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OZZIE'S WEB PAGE

n4scy@amsat.org

What the...? Why is this 1975 photo of ME all over Britain? What I know about it...
Click to see where Ozzie lives.
Visit my Space Launch FAQ Page Answering Frequently Asked Questions about viewing Shuttle and unmanned launched on Florida's Space Coast.
Are You Ready For HURRICANE WHO ??? Orlando, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2009
It's Official!! Ozzie's Idea To Give "The Space Coast" (the Count Down Capitol of the World) Area Code "321" Is A GO!!! Read Ozzie's story of How It Came About. You can also read Ozzie's Testimony before the PSC, and the Wall Street Journal's "Vanity Area Code" article. Area Code 321 has even been the subject of an answer on Jeopardy! Visit http://SpaceyIdeas.Com Ozzie's Space Marketing Consulting Company!
Click for Hurricane Status GOES Satellite Photo
Get the latest National Weather Service Forcast for Brevard County FL.
Do you know my friend Virginia Edgerton? I've lost track of her over the years and would like to get in touch.
The Ig® Nobel Prize Winners
A study finds Cellular Phone hazards are real! Read the Wired Magazine article. This one is not a joke.
Click here to check the weather in Titusville FL.
Ozzie likes the However, Valentine Micheal Smith prefers the Third New International Dictionary by the Mirriam-Webster Company of Springfield Massachusetts.
Check out the Amateur SETI Project. Yes, you too can be a part of the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence in your own home!
NPR's Lost and Found Sound: The Twitching of the Telegraph. Morse code and Ham Radio in a young boy's life. Real Audio required.
Are you aware of the Mobile Marketing Association??

Governor Jeb Bush teleconferences the First Official Phone Call to "launch" Area Code 321 by calling the Kennedy Space Center. Ozzie is the bearded fellow in the first row

Well. I used to work as a "headset jockey" on the other end of the Toll Free number at The Palm Store, which led to my becoming head of the Central Florida Palm Users Group (CFPUG).

Students of The Florida Space Institute, Course EGN-2930 Space Science & Technology, pose behind the Space Shuttle Columbia in the Vehicle Assmebly Building. (Yes, I'm in there. And that's not white hair; I live in Florida, so it's sunbleached!)

Ozzie's Space Stuff

Launch Viewing
Frequently Asked Questions

You can get information on Launch Holds & Scrubs at the Canaveral Spaceport sent to your cell phone via text messaging.

You can view satellites travel above your home! Click here to see when satellites are visible from your back yard.

Ozzie's favorite source for launch schedules is the SpaceFlight Now Launch Schedule Page

My room-mate Cheshire went
to a "hackers" conference called

And all I got was this lousy icon. ;-)>

There are also some Electronic Press Clippings available from the Beyond HOPE conference as well. He also attended the H2K Conference (Hope 2000) in New York City, 2000 July 14-16. He keeps the Post H2K Convention Web page.

Click here for the correct time, (There is also a fancy "Netscape specific" version) from the US Naval Observatory, or download software from the National Institute of Standards & Technology to set your system clock from their atomic clock using Network time Protocol.

A Brief Explanation:

Ozzie's "Web Pages Of Interest" (to him, anyway)

• Ozzie's Space Stuff. The really Techno-geeky stuff on outer space comes out of the FAQ Page. Though you still have to be able to find Keps, the Keplerian elements, or "keps" that are the mathematical variables that allow computer programs such as Traksat to calculate when satellites are visible over your location. You know, I once had my own Space Suit. I kept the space suit liner for a few more years.

• Ozzie N4SCY works the High Frequency bands with Sue KF4QMM logging stations contacted during Field Day 1997 - Photo by Jo KE4AEB

  Ham Radio: The ARRL is the national ham radio Home Page of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). The QRZ Ham Radio Callsign Database is here. Don't forget the Titusville Amateur Radio Club! And in case you need to know, here's the The International Standard Phonetic Alphabet. You'd be surprised how handy it is to know this!
• Hurricane Andrew Report, from the time I led a 10 person crew from Pinellas County into Homestead FL to operate ham radios after Huricane Andrew.
• Brevard County Radio Frequencies.
• Emmergency communications Frequencies.
• Incident Command Training, ICS-100
  • ICS Course List
• NAVTEX is Navigation Text messages sent by Radio Teletype.
  • Ham Radio on Boats
• Once a year, you need Field Day Software (it's down the page a bit).
• Packet Radio (the TAPR Home Page), the data communications service of ham radio (and the reason I got my ham radio license). Computer To Radio Pinouts for cable connections are here. I've also been published in the ARRL 12th Digital Communications Conference Proceedings 1993.
• Anderson Power Poles are the new power connector standard.
• APRS, The Amateur Automatic Packet Reporting System for position reporting by receiving location strings emitted by a GPS receiver, and sending the information over Packet Radio, the data communications service of amateur radio. You can download APRS software and the latest maps. In fact you can even see where I live.

