Check out these Skywarn images:

wx4rnk-station-2
Skywarn
Image by n3pb
The WX4RNK SKYWARN amateur radio station in the Blacksburg NWS office.

Photo by W4PAJ.

Dime Sized Hail
Skywarn
Image by michaelstyne
Finally got to put my SKYWARN privileges to use and reported some dime-sized hail to NWS Albany! Thanks to Weather Girl Erin for the assistance.

Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Demonstration January 2008 assisting Red Cross and Jefferson Co DES/WMD. HF station setup in less than 10 minutes. Capabilities included HF, VHF, satellite and digital modes, completely self contained and off the grid
Video Rating: 4 / 5

This video was taken on Saturday 23rd October 2010. I was set up on a hilltop monitoring the amateur radio experiments on board the Horus9 balloon. Carried aloft was the tracking computer, a cross band 2m/70cm repeater, a simplex parrot repeater on 2m and an APRS tracker on 2m. The launch coincided with the WIA National Field Day and the cross band repeater was very busy with field day stations making contacts. In this video you can see the Dl-Fldigi software decoding the telemetry from the balloon, the decoded telemetry was then uploaded to the tracking server via a WiFi internet connection.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Some cool QSO images:

Yaesu FT-901DM
QSO
Image by mightyohm
Listening to a QSO on 20m SSB.

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Community Calendar
Contact Tuck at nf9t@arrl.org for more info. ATTICA, Ind.: Attica Consolidated School Corporation, 6:30 pm EST, administration building, 205 E. Sycamore St. BISMARCK: Bismarck-Henning School Board, 7 pm, Ellen R. Morris Conference Room.
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Propagation de K7RA
Propagation reports for the ARRL 10 Meter contest last weekend were positive. Randy Crews, W7TJ of Spokane, Washington commented, "Conditions during the ARRL 10 Meter Contest were great as expected with the higher solar flux. Personally I feel 10 meter
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50 Jahre Amateurfunk im Weltraum – am 12. Dezember 1961 startete der erste
Diesmal: OSCAR 1, der erste Amateurfunksatellit ARRL-Testlabor-Ingenieur Bob Allison mit dem restaurierten Amateurfunksatelliten OSCAR 1 (Bild: S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA) 50 Jahre Amateurfunk im Weltraum: Am 12. Dezember 1961 startete der erste von
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Some cool APRS images:

radio Shield

Image by mpechner
Notice the zero(0) volt Resistor going to ground to light the LCD backlight.

When you build the radio shield, you will need to decide what radio you will use. For Yeasu HTs there is a extra resistor to solder in.

IMG_0525

Image by mpechner

TWIN PIONEER G-APRS AT AIRBASE COVENTRY MAY 2010

Image by calflier001
Twin pioneer g-aprs at airbase coventry may 2010

The trailer for Roman Coppola’s movie.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Nokia 801T: Symbian per la Cina con dual mode, NFC e TV Tuner
Nell'immagine, infatti, è possibile notare anche un'antenna estraibile per ricevere, appunto, il segnale televisivo. Il design è ben curato, cosi come i materiali utilizzati per la costruzione: il corpo è interamente in alluminio, che dona una certa
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Jaguar XJ by Startech
L'ammiraglia della Casa inglese dopo l'incontro con il tuner tedesco si presenta come una berlina sportiva dotata di molti gadget tecnologici. Il tuner tedesco Startech ha presentato il suo ultimo lavoro dedicato all'ammiraglia Jaguar XJ: si tratta di
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DVB-T és az RTL
Vettem egy médialejátszót ami DVB-T tuner is (olyan olcsó volt hogy gyakorlatilag kiraboltam a kék gazdaságost), mindent kezel, szóval nem bántam meg. Egy baja van, mig nem kötök rá antennát addig minden indulásnál egy varázsló idegesití a felhasználót
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This is my first antenna for HF bands and also my first attempt at PSK31 mode. Antenna is a delta loop of almost 20m perimeter. Antenna wire is not yet cut at its right length yet during this session I made 2 QSOs with South Africa on 15m and one with the US on 17m. All with my wee FT817 (5Watts)! EeePc runs on Linux Debian and decoding software is Fldigi.

