Hacking a transmitter - 1920s style
Back in the 1920s, when electronic breadboading often used a real wood breadboard, swiped from the kitchen in the dark of night, a limited supply of commercial electronic components inspired ham radio hobbyists to roll their own capacitors, inductors, switches, and whatever else was needed to build a transmitter
International Women's Day contest on Monday, March 8
Finland's SRAL reports International Women's Day will be celebrated in the spirit of a relaxed race. The contest will take place on March 8 from 0000-2359 Finnish Time (2200-2159 GMT)
New Zealand regulator's view of RF pollution
New Zealand's Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) says the RF spectrum 'has become an important economic resource, but its usefulness is diminished by pollution'
Problems with ham radio licensing in Brazil
Brazil's amateur radio society LABRE has written to the communications regulator ANATEL expressing their concern about the bureaucratic problems in becoming a radio amateur
WW8GM GM Amateur Radio Club
General Motors Amateur Radio Club - WW8GM EchoLink Repeater in SE Michigan
Single element Delta Loop Antenna
Antennas/Delta loop
Building a simple delta loop is very easy. With two fishing rods and some other material you can find in your local hardware store, you can build an efficient single element delta loop antenna
Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2108
How to build a Software Defined Radio, Amateur radio 3D models, MFSK16 APRS Tracker, PCB gEDA, remoteRotator, Ukraine Repeater Map, Audio Repeater,
SARL Contests
News of two upcoming contests in South Africa
Guinea and Sierra Leone
Jean-Phillipe, F1TMY, currently active as J28PJ from Djibouti, has announced via Twitter (https://twitter.com/J28Pj) that he will be active from Guinea (3X) and Sierra Leone (9L) sometime in September 2021
French stores selling and / or repairing Amateur Radio equipment
Ludovic Vuillermet F5PBG has posted a handy list of stores known to sell and / or repair amateur radio equipment in France
MoU between Radio Society of Kenya and South African Radio League
The Radio Society of Kenya (RSK) approached the (SARL) around six months ago and following successful discussions a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed during February 2021 with full approval from the Regulator – the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK)
QSO Today - John Ackermann, N8UR
John Ackermann, N8UR, was my guest almost 200 episodes ago and is a speaker in the upcoming QSO Today Virtual ham Expo
ARRL Audio News - February 26, 2021
ARRL Audio News - February 26, 2021
Video Documents Removal, Preservation of 250 kW Voice of America Transmitter
With the former Voice of America Delano relay site in Central California scheduled for eventual demolition for resale, the Collins Collectors Association (CCA), in association with the Antique Wireless Association (AWA), came up with a plan in 2014 (working, among others, with past ARRL Midwestern Division Director Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, a former Collins engineer), to retrieve one of the Collins...
Spring Red Cross Emergency Communications Drill Set
The spring 2021 Red Cross Nationwide Emergency Communications Winlink Drill will be held on May 8, which is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 2021. Details and instructions are available. Sign up for email updates. A head of the May nationwide exercise, the American Red Cross (ARC) Emergency Communications training group will continue its Winlink Thursdays training sessions on March 11 and Ap...
com0com Null-modem emulator
Software/Virtual Serial Port
The Null-modem emulator is an open source kernel-mode virtual serial port driver for Windows, available freely under GPL license.Allows you to create an unlimited number of virtual COM port pairs and use any pair to connect one COM port based application to another.