  Click here for the Windows version of APRS which can be found at ftp://ftp.tapr.org/aprssig/winstuff/WinAPRS/. Don't forget to pick up your Maps of Florida Counties (very big and very detailed.

  RATS, the Radio Amateur Telecommunications Society of New Jersey set Packet Radio network protocols.

  • RXcomm Weather Data Station
  • Census Geographic Gazetteer
  • Main Tiger Page
  • Generate Tiger Maps

• sound Card TNC Stuff
• FindU.Com CGI Info
• The Hamshack Hack, a complete Knoppix Linux ISO CD-ROM image, suitable for burning on your own CD-ROM (at your own risk, of course). You can boot from the CD-ROM, and runn Linux without doing away with your Windows system.

  PacComm Packet Radio Systems is a major manufacurer of APRS compatible Packet Radio equipment. On-Line Command and Function Reference for TNC Commands is a useful link. AEA and Kantronics also makes packet gear. The ECHO Satellite has been launched!

  
  Ozzie once had a day job as a "headset jockey" at
  The Palm Store selling Palm Pilots. He's now head of the
  Central Florida Palm Users Group

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  Robert Osband's PSC Testimony Hyper-References
  (Or you could just read "The Area Code 321 Story")

  • Ozzie's Testimony before the Florida Public Service Commission suggesting the 407 Area Code be split into 407 and 321.
  • The Florida Public Service Commission's web site.
  • North American Numbering Plan Administration.
    • NANPA Area Code Inventory List.
    • Area Code Maps.
    • Customer Dialing Codes (like *69) called Vertical Service Codes in the industry.
      • International Telephone Country Codes
  • The Industry Numbering Committee.
  • Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions.
  • NPA Assignment Form Part 1 - Assignment Request (Rev. July 13, 1998).
  • the NPA Allocation Plan & Assignment Guidelines of the The Industry Numbering Committee.
    Many of these documents are Portable Document Files (PDF). They can be read and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free.

• Electronic Commerce: EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, allows the transfer of business information that would have flowed in the form of Invoices, and Purchase Orders, to travel as "electronic documents" in machine readable form at the speed of light. DISA, the Data Interchange Standards Association, is a good place to start. This stuff is international in scope, so be sure to check out the EDIFACT information as well.. You can also read my roommate Cheshire's views on E-Commerce, which calls for strong encryption before E-Commerce can be taken seriously.
• ITU, the International Telecommunications Union is a United Nations specialized agency, which handles international communications treaties and standards. Inmarsat started life as the International Maritime Satellite Organization as an offshoot of the IMO, the International Maritime Orgaznization. It has been privatized. A "users group" has ben formed called the Mobile Satillite Users Association.

  

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• Audio Reading Service for the blind. A service of WMFE. (the service can be found on the Second Audio Program (SAP) of Channel 24 in Orlando - hit your "zapper menu" untill the stereo choices come up.
• WMFE 90.7 FM, Public Radio in Orlando FL. I answer phones during pledge drives, because I love NPR, National Public Radio. Communitty Broadcasting (WMFE) home page,
• 2600 Magazine, Home of "The Hacker's Quarterly" web page. One of their writers is The Cheshire Catalyst. You can even look up 2600's mascot, Walter, a dog with his own Web Page. (While I'm at it, here's a Guide Dog FAQ). Here's a link to Mr Bell.
  • User Friendly cartoons, including one about a friend of mine.
• Discovery Channel Science News Page. Well, how about their History of Hacking pages? (I know three of these people personally)
• The WorldCon, The World Science Fiction Convention can be found by following this link. If I can afford to go, you might find me there as well.
  Local Science Fiction Conventions. (local to me, anyway)
  • Oasis 14, a Science Fiction Convention in Orlando FL over the Memorial Day Weekend. (Science fiction is mind expansion using a chemical called "ink")
  • Other Science Fiction Conventions.
  • The Server At The End Of the Internet
• Funny Songs: Tom Lehrer (a quick bio, and WikiQuotes), Dr Demento, The Capitol Steps, Mark Russell, P.D.Q. Bach, Tom Smith (a filker with computer songs), and other humorous song references.
• Interesting TV Cameras: See some interesting places, and the status of coffee pots.
• Ozzie's Ego: My Resume is available for viewing. There's a Hurricane Andrew Report, from the time I led a 10 person crew from Pinellas County into Homestead FL to operate ham radios after Huricane Andrew. As a result, I published a paper for the ARRL 12th Digital Communications Conference Proceedings 1993. A "FilkSong Book" has been published on the Web with my song When Harlie Played One in it. One of my heros is James Burke
• My friend Mary Myers has a micellanious web page at WhoZwhatsIt.Com.
• Standard HTML Icons. This is an incredible page - if you're into HTML as a participation sport!
• HTML Characters and their associated numbers
• HTML Character Codes & Names (#)
• Geo Codes, Geographic Names and Lat/Longs.
• Soccer: The world's football game. Here's the home page of Sam's Army, the un-official fan club of US Soccer. Say, did you know I'm originally from Rochester NY? -->
• NASCAR : I was working for a company that provides "suplimental communications" (cellular pay phones mounted on trailers) at NASCAR events. Interesting links include: Go Racing site. Visit Nascar Fans HERE!. You can also hear some red-neck good-ole boys talkan 'bout NASCAR at Jon Boy & Billy's Weekly NASCAR Show. Here's a list of good sites (thanks to the folks at StockCarFans.com).

