northeast corner of the living room, from the sofa, surrounded by palpable attentiveness. Borrowing from NASA and encountering other lunar tidbits. This graphic shows the approximate locations of the Apollo moon landing sites.
NPR story Commentary on story Hoax and Futurama AMSAT Special Transmission
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