VERON PACCdigi contest
We would like to invite you to take part in the first Dutch PACCdigi contest
ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Newcastle High School, Newcastle, Wyoming, USA
This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students from Newcastle High School. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS astronaut Mike Hopkins, amateur radio call sign KF5LJG, during the ARISS radio contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz. Since the first ARISS contact on December 21, 2000, this will be the first ARISS-sponsored contact to a Wyoming school
Free online Amateur Radio training course starts soon
The next free amateur radio Foundation Online training course run by volunteers from Essex Ham starts on March 7 - Register Now
MacLoggerDX Version 6.32 released
Dog Park Software is pleased to announce that version 6.32 of MacLoggerDX has been released
How to Grow Ham Radio - video part 1
Tom (WA9TDD) interviews communication expert Quin (K8QS) about how we can grow Amateur Radio
TV show looks at disappearance of radio ham
On Monday, March 1, at 9pm AEDT (1000 GMT) the Channel 9 TV show Under Investigation covers the unexplained disappearance of both radio amateur Russell Hill VK3VZP and a friend missing since March 20, 2020
ACMA licence consultation: WIA Poll
In last weeks broadcast, I spoke about the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) having recently issued a consultation document which details 3 licensing options concerning the future of Amateur Radio in Australia. The ACMAs preferred option is to transition to a Class Licence instead of the current apparatus licence this option effectively deregulates the radio amateur service
Amateur Radio Helping to Fill Earthquake Report “Donut Holes”
An article describing how radio amateurs can help fill the information “donut hole” by providing post-earthquake “did you feel it” (DYFI) reports via Winlink HF radio email appeared on February 22 in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) magazine Eos. As the article points out, “Ham radio networks gear up to provide real-time, on-the-ground information about earthquake shaking and damage when ot...
Wildlife Outnumber Participants in Winter Yellowstone VHF Radio Rally
Wyoming and southern Montana hams belonging to the north Yellowstone Amateur Radio Club and Park County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) took to the wilderness in late January during heavy snow to take part in an emergency preparedness exercise. The groups have about 15 members in all; many more bison and elk roam the roads than do hams. The critical winter duty for North Yellowstone radi...
Central Kentucky Amateur Radio Club
Sponsors of the Mighty WA4UXJ 146.64 Repeater
BalUn for Delta-loop & Quad-loop antennas
Antennas/Baluns
This Guide helps you to build the 1:2 BalUn 600 Watts DIY kit step by step. If a delta-loop or quad-loop antenna is powered with a coax cable from the transceiver it is necessary to use a 1:2 BalUn. This 1:2 BalUn uses a symmetrical 1:2 impedance transformer.
Making a wave
A radio set shaped like a globe, a 1955-made model that retailed for `9,000 back then, or a Crown Talking Machine, which was made in 1907... Here's your chance to see these and 100 other unique radio sets, of which 80 per cent are in working condition, at the newly-opened Short Wave Radio Museum and Knowledge Centre
ARRL interview explains background of Ham Radio in Space film short
In the approximately 6-minute film, SuitSat returns in the future to haunt International Space Station commander 'Diaz,' played by Joey Vieira, who spots SuitSat, the surplus Russian Orlan spacesuit that was turned into an amateur radio satellite several years ago by Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
Ofcom release database of UK amateur radio callsigns
On February 2, 2021, in response to a Freedom of Information request, Ofcom released a database of amateur radio callsigns for the UK and Crown Dependencies
OI activity day on Friday March 5
Finland's SRAL reports military radio amateurs using the OI callsign prefix will be on-the-air on Friday, March 5
ARES and Red Cross Cooperate to Assist Storm-Affected Residents in Texas
ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) and American Red Cross volunteers joined forces in Texas under the ARRL/Red Cross memorandum of understanding in responding to the situation resulting from unseasonably frigid weather. Kevin McCoy, KF5FUZ, said the Red Cross formally requested an ARES activation in Texas to address the effects of the natural disaster, which included a lack of drinkin...
“Whirlwind Boom” Emergency Communications Exercise Set in Northern Florida
The amateur radio communications team of the Florida Baptist Disaster Relief has created a multi-site radio communications exercise dubbed “Whirlwind Boom,” designed to bring together volunteers and local agencies across northern Florida and throughout the southeastern US. The 2-hour drill is set for Friday, March 19. Invitations have gone out to Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) groups, ...
OM0ET Antennas
Manufacturers/Antennas/HF/Magnetic Loop
Maker of small and compact multiband QRP UltraLight Magnetic Loop Antennas and UnUn transformer for end-fed multiband antennas
ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, to Keynote QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo
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