Aves Specta

Scatterlings aplenty. Now what to do with them?

When you pop the rig when pressing the mic key. #fml
Plus the SW80 final replacement did not make a change.
Hoping that digital interface works swimmingly.

Alright, time for another CQ.

5 years 18 hours is the age of this user account. It's my Drupal anniversary! Was just wondering last night if I should abandon it.

I 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.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NPR story
Here.

Commentary on story
Here.

Hoax and Futurama
Here.

AMSAT Special Transmission

July 20 AMSAT-NA will mark the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing with a special event on AO-51. AO-51 will transmit a message commemorating the event Monday, July 20 during evening passes in the U.S. and Europe. The message will be transmitted on the 435.300 MHz FM downlink and will contain a Robot 36 SSTV image as well as a voice message.

Suggested by Alan WA4SCA.

Prompting Charlie N5TD to recommend a course offered by MetEd (Meteorology Education and Training): Space Weather Basics.

I've claimed 198 QSOs for my most serious SS effort since 2001. As the lines in the log filled, my attention increasingly went to the checks. So many from the 50s through the 70s and almost none from the present decade. My soapbox for the event simply says I'd plot the curve.

I don't have a plotting program and can't bother right now with trying to figure out if OO Calc will let me draw a bell curve, but a couple of key statistics are these:

Number of Years Since First Licensed
mean ±SD = 40.38 ±12.58

Just a single check from the 21st century. That's about one-half of one percent.

On the other end of the spectrum, it was very nice to work W4KFC, licensed 75 years in 2008 and 5-time CW Sweepstakes winner.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

See the post...

My Political Compass. The Gandhi connection is in the analysis here.

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62