THIS IS AN HIGH QUALITY VOICE TRANSMISSION, USING HF NARROW BAND SINGLE SSB CHANNEL. THIS WAS MADE USING AN AOR VOICE MODEM ADR9000MKII
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Sharing some thoughts about the Yaesu FT-817 amateur radio to illustrate some useful additions to increase utility and enjoyment of the unit. Highlighted are external connection to a sealed lead-acid battery, Palm Paddles for CW, Palm Peg Leg kit for propping up radio and Low Profile Amateur Radio book from ARRL. Palm Radio Mini Paddles and Peg Legs kit are available from mtechnologies.com Low Profile Amateur Radio is available from ARRL.org
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Check out these Skywarn images:

Skywarn Presentation
Skywarn
Image by michaelstyne
Advanced Skywarn training at the CESTM building in Albany.

wx4rnk-station-1
Skywarn
Image by n3pb
The WX4RNK SKYWARN amateur radio station in the Blacksburg NWS office

Photo by W4PAJ.

When to catch Chris Mack's radio show
28 at 7 pm live from TGI Friday's in Kenwood on 55KRC-AM. Joe Sunderman and Byron Larkin will join Mack for analysis of the Musketeers' games in Hawaii and preview the Dec. 31 home game against Gonzaga. The rest of the 2011-12 Chris Mack show schedule
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Press Release: W4PC Software Releases ROC 3.98:
With ROC and the PK-232SC, only three cables connect and control the computer, radio and TNC. ROC 3.98 supports additional radios for both AEA/Timewave and Kantronics TNCs. ROC now includes controls for all Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood and Alinco radios plus
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Kenwood upgrade its compact K-Series compact Hi-Fi with USB and PC Support
The cute yet powerful K-Series compact Hi-Fi from Kenwood has been introduced this morning in Japan in yet another version the R-K731. This compact all in one wonder comes with the usual CD, Radio and Digital Output and Input audio but comes today with
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The aftermath of a direct lighting strike on S9v ham radio antenna.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Plain-English Study Guide for the FCC Amateur Radio Technician Class License

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Dundalk Amateur Radio Society operates EI0W for the 2009 CQWW RTTY Contest. More info on www.ei7dar.com

Community Calendar | Dec. 23 to mid-January
Info: Call 780-0121. Grief Support Group: Support for anyone who has lost a loved one is on the second and fourth Thursdays, from 5-6:30 pm at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church. Sponsored by Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers; contact ivc@bainbridge.net or
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Check out these ham tower images:

Ham Tower

Image by Paul L McCord Jr
Picture of the tower with the Decibel Products DB-420 70 cm antenna, and 6 meter J Pole, G5RV multiband dipole and UHF ground plane antenna taken 8-20-2005

Ham Tower

Image by Paul L McCord Jr
Picture of the tower with the Decibel Products DB-420 70 cm antenna, and 6 meter J Pole, G5RV multiband dipole and UHF ground plane antenna taken 8-20-2005

Ham tower

Image by retropc
Gareth’s neighbour’s tower – with grapevine.

Engineering Ratios, including: Compression Ratio, Data Compression Ratio, Pseudo Bit Error Ratio, Return Loss, Signal-to-noise Ratio, Standing Wave … Ratio, Price/performance Ratio, Eb/n0

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Check out these AMSAT images:

Here I go…

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At the top

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EU threat to Amateur Radio kits
Thilo DL9KCE, reports a threat to amateur radio kits and modified equipment arising from changes to the EMC directive. Currently amateur radio kits and modified equipment are specifically excluded from the directive but under the proposed changes they
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Antennas (radio), including: Beam Diameter, Beam Divergence, Directive Gain, Polarization (waves), Radiation Pattern, Resonance, Standing Wave Ratio, … Antenna (radio), Effective Radiated Power

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skywarn activation on west metro of minnesota including hennepin county. june 17th 2010 radioshack pro2050 base scanner with J pole. maple plain repeater was used for weather purposes at the frequency of 147.000 mhz. this communication is based using 2 meter FM radios and the use of a repeater.

This is the Cabela 16.5 Classic Crappie fishing pole. I used 1/4″ copper tape as the conductor in each section.
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AO51 WORKED N8RO,AJ5C,WA4HFN,W7LRD,KB0RZD,KD8CAO,N7JK Jamming heard throughout the pass.

 

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Check out these scanner images:

Scanner
scanner
Image by Kevin Walter

Scanner Thinks It’s Rothko
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Image by devils rancher
My scanner flipped out when I stuck a negative in it, and spat out this, which is just a screen capture, as it thereupon crashed. I thought it was interesting, as a composition.

Scanner Light(ly)
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Image by donut2D
Had a couple of dead scanners. What else could I do but take it apart? (Anybody know the reference of the title?) [Home, Mesa, Arizona]

Demo of a few of the new features in AR-Cluster.Net release II. Builds on the previous YouTube video: AR-Cluster Server – Setup and Configuration

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Demo of a few of the new features for the Jan 31 2011 release

A few nice Ham Shack images I found:

My simple ‘ham’ shack

Image by TimTaylor_UK
My amateur radio shack.

