Re: [Swlfest] Revised Final Fest Forums Schedule

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Excellent program this year! Good job. On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, John Figliozzi wrote: "Revised final"...get it? The full schedule for the Fest is now posted on the web site (swlfest.com). Here's the Forums schedule alone: ___ Swlfest mailing list Sw

Re: [Swlfest] Ham Radio Growing In The Age Of Twitter

2010-04-11 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Some of the blog posts on the NPR website, however, indicate that the story did generate some interest in folks obtaining an amateur radio license. There was an interesting post by a young lady claiming to be the granddaughter of Robert L. Drake. I thought the piece to be favorable, although

[Swlfest] NASWA Journals 2005-2013

2015-02-24 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
If anyone would like a collection of the NASWA Journal from 2005-2013 please let me know and I'll bring them along to the Fest. Otherwise they may hit recycling soon. Would prefer to see them go to a good home. Dan Srebnick ___ Swlfest mailing list S

Re: [Swlfest] NASWA Journals 2005-2013

2015-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
> > > On Feb 24, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Daniel L. Srebnick wrote: > > > > If anyone would like a collection of the NASWA Journal from 2005-2013 > > please let me know and I'll bring them along to the Fest. Otherwise > > they may hit recycling soon. Would prefer

Re: [Swlfest] Arrived home already!

2015-03-01 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
We make it back here at about noon. No snow on the drive until we got into our immediate home area and now probably a couple of inches deep of fluffy stuff, beginning to be covered by ice crystals. It was a great event and we definitely enjoyed ourselves. Thanks to Rich and John for another f

[Swlfest] Big Steve

2015-04-07 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
I attended the funeral for my friend Stephen Coletti today. JL and Dave were also in attendance along with many cousins and other friends. Steve was an only child and was predeceased by his parents and his wife Arlene. He was cremated and his ashes will be buried at the gravesite of his parents.

[Swlfest] Interesting blog post by former Gilfer Associates Employee

2016-09-03 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Here's an interesting blog post by a woman who worked for Gilfer as an after school job.  It paints a great picture of the owners, Perry and Jeanne. http://tuenight.com/2016/08/how-i-came-to-love-shipping-and-the-hot-ups -guy/ There was a time when Gilfer was the only company I knew about that wa

Re: [Swlfest] Digital Amateur Radio (DMR and System Fusion)

2017-03-01 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
I'm going to bring my DV4mini and a mag mount and set it up for folks to use.  Program a memory for 446.0375 MHz TS2 TG9 if you want. Be happy to talk about DMR and DStar but I have no experience with Fusion other than seeing a demo by Yaesu. 73, Dan Srebnick On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 20:22 -0500, FRED

[Swlfest] RTL-SDR Presentation Links Page

2017-03-03 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
http://www.k2dls.net/blog/2017/03/03/rtl-sdr-on-the-cheap-swl-fest-link s/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Se

[Swlfest] RTL-SDR Video Narratives

2017-03-06 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
I've made up a playlist of the videos used in my talk "RTL-SDR: SDR on the cheap!" and uploaded to YouTube. You can find them here: https://goo.gl/3l09vK 73, Dan Srebnick K2DLS smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Swlfest mailing

Re: [Swlfest] Restaurants near the Fest hotel

2017-03-10 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Or we could be “modern” and use Yelp! From: Swlfest [mailto:swlfest-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Ed Cummings Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 12:46 To: SWLfest mailing list Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Restaurants near the Fest hotel Maybe it would be useful to SWLfest'ers if the swlfest.c

Re: [Swlfest] Plymouth Meeting Area Ham Repeaters

2018-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
I'll bring my D74A. It can use GPS to list nearby D-Star repeaters based upon the installed list. That might be interesting. Thanks for the list, I'll probably add the DMR sites to an HT. On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 23:11 -0500, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: > Hello, > > I remember years ago bringing my H

Re: [Swlfest] Plymouth Meeting Area Ham Repeaters

2018-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
taking three HTs (FT-1D for Fusion, XPR6550 UHF for DMR, and D74A for D-Star). 73 Eric On Sun 2/25/2018 10:21 AM, Daniel L. Srebnick wrote: I'll bring my D74A. It can use GPS to list nearby D-Star repeaters based upon the installed list. That might be interesting. Thanks for the list,

Re: [Swlfest] Plymouth Meeting Area Ham Repeaters

2018-02-28 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Good, because that is the one I programmed into my PD-365, based upon Eric's original list of possibilities! The web page that you mention has good documentation on available TGs. On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 13:02 -0500, Jim Fisher wrote: > For DMR folks, this repeater system is the one to hit: http://

Re: [Swlfest] Plymouth Meeting Area Ham Repeaters

2018-02-28 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
We can do Fusion and P25 as well on my device if needed. Have never tried anything more than D-Star or DMR. See you all in a few hours. On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 12:32 -0500, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: > Hello, > > Yes, I have a FT-1DR. > > > > Dan Srebnick mentioned on >

Re: [Swlfest] My lost suitcase

2018-03-06 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
At this rate you could probably get one of the $99 Norweigan Air flights from upstate NY and go pick it up yourself! Good luck, hope you get it back. On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 08:09 -0500, The Professor wrote: > I just found out my bag (and my radios) actually went all the way to > Helsinki, Finland

[Swlfest] Links reference in More RTL-SDR presentation

2018-03-06 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
For those who attended (or missed) this year's RTL-SDR presentation, here is the permalink to the blog page containing all of the links referenced in the talk: http://www.k2dls.net/blog/2018/03/01/2018-swl-fest-talk-links/ 73, Dan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature __

[Swlfest] Data Breaches

2018-03-21 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Some folks have resisted the use of Facebook because of security and privacy concerns. Perhaps the Cambridge Analytica incident shows their wisdom. As more folks have become uncomfortable about the use of Facebook, in light of the Cambridge Analytica story, I've created a shadow group for us over

[Swlfest] Starchat #SWL and #MWDX

2018-12-06 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Does anyone know if the Starchat IRC servers are gone for good? I used to check in sometimes to the #SWL and #MWDX channels which after all these years were still being lightly used. If you know the status please share. 73, Dan Srebnick K2DLS smime.p7s Description: S/MIME crypto

Re: [Swlfest] Starchat #SWL and #MWDX

2018-12-11 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
chat.net *may* work better than > irc.starchat.net. I don't notice any difference between the two but I > haven't tried different times of the day. > > HTH. > > Tom > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 9:54 AM Daniel L. Srebnick wrote: > > Does anyone know if t

Re: [Swlfest] Amateur radio at the fest

2019-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
Last year we used 146.55 MHz FM and it worked out nicely. I made quite a few contacts there. As far as DMR...you could program in 441.000 MHz, TG 99, TS 1 CC1 and use simplex since you're all in the same place! That is one of the recommended DMR simplex frequencies. http://www.va3xpr.net/dmr-si

Re: [Swlfest] Amateur radio at the fest

2019-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
019, 1:06 PM Daniel L. Srebnick > wrote: > > Last year we used 146.55 MHz FM and it worked out nicely. I made > > quite a few contacts there. > > As far as DMR...you could program in 441.000 MHz, TG 99, TS 1 CC1 > > and use simplex since you're all in the same place! Th

[Swlfest] Indonesia Tobacco Stats

2023-03-05 Thread Daniel L. Srebnick
As a followup to Mark Fahey's presentation, here are some interesting stats from the WHO, CDC, and Indonesia Ministry of Health about tobacco and Indonesia. https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/ncds/ncd-surveillance/data-reporting/indonesia/indonesia-national-2021-factsheet.pdf?sfvrsn=53e