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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 new 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 new web site at SpaceyIdeas.Com.

I have a "real" job, of course, at Excell Agent Services. But my current "claim to fame" is being the fellow who suggested that The Space coast of Florida (the countdown Capitol of the World) should have Area Code 321. Service will begin on November 1.

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!)

Links to web pages Ozzie works on.

Launch Viewing
Frequently Asked Questions

Ozzie's Space Stuff

Here's information on doing SETI At Home. Yes, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence from the comfort of your easy chair!

I'm also working on the web sites of the Canaveral Council of Technical Societies, which puts on the annual Space Congress in Cocoa Beach.

You can view satellites travel above your home! Click here to see when satellites are visible from Titusville FL. A link at the bottom will let you get this information for your location by e-mail.

Not space, but air - You can view some QuickTime movies of strange aircraft things at The Smithsonian Institution, National Air & Space Museum.

Ozzie's favorite source for launch schedules is the FLORIDA TODAY Space Online Launch Schedule Page

My room-mate Cheshire went to a "hackers" conference called
H2K2 (Hope 2002) in New York City, 2002 July 12-14.
He keeps the Post H2K2 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.

A Brief Explanation:

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

• Ozzie's Space Stuff. Some really Techno-geeky stuff on outer space. It just outgrew this Home Page! Be aware that it's rarely updated. you might rather visit his pride and joy, The Space Launch Viewing FAQ Page answering Frequently Asked Questions about viewing launches on the Space Coast of Florida. Of course, 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.

• 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!
• Brevard County Radio Frequencies.
• NAVTEX is Navigation Text messages sent by Radio Teletype.
• 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.
• APRS, The Amateur Packet Reporting System for position reporting by receiving location strings emitted by a GPS receiver, and sent over Packet Radio, the data communications service of amateur radio. You can download APRS software and the latest maps. RATS, the Radio Amateur Telecommunications Society of New Jersey set Packet Radio network protocols.

  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.

  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 "How Area Code 321 came about"

  • 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.
    • Cu stomer Dialing Codes (like *69) called Vertical Service Codes in the industry.
      • International 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 formm 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 EDICORE web site at the ITU in Geneva Switzerland. 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 is the International Maritime Satellite Organization is an offshoot of the IMO, the International Maritime Orgaznization. A "users group" has ben formed called the Mobile Satillite Users Association.

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  Software That Ozzie Can't Live Without Eudora E-mail software for the Desktop, when you've got a hard drive on a machine of your own. Use Dokomi (below) when you don't. Eudora is compatible with PGP Plug-ins. Dokomi Portable E-mail software Put it on a Floppy Disk, and you can access your POP3 E-mail from anywhere there is Internet Access, and a floppy disk drive. While most libraries lock the floppy drive, you can check your E-Mail from your friend's house or a Cyber Café without upsetting their settings! WS_ftp A Windows® based FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program for transfering files between systems. EWAN The Emulator Without A Name. This program emulates the Telnet client with a VT-100 terminal. PGP - Pretty Good Privacy The choice for public encryption software. Adobe Acrobat Reader Software for reading Portable Document Files (PDF). Other useful software links

• 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,
• Ozzie's RealAudio Links, which will let you listen to things Ozzie likes to listen to.
• Shortwave Broadcasters: Radio Canada, CBC Radio, Radio Canada Intl, BBC, Radio Nederlands, NHK(?), Radio Japan(?), ORF (Austrian Radio), Radio Austria Intl, Radio France Intl, List of various Shorwave Broadcasters, Glen Hauser's World of Radio.
• 2600 Magazine, Home of "The Hacker's Quarterly" web page. One of their writers is The Cheshire Catalyst. Here's a link to Mr Bell.
• User Friendly cartoons, including one about a friend of mine.
• Discovery Channel Science News Page.
• 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.
  • Tachycon, a relaxacon held in the Orlando area.
  • Other Science Fiction Conventions.
  • The Server At The End Of the Internet
• Funny Songs: Tom Lehrer, Dr Demento, The Capitol Steps, Mark Russell, P.D.Q. Bach, Tom Smith (a filker with computer songs), and other humorous song references.
• The Prisoner is my pick for the World's All Time Best television program. It was filmed in Portmeirion, Wales. Some pictures are also available.
• 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 W hen Harlie Played One in it. One of my heros is James Burke
• I can sometimes be found at The British Pub in Titusville FL. You can also look for me at The Tampa Hamfest.
• Standard HTML Icons. This is an incredible page - if you're into HTML as a participation sport!
• MSDS, Material Safety Data Sheets. In case you have a "need to know".
• Soccer: The world's football game. The Tampa Bay Mutiny schedule. Major League Soccer TV Schedule. Here's the ESPN Soccer page. Here's another Soccer page. Here's the home page of Sam's Army, the un-official fan club of US Soccer. Here's the latest message from the Sam's Army e-mail list. 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:
  Dayto na For Dummies

  What's wrong with racing stock cars for the Nabisco Cup instead? Cookies aren't addictive either!

  http://www.jayski.com
  

  • The Jayski Paint Scheme Page.
  • Jaysi's Team/Driver/Sponsor Chart.
  • Jayski's team addresses and driver birthday list.

  Tobey's NASCAR Related Pages List.
  http://www.country.com< /A>
  http://www.thatsracin.com
  http://www.speedworld.net
  http://www.nascarhumor.com
  http://www.nascarwebsit es.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.
• RIVERHOLD, an interactive MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) type of game. This is the type of on-line, interactive game that has given the Internet a Bad Rep. So it must be fun, right?
• 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. ;-)>

The World Cup® Was Great! The world's premier international soccer competition was held in Korea & Japan from 2002 May 31 to June 30.
Japan Organizing Committee	FIFA	Korean Organizing Committee
Click here to hear the The Official Chant to support the USA in the World Cup (Real Audio required)
ESPN World Cup TV Schedule United Airlines World Cup Match Schedule in Local time

• The latest e-mailed report from Sam's Army, the supporters group for the US National Soccer Team.
• The Tampa Bay Mutiny Home Page, officially sanctioned, and everything.
• Major League Soccer itself has a Home Page also.
• World Cup 2002 will be in Korea and Japan. 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:

The "last update" information at the bottom of 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 1996-99, 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.hw g.org/opcenter/events/accessapril.html Also, see Cheshire's paper on the subject, http://SpaceyIdeas.Co m/cheshire/access.html

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Ozzie reads Science Fiction.

And while Ozzie's collecting "Brownie points" for displaying someone else's stuff...

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