May 30, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Travel Weekly (free registration) reports that a new tool “for business travelers now enables them to book air, hotel and car reservations from mobile devices.” The TripSync mobile booking tool, produced by a company called Portaga, integrates “with Microsoft Outlook, enabling groups of travelers at a corporation to view and coordinate itineraries through the e-mail calendar,” according to Travel Weekly. The TripSync tool will soon switch from the Sabre global distribution system (GDS) to Galileo for inventory access.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2007/05/tool_allows_fli.html?csp=34

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May 30, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Starting next month, passengers on Finland’s Finnair will be able to send mobile text messages and e-mails on some of the carrier’s flights to Asia, The Associated Press reports. “The service will become possible on satellite telephones provided at each seat of the airline’s new Airbus A340 aircraft, to be delivered in June. It will first be available on routes from Helsinki to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Nagoya, and Shanghai. Passengers will be able to read and answer messages and mail sent from the ground. Each sent or received message will cost $2, the Finnish carrier said. Passengers will be able to call each other during flights,” AP writes.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2007/05/finnair_to_offe.html

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May 30, 2007 by kb3ljm.

From N3EZD: Video Shows for Hams:
http://www.amateurlogic.com
Thanks, Mike…..

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May 30, 2007 by kb3ljm.

In accordance with an agreement between Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) and Industry Canada — that country’s telecommunications regulatory agency — special authorizations allowing some Canadian radio amateurs to conduct experiments at 136 kHz and 5 MHz will terminate June 30. “These experiments have had, as one objective, the provision of data that would support the objectives of RAC and the IARU for possible new allocations to the Amateur Service at these frequencies,” the RAC said. Future special authorizations will depend on the outcomes of World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 (WRC-07), which gets under way October 22, the RAC added. New, worldwide, secondary amateur allocations at 135.7 to 137.8 kHz and in the 5 MHz range are up for possible consideration at WRC-07. RAC Newfoundland-Labrador Section Manager Joe Craig, VO1NA, described some of his LF experiences in “The Transatlantic on 2200 Meters,” which appeared in July 2005 QST. Craig also has been in the forefront of 60-meter experimentation in Canada through the Marconi Radio Club of Newfoundland. In 2003, club station VO1MRC worked N1RL in Massachusetts for the first Canada-US two-way amateur contact on 60 meters. There’s more information on the VO1MRC 5 MHz Experiment Web pages.

http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7491

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