By k1ir on
9/6/2009 12:18 PM
I've been playing with data visualization a lot at work. Have you ever seen a word cloud? Its a visual presentation of words where the most frequently encountered words are bigger. Here's a word cloud created from the Wikipedia page on radio contesting. 
Try building your own word cloud at http://www.wordle.net
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By k1ir on
9/11/2008 7:14 AM
 Second place is fantastic! Congratulations to the team at W3BGN who powered ahead of us with a lead of 200 QSOs and 15 multipliers.
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By k1ir on
8/26/2008 8:12 AM
 On Saturday night, August 23, 2008, YCCC members, Elecraft president Eric Swartz and his wife Lerma, and receiver performance measurement expert Rob Sherwood broke bread at Legal Seafood in Framingham, MA. Eric and Rob spoke earlier during the ARRL New England Division Convention in Boxborough, MA. Local attendees were W1STT, K1EA, W1WEF, K1EP, K1IR and XYL Sue. Dinner conversation drifted from radios to flying to motorcycling and an eclectic variety of other ...
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By k1ir on
8/20/2008 10:48 AM
  Sue and I decided to have a little fun a few weeks ago ...
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By k1ir on
6/1/2008 10:59 AM
All K1IR scores available from the Contest Score Database are now shown on the Trophy Case page. Unfortunately, this does not yet include scores from the CQ WW DX Contests.
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By k1ir on
5/31/2008 9:41 PM
 Today I added a module for display of images. The first use of that module is on the Ops page. Have a look.
73, Jim K1IR
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By k1ir on
5/24/2008 11:05 AM
I thought you might like to know a little bit about this website. Upon our return from Dayton, I wanted to post the story of this year's trip. Building a new website is something that's been on my mind for quite some time, so I decided this would be the time to do it.
A few months ago, I moved my company's website www.designet.com to a new server, running under an open source content management system called dotnetnuke [DNN]. DNN runs on a Windo ...
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By k1ir on
5/24/2008 10:36 AM
 KT1D decided to come over and give WPX CW a try this weekend. We just got back from Dayton and thoughts of Skimmer were floating through his mind. So, Tim brought along his SDR and hooked it up just before the contest started. We had to fix the 80m 4-square and get a logging program running first, so Skimmer was a last-minute project. Logging software was N1MM. Skimmer was running on a separate pc, bandwidth is 48kHz. K1TTT's packet aggregator software was combining Skimmer spots with spots from other telnet sources. ...
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By k1ir on
5/24/2008 9:29 AM
 Just got home from the annual Dayton trip. It was great. Why? I saw so many of my contesting friends from all over the US and the world. I got to make a few new friends, too. The weather was just fine - contrary to warnings from www.weatherunderground.com. Don't trust anyone when you want to know what the weather will be in Dayton on Hamvention weekend.
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