Night of Nights 10

This is a real cool video~
One day I might be half as good at sending CW~
Hat Tip to my Friend & Elmer, Bill (N8AM) for sharing this with me.



Video of 'DA', also known as Denice Stoops, the first female telegrapher who worked at KPH until the end of commercial morse operations and closure of the station in 1998.

Denice is seen here sending the closing transmissions of the MRHS (see them at www.radiomarine.org ) Night of Nights 10. Each year (in this case exactly 10 years) to the minute, that commercial morse operations ceased in the United States, former RCA shore station KPH comes alive to pay tribute to those who came before us to honor their skill and talents. Many other maritime shore stations and vessels join in, and thousands of people all over the world tune in each year to pay tribute, and copy the CW 'music' once again commanding the airwaves.

This video was shot in the control room at the KPH, KSM, KFS transmitter site and brought to a close Night of Nights X. The KPH 'wheel' is being sent in the beginning of the video before transmitter supervisor Steve Hawes 'pulls the plug' and connects DA's chrome Vibroplex bug to the panel to key all the transmitters at once. The whole building is electrified by the transmitters and the spirit of the men (and women) that were the only connection between those at sea and the world. It is an emotional experience to be part of such an event.

Geomagnetic Storm Warning Downgraded

NOAA forecasters have downgraded the chances of a geomagnetic storm on June 9th to 20%. The disturbance, if it occurs, would be in response to a glancing blow from the CME of June 7th.
On June 7th at 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The resulting blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and an unbelievable movie:

"It looks like someone kicked a clod of dirt in the air," says solar physicist C. Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in a Youtube video. "I've never seen material released in this way before--an amazing, amazing event."

Much of the plasma thrown up by the blast simply fell back to the sun--indeed, that's what makes the footage so dramatic. In the movies you can see blobs of hot gas as large as Earth making bright splashes where they hit the stellar surface. Some plasma, however, reached escape velocity and left the sun in the form of a coronal mass ejection: movie. Traveling faster than 1100 km/s, the CME should deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on June 9th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.

Credit: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Every Single Minute; A 1959 movie

A historic amateur radio movie 'Every Single Minute', about Amateur Radio and emergency communications, is available on YouTube.

Originally released in 2007 on Google Video it has recently been re-posted to YouTube.

In 1955, The Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club, an association of mobile amateur radio operators in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area in the US provided emergency communications during the devastating flooding along the Delaware River and in the Pocono Mountains following Hurricane Diane, the sixth costliest U.S. hurricane of the 20th century.. fifty years before Hurricane Katrina.

In 1959, the club produced this short film to explain amateur radio, and especially mobile communications as practiced by the club.

The main film begins after a three minute interview with Jim Spencer, W3BBB, produced by a local cable channel many years later (Jim was a very young man W3QQH in the original film, and is now SK. The W3QV/R VHF / UHF / Echolink repeater system is named in his memory).

Watch Every Single Minute

Aurora Borealis

I remember back in 1998 we loaded up the motor home and took our first major family trip to the Great White North. Although it was in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we saw the aurora borealis. It was amazing, I only wish that in those days we had the technology we do now and I would have been able to take photos with our digital camera. Maybe our next trip that way.

NORTHERN LIGHTS VIDEO: Oh to be in Norway! Norwegian photographer Ole C. Salomonsen has sorted through more than 50,000 images of the aurora borealis he took during the past six months and assembled the best ones to create a must-see video entitled Land of the Northern Lights. Click here to watch--and then call your travel agent.

Supermoon; Incredible video!

Watch video of the "Supermoon," which could be seen on March 19, 2011. It was the closest the moon has been to Earth since 1993.

Tsunami Climbing: Ship heading into wave in Japan

The Japanese Coast Guard released footage of a ship in the ocean during the tsunami.

Could the Next Major Earthquake Be in California?

I have read his book, "Krakatoa": The Day the World Exploded: Excellent book.


Here is a link to Amazon.com for Simon Winchester's
book, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: click here

Japan 3/11/11 Tsunami Video; Unbelievable

Unbelievable video of the Japan Tsunami, 2011

Raw video of NOAA animation of Tsunami path

Look at how all that water hits the country of Chile

Portable HF Station

This is cool. I got an e-mail and also discovered this is also posted on the SARC page.
It is a long video.

Graig VK3VCM has produced a 1080p HD video giving his ideas and tips on how to successfully operate full power portable HF.

The YouTube description reads:

My ideas and tips on how to successfully operate full power portable HF and have a great day operating an Amateur Radio HF Station outdoors.

There are two types of 'portable'... If you're planning on running a few watts QRP then 'portable' means a backpack and off you go... however if you want to run a bit more power portable, you'll need to consider a few extra things which are surprisingly easy to overlook... I know this because on a few occasions I overlooked them!

Hopefully this video helps or inspires someone, somewhere, to get out and operate portable! I'm keen to get your ideas and tips on how to make portable operation more fun and easier too.. please comment and reply with your own videos.

73, Craig VK3VCM

Watch How I operate my 100 watt HF Portable Amateur Radio Station by Craig VK3VCM

Happy New Years Noise Maker

Here we are again, some more Red Green. New Years Noise Maker

Happy New Year!!!!

An Amateur Radio Christmas

A nostalgic look at the amateur radio operator's Christmas Holidays.

A Ham's Night Before Christmas

A pleasant video to share with your amateur radio friends. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Morse Code Music.

This is pretty cool.I'm sure many of you have seen this already. I did a few years ago.
Enjoy; Beethoven Morse Code

Water Antenna

Looks like another weekend project to play with.

Kenwood TS-590 on Air test

Here is a new video of the New Kenwood TS-590

here is another video: Click Here

An Electrifying Job

The tower climb to heaven was seen by many last week and the week before. I posted the video in late August. I am still seeing it come across on twitter and e-mails. I do not think the Tower Climb is scary. What would make me nervous is this guys job, watch the video. It has been around for a while but is still cool.

Tower Climb to 1768 Feet

This is being sent on twitter and e-mails. Seems like everyone is seeing it. I would climb this tower.

Dilbert - The Knack