The only two radio amateurs on the International Space Station (ISS) were among three crew members who returned to Earth on November 10, and another ham-astronaut won’t arrive onboard the ISS until later this month. But an exciting 2015 appears to be in store.
NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, and European Space Agency Astronaut Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO, joined Expedition 41 Commander an…
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The Amateur Radio payload in the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) lunar flyby experiment has gone silent, but the spacecraft itself will likely be in Earth orbit for some time to come.
“It is there for some thousands years, I think, but it might also be ejected in heliocentric orbit if it passes close to the Moon, which is what some simulations show,” said Ghislain Ruy, LX2RG, of Luxspace (LSE…
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The Amateur Radio payload on the Luxspace (LSE) Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) lunar flyby experiment likely will continue to transmit for a few more days while it remains in Earth orbit. The Chinese Chang’e 5T-1 lunar mission payload that it initially accompanied into space on a Long March 3C rocket already has been recovered. The 4M was reported on November 6 to be some 248,000 miles from…
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(PRWEB) August 19, 2006
If you use instant messaging with your friends or colleagues in other time zones or telecommute to work for a company on another continent you might need a world clock to know current local time in other locations. But which world clock software program is right for you?
WR Consulting, a company that develops enterprise productivity tools and services, has released ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock v3.2 — a convenient world clock for Windows that can show multiple time zones either in Windows taskbar or on desktop.
ZoneTick v3.2 has the following new features, as compared to its predecessor, ZoneTick 3.1.
New time zone format is introduced to support all localities on Earth. The new database format anticipates future time zone changes in the world. Countries like Brazil, Uruguay, Israel and many others are fully supported. Dependency on Windows time zones is eliminated.
ZoneTick World Clock is additionally localized into Dutch, Japanese, and Italian. Additional localizations and improvements to existing localization files are welcome via WR Localization Service at http://wrconsulting.com/cms/localization/. The localization service is offered by the company free of charge to world clock user community.
Time table, which shows an entire day layout for all configured time zones, is introduced.
Time converter is redesigned. Conversion of times for countries like India is much easier now.
The program is very useful when communicating with people in other parts of the globe: such as your friends in other countries, your colleagues in remote offices or in the field, or the home-crowd while you are traveling. This is because ZoneTick displays the times for any amount of different time zones and also allows you to synchronize your clocks with accurate online time-servers.
Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting, said, “We are very pleased with this release. Users like improvements to ZoneTick time converter. Many of them deal with India and the new version delivers what’s needed very nicely. Not to mention the improved clock accuracy for countries with complex summer time rules. And a few more languages, of course, which strengthen our position as a world clock software market leader for Windows.”
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock is good for enterprise and individual use. CEOs, VPs, executives traveling on business, and people from many walks of life may find it handy. For example, forex traders, ham radio users, pilots, international students on exchanges, the navy and military, or just about everyone with need to keep in touch with someone in another time zone.
ZoneTick uses digital and analog graphical skins. That gives you the ability to customize your ZoneTick to fit any desktop style. ZoneTick comes with a system of alarms. You can create any amount of alarms, which will play a sound, display a message, launch an application, or open a web-page at the time of your choosing.
Whether you travel from time zone to time zone, have international friends, or are simply on the lookout for high-quality shareware, ZoneTick is the world clock for you!
For more information write to info @ wrconsulting.com or visit http://wrconsulting.com
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Three simple plastic foil-envelope balloons carrying Amateur Radio payloads and launched from the UK by Leo Bodnar, M0XER, remain aloft and continue to circle the Earth. The oldest, identified as B63, was released on July 8 and became the second of Bodnar’s balloons to circumnavigate the globe. The first to do so, B64, went up on July 12 and had completed one lap around the Northern Hemisphere …
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SPUTNIX… A First…Launches Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite …
ISC Kosmotras successfully launched a cluster of small spacecraft by the RS-20 rocket (Dnepr) on June20 2014. The first Russian private … In 2012, SPUTNIX, a daughter company of SCANEX, became a resident of Skolkovo and received a grant from the …
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You can see the cluster spots here: DXfuncluster. From here in Romania, … Others: SN777EL (Poland, 777 years of the city of Elblag) YL2014L, YL2014W (Latvia, for Riga European City of Culture 2014), ZA/ON4CCV (Albania DX-pedition). Also, as per your …
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Three International Space Station crew members returned to Earth May 13 after 188 days in space. The NASA reported that Expedition 39 crew increment of Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, of Russia, and Astronauts Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA, of Japan, and Rick Mastracchio, KC5ZTE, of the US, all appeared to be in good condition. Their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan, borne b…
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US Astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and Russian Cosmonaut and Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station September 11 aboard a Soyuz capsule. Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin rounded out the trio that landed in Kazakhstan after 166 days in space.
