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Propfire upgrade to Firefox 4

I’ve upgraded Propfire to version 1.73.18 making it compatible with Firefox version 4. What’s Propfire? Why it’s the solar / radio propagation add-on plug-in thing for Firefox of course. Over 50,000 downloads to-date! Thanks to those who requested an upgrade.

QST meet John Atanasoff, inventor of the digital computer

While flipping through the July 2010 issue of QST I stumbled on the Vintage Radio column titles “From Dits to Bits”.  In this article, John (K2TQN) describes his long held fascination with computers and connections to some some early computer magazines, clubs and kits. I would imagine many hams would have a similar long time [...]

Amateur Radio Licenses World Map

Working with a group called Mappingworld, I have created the Amateur Radio Licenses World Map, a world map that resizes countries to reflect the number of ham radio licenses. I found this to be an interesting exercise. Perhaps, you’ll find it interesting as well.  If you look at the long list of countries and their [...]

Mickey, PCs, webcams & other distractions

It has been quite a while since I’ve posted to the Ham Radio Blog.  Here’s an update on what’s been happening in my world (keeping me away from posting and ham radio in general). Work… My division of Emerson is still digesting a company  that we acquired almost two years ago. Acquisitions are never easy [...]