December 26th, 2010
I was finally able to do some housekeeping and maintenance on this website.
WordPress is now running on the latest version and it seems that none of the plugins causes problems. If you experience some issues, I would appreciate if you could send an email to info@ham-blog.de mentioning the occurring issue and the page where this happened.
Twitter and Facebook integration are also working again, so blog updates should also appear on these two services. I finally hope that the Facebook plugin has been fixed so that blog posts only appear ONCE on Facebook.
What is still missing is time to update this blog 
. This is sad and I hope I will be able to post some more updates in the future. In the meantime, you might be interesting following me on Twitter and/or subscribe to the RSS feed.
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October 4th, 2010
Today (October 3, 2010) I was active on 17m and 20m as DL6KAC/TG9. Propagation was not that good so I just managed to make a few contacts.
QSLs for DL6KAC/TG9 go via DL6KAC either direct or via the bureau. QSOs will also be uploaded to LOTW.
QSL for QSOs made under YS0IARU goes via CRAS (Club de Radio Aficionados de El Salvador) as shown on qrz.com.
CRAS
Apartado Postal (or P.O. Box) 06-517
San Salvador, El Salvador
You can either send it via the bureau or direct. If you send the card direct, please send US-$ as IRCs are difficult to redeem in El Salvador.
This info has been confirmed by YS1MS, President of CRAS and Vice-President of IARU Region 2.
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May 2nd, 2010
When I started ham-blogs.net about 4 years ago, blogging was fairly new to the Ham Radio community. There existed a bunch of radio blogs but most of them disappeared the the depth of Google. This has changed. Nowadays ham radio blogging has become much more popular. Cheaper webhosting costs and blogging plattforms like blogger.com surely helped. Actually the trend seems to change over to micro blogging like Twitter etc.
Today I decided to shut down ham-blogs.net. Why do I do that? Mainly for two reasons:
- Ham-blogs.net has lost one of its unique features: give ham bloggers a start in the “abyss” of blogosphere. Google does much better as it did in 2006 and therefore a dedicated directory is no longer necessary.
- Lack of time: I was no longer able to take care of the daily care of the directory. As of today it was already a little outdated and it won’t get better in the future.
Thank you for you understanding.
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March 27th, 2010
The previously announced weekly twitter updates will no longer be published. This adds to too much noise to the blog, so if you would like to keep track of my twitter updates, please follow me directly on Twitter.
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February 7th, 2010
Yesterday I had to install a Logitech Quickcam Messenger webcam on a Windows XP machine. As always, the original installation disc was not available, therefore I went to the Logitech website and downloaded the latest webcam driver package (QC1150) assuming that this package includes drivers for ALL logitech webcams. Wrong! Once installed, the computer didn’t recognize the webcam. Bummer!
As always, doing some research helps. Obviously Logitech dropped support for older webcams in their newest driver package. Solution: Install an older version e.g. Quickcam 8.4.8 (30MB) which is available as a FTP download.
These drivers are no longer offered on the webpage! Worse: they don’t even mentioned that support for older webcams has been dropped (or they managed to hide this info).
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February 7th, 2010
As you might have noted, I reactivated my Twitter-Account. Until then I never completely understood why somebody would want to expose his “private life” to the world. I admit that blogging is similar , however you won’t find status updates like “Good morning all – I just woke up” from my side. Maybe some weather stuff, but that’s it.
Recently I came to appreciate Twitter as some sort of “micro-blogging-service”, which is useful when I found something interesting on the net which is worth mentioning but not important enough to write an extensive blog post.
With the help of Twitter-Tools (which already works nicely with the newest WordPress version 2.9.1) it is possible to “stream” your Twitter-post to WordPress-Blogs in order to have some sort of archive. IMHO search engines still have not yet managed to digest the flood of information produced by Twitterers all over the world.
Since a few weeks I created a daily digest of my tweets. This is too much as it totally clogs up the blog. Starting today a digest will only be created once a week on Sundays.
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January 30th, 2010
Randy, K5ZD just posted on Twitter, that the CQ WPX SSB 2009 results are online.
The following files are available for download:
Additionally a searchable score database and a soapbox database are available.A list of the plaque winners are also online.
Make sure you check out the photo gallery!
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January 16th, 2010
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January 16th, 2010
Since a few days IARU Region 2 is active on Twitter.
The following pages are available and IARU R2 welcomes everybody to follow them.
Until further notice IARU Region 2 will use its Twitter account exclusively for matters related to the situation in Haiti. You may want to visit regularly of follow them on Twitter if you have an account. Alternatively you can subscribe to the timeline RSS feed or just visit the website.
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January 5th, 2010
As a follow-up to yesterdays twitter post by Peter, 2E0SQL (ex M3PHP), here are some aviation links.
tnx to Peter M3PHP, Juan Carlos TG9AJR and Ramon XE1KK for the links.
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