GM7PBB ham shack on “Butt of Lewis” – north end of island

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My dad’s ham shack

Image by Paul L McCord Jr

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It will handle up to 1500 watts PEP and comes pretuned.

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Sprzęt – styczeń 2012
Na rynku pojawił się uniwersalny interfejs USB do emisji cyfrowych TRX-komputer (RTTY, PSK31, SSTV, FAX). Jest to sprzętowy interfejs USB z separatorem, służący do połączenia transceivera i komputera. Połączenie transceivera bezpośrednio do komputera
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Club meetings: Dec. 23
Manatee Amateur Radio Emergency Services: The group meets 7 pm Dec. 27 at the Red Cross at GT Bray Park, 2905 59th St. W., Bradenton. Sarasota Manatee Merchant Marine Chapter: The group meets for lunch 11:15 am-12:30 pm followed by a meeting Dec.
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Amateur radio club answers distress calls
"They also have to be ready to do volunteer works and help if their services are needed in areas where there is no telephone network coverage," he said. Saim said in case of emergency, amateur radio network can function as an alternative channel.
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Learn how to be a HAM
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com Ham radio classes will be offered next month for county residents interested in becoming licensed amateur radio operators. Carolina Amateur Radio Emergency Services (CARES) is offering a
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Sprzęt – styczeń 2012
Na rynku pojawił się uniwersalny interfejs USB do emisji cyfrowych TRX-komputer (RTTY, PSK31, SSTV, FAX). Jest to sprzętowy interfejs USB z separatorem, służący do połączenia transceivera i komputera. Połączenie transceivera bezpośrednio do komputera
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APRS tracker by byonics MT-AIO completely built, easy to program and multiple variations of uses, take hiking, traveling, incident location beacon, command post location. Special event, parade float position, etc.

Call of the dial
trained professional dispatch operators. "We have our own little space here, but we think it provides a valuable service," Montgomery said. Emergency services officials agreed and added amateur radio antennas to the county major 9-1-1 service tower.
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Feast of films out today
It is the day we are recovering from consuming far too much ham, turkey, pudding and lollies. So as a remedy to overindulging at the family feast, I always make an effort to see something released on Boxing Day. Last year we had a great deal to pick
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AR Newsline Report 1793 — Dec 22 2011:
We will have more ham radio space related news later on in this weeks Amateur Radio Newsline report. (ANS) For years, broadcast engineers generally have said there's no proof that towers kill migratory birds, noting that they haven't seen piles of dead
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SkyWARN training to be held
The Bradford County Office of Emergency Management will be hosting a 2-hour Winter SkyWARN training seminar for municipal emergency management personnel, elected official and Community Emergency Response Team members at 7 pm on Dec. 19.
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Weather spotting draws interest
BY ERIC HRIN (Staff Writer) Review Photo/ERIC HRIN Erik Heden, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, NY, talks to people Monday in Towanda about SKYWARN. Review Photo/ERIC HRIN Erik Heden, a meteorologist with the National
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Mercer County Takes Part in National SKYWARN Day
SKYWARN is a nationwide program run by the National Weather Service through which trained residents gather real-time, “ground truth” information about severe weather, such as a tornado, flood or snowstorm. Editor's Note: The following is a news release
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SkyWarn 13: Snow will taper off overnight, roads still slick
Snow will dwindle in intensity overnight. Roads will remain slick overnight as well. Visibilities will improve by Sunday morning. Likely the winter weather advisory will be canceled before the 6AM deadline. Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for
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Shot at the Cunnngham Fire Station in Aurora, Colorado, during an ARES work party. Mike just did this off the top of his head and is a great advert for why many of us are in amateur radio!
Video Rating: 5 / 5

