Category — TI5/K9JY

This week I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of behind-the-scenes work on the blog. Essentially, the new theme here uses “CSS” for rendering pictures, but most of my pictures that accompany articles use “HTML” for how the picture is presented. If you used Internet Explorer, you didn’t notice. If you use Firefox or Safari, the picture moved right up to the text — not what I want to show.

Consequently, I spent most of yesterday going into each article I have written since the beginning of the blog — 131 of them — and updating the picture framing.

Interestingly, I also found a lot of missing in action items which I didn’t realize were gone from my conversion from Yahoo! to Bluehost hosting and transferring the articles over. So much of the day was replacing pictures and fixing up the content.

Here is some of what got updated:

TI Antenna Setup — it was missing the pictures of the antennas…

Searching for Salt Water and the pictures for the County and State Parks were missing pictures.

Icom 7700 You Tube Video — the link properly displays now on the blog…and this is one of my more popular articles on the blog! One could see the video OK if you clicked on the link over to You Tube, but this fixes it so you can see the video on the blog itself…like it should be…

General fixing of the pictures was also done. Plus, I updated the series of rotating pictures at the header of the theme. Hopefully, they will represent ham radio and contesting well.

I’ve also added in a “Similar Posts” plugin that will automatically bring up other posts relating to the one being viewed.

Scot, K9JY

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This past weekend was the Six Meter Spring Sprint contest and there was a fair amount of commentary on it some of the e-mail reflectors I read.

I’ve never operated six meters.

When I was in Costa Rica in February, TI5KD waxed eloquently about six meters. Short path, long path, weird openings, and the seasonality of the band.

It was pretty interesting, but the thing that put me off on working it was that six meters is a band where you have to be listening all the time. All the time, because the openings are often short. So, if you are in the car, have a six meter radio going. If you are working in the shop, have a radio with you to listen while you work.

Fun — but complete dedication and I’m not able to do that.

How about you? Have you worked six meters? Just contesting or DXing?

Scot, K9JY

Just a quick update today to let you all know that all of the direct TI5/K9JY QSL cards are in the mail. I have very few bureau cards so far for TI5, but still have quite a few VP9/K9JY cards with the new batch just in from the W9 Bureau.

I’ll be working on those next.

Scot, K9JY

This weekend, I spent a decent amount of time on my logs, logging program, and Log of The World stuff. The end objective was to move all of my logging from my desktop computer to my relatively new laptop computer. And, at the same time, move from one logging program to another.

Success. There are a few impacts from this:

• TI QSL’s. Since the first part of March, I’ve had QSL’s from my trip to TI coming in and I haven’t answered any of them. I knew I wasn’t going to use my current logging program for tracking, but I didn’t want to send out cards just from the WriteLog log alone as I want to track my replies. (Log of The World for TI went up the weekend after I got home — the fastest way to get a confirmation).
• VP9 QSL’s. I still have cards to do for the September, 2005, VP9 trip. Just this past Thursday, I received another batch from the great W9 bureau guys to process. I’ve been sitting on VP9 cards for a bit because of this logging conundrum. The Bermuda logs were also uploaded within a week of getting home as well, so this is still the fastest and best way to get a confirmation.

One of the discoveries I made was that I had not submitted my Log of The World contacts for the NB9C and KA9QVD calls that I have held. I had thought that I had all of them into the database, but it turned out that I only had the K9JY calls uploaded. Most, if not the vast majority, of my DX work was done with the NB9C call, so I wanted to have that up in the database.

How did I discover this? Trying to find the ADI files to import into the new logging program!

So all of this is now settled: all of my logs are up in Log of The World, all of my log is transitioned to the new logging program, and I’m now set to get moving on the QSL cards, for which people have been patient.

Scot

Thought I had provided the link for the photos from TI here on the blog (just the snapshot from Flickr), but I did not.

There are pictures from the 11 days there. On the upper right of the link is the ability to see them as a slide show; I would do so. The pictures are better seen as full rather than what you see on the screen as many of the pictures are of birds and you will want to enlarge the photos (like through the slide show) to see all of the colors.

Enjoy!

TI Photo Gallery

Scot, K9JY