I was talking with a fellow ham today (I’m not sure how he feels about being named in random blog posts so I wont mention his callsign, but trust me he’s real ), and we were discussing emergency communications on behalf of other stations.

I found the following video on YouTube that I thought he might like. It’s a great old 1940′s news reel style film about Short Wave Radio operators (aka “hams”). The stories told within are presumably true of course … but done in that awesome cheesiness that was 1940-ish news reels.

Well I did it, i broke down (on day one) and got an iPad. I’ve not had a whole lot of time with it yet, and haven’t been been able to install the two apps I most looked forward to (Stanza and Pagaes), but still I have to admit that I already love it.

I’m writing this post on my iPad as a matter of fact (while my desktop iTunes finally gets the latest updates applied). Blogging from my iPhone never really worked for me despite there being ‘an app for that’. Typing on the iPad however is indeed very nice. In landscape mode the keyboard is very very usable. I can totally see myself using this to blog, and work on longer documents.

This was one of the main reasons I wanted to go with the iPad over other readers I was considering. (I was already in the ereader market, but having one that could also let me work on word docs and blog etc was a killer feature for me)

Oooh my Mac is ready to sync up with the iPad and send my ebooks over to it – gotta run. I’ll blog more about this later.