Dates this year are June 25 to 27. This year I’ll be there again for the seventeenth (yes 17) year in a row! We will be travelling with Jan ON4KB, Andy ON7TS, and Luc ON7KZ.
Old posts
Adding all old posts from the old site. Pages will follow soon
Sorry Mr. Google you’ll have to update your databases 😉
Old site
For those wondering what happened to the old site, for now it can still be visited at www.on5mf.be/index_before_wp.html
Time permitting all pages and posts will be transferred here.
!!!! a lot of links on the old pages are dead !!!!
I’m back! (once more…)
Hi,
welcome to my site, these are my first steps using WordPress.
The old ON5MF-site needed some serious updating so I’ll try to get all (interesting data) up again through this WordPress interface.
Any comments are welcome as long as they are constructive!
Microjunk does it again…
After installing the update from Internet Explorer 7 to IE 8 Microsoft again made the default email client Outlook instead of Thunderbird. Although this happened in the past, this time it wasn’t as easy to solve as before.
This time everything seemed to work fine except when right-clicking a file and selecting ‘Send to Email receiver’. On one of my machines XP kept opening the email window in Outlook, on the other machine I got a window stating there was no standard email client found.
I found the solution here: www.vistatips.com
In short this is the solution:
Thunderbird must be selected as the default for mail in three (3) places:
1. Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults
2. IE Tools | Internet Options | Programs | E-mail
3. In Tbird itself (e.g., Tools | Options | General)
Number 1 was clearly the solution for both machines this time…
Thanks again Micro$oft…
PS I suppose the problem is the same on Vista as on XP machines, I only use XP pro.
Before some of you smart guys send me any static about wanting to stay with Microjunk instead of Linux, my business runs on software developed on the Windows platform and that is not so easy to change, sorry.
Quote
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.” Albert Einstein
EU099
forgot to mention it yesterday, soon we’ll activate the Minkies Reef, eu099. Keep an eye on www.eu099.be
Back on the air soon?
Last weekend Jan ON4KB, Luc ON7KZ, Andy ON7TS and me went to the hamradio in Friedrichshafen (16th time in a row for me). The fair was a little disappointing, no real new things to see this time (apart from a 44m €28000 tower from Japan…). Moreover it seems there will soon only be a couple of companies left in Germany to sell hamradio gear.
The most positive thing is however that this time (for the first time in many years) we received a warm welcome at the UBA booth. Could it be this depends on the people being at the booth at the moment we arrived?
Next year the fair will be from june 23 till 26. Probably we’ll be there again.
The most important thing is however that, still not being on the air from my own shack (or from the car I bought last year), the virus hit me again during the trip. I’ll try to get my antenna’s up on the tower (HF) and probably the mobile rig in the car (VHF/UHF) in a few weeks!
I’ll keep you posted!
Back or not?
Hi, I just noticed it’s almost 2 years ago I wrote something on here… this site was the result of something that started as a joke between ONL Bart, Jan ON4KB and me.
After a while some of us got tired of updating our sites and when Jan stopped his site I had so many links to update that I got discouraged. Most of these faulty links are still on this site and if I ever find the time I’ll correct/remove them one by one.
Speaking of time, the K2 I worked on so frequently is now gathering dust since about 2 years (the main unit is finished and working, the SSB module is halfway built).
In these 2 years the relationship with my girlfriend grew stronger and stronger (life changes…) and I also took up sporting more and more. (Have a look at the picture, yes I bought a new bike and I still need to lose some weight)
This combined with the company I try to run gives me less and less time for ham radio.
But don’t worry, I’ll be back! Together with some other Ham’s we are
working on a DXpedition to a rare IOTA island planned for the first half of next year!
Soon 2 new DXCC entities!
Will there soon be two (or even three) new DXCC entities? According to The Economist there might…
It’s now exactly 3 months since our last elections in Belgium and we still have no government. Correction, we have no Belgian government. But don’t worry, we still have a Flemish, a Walloon and a Brussels government. So, we have no lack of politicians 🙂
Biggest problem to form a new federal government seems to be the
disagreements between the Flemish and the Walloon politicians.
Life for the rest of us, seems to go on even without a federal government. It seems even better to me for the moment. As long as they don’t agree about this new government they at least don’t make any new laws or invent any new taxes 🙂
Just wondering what our new prefix will be?