Archive for the 'radio' Category

I Dislike Contesting!

Oct 03, 2009 Posted Under: opinion, radio

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Towers Fixed

Jul 26, 2009 Posted Under: Del City, radio

You may remember last week I posted about a storm that came through and caused some damage around my dad’s house along with mine.  This storm caused a lot of hail damage to my car, bent the repeater antenna on my tower and also on my dad’s tower.  I just did not have the time, [...]

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Poison Ivy Almost Gone

Jun 05, 2009 Posted Under: Internet, opinion, Personal, radio

This morning I woke up to go to work and was still itching pretty bad though you could barely see it.  This evening when I came home from work I noticed something was different.  No itching at all!  After four and a half weeks it is finally on its way out and all I can [...]

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Internet Radio

Jan 25, 2009 Posted Under: Internet, Personal, radio, technology, voip

This weekend I bought myself a new toy and boy do I love it.  This goes right along with things that I speak about all the time and that is the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).  This new toy is a Grace wireless Internet Radio that uses wifi, 802.11 b, or g to connect [...]

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Wifi From a Distance

Dec 26, 2008 Posted Under: Personal, radio, technology

  Today, December 26, 2008 I was going to install this Wifi antenna on my ham radio antenna at 40 feet above ground.  I decided against installing this antenna today because the South wind is blowing at 30+ miles per hour (MPH).  I do not want to be up on an antenna while the wind [...]

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Sunrise in OKC

It is hard to find anything more pleasing than a nice morning sunrise when you do not have to go to work.  The beauty of my situation this morning is that it is the end of the year and I have some use or lose vacation time that I have to burn so I took [...]

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IRLP Upgrade

Nov 02, 2008 Posted Under: amateur radio, Del City, Internet, opinion, radio

This weekend the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) sent out an upgrade that would vastly improve the audio from node to node.  This update changed out two files, the imike, and ispeaker.  This allows nodes to connect to each other with uncompressed audio making an incredible audio quality.  This increase in audio quality also increased [...]

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WKY changing format?

Jun 18, 2007 Posted Under: broadcast, Oklahoma City, radio

What is up with WKY radio station?  If you are in or near Oklahoma City you may have noticed that AM 930 is broadcasting a countdown 24 hours a day. This computer voice is saying T minus 1 day 13 hours and 24 seconds.   Around every five or six announcements it says something different in one [...]

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