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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!
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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.
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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!
There's a Buzztime.Com Forum in the form of a Yahoo!Group
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??
Stan Veit 1919 - 2010 My old friend and mentor, Stan Veit, died recently. A memorial service was held at Titusville Elks Lodge Saturday August 21, 1PM Please visit my "page o'links" for Stan.

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

My current "claim to fame" is having come up with the idea that the Area Code of Space Coast of Florida (the Countdown Capitol of the World) should be 321. Oh sure, it makes sense once it's been pointed out, but it took me to point it out. What can I point out to others? To you, and your company? As a result, I'm hanging out a "consulting shingle" to provide my kind of "non-linear thinking" to consulting clients. Please visit my web site at SpaceyIdeas.Com.

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) for 2 years. Both are pretty much defunct now.

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

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.
• Emergency 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
• 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.
• Green Bay Professional Packet Radio links
• 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.

  TAPR, the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio organization sets Packet Radio network protocols.

  • RXcomm Weather Data Station
  • Census Geographic Gazetteer
  • Main Tiger Page, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system.

• Sound Card TNC Stuff
• FindU.Com CGI Info
• ARISS.Net, Space Station Ham Radio User Maps
• 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.
• The Missing Q Signals In a telegraph based hobby (like Ham Radio), Q Signals send complete phrases in three characters starting with "Q".
  • The real Q Signals

  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.

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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.
• Telephone Exchange location, enter Area Code & Exchange to find location.
• PhoneSpelling.Org, What does your phone number spell?
• US Short code WhoIs, for SMS (Short Message System or Text Message) Short Codes.

• 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.
  • Ozzie interviewed on StoryCorps
  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, a Science Fiction Convention in Orlando FL over the Memorial Day Weekend. (Science fiction is mind expansion using a chemical compound called "ink")
  • Other Science Fiction Conventions.
  • The Server At The End Of the Internet
• Funny Songs: Tom Lehrer (a quick bio, lyrics with references, 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 Webcams: See some interesting places, and the status of coffee pots. More, Yet More, and even more.
• 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. (Threre are also other fiksong books)
• My friend Mary Myers has a micellanious web page at WhoZwhatsIt.Com.
• My beard has been reviewed! However, it's from my 1975 Space Suit Photo (see the ToDonnaLoveBob Page).
• 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 (#)
• Slide Show Wizard", create a slide show from a directory of images.
• Signs & Symbols - Transportation
• Signs & Symbols - Labels
• Safety Labels w/Symbols
• AccessSymbols.Org
• 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 provided "suplimental communications" (cellular pay phones mounted on trailers) at NASCAR events. Interesting links include: Go Racing site. 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).

  What's wrong with racing stock cars for the Nabisco Cup instead? Cookies aren't addictive either! (This joke went stale after Winston no longer sponsered 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,
• 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.
• Who is DaddyOzz? A link to DaddyOzz's home Page. (For the ladies looking to send him free e-mail)
• 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!