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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
December 15, 2006
This week, I recommend visiting a ham weatherman's Web site that I surf to every day, rain or shine.
My Permanent Record features the daily ramblings of a technical rambling man, Geoff Fox, WA1U.. |
Recently, while I was chowing down with the local news from the local ABC affiliate playing, the television blaring on the kitchen counter, there was a news story about a local concert featuring The Guess Who, a popular rock band from the late 1960s. After the story, one of the news anchors wondered aloud whether The Guess Who had appropriated their name from The Who (an even more popular rock band from the late 1960s). Geoff Fox, WA1U, the evening weatherman piped in, "What about The Wonder Who?"
The news anchors reacted as if they had never heard of The Wonder Who and looked at Geoff as if he had just stepped off a flying saucer that had landed on the New Haven Green, but Geoff had a good point. And Geoff often makes good points on a daily basis at his blog called My Permanent Record.
I read Geoff's blog everyday. His roots are in radio, he builds his own computers, surfs the 'net, writes with a flare and his call sign is similar to mine (WA1LOU, sans the LO), so I am a fan of his blog and find his daily ramblings interesting and entertaining. In the past, he hosted Inside Space on the Sci-Fi Channel, so he is space savvy, too, and outer space is near and dear to the hearts of many a ham including me.
Caveat emptor: WA1U's blog is not an Amateur Radio blog per se, but it is technology-oriented and should be of interest to a lot of hams (and I managed to use two Latin legal phrases in one sentence, thus justifying my expensive idle law degree).
FYI, The Wonder Who were a one-hit wonder, who took Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice (It's All Right)" to number 12 on the charts in 1965. In reality, The Wonder Who were The Four Seasons, a rock group that was so popular in the 1960s, that fan magazines pitted them against the lads from Liverpool with headlines like "The Four Seasons vs. The Beatles." Being a former AM disc jockey, WA1U knew all about The Wonder Who.
Until next time, keep on surfin'.
Editor's note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, remembers phoning WA1U for the Dayton Hamvention weather forecast back in those days before the Internet and online worldwide weather information. To discuss the weather and other neat things with Stan, send him an e-mail or add comments to his blog.
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