June 30, 2008 by kb3ljm.

(Thanks, Bruce!)

Aug. 2

European HF Championship
TARA Grid Dip Shindig

Aug 2-3

10-10 Int. Summer Contest, SSB
ARRL UHF Contest
N. American QSO Party, CW

Aug. 3

AARL HF Phone Contest

Aug 9-10

WAE DX Contest, CW

Aug 16-17

SARTG WW RTTY Contest
ARRL 10GHz and Up Contest
N. American QSO Party, SSB

Aug 16-18

New Jersey QSO Party

Aug 18

Run for the Bacon QRP Contest

Aug 23-24

Ohio QSO Party

Aug 30-31

YO DX HF Contest
SCC RTTY Championship

Aug 31

SARL HF CW Contest

Sept 1-2

MI QRP Labor Day Sprint, CW

Sept 6-7

All Asian DX Contest, Phone

Sept 6

Wake Up! QRP Sprint
AGCW Straight Key Party

Sept 7

North American Sprint, CW
DARC 10-Meter Digital Contest

http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/index.html

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June 30, 2008 by kb3ljm.

Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan’s top mobile carrier is testing for “wearable” gadgets.

In one version, sensors and chips inside headphones detect electrical current produced by movements of the wearer’s eyeballs, says Masaaki Fukumoto, executive research engineer at NTT DoCoMo.
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June 30, 2008 by kb3ljm.

• Paul, 2E1EUB plans to be active on satellites from grid IO87rj near Aberdeen, Scotland starting June 28 for 7 days. He will be using the callsign 2M1EUB/P. There may be some low elevation opportunities to work North America via AO-7. The QRZ.com web page 2M1EUB provides QSL information.
• The NanoSail-D satellite mentioned in prior ANS reports was featured this week in a NASA web release: “This summer, NASA engineers will try to realize a dream older than the Space Age itself: the deployment of a working solar sail in Earth orbit. It is scheduled for launch on-board a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket as early as July 29, 2008″. See:
  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/26jun_nanosaild.htm?list958901
• The EE Times ran an article about Suitsat and SuitSat-2. The SDR transponder aboard SuitSat-2 is based on the High Performance Software Defined Radio “Odyssey” system. For the article see: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=208403999 (Via Graham, KE9H on the HPSDR Discussion List at http://hpsdr.org)

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