A day earlier, Vinogradov handed over command of the ISS to anothe…
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After spending 143 days in space, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford, KF5GPP, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (both of the Russian Federal Space Agency) will begin their voyage home to Earth on Thursday, March 14, marking the end of Expedition 34 on board the International Space Station (ISS). The trio will undock their Soyuz spacecraft at 8:30…
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
This week, Surfin’ features guest columnist Mike Schaffer, KA3JAW, of September 7 Surfin’ fame.
Upon posting my rare, out-of-season Costa Rican analog television Sporadic-E 1240-mile distance video on YouTube, I was curious about the broadcast towers’ location and appearance.
In my pursuit of this quest, I visited Wikipedia to obtain some information; how…
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After spending 125 days in space, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, RN3BS (both of the Russian Federal Space Agency) will begin their voyage home to Earth this weekend, marking the end of Expedition 32 on board the International Space Station (ISS). The trio will undock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft on Sund…
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MUSIC BY: MAJID ENTEZAMI, PERSIAN MUSICIAN CREDITS AND REFERENCES: Jesse Ventura, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Coltons Point Times – published by Ivy Hollow Media, Kevin Hayden-Truth Is Treason.net, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org It is the HAARP system a super-powerful radio wave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything — living and dead. It’s uses range from those claimed to be academic to far more dangerous secret military purposes including weather control that can cause earthquakes to electro-magnetic interference to shut down electrical grids, and it can alter the earth’s atmosphere in a far more destructive way than anything carbon based. It is also the HAARP system that could cause the electrical interference that could disrupt the computer systems that operate cars (Toyota) and have many other devastating effects.
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John, K0KTY, showing his Kenwood TM D700 VHF transceiver mounted in his motorhome and demoing APRS.
Earth Changes Explained: The cause and what we can expect in the very near future. * Symptoms: Earths Erratic Magnetosphere, Mysterious Magnetic Blasts, Intense Electro-Magnetic Interference, Wobbling Earth, Changing Weather Patterns (Global Warming/Climate Change), Worldwide Drought and Deluge Conditions, Extreme Crop Failures and Food Shortages. Increase in Major Earthquakes and Tectonic Plate Activity, Unstable/Shifting Ground Reaping Havoc on Man’s Infrastructure, the Mayan Calendar, 2012 and Crop Circles.
This location is an anomalous area and believed to have a gravitational or atmospheric disturbance in which its natural properties in the area possess electro-magnetic interference that effects sporadically with humans, machines and electronics and that it still remains to being unexplained. The zone lies just north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the 30th parallel, which places it in the same parallel planetary anomalies such as the Bermuda Triangle. Considered to be the Mexico’s version of Bermuda Triangle, Zona Del Silencio (Zone of Silence) is four hundred miles away from El Paso, Texas surrounded by deserts. The place of its surrounding and territories have mysteriously enough been blocking and draining radio and TV signals, and have been associated with the UFO phenomenon that may have cause several crashes including the Roswell UFO craft that went through here over lighting. The US military have sent down several technicians and scientist to the region to investigate its surprising odd phenomena that have affected some of their surface to air weapons and aircrafts testings and operations, most note worthy are: missiles (a known incident is an Athena missile fired from the White Sands Missile Base, went off course inexplicably in the vicinity of Zone of Silence, where it crashed) and rockets (an upper stage from one of the Saturn boosters used on the Apollo project broke up over the very same area) and other top secret projects. Just had to follow Coyame Crash …
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