Today I have noticed that I'm slowly dropping taking care of our website. The reason is the same as always-no time for it or not enough time. Well, tihis is something to change in myself.

Since I cannot find the time and topic to write about I see that the best thing whould be to describe our day today.
As you know from one of my previous articles I'm working hard how to prepare our site (I mean ywanirestehas.se) to be moved to another server. During this preparation I tried to install and setup webserver on local machine. After repeating the same setup for as many times as I can't count anymore I can surely say that now I can do this job. AndJ this is one more thing for my skills profile. So, that was what I was doing all day today and all week before.
Irina has found 9 hobby - she likes to make beautiful cakes, she decorates them so nicely and creatirally that I dont dare to eat or even cut their after all. I think she will write about this hobby by herself as well as put some of the pictures.
Stefan continue to learn english, right how he practices word "No". Fle is definately grows fast and now very oftenvery often he doesnt want to do what you asking him to and more and more often he doest want to pray. This is actually sad for me but I know tha he has to do it with his will. Today Stefan was very long outside with mommy. The wheather is good and it smells with the spring.
Matvej was upset with somethihg most of the day but also hosed some fun when daddy came home from the Office.

"ham radio" refers to amateur radio in general. Amateur radio is hobby that thousands of people involved around the globe. Amateur radio opertors enjoy international communication with the same operators via wireless devices called transceiver. Basically this is short wave communicational hobby. You probably had shortwave radio some time in your life and probably tried to surf radio waves with searching your favorite station, and if you did, quite often you could "catch" something weird out there, like a morse code sound or some voices repeating some meaningless numbers and names. Well, those letters are no as meaningless as you might think at first. Most likely you heard ham radio operator speaking out his call sign (radio identification) inviting others for conversation.
I decided to tell more about this since this is my long time hobby. I started to listen to those call sings somewhere in the middle of 1980-s and even had my operational call sign, but did use it often, because at that time I had not much money and couldnt afford to keep license and transceiver. Now-a-days I returned to that hobby but in a little different form - I'm Short Wave Listener (SWL) The difference between operator and listener is that listener can only listen to the speaking operators and doesnt have right to use transmitter. Operator has license for using certain frequencies to transmit his signal and thus actually communicate with others.
What is the interest in such hobby, you might ask? I can compare this hobby with sport fishing. You seat with the rod in your hands during fishing, and you seat with your radio trying to catch far away station (DX). You need certain skills in fishing to catch the fish you aim to. The same with radio, you need good receiver, antenna, weather condition, propagation. There are a lot of Internet resources with required information about above conditions, but you still need a lot of luck to get some calls in your log book. That is the thing: you not simply listen to someone speaking on the air, you also record his call sign, time, frequency, conditions, and then you send operator a card with this information and he replies with his confirmation card to you. You can see my card at the left side.
Ok, you get a card from somebody - what is next? if you collect number of cards you may apply for diploma in different areas. Example? I have heard and received cards from Trinidad and Tobago, from Turkmenistan, from Luxemburg, from South Africa, from Canada, from Argentina, from Tasmania, and now, I have right to apply for diploma called "Heard All Continents" Another example? I have collected cards from operators from 64 different countries of the world I can apply for 50 Countries award, but I will wait till I have 100 countries confirmed.
The thing is that when I hear somebody speaking on the air, say from Cambodia, I know that there is nothing between my radio and Cambodian transmitter, no other wires, no repeaters, NOTHING! Just a little box of transceiver and a few dozens of meters of antenna. Isnt it exciting?
Besides listening and getting cards, I also participate international Listener's club called SWARL and I'm taking care of the Awards for listeners issued by this club. I also do a lot of design work for the diplomas and awards for the club. My developer skills are also used in full here, I'm working on the logger software (software for recording listening results).
If you are interested to know more about this hobby try to google for "ham radio"you will get a lot of visual information on youtube.com as well as some articles on wikipedia.com or you can write to me and ask questions. My email is www[at]body-builders.org

There is time in everyone's life when he/she starts to walk, or talk. But there are also times when something happens not so significant for us at the time, but it is a significant step towards those listed above. So, it is happening with Matvej on daily basis: Just recently Matvej learned how to turn his little body over in the bed,and now he always turns himself up side down and wonders: what should i do now? well, that is kind of exciting for us but it is difficult for Matvej at a times. We are trying to record his first movements on video, so that he could see himself when he grows up.

Stefan was never a playing kid when we came here to Sweden, but nowadays I can see the different kid running around! Stefan has changed so significantly during this season that I don't recognize him sometimes. He loves to play with other kids on the base, every day they all together run like crazy and Stefan is often starting this running contest. It looks like kids enjoy company of each other and me and Irina we love it. Stefan still has almost no language skills to communicate with his friends but he's getting there. Today he was running around with the neighbor Korean girl and they've got into little shop on the base, where different sweets are sold, and we heard both kids screaming there in ENGLISH: Candy! Candy! Kids are teaching each other new language, and they are doing great job.