WordPress is now running on the latest version and it seems that none of the plugins causes problems. If you experience some issues, I would appreciate if you could send an email to info@ham-blog.de mentioning the occurring issue and the page where this happened.

Twitter and Facebook integration are also working again, so blog updates should also appear on these two services. I finally hope that the Facebook plugin has been fixed so that blog posts only appear ONCE on Facebook.

What is still missing is time to update this blog . This is sad and I hope I will be able to post some more updates in the future. In the meantime, you might be interesting following me on Twitter and/or subscribe to the RSS feed.

QSLs for DL6KAC/TG9 go via DL6KAC either direct or via the bureau. QSOs will also be uploaded to LOTW.

QSL for QSOs made under YS0IARU goes via CRAS (Club de Radio Aficionados de El Salvador) as shown on qrz.com.

CRAS
Apartado Postal (or P.O. Box) 06-517
San Salvador, El Salvador

You can either send it via the bureau or direct. If you send the card direct, please send US-$ as IRCs are difficult to redeem in El Salvador.

This info has been confirmed by YS1MS, President of CRAS and Vice-President of IARU Region 2.

Today I decided to shut down ham-blogs.net. Why do I do that? Mainly for two reasons:

1. Ham-blogs.net has lost one of its unique features: give ham bloggers a start in the “abyss” of blogosphere. Google does much better as it did in 2006 and therefore a dedicated directory is no longer necessary.
2. Lack of time: I was no longer able to take care of the daily care of the directory. As of today it was already a little outdated and it won’t get better in the future.

Thank you for you understanding.

As always, doing some research helps. Obviously Logitech dropped support for older webcams in their newest driver package. Solution: Install an older version e.g. Quickcam 8.4.8 (30MB) which is available as a FTP download.

These drivers are no longer offered on the webpage! Worse: they don’t even mentioned that support for older webcams has been dropped (or they managed to hide this info).

Recently I came to appreciate Twitter as some sort of “micro-blogging-service”, which is useful when I found something interesting on the net which is worth mentioning but not important enough to write an extensive blog post.

With the help of Twitter-Tools (which already works nicely with the newest WordPress version 2.9.1) it is possible to “stream” your Twitter-post to WordPress-Blogs in order to have some sort of archive. IMHO search engines still have not yet managed to digest the flood of information produced by Twitterers all over the world.

Since a few weeks I created a daily digest of my tweets. This is too much as it totally clogs up the blog. Starting today a digest will only be created once a week on Sundays.

The following files are available for download:

• Write-Up
• Scores
• Expanded QRM (Soapbox)
• Operators Multi-OP Stations

Additionally a searchable score database and a soapbox database are available.A list of the plaque winners are also online.

Make sure you check out the photo gallery!

The following pages are available and IARU R2 welcomes everybody to follow them.

• IARU Region 2 Timeline
• IARU Region 2 Timeline (RSS feed)

Until further notice IARU Region 2 will use its Twitter account exclusively for matters related to the situation in Haiti. You may want to visit regularly of follow them on Twitter if you have an account. Alternatively you can subscribe to the timeline RSS feed or just visit the website.

• http://www.radarvirtuel.com/
• http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html
• http://www.flightradar24.com/
• http://sbs-madeira.blogspot.com/
• http://www.openatc.com/
• http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/index.html
• http://www.auroraeurotech.com/avionics/
• http://www.kinetic-avionics.com/sbs-1.php
• http://www.liveatc.net/ (Website by KM3T – they also feature an iPhone/iPod app)

tnx to Peter M3PHP, Juan Carlos TG9AJR and Ramon XE1KK for the links.