This morning, I read a couple of e-mails about this week’s Surfin’ and it occurred to me that the very comprehensive “Morse Goes to the Movies” Web site that disappeared off the face of the net many years ago might be available on archive.org.
Sure enough; I went to archive.org and found the “Morse Goes to the Movies” Web site archived on March 9, 2001 here.
This week, Surfin’ finds Amateur Radio in motion pictures and other unexpected places.
By the way, Surfin’ is a weekly column published on ARRLWeb features Web sites related to Amateur Radio, specifically, and radio, in general. If you have any suggestions for Surfin’, please contact WA1LOU using the e-mail link to the right.
What a night!* The band opened up in all directions. To the northeast, he best DX received directly** by my APRS digi station was VE1AAQ in Springfield, Nova Scotia, Canada, over a 457-mile 60° path; to the northwest, N2HLT in Branchport, NY, over a 225-mile 289° path; and to the south-southwest, WA4KXV in Virginia Beach, VA, over a 376-mile 207° path;
I have a mild case of airliner enthusiasm. I caught it from my sister, who has it in spades.
As a an airliner enthusiast (AE, for short), I drop everything whenever I hear a jet overhead to see what it is the source of the sound. Living at 910 feet ASL and 22 miles (as a jet flies) from the runways of Bradley International Airport (BDL), I see a lot of low flying airliners. (I also see other interesting aerial sights, like a tanker refueling a B-52, but that’s another story.)
I also read Patrick Smith’s weekly Ask the Pilot column on Salon. If you have a mild or bad case of airliner enthusiasm, you should read Ask the Pilot especially this week’s installment, which talks all about our infliction.
