Goings On

One of those weeks, ambulance ride to the hospital on Monday morning, more doctors and test and lots of sleep. Waiting on surgery date to be rescheduled, should know by Monday afternoon. I am hoping the Red Wings will give me a win tonight.

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Monday Humor

My wife sat down on the sofa next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, 'What's on TV?'I said, 'Dust.'

Amateur Radio Software.

This is the software that our local club (MAARC) was using during the MiQP Contest yesterday. N3FJP's Amateur Radio Software
I think I may purchase it. It was simple to use and made contesting easier when having to log contacts.

MiQP

Went to the MAARC clubhouse for the Michigan QSO Party today. Had a great time and made several contacts. MAARC logged about 190 QSOs and thirty some counties.

We had brats with many fixings for dinner. Great time.

Working DX

Working DX on 20 & 40 meters. CQ, CQ, CQ

INCOMING CME

Decaying sunspot 1060 delivered a parting shot on April 8th. The active region's magnetic field erupted, sparking a B3-class solar flare and hurling a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. Geomagnetic disturbances are possible when the cloud arrives on April 11th or 12th.

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Asteroid to pass near Earth

A recently discovered small asteroid will pass by the Earth today but poses no risk of striking. The orb will come just 395,000km from Earth - a hair's breadth away in astronomical terms. At its closest, it will be closer to Earth than our Moon is. The asteroid, approximately 22 meters wide, was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey. It came nearest to Earth at about 9am EST today. Space officials said the "fly-by" is closer than most, although not especially rare. "Fly-bys of near-Earth objects within the moon's orbit occur every few weeks."

M 7.7, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

The last earthquake above 7.5 on Richter scale:

Location: M 7.7, northern Sumatra, Indonesia
Magnitude: 7.7
Date-Time: 06 Apr 2010 22:15:02 GMT
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Causal Monday

Spent some time with my stamp collection today. I sold some, bought some and even traded some. Now I guess I will fire up the radio station for a while and see who is out there.
I did do some antenna work yesterday. I also was NCS for the MCECS net on the 146.820 repeater here in Muskegon. We had 8 check-ins. Small Nets here.

Sat. 4-3-10

It's Saturday, what to do today? Rain is on the way and the temps are finally back into the 50's. Looks like a good day to work the amateur radios and work on the stamp collection. Heck, we may even cook on the grill.

Desert Locust Situation Update

The Desert Locust situation remains calm in all countries because of continuing poor rainfall and ecological conditions. Ground teams treated very small hopper groups and bands that formed in one area on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia and, by the end of March, the situation was reported to be under control. Elsewhere, isolated adults persist in northwest Mauritania and on the Red Sea coast in Sudan. Low numbers of adults recently appeared in the spring breeding areas along the border of Morocco and Algeria, and in western Pakistan.

During April, small-scale breeding is likely to occur in the spring breeding areas in Northwest Africa and Southwest Asia but locust numbers are expected to remain below threatening levels. There is a moderate risk that some adults could move from the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia into adjacent areas of the interior and breed on a small scale.