04/18 - International Amateur Radio Day
~~ Ham Radio
It's International Amateur Radio Day Ham radio operators like amateur enthusiasts in most technical fields have contributed a lot to the advancement and spread of both the hobby and the technology used. They have also often provided emergency communication services under a wide range of circumstances in a wide range of locations, even in this day and age.
BONUS: If it is at all possible that you might ever so slightly disagree with the officially approved and promulgated narrative concerning anything whatsoever, being a HAM could very well permit you to express that disagreement. Nobody has to listen to you, but your ISP or the tweeter or faceplant or any other such enforcer of the official narrative cannot disappear or otherwise censer you. This has the added benefit of allowing you to verifiably say "I told ya so" when the official narrative changes as it so often does and has.
In the US is is also National Lineman Appreciation Day. Sorry, but it really isn't my fault
We have A YAAD, Yet Another Awareness Day. In this case, Adult Autism Awareness Day Awareness days are when we declare the need to be aware of something like poverty or hunger or Adult Autism that we intend to do nothing whatsoever about, nothing to aid, assist, alleviate, ameliorate, or even understand, but we are, by golly, aware of it. Aren't we wonderful.
It's Invention Day in Japan. Something to think about. Just sayin'.
On this day in history:
1689 – Bostonians rose up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") was founded in Madrid.
1775 – Paul Revere and other riders warned the countryside of British troop movements.
1783 – The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
1847 – US victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opened the way for invasion of Mexico.
1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association was granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 – The 7.5 Mw? Guatemala earthquake shook Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.
1906 – An earthquake and fire destroyed much of San Francisco, California.
1930 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
1942 – Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya were bombed by Doolittle's raiders.
1942 – Pierre Laval became Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when his aircraft was shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1946 – The International Court of Justice held its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act went into effect.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt.
Some people who were born on this day:
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
~~ Clarence Darrow
1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, a Borgia.
1772 – David Ricardo, economist and politician
1813 – James McCune Smith, physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author
1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, lawyer and activist ( made Grito de Yara)
1857 – Clarence Darrow, lawyer
1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee
1863 – Siegfried Bettmann, founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry
1864 – Richard Harding Davis, journalist and author
1882 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor
1889 – Jessie Street, activist
1892 – Eugene Houdry, mechanical engineer and inventor
1900 – Bertha Isaacs, teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist
1901 – Al Lewis, songwriter
1905 – George H. Hitchings, physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Carl Burgos, illustrator
1918 – Clifton Hillegass, publisher, founded CliffsNotes
1918 – Tony Mottola, guitarist and composer
1919 – Esther Afua Ocloo, entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending
1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, singer, songwriter, fiddle player, and guitarist
1934 – George Shirley, tenor and educator
1937 – Keiko Abe, marimba player and composer
1939 – Glen Hardin, pianist and arranger
1940 – Mike Vickers, guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter
1944 – Kathy Acker, author and poet
1950 – Grigory Sokolov, pianist and composer
1954 – Robert Greenberg, pianist and composer
1958 – Gabi Delgado-López, singer, co-founder of D.A.F.
1981 – Audrey Tang, computer scientist and academic
Some people who died on this day:
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~~ Albert Einstein
943 – Fujiwara no Atsutada, nobleman and poet
1556 – Luigi Alamanni, poet and politician
1732 – Louis Feuillée, astronomer, geographer, and botanist
1802 – Erasmus Darwin, physician and botanist
1832 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, painter
1873 – Justus von Liebig, chemist and academic
1898 – Gustave Moreau, painter and academic
1912 – Martha Ripley, physician
1936 – Milton Brown, singer and bandleader
1936 – Ottorino Respighi, composer and conductor
1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube
1945 – Ernie Pyle, journalist and soldier
1955 – Albert Einstein, physicist, engineer, and academic
2008 – Germaine Tillion, ethnologist and anthropologist
2012 – Dick Clark, television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions
2012 – Robert O. Ragland, musician
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Coma Patients' Day (Poland)
Adult Autism Awareness Day
Dyngus Day
Friend's Day (Brazil)
National Lineman Appreciation Day (US)
International Amateur Radio Day
Boston Marathon Day (Boston, US)
International Day For Monuments and Sites
Invention Day (Japan)
MUSIC goes here; With apologies 
Al Lewis
Tony Mottola
Gatemouth Brown
George Shirley
Keiko Abe
Glen Hardin
Mike Vickers
Grigory Sokolov
Gabi Delgado-López
Milton Brown
Ottorino Respighi
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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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Comments
April
is autism awareness Month
here in NoHum small events happen every week, usually For the autistic population
like They’re NOT aware?
Gatemouth be good, saw him years ago
wild
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Gatemouth
A really good bluesman. Had a beer with him once upon a time at Cooter Browns in NOLA where I
knew the barmaid. She made the introductions. Good times.
question everything
Boston Marathon
In next door Massachusetts, today is a state holiday called Patriots Day.
This is also the day of the Boston Marathon. A big road runner event.
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Per wiki:
The event attracts 500,000 spectators each year, making it New England's most widely viewed sporting event. Though starting with 15 participants in 1897, the event now attracts an average of about 30,000 registered participants each year ..
question everything
Good morning...
As to invention day in Japan. I once read the US has 9 lawyers for every engineer, whereas Japan has 9 engineers for every lawyer. Might suggest a difference in priorities.
I've got an old tube model transatlantic radio which only receives. When you cruise the Ham channels there mostly Christian stations around here. Know a couple of Ham fans her that talk with folks all over the world with their equipment.
Have a good day regardless of which awareness you seek. Thanks for the OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
On the boats we use what is known as SSB
which stand for single side band radios. They use the boat's rigging as antenna. The transceivers
are capable of skipping signals all over the world. They are good for offshore weather reports,
marine related broadcasts and other general news channels Two way communication is useful
when cruising with a group or back ashore with Ham-type transceivers.
The radios require a station license and operators permit issued by the FCC. I find them very
complicated to use as there are so many bands and frequencies involved. Way back when, we
could dial-in a marine operator and be connected to a land line for communications.
It was also fun to listen in to conversations from all over the globe. Satellite based devises are
now out-pacing this older technology, but it is still very prevalent.
question everything
ssb
used to be you could take your old 40channel cb radio to a truck stop radio tech and get upper and lower sideband installed, along with conex, reverb and the infamous rogerBEEP.
throw in a supermod/supertune and You could be a Big Rigger(wannaB)
your ownself
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
hang on to
that tube radio
if an emp ever goes off, those are Way more resistant than transistors
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march