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	<title>Ramblings by K6RJ</title>
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		<title>My First Look at the SOFT66ADD SDR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for the delay on this blogging post.  As promised, here is a first look at the SOFT66ADD software defined radio I recently purchased.  The first thing to strike me was just how small this unit really is.  The images on the makers website don&#8217;t do a good job of showing the scale of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=405</link>
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		<title>SOFT66ADD SDR Receiver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently sent payment for a SOFT66ADD direct conversion software defined receiver that I am anxious to arrive and get to play with.  The SOFT66ADD covers .5MHz to 30MHz  and is supposed to be compatible with Rocky , SDRadio and WinRad software.  It is controlled from the PC via a USB port.  I plan to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=401</link>
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		<title>National Scout Jamboree on the Air July 26th &#8211; August 4th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Scout Jamboree takes place July 26-August 4 at Fort AP Hill, Caroline County, Virginia.  Just like the National Scout Jamborees in 1973, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, the 2010 event will feature Amateur Radio.  A team of 17 Scouters and two Scouts will activate K2BSA as a demonstration station at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=397</link>
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		<title>Field Day 2010 Coming Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is again that time of the year to ramp up for Field Day.  This year Field Day is June 26-27, 2010, the last full weekend of June.
ARRL Field Day is the largest on-the-air operating event in Amateur  Radio. It draws tens of thousands to the airwaves each year, bringing  new and experienced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=394</link>
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		<title>Sun&#8217;s Strange Behavior Baffles Astronomers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this troubling article on the MSNBC Technology &#38; Science page today.   Of particular interest was the prediction at the end of the article by David Hathaway of NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center:
&#8220;Hathaway predicts that cycle 24 should reach its peak in mid-2013 at about half the size of the last three cycles.&#8221;
If this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=389</link>
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		<title>FT-450 Based SDR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you know, I am into Software Defined Radio (SDR).  I own a Flexradio SDR-1000 and hope to upgrade to a Flex-3000 within the next year.  However, I also own a Yaesu FT-450 which I am quite taken with.  For the small price this really is a lot of radio. I find myself using it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=384</link>
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		<title>ARMAD &#8211; Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ARMAD is an annual NON-POLITICAL Amateur Radio Public Service project that stands for Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day.  We work with National Military Appreciation Month during the Month of May.  We also provide other events, and work with other groups as requested during the year.  We ask Amateur Radio Operators from around the world to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=371</link>
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		<title>SF Remote Operation Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here is an update on my remote operations experiment from San Francisco.  From the lobby of my hotel I was able to get free Wi-Fi and was able to connect to my Yaesu FT-450 remotely using Ham Radio Deluxe software.  I was able to make a couple of CW contacts but the noise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=376</link>
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		<title>Remote Operations from Frisco Frustrated!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned that this week I would be on a business trip to northern California and that I was looking forward to remotely operating my SDR-1000 and my FT-450 from San Francisco.  While it is a distance of just over 400 miles, as the crow flies, previously I had only operated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=362</link>
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		<title>Ham Shack Envy &#8211; VK6IA</title>
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If you haven&#8217;t yet noticed, the thing that strikes ham shack envy most for me is not necessarily the gear but the furniture and organization of the shack.  Now, I envy those with top end gear just as much as the next guy but when you have a shack like VK6IA, Andrew Albinson of Ballajura, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://k6rj.com/blog/?p=355</link>
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