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  1. Working comms for the Tour de Cure mountain bike route this morning. Beautiful morning in the Pike Nat'l Forest. http://twitpic.com/4xjc11
  2. Nice morning today for antenna work at the EOC. http://twitpic.com/4ivf2f
  3. PACTOR is pretty amazing. 2000 mile contacts on 80 meters with a dipole at 6 ft. off the ground (NVIS config) and just 40 Watts.
  4. Had 10 GHz QSO with Bill, K0RZ, in Boulder this evening from just east of Laramie, WY. in DN71GF. Dish inside car due to rain, so not bad.
  5. First light from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Very impressive images of our sun. http://bit.ly/dpcdKo
  6. Getting files together for in the morning. Got NCS duty on CO ARES HF Digital Net. Sounds like another RTTY contest going on tonight on 80M.
  7. @Bud_T ScienceFriday..btw, where did you go on D-Star? Did you sell ur radio?
  8. Beautiful January day in Colorado. Nothing but blue skies and sunshine. And, it's warming up to normal temps again. Got to appreciate that.
  9. Listening to astronomy.fm and searching for options in single board MPEG-2 encoders.
  10. Will it be the end for this comet?: http://www.spaceweather.com/images2010/03jan10/comet_c2_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=j35ev3jns7c9337cfck92i2mh2
  11. Tested 70cm ATV. Kludgey setup, but still works. Need to range test 5 GHz. from the QTH.
  12. @megandibiase request sag wagon, more water, that sort of stuff. Looking like it'll be great weather, so that'll be nice for everyone.
  13. @megandibiase Hi, Megan. No, our group does radio communications for the event. We report back to Start/Finish any injuries, dropouts, etc.
  14. @megandibiase Denver marathon? If so, yell, "Hi, Gary" as you fly by Water Stop 5 - Colfax & Gilpin. Doing radio comms there. Have safe run!
  15. http://twitpic.com/gld4r - Hiking Castlewood Canyon. Some leaves already changing color.
  16. So long August. Time for the "ber" months. Why are they all in a row? Hmmm, think I'll go sleep on that.
  17. Just finished a nice 32 mile bike ride circumnavigating Castle Rock. Actually a bit chilly at times today.
  18. Reading abt German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II.
  19. Biking the far south segment of the Cherry Creek bike trail. http://tinyurl.com/klcsrh
  20. Looking over NPN BJT datasheets for a project. Pretty exciting stuff.