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Administrative Notice - Idle Account Purge
Greetings all! It is my intention to purge all unused accounts this weekend. If you have a commenting account, and haven't logged in for more than 6 months and aren't on the OVMRC executive, I will be removing your account on Saturday, 13 June. There are no major effects of this - having an account…
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Getting Ready for FD/2020 - Class 1E
Hi Everybody, I suppose this could have been written as an article for the June Rambler, but that might be a bit late for the tale I'm about to tell which is my 24-hour experiment in running a Class 1E/QRP/Battery+Solar station for 2020 Field Day. In the 42 years of holding an Amateur Certificate, I've…
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May 2020 Rambler
The Rambler for May 2020 is now available here.
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Please Join The Fight
Hi folks, This weeks AMSAT news included an item advising that Stanford University is now dedicating its "folding@home" distributed computing application to determining the protein binding mechanism of the COVID-19 virus which, it is hoped, would lead to development of a vaccine or other mitigating therapy. You can find the link easily enough by searching…
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OVMRC March Meeting Cancelled.
The Science and Technology Museum has issued a notice to the General Public that its facilities are closed until further notice, presumably due to the COVID-19 virus containment situation. As all facilities are closed, this includes the OVMRC meeting room, therefore the March OVMRC meeting is cancelled by authority relayed to me by Norm, VE3LC,…