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ARRL Board Holds Second Annual Meeting PalmVE PalmVE is a program for Palm based handheld computers that is built to aid as a virtual volunteer examiner for amateur radio written tests The Making of a Ham A ham radio blog primarily focused on newbies and those interested in the hobby. Covers a wide area of subjects that might be of interest to Amateur Radio operators, and material that can be used to study for the Amateur Radio tests. Yaesu FTDX101 Review by IZ0FIB Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers/Yaesu FTDX101 A comprehensive and exhaustive review of Yaesu FTDX101 transceiver. Article is in Italian and can be easily translated in your language How to assemble a narrow cw filter QRPer.com readers know that I'm a big fan of the venerable Yaesu FT-817 and FT-818 series transceiver - So much so, I own two FT-817NDs NASA to discuss status of next Artemis I Moon Mission launch attempt NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Radio ham to honor broadcast engineers lost on 9/11 Radio World report a New England ham radio repeater is to be dedicated to the memory of six broadcast engineers killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Germany: New Entry-Level license class 'N' on its way DARC reports on the planned introduction of an entry-level amateur radio license, it will be limited to just 10w EIRP in the 144 and 430 MHz bands but they can build their own equipment Amateur Radio on BBC Radio 4 Shortcuts Treetop antennas, a witness from history and a dialogue with a loudspeaker - Josie Long presents short radio docs and adventures in sound inspired by broadcasts into the ether More African countries arrive on 60 m Word has just arrived via the South African Radio League (SARL) that three new African countries have joined the ranks of 5 MHz / 60 m operators Build a Complete QRP Station at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Rex Harper, W1REX, and Stephen Houser, N1SH, will present two, live, two-hour, Build-A-Thons on each day of the Expo where the sum of both projects is a complete QRP CW ham station. Just add headphones and a battery and you are on the air! KC2G HF MUF Propagation maps Propagation/MUF Indicators Ionospheric propagation maps MUF and critical frequency Beacon Monitor Station DL8LAS DX Resources/Beacons/Beacon Monitoring Reception of the IARU/NCDXF International Beacon Project from Trent, Germany with daily reception reports of HF IARU/NCDXF beacons. Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Courses This is the downloads area for slides, plans and handouts for CARS Amateur Radio Licence Training Courses IV3YER Personal page with online log and shack information W1XM MIT UHF Repeater Association The MIT UHF Repeater Association maintains the W1XM Repeater which is located on the top of the Green Building. IC706 MKIIg Mic Interface Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers/Icom IC-706 This interface is perfect to operate the ICOM IC706 MKIIg with a pc-headset,in VOX or with PTT. Special 911 Callsign The station WA2NYC is a remembrance of the 21st anniversary on the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City Route 66 On The Air The Citrus Belt Amateur Radio Club of San Bernardino (w6jbt.org), California, is once again hosting (probably one of the most fun special event activities) the 23rd annual 'Route 66 On The Air' special event 3Y0J Bouvet DXpedition Amateur Radio DXpeditions (ARD) is making great progress for our upcoming 3Y0J Bouvet DXpedition Ham radio: You never know who's on the other side The Puget Sound Repeater Group membership includes a large contingent of Seattle tech workers — engineers, coders, product designers and more — who share a common preoccupation: Obsessive tinkering with science and technology The QSO Today Podcast In 2014, I started the QSO Today Podcast because I was inspired by Ham Nation on the TWIT Network The Fair Lawn, NJ Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) and the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG) The West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG) and the Fair Lawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) have agreed to a unique partnership in sharing ideas, activities, and best practices to better encourage the growth and development of each other's amateur radio club FT-817 Cheat Sheet Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers/Yaesu FT-817 A simplified operating guide for the Yaesu FT-817 Tracking Tools for Artemis I Looking for a way to track OMOTENASHI's 70CM beacons on its way to the moon? Two hams turn us on to a pair of tracking tools Wahkiakum ARC offers radio class The Wahkiakum Amateur Radio Club will host a series of class meetings to prepare citizens for their Amateur Radio License, also known as a ham radio license. The course is free ISS astronaut uses ham radio to talk to children's hospital Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) report on the amateur radio contact between patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital and ISS astronaut Kiell Lindgren KO5MOS AMSAT-EA collaborates with the ROM-2 mission Once in orbit, the satellite will become the responsibility of AMSAT-EA, the organization that has registered the satellite internationally and will monitor it during its life in space Artemis Moon rocket second launch attempt called off The launch of Nasa's new Artemis I Moon rocket is facing a potentially lengthy delay after a second postponement QSO Today Rod Hardman, VA3ON Rod Hardman, VA3ON, is one of the hosts of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast, and while a relatively new ham, has a love for hands on radio, technology, and tools that goes back to the 1970s W2RDX The Rochester DX Association Founded in 1947 in Rochester, NY, the Rochester DX Association is an amateur radio organization dedicated to the art and science of DX operating and contesting. FT-817 CAT and Dig Mode Interface Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers/Yaesu FT-817 This interface includes both the CAT and the PTT circuits,and it can be controlled from a single COM port for the Yaesu FT-817 transceiver Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2229 50 MHz Omnidirectional antenna, Foldable Yagi Antenna, End-fed 6-meter Zepp, Digirig Mobile, How to Make an Automatic 12V Battery Charger, OTRSP Antenna Selector, TNXQSO.com , Z21RU Log Online, ISS cosmonaut talks to Bangladeshi radio amateur The Business Standard newspaper reports on the Amateur Radio contact that Fazlay Rabby S21RC had with cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov RA3DT who was on the International Space Station ARRL President Emeritus Harry Dannals, W2HD (SK) Harry Dannals, W2HD, President Emeritus of ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio, died on August 30. He lived in Charlottesville, Virginia