Friday, 19 June 2009 09:25
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
One of the nice things about being a T-Mobile customer (other than the sweet, sweet G1) is the Unlimited Loyalty plan. If you are a long-term active customer who pays his bills on time you can become eligible for the special plan, which includes $50/month for unlimited minutes, and $25/month for unlimited data.
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Friday, 20 February 2009 18:22
eHAM.net
A system that was used in the past primarily to support military morale has been fulfilling a new mission: emergency preparedness. For the past several years, the Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) has been called upon during times of crisis, including the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and natural disasters, to ensure continuity of communications. The program trains a cadre of licensed amateur radio operators to understand and become proficient in emergency military communications protocol and procedures, including the use of modern digital technologies. However, this national communications treasure could falter if it does not receive adequate attention and funding. Started as the U.S. Army Amateur Radio System in 1925 by members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, MARS was officially established in 1948 with U.S. Air Force participation, and it became a joint service program in 1962 with the inclusion of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Many veterans recall MARS from the Korean and Vietnam wars as a group of volunteer amateur radio operators who relayed telephone patches and morale messages between service personnel stationed abroad and their families at home. Even as recently as operation Desert Storm, thousands of messages were relayed. Today, as a U.S. Defense Department-sponsored program managed separately by the services, MARS can provide an emergency adjunct to normal communications locally, nationally or internationally. With the advent of cell phones, computers, satellites and the Internet, the utility of high frequency radio for this task has diminished. Even though MARS has evolved and adapted its mission to contemporary circumstances, its present-day value may not be fully appreciated outside a limited circle of radio enthusiasts. Read more:
Friday, 06 February 2009 05:54
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
Samsungs SPH-W7100 managed to slip through the FCCs database in December of 2008, and now were being clued in as to what all the handset will bring to the table.
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Friday, 02 October 2009 10:44
ARRL
The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for September is Paul Danzer, N1II, for his article "A Simple Transformer to Measure Your Antenna Current." Congratulations, Paul! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to the author or authors of the best article in each issue -- is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll Web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the October issue by Saturday, October 31. Read more:
Monday, 22 June 2009 04:25
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
The Samsung P400 was only released a few months ago, but the company is already looking to release an improved version called, the P410M. This new any improved version features 170 ANSI lumens, SVGA (800 x 600) resolution, and a 1000:1 contrast ratio.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 06:59
Bit-Tech.net
Nintendo has admitted that Wii sales have stalled a bit due to lack of strong software support.  Read more:
Thursday, 05 February 2009 03:35
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
Samsung has launched its own App Store for Samsung mobile phones. The site offers up only applications that are compatible with Samsung phones. The site is actually powered by PocketGear.
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:53
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
Who knows what dark, unreliable alleys the Commercial Times prowled to get this information, but the Chinese newspaper says that Lenovo is planning on shipping 11.
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:48
twiar.org
Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:
01. NAVY MARS may be going QRT at the end of the summer.
02. Fun, fresh air, friends, and food..It must be ARRL Field Day 2009.
03. Changes are in store for ARRL November Sweepstakes contest logging.
04. NASA selects a students proposed name for the new MARS Rover.
05. CQ Magazines Propagation Edition challenges revised solar cycle prediction
06. 24 to 29 megahertz HamSat is proposed.
07. Founder of Cirque De Soleil to be next visitor to the Space Station.
08. OfCom UK says the answer to interference is blowing in the wind.
09. The FCC successfully T-Hunts intentional interference in California.
10. Public service helps those who really need it.
11. WE5I is looking for contacts on 50.4 AM.
12. Names in the news this week.
13. Universal Rubiks Cube or "Shapeshifting Material" is now under research.
14. Clique will introduce cellphone with morse code instead of text messaging.
15. Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO.
16. Technology News and Commentary with Leo Laporte.
17. The Random Access Thought with Bill Baran, N2FNH. "Zoom Day"
18. The Gateway 160 Meter Net Report with Vern Jackson, WA0RCR.
19. Dayton FCC Forum Part 3 of 3 = The FCC Forum Q&A Session.
This Week in Amateur Radio" is a weekly amateur radio audio, on the air, news
magazine/bulletin service, produced by a lot of dedicated volunteers, by
Community Video Associates, Inc., a New York State not-for-profit corporation.
The mailing address for our support fund is:
This Week in Amateur Radio Support Fund
P.O. Box 30
Sand Lake, New York 12153 Read more:
Thursday, 04 February 2010 23:17
www.southgatearc.org
High power RF could be used to power future rockets to Mars - the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is a high power, radio frequency-driven magnetoplasma rocket that promises to dramatically reduce Inter-Planetary journey times Read more:
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 05:24
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
Gateway has announced its latest netbook called the LT2000. The machine has a 10. 1-inch screen that has LED backlighting. The netbook uses the class standard Intel Atom N270 CPU and runs Windows XP home.
