Ham Radio inside the International Space Station
Category: Ham Radio 2.0
Interneta and ham radio, interactions and interfaces
Getting started on FT8
First impressions using the WSJT-X FT8 on Mac OSX and TS-590S
Facebook : search by amateur radio call-sign
How to search Facebook for people by using their amateur radio call-sign. Examples and restrictions
Your QRZ on Facebook profile page
Thanks to an online petition made via change.org  promoted by NW7OR, starting from today facebook allow to add your own ham radio call-sign as altenate name and have it displayed in your public profile page This should allow others to look for your your by using your QRZ. This is how appears now my Facebook profile…
Google Glass Ham Radio app
Google glass are wearable computer, with a built-in Android OS on it, and in this movie N3WG Nick Garner show us a sample application of a ham radio related application written for the Google Glass platform. Practically Nick is able to remote control an Elecraft KX3 radio via the Pigremote connected via Wi-Fi, of…
QSL Query : App for Google Glass
David Young, AE5DY announced QSL Query the first Google Glass application associated with the hobby of amateur radio. It is basically used to look up FCC call sign information, primarily for use in filling out QSL cards. Currently, the information returned by QSL Query includes the name, address, and license class of the person associated…
LoTW : Logs Queue lenght decreasing
After new server’s hardware setup at ARRL LoTW started processing QSOs faster then before. Delay is now aprox 7 days versus the 10 days performance of previous month. You can chech the status here: http://www.arrl.org/logbook-queue-status
Gmail goes Morse Code with Gmail Tap
With Gmail Tap announced today (April 1st) , Google adapted the Morse Code to the new Tap interface integrating a morse code interpreter into their Gmail App for Android Smartphones. At first while reading I did suspected April Fools and so I still believe it could be a joke, but reading comments on play.google.com looks…
QRZ.com new Design
Few hours ago QRZ.com published a new design interface. They moved from the full wide screen size to the more common 970 pixel wide template. Much more similar to most of the blogs and news web sites. One of the main innovations of this interface, is the navigation menu, that using the drop down feature…
New Italian Flag by QRZ.com
This is what looks like today my QRZ.com web page. Looks like at QRZ.com have changed the reference to the Italian flag with the one belonging to Switzerland. http://files.qrz.com/static/flags/248.gif Well I’ve always dreamed to make some calls from a less popular country, but Switzerland is still too ham-populated. Well, folks at QRZ.com you can do…