Google / Feedburner Mess, Please Update Your RSS Readers

As you probably know, Google bought Feedburner back in 2007. Recently Google "offered" to move my Feedburner account and feeds to the new Google / Feedburner. Since eventually everyone will have to move or their RSS feeds will stop working it seemed like a good idea. I pushed the button and all appeared to go smoothly and automatic. But it didn't. It broke all of my blog feeds, and since I maintain nine different blogs, it's a significant problem. Some feeds stopped updating, some began pointing to the wrong things, feeding comments out instead of posts, and other nonsense. It's a mess that I'm still cleaning up.

The Maya Paradise blog is now fixed, I think. The feed buttons on the Maya Paradise News Blog are updated and if you are a subscriber, please re-subscribe to the new feed before Google shuts down the previous feed system entirely on March 16th.

Up and Running in Guatemala

After an interruption in ham radio activities and blog entries, I am back on the air, more or less. The interruption was due to several months of planning and executing a move to Guatemala and then getting settled here in my new digs and setting up a basic radio shack. At the moment I am only using a 26 foot vertical wire supported by a tree so my signal is not very good but I'm out there on PSK and Hellschreiber. You can usually find me evening and nights from 7070 to 7074, signing TG9/KW2P. Give me a call.

Once I collect the materials I plan to put up a 270 foot vertical loop. I have some tall trees here that will support a vertically oriented 80m full wave loop. I've had both vertical and horizontal loops of that size and they worked great so I expect good results, especially in the tropics where QRN can be a problem. The loop should improve things drastically but getting the materials down here takes some doing.

73 de Phil, TG9/KW2P

Moved to Rio Dulce, Guatemala

Sorry for the longish absence. I am back on the air, operating from Rio Dulce, Izabal, Guatemala. I will be signing TG9/KW2P. New QSL information is posted on the QRZ database.

Photos of the sail from Florida to Guatemala and lots of photos of the local area can be seen on my Flickr account at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shuttersparks/

HAARP QSL Card

Well I got a QSL from the 40 meter moonbounce experiment back in January.



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HAARP Moon Echo Experiment--Slight Return

On the second night of the experiment, January 20, 2008, I copied signals at 6.7925 MHz from 0130 until 0139 EST, at which time the signals abruptly stopped and I subsequently received nothing. (nothing audible and nothing on the spectrum readout, which is much more sensitive.) I monitored continuously for another 15 minutes and then spot checked until 0230 EST. I moved to 7.4075 MHz and also copied nothing there.

HAARP Moon Echo Experiment

Tonight, the HAARP transmitter in Alaska was used to direct exceedingly powerful radio pulses (around 4 Gigawatts effective radiated power) at the moon at a frequency of 6.7925 MHz and I could easily receive the echoes from the two second bursts here on earth with my amateur radio rig.

Waterfall spectrogram of radio echoes from the moon.
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