QSY Member is part of the Project Blue Horizon record-breaking team

A team of 'early career engineers' at Lockheed Martin who are also pursuing graduate degrees at Cornell University has broken the world amateur high altitude balloon record in a "near space" flight that exceeded 125,000 feet.

QSY's John Ceccherelli N2XE emailed me: Yep, I'm the advisor/mentor/subcontractor for the project. We broke the altitude record and next year we're shooting to cross the atlantic.

We flew some flights with HF and I made the students use CW (we used my DSW-20 and a MFJ morse decoder for command and control)

I want to make a meeting and tell you all about it if my schedule will ever ease up.

XE fans can read more, with photos at http://tinyurl.com/6xlfa6

How do you score on The Nerdity Test!

I wonder if you know about this. It has been around for quite a while. Check out questions 306 through 319 on the test. (link from Chet AB2FF)

Ham Radio's Rejuvenation

From the online pages of Electronic Design, discussion regarding the rejuvenation of amateur radio, seen in Silicon Valley. (link from Chet AB2FF)

Dateline presents 'Tower Dogs'

A never-before-seen look at the most dangerous job in America -- airs Monday, July 21 at 10 p.m. ET on Channel 4.

An upcoming "Dateline Presents" takes a never-before-seen journey into the perilous world of the tower climbers who work on the frontlines of America's high-tech communications system.

The Adventures of Rooster and Peanut with Steve N0TU

Check out the QRP Adventures of Rooster and Peanut, with Steve N0TU, in the video bar to the left, or hit the link in the title for the whole story! Hysterical and amazing!

QSY Society Field Day 2008 Pictures

Here's a link to the QSY Field Day 2008 web album. I tried to put them in chronological order, if you have any photos, send them to me at n2skp@arrl.net and I'll try to include them as well.
Thank goodness Bob N2YYI and JB WA2WMJ shared their photos with me, or else you'd be seeing a lot less radio / antenna shots! Also thanks to the Poughkeepsie Journal for their photos, too.

Let's Make DXing Enjoyable again - Operating Practice article

Looking back at Field Day, Bob N2YYI sent me this informative website about operating procedures, primarily DX but other areas of operating - VHF/UHF and more.