BBC News
SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in
South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick
against the ADSL
I am not familiar with the US band plan , but want to set up on 30M with an
ALE400 station and leave it parked there for awhile for testing.
Any suggestions for a frequency?
Propagation on 30M has bee good over the past while, judging by the results
on WSPR
John
VE5MU/VE5EOC
Hi Andy group
This article is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.. Telkom is a
parastatal organisation (so-called private enterprise of which the
Government is the major shareholder) with a monopoly on telecommunications
services (including all ADSL line provision) for the whole of South
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory
stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm,
Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same
time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
A related story I saw a few
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:44:30 +0200, Barry Murrell ZS2EZ
mailgro...@zs2ez.co.za said:
The real drawback with pigeons is that they stand a good chance of becoming
someone's dinner before reaching their destination!!
This is why you need retransmissions [1], Barry :-)
And if the pigeon
Hi all how do I create a info cookie for the digital radio sked page??
any info would be apreciated.
thank you
Alex VE2AIU
Some folks here may be well aware that I lack just Hawaii for the LOTW Triple
Play award, Hawaii via a digital mode. I have worked several Hawaii stations
via digital modes of late but none of them have been LOTW active. Today I see
a Hawaii station NH7RS is interested in ALE and is LOTW
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, ve2aiu alexm_1...@... wrote:
Hi all how do I create a info cookie for the digital radio sked page??
any info would be apreciated.
thank you
Alex VE2AIU
Bonjour Alex. You go to the website
http://www.obriensweb.com/sked/
If you have no cookie at
The NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2009-32
has been published on Friday 09/11/2009 at UTC, valid UTC Saturday
09/12/2009 through 2359 UTC Friday 09/18/2009 at
http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm .
73 GUD DX,
Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O
Lakeland, FL, USA