  From StockCarFans.Com:
  Daytona For Dummies

  What's wrong with racing stock cars for the Nabisco Cup instead? Cookies aren't addictive either! (This joke goes stale after Winston no longer sponsers the Cup)

  http://www.jayski.com
  http://www.thatsracin.com
  

  You'd think that if a company was going to show off how "Internet Savy" they were, they'd know how to fix up the "Web-Cam" photo so that the artwork on the back of the shirt didn't get washed out. Here, UPS (the official express delivery company of NASCAR) wirelessly links their exhibit on the south lawn of Daytona International Speedway.

  I had to go back to get this taken, when their first attempt got me at the wrong moment. I had walked over to the Embry-Riddle library, and got their photo half an hour after it was taken. (Impressive delivery, lousy execution of a great concept IMHO).

• Scanner Frequencies: Railroads, NASCAR Radio Frequencies. "Dot/Star" Frequencies, Marine Frequencies, DisneyWorld, Other scanner Frequencies,
• American Diabetes Assoc, Florida Afiliate. I help out during the Tour de Cure Bicycle ralley.
• Ozzie's Alta Vista page. Ozzie really likes the Alta Vista search engine, but sometimes accesses it from the Lynx non-graphic web browser. Ozzie's Alta Vista page is his answer to the problem.
• Sign Maker, when you need to generate highway signs for graphics.
• Credits and Gratitude, a web page to thank those who have assisted in providing me web sites to "tag" to some of my information, or who have been very helpful in providing me assistance. There`s also a list of places I've accessed the Internet from.

Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages by David Taylor. An earlier version of this book is how I learned to create web pages one weekend. By Monday morning, my first Home Page had been hacked out using WordStar in non-document mode!

My Political Agenda

Soccer Has Reached America!

But let's play the world's game by the world's rules.

In my identity as a mild-mannered gas cylinder tester for a small obscure Space Shuttle subcontractor (I don't work there any more - I'm back in Telecom stuff), I was a Volunteer at the Orlando venue of World Cup 94, the world's most prestegious soccer match. I'm a computer geek, not a sports jock, but I support socccer as a game the rest of the world loves, that America is just getting into. It is also a game that we Americans are not trying to shove down the world's throat! I like that. ;-)>

• Major League Soccer itself has a Home Page also.
• US Soccer's Home Page,
• 2006 World Cup was in Germany. I was a volunteer radio operator for World Cup 94 at the Orlando Venue.

What? You haven't figured out why I consider International Sports to be political in nature? e-mail me at n4scy@amsat.org, and I'll be happy to discuss it.

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Please note:

Dates on my web pages are in the date/time format of Year-Month-Day/Hour:Minute:Second. Besides being an international standard, it is in computer sortable order. Only a real computer geek like Ozzie would bother to point this out.

This web page is Copyright 1996-2007, Robert Osband. His resume is available for viewing.

Any trademarks used are the property of the respective trademark holder (though I personally don't respect any trademark holder that holds me to putting in a disclaimer this ridiculous).

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This page is Lynx Enhanced and proud of it.

While this page will be perfectly viewable on Notscape, and Microsoft Internet Expletive, it will also be readable on Lynx, the non-graphic web browser for people using text-only terminals in Public Libraries, terminals with speech synthisizers for the blind, and users accessing the web via Telnet.

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The Web Access Symbol means this page is enhanced for people with disabilities.

The author, Robert Osband  is a member of The HWG has declared April is "Accessibiliy Month". Not everyone has graphic web browsers, you know. http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/events/accessapril.html Also, see Cheshire's paper on the subject, http://SpaceyIdeas.Com/cheshire/access.html

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