Friday, July 5, 2024
The Youth on the Air (YOTA) Camp “ham shack” has been renamed the Bob Heil, K9EID, Memorial YOTA Camp Amateur Radio Shack. Heil, 83, passed away on February 28, 2024. He was considered the man who defined the sound of live rock ‘n roll music and brought audio engineering principles into mainstream amateur radio use. He founded Heil Sound in 1966, through which he created the template for modern concert sound systems for musicians like the Grateful Dead, The Who, Joe Walsh, and Peter Frampton. Heil was also known as a mentor and generous donor to amateur radio organizations who enjoyed helping others find success in ham radio and supported Youth on the Air from the very beginning.
Notable
- Firefly Aerospace successfully launched and deployed eight satellites on Thursday morning. Included were several satellites with amateur radio interest including MESAT-1 with a 30 kHz wide V/U Transponder plus a 1k2 BPSK telemetry downlink. More details.
- MESAT-1 telemetry seen at Bochum.
- Radio amateurs will be prepared this weekend to help with communications for those in the path of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean.
- Sony kills off Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable.
- Will Linux’s New run0 Command Run sudo Out of Town?
- RIP: Bruce Bastian was an American computer programmer, businessperson, and philanthropist. He co-founded WordPerfect with Alan Ashton in 1978.
Quotable
“Summertime, and the living is easy…”
– Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
Potable
- The Communicator - the bi-monthly journal of Surrey Amateur Radio Communications for July-August 2024 is now available for free [PDF] download.
- Boulder Amateur Television Club TV Repeater's REPEATER - July 2024 newsletter.
- Friedrichshafen Ham Radio Expo - Fri 28th June 2024
- Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to network management that enables dynamic and programmatically efficient network configuration to improve network performance and monitoring in a manner more akin to cloud computing than to traditional network management.
- Looking for adventure? My Summer Reading list is a great place to get started!
National Museum of the United States Air Force
Spent yesterday morning at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. https://t.co/MZxkQBIQzV pic.twitter.com/BXQOzBz02S
— Jeff KE9V (@stuckbit) July 4, 2024