This is a sample of a 80m band QSO, in digital voice, using an ADR9000MKII voice modem. the propagation was unstable as you can see. Thanks to CT1BWI and CT1PT to help me on this test.
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QSO365 enters the final month
Keith's QSO365 project has a simple premise – To have a QSO every day over the course of the year. This sounds simple but in practice, it's not quite so straightforward. He did allow a couple of provisos in that if he were working away, or on holiday
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DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #29:
The QRP CW Fox Hunt, CWops Mini-CWT Test and SKCC CW Sprint are scheduled for December 28. The Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party runs until January 1. Please see December QST, page 71 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details.
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Governor-General becomes first Quitline patron
The Quit Group, which runs the national stop smoking service Quitline, is pleased to announce that His Excellency Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand has become the organisation's
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Distro Issue 19: Peter Rojas plays 20 questions and Zach Honig boards Boeing's
Dawning the model number GI0643, the XYfi packs quad-band 2G and tri-band 3G GSM radios — complete with UMTS, HSDPA and HSUPA goodness. The filing doesn't clue us in on which network (if any) will be carrying the XYfi, but it does indicate that your
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Sampling new bands is as much fun as unwrapping gifts
This is the proverbial scraping of the side of the peanut butter jar. The equivalent of a last-ditch look down the bench in the 18th inning. Comparable to a frantic fishing expedition for a single shirt in a messy closet stuffed with clothes.
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CD box sets riff on nostalgia
THE ROLLING STONES are particularly guilty of this; their '70s albums have been reissued four times since debuting on CD in 1986, each time via a different record label, and each time with a few minor tweaks here and there. issued by the band's own
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Illiana SKYWARN Severe Weather Net on 4/5/2009. De-linking W9SKI/R, 444.350MHz from Indianapolis. Linked repeaters in system during SKYWARN nets, state-wide: 444.350MHz W9SKI/R – No PL – Terre Haute, IN 146.970MHz W9ICE/R PL 77.0Hz – Indianapolis, IN 442.650MHz W9ICE/R PL 77.0Hz – Indianapolis, IN 443.775MHz KA9VXS/R -PL 88.5Hz – Lafayette, IN 147.435MHz W9ICE/L – PL 77.0Hz – Freetown/Seymour, IN

IDT introduces low-power RF-to-IF mixers suitable for cellular basestation
low-distortion RF-to-IF mixers for cellular basestation equipment. The F1150 and F1152 devices are designed to improve system third-order intermodulation (IM3) performance and to reduce power consumption, resulting in improved quality of service
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Test Tools Help Identify and Eliminate Interference In Smart Grids
Interference can also invade licensed bands though intermodulation distortion. • Wide area network (WAN)—A high-bandwidth backhaul communications link between the concentrator and the utility. Unlicensed frequencies, while saving bandwidth costs,
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Anritsu Company Donates Handheld Radios To Boy Scouts Of America
Anritsu Company announces it has donated 26 handheld radios to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) that will be used by Boy Scouts seeking to get involved with amateur radio and earn their Radio Merit Badge. The donation, made possible by an upgrade to
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Amateur Radio Operators Plan Power Outage Discussion
Due to the recent heavy flooding and severe snow events in Northern New Jersey, members of the NPARC Amateur Radio Club of the Watchung Hills Area were made painfully aware of how poorly prepared many of our neighbors are, to protect their property and
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A few nice Ham Antenna images I found:

IMG_1993

Image by pictonym
As we were walking to the Basilica, Dan suddenly ran off… turned out he’d seen some ham antennas. He traced them to the Lyon ham radio association.

Hamming it up: Local radio club going strong
Tom Lang and Gene Schouweiler, Green Valley Amateur Radio Club members, outside the Sheriff's Auxiliary Volunteers Building, with antenna for the club's radio station inside. SAV has allowed the club to operate their station from their building for
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Radio Ham's invention seeing wide use
In 1987/1988, Chip (now) W1YW created the first fractal antennas, for 2M packet use. Heading into 25 years since, this ham radio invented technology is now seeing wide acceptance. In the broadcast arena, this new fractal antenna design described in the
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Video killed the radio star: Virginia National guardsman finds new use for old
US and Romanian troops, members of the team who successfully deployed a new province-wide short wave radio transmitter in Zabul, pose for a photo after completing installation of the antenna near Qalat, Afghanistan Dec. 9. (Photo by Spc. Crystal Davis)
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Many have used a painter’s pole for a mast support for a dipole antenna. Here’s is an idea that I use to support the mast using a steel green fence post. AI4QT
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Webisode 09: Meteorologist Steve Sipple of the National Weather Service (NWS) – Phoenix previews the SKYWARN program, and NWS collaboration with volunteer storm spotters to issue more timely and accurate watches and warnings to the public. Photos Courtesy: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Skywarn® and the Skywarn® logo are registered trademarks of NOAA Find a transcript of this AzEIN webisode at bit.ly
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Key aspects of RFID Passive tag design. For more information: www.agilent.com For a free evaluation copy of ADS: www.agilent.com
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LG Innotek Selects Fresco for 2012 Tuner Products
TORONTO, Dec 20, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Fresco Microchip Inc., a developer of leading-edge RF, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that LG Innotek (LGIT), a global leader in the design and
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Cantor Fitzgerald Analysts Now Covering Ceva Inc (CEVA) Stock
CEVA licenses a portfolio of digital signal processor (DSP) cores, subsystems and platforms to semiconductor and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) companies worldwide, which include a family of programmable DSP cores, DSP-based subsystems and a
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Idaho (Dec. 8)
The input/output terminals are connected to a multiplexer, which is