Tag Archive: Seattle

Yaktrax rock in ice and snow

While the rest of the country gets slammed with ice and snow, Seattle-land has gotten a foot of snow over the last five days - and it is all still here. Highly unusual. Since Seattle doesn't use salt for the roads and sidewalks, when the ...

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Sunspot Saturday, August 16, 2008

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Finding and Converting Latitude and Longitude

Over the IARU weekend, during the lousy band conditions in the middle of the day here in the Pacific Northwest, I did one of my rabbit hole excursions. I wanted to find the exact latitude and longitude of my house and enter that into the ham programs (like WriteLog, DX Atlas, ...

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27 Amateur Radio Field Day 2008 Videos

Field Day is always a blast. Following the break, all the videos I could find from clubs and Field Day. Enjoy! KH6J:

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June contesting weekend

It was a big contest weekend, at least here in the states with the ARRL VHF contest. Lots of people were out looking for elusive VHF openings and stations to work -- and found them. Quickly ...

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Thinking about Portable HF Operation

While on vacation this week, I was often treated to full size views of Lake Michigan. Not seeing the other side of the lake made me think of living on the ocean back in Seattle-land. There is a choice that kept setting itself up in ...

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Searching for Salt Water: Why?

In the last couple of posts, I've talked about searching for salt water as something I'm planning on doing for contests. Or...may do for contests; it's not really decided yet. What are the reasons? Here's the recap: DXpeditions are expensive. Yes, ...

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Searching for Salt Water — County Park

As I noted yesterday, I've had to opportunity to go looking for places where I could use verticals over salt water here in Seattle-land for contesting. As promised, I have a few pictures to show the areas in question. The first area is ...

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Phoenix

It was an uneventful ride from Seattle to Phoenix. US Airways had a nice flight. With all the time changes, I never really know the actual flight time until I get on the plane and they announce it. The flight time to Phoenix was about two hours and thirty ...

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Seattle Airport

I'm sitting at the gate, waiting for the US Airways plane to go from here to Phoenix. Once in Phoenix, I change planes and continue on to San Jose, Costa Rica. The flight leaves Seattle at 8:20 AM and I don't get into San Jose until about 10:00 ...

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