Ripley County Humane Society

Cindy--Chihuahua

Phone 812-689-3773
Email rchumane@netzero.com
Location 1202 W. C.R. 150 N
Osgood, IN 47037
Hours Open daily 11-4 pm
Website
http://www.sisaveapet.com/showpage.php?page=shelter.htm&sid=5

Think about getting a rescue dog or cat in 2019 - Do not donate to the ASPCA, Rather give local.
....... Jack

A look back in time

While looking for a photo I took a while back I did manage to find it in the gagle. I thought you may want to look through them also. Some where given to me but I did take the most.
See them HERE

The Big Wheel Story

I was reminded that I did not post the "Big Wheel Story" this year.
Sorry, Here it is:

https://wb9otx.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-big-wheel-classic.html

A Ham's Night Before Christmas (a Christmas Classic)

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A Ham's Night Before Christmas

image from:
https://qrznow.com/kids-talk-to-santa-on-ham-radio/

Tis the season

by:Brett Sayles

photo by: Jack Demaree

 See lots of Winter scenes HERE 

2 meter beacon added to my station

A new beacon has been added to the WB9OTX station. The frequency is 144.282 Mhz. It is transmitting 24/7 giving my call sign and full grid square. The antenna is a horizontal loop side mounted on my tower at twenty five foot. The RF output power is 10 watts. The location is Versailles, Indiana. (EM79ib) The use of this beacon is to provide propagation conditions. If you receive this beacon please send your report to my QRZ page email or mailing address. The link is:
https://www.qrz.com/db/WB9OTX
I also run a 10 meter beacon on 28.203.3 and a 6 meter beacon on 50.075.5

73,
WB9OTX/b

Read more about  Amateur Radio propagation beacons HERE

Future Stars - My Grand Kids

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Pearl Harbor Day December 7, 1941

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 citizens of the United States who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
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Pearl Harbor as seen today

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2nd photo from: http://www.dailyoverlook.com

Flight 19 lost Dec. 5, 1945

Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost, as were all 13 crew members of a Martin PBM Mariner flying boat that subsequently launched from Naval Air Station Banana River to search for Flight 19. The PBM aircraft was known to accumulate flammable gasoline vapors in its bilges, and professional investigators have assumed that the PBM most likely exploded in mid-air while searching for the flight. Navy investigators could not determine the exact cause of the loss of Flight 19.
Read the full story  at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looking for FRB 121102 ??

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Read the article

Also, an article on the Geen Bank Array

1942 Prices

In 1942: all popular brands of cigarettes, 13 cents a pack or $1.20 a carton; Post Toasties, 6 cents a pack; Campbell’s tomato soup, two cans for 15 cents; No. 2 can of Whitehouse apple juice, 9 cents; pot roast, 29 cents a pound; bacon, 31 cents a pound Pillsbury flour, 61 cents for 12-pound bag; eggs, 41 cents; bleach, 9 cents per quart bottle; peaches, $1.98 per bushel; fresh shrimp, 33 cents a pound.

from qrz.com