Hello all, I hope that you and yours had a safe and warm week and that
you have gotten yourself dug out from last weeks storm. We got 12" here
and Sunday shovel snow day.

Last weekend I spent Saturday at the NWS office in Wakefield Virginia
because Skywarn was activated due to the sever winter weather.
The folks at Wakefield supplied Mike and I with cots to sleep on
and a real nice full kitchen to use too. Pat packed what looked like
half a house for one night. I had my sleeping bag several bags of food
case of pepsi and oh yes two roasted chickens. Yep the whole bird.

Following some interest from members of the 30M Digital Group, we have
formed the WCC (WARC Century Club), based on some of the ideas from
the Straight Key Century Club .

The goal of the WCC is to promote non-contest activity on the 30,17,
and 12M WARC bands. This virtual club is for all modes (SSB-phone,
CW, and D igital) as permitted by license class and individual country
regulations. The group issues WCC numbers and encourages the exchange
of numbers with other members during a WARC band QSO. Several awards
have been established.

Hello all, I hope that you and yours have a safe and warm week.

Please keep the people of Haiti and all the rescue workers in your prayers.

As all of you know the news this week has been the 6.0 magnitude aftershock that hit Haiti earlier this past week.

UPDATE:
From 1800UTC 22 January the HF frequencies used to respond to the immediate needs of the Haiti Earthquake, 14.300MHz, 14.265MHz , 7.045MHz, 7.065MHz, 7.265MHz, 3.720MHz, 3.977MHz will return to normal use.

• RESCUE RADIO: HAM RADIO OPERATORS ATTACKED IN HAITI
• RESCUE RADIO: HAMS VICTIMIZED BY ARIZONA MAYDAY HOAX
• HAM RADIO POLITICS: ARRL ELECTS KAY CRAIGIE, N3KN AS ITS NEW PRESIDENT
• HAM RADIO POLITICS: CHANGES TOP THE ARRL LEADERSHIP
• RESTRUCTURING: FCC ELIMINATES PART 23 OF ITS RULES
• THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD: DAVE INGRAM, K4TWJ - S.K.
• RADIO HONORS: DAYTON HAMVENTION SEEKING AWARD NOMINEES
• RADIOSPORTS: DX MAGAZINE PUBLISHES 2009 MOST WANTED RESULTS.

The following is a Q-S-T. Hams come under gunfire as they try to

When I pull the cover off my cellphone there's a little FCC ID on it, as there is for most electronic devices. However, with cellphones you can actually get a whole wealth of technical info about it from that ID. Just type it in here:

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/

Example ID:BCGA1203

Grantee code is the first 3 characters, and the Product Code is the rest.
The first page that comes up breaks down the data per band. Most of the technical information is in the "Test Report" links. It will give you power output, EIRP calculations, power curves, antenna gain and much, much more.