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 20:13
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
About the size of an AC adaptor, the KURO-SHEEVA has just a size of 96. 5x110x48. 5mm and is in fact a ultra compact Linux Box that can be use as a server.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 19:55
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This is not, of course, the first steam powered thing weve seen here on BotJunkie, nor is it the first steam powered tank But Im pretty sure its the first one thats driven by a humanoid, in some kind of steampunk/robot mashup.
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:54
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
iRobot showed off this hamster controlled Create at CES 2007, but now they need it more than ever As they say at the beginning of the video, all theyve gotta do is rip off the hamsterdance music, post it on YouTube, and theyll be on their way straight to the top.
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:50
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Heres Kohjinshas latest Netbook, the MT6WX16AR. Available in both black and white with a 10. 1 LCD(1024x576), Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, 160GB of HDD, Intel 945GSE Express and a 1Seg TV Tuner
49,800 Yen (370).
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 00:00
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Want super clean holes in your latest PCB? Want your PCB drill-bit\'s to last much longer? Tired of using your dremel as the drill press it clearly isn\'t? For around $30, you can build this simple PCB drill-press.
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 07:55
eHAM.net
I just read Bob Keyes (N1YRK) eham.net article from June, 2008
about a ".HAM" internet domain. In April, 2008, I read VE7HJ's ".ham"
proposal which he started in 2005. VE7HJ told me that the costs and time
involved in getting ".ham" officially approved were the problem. Read more:
Friday, 01 January 2010 07:38
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
A new year, a new phone. General Mobiles second Android smartphone is about to launch, and thanks to Mobile Burn, we now know its name; the Cosmos.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 21:56
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
Acer launched new Windows 7 hardware this week. Yesterday Acer announced amongst other hardware the Acer Aspire 5738PG. Here we report about the Acer 5738DG, which is actually a 3D notebook.
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 18:02
www.ElectronicsInfoline.com
One of the things that pisses me off for years (8 in total) in Japan is the lack of ROM update for Windows Mobile Devices During the Pocket PC era, where Compaq, then HP and other manufacturer provided Rom update for their PDA Japanese manufacturers always claimed that ROM update was impossible and were pushing you to purchase a new PDA instead Later one, HTC via DoCoMo or Softbank same applied and it you wanted to get a ROM update you would have to invest in another device while in the rest of the world you could have upgraded it
So basically if you were/are a Windows Mobile user in Japan you are badly screw Operator will not provide you with free ROM upgrades on Windows Mobiles devices
Pissed by this lack of support from Both Microsoft, HTC and Mobile Phone operators, I asked to Microsoft a year or so ago why was that? Why we wont be able to get proper ROM upgrades? And apparently, and before we had the launch of the iPhone in Japan, it was impossible for mobile phone manufacturer to offer ROM upgrades (Via Push or Download) without loosing the phone certification given from the Japanese government Basically once the phone has been approved here in Japan, the manufacturer is not allowed to change in any way its phones if he does not want to loose its certification And since this certification process seems to be a real pain, everyone gave up on offering ROM updates.
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 08:56
ke2yk
Most people on the street are clueless about the meaning of the Amateur Radio service. If they have heard of it, they respond by saying, oh yeah, you mean CB radio right?
Although many of us kick-started our interest in the radio hobby on 11 meters, nothing is more upsetting to a licensed amateur than that comment. To be classified along with a free-bander illegally running 1500 watts on HF is more than an embarrassment, it’s a personal insult.
Others, who know perhaps a little more about the service will say something like yeah, my grandfather was a ham radio guy back in the 50’s. Then they continue by spinning a short story about watching the tubes glow in Grandpa’s radios when they were small children.
As us “modern” Hams know the reflection of Grandpa’s tubes aren’t much more that a fading memory today. The need breed of Ham Radio operator has a wide variety of choices to investigate within the hobby and recognition of the Amateur Radio service has recently been placed into the limelight again with H.R. 2160, “The Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Enhancement Act of 2009″.
As a matter of fact, two hospitals in Mississippi now have Ham Radio Stations. The answer to the question why is simple.
As Larry Wagner stated in the article posted on 1/10/2010 in USA Today, “When all other communication systems go down in an emergency such as a hurricane, ham radio operators are the last ones who are still talking to one another.”
Read the full article here:
http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=delawareonline&sParam=32490121.story
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