Typical Ham

I know I just had eye surgery, but this does not look like the hams I know. Well, the stuff behind her looks typical.

HopeLNicholson This is what your average ham-radio enthusiast looks like right? Follow my friend Dayne at facebook.com/daynethemodel pic.twitter.com/N3mhrWYwSat, Feb 09 19:58:33 from web retweeted by 73s

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Name: Hope L Nicholson

Location: Toronto, ON

Web: http://facebook.com/lostheroesmovie

Bio: Lost Heroes Associate Producer Canadian Superheroes, Comics, TV, and Film

Following: 524 Followers: 743 Updates: 5070

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Radio Giveaways

Ham City: Sangean H201 AM/FM PLL Digital Tuning Water Proof Radio and Yaesu Hat

American Radio Supply - Baofeng UV-5R 

Lasers

Blogging will be lite for a couple of days... I've having LASIK done in the morning. Wish me luck.

(This probably means Baofeng will announce their quad band mobile tomorrow.)

More Ham

marksenk The three countries with the most licensed radio amateurs are Japan, United States and Thailand. #hamr factoidFri, Jan 25 08:00:06 from The Visitor Widget

Open Source Death Star

Resistance is futile.

arrington Open Source Death Star Hits Kickstarter After Government Foolishly Refuses To Build One techcrunch.com/2013/02/05/ope… via @techcrunchTue, Feb 05 15:58:39 from Tweet Button

Knoxville

So we like to read books (#11 in the US) including the Bible (#1 in the US), but we are also the most romantic (#1 in the US).

It is a shame our football team is so bad.

Baofeng UV-B5: Test Mode Code

No one has found anything exciting about it, but to unlock the UV-B5 test mode in the software, try code KT511.

I'm putting this tidbit out here so, hopefully, someone will discover the undocumented phaser feature.

Hat tip to Walter and Hans (PD0AC) for mentioning it in the comments.

Supply and Demand of Guns and Ammo

Nice to be on the supply side of the equation right now.

Via Of Arms and the Law

1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Radios

I think someone has a problem - 20 handheld transceivers. That's two per finger!

At least my small collection has some color.

Bandwidth vs. Latency

FedEx vs. The Internet.

I think bandwidth is important, but I think the real magic will happen when we have batteries for our mobile devices that last for weeks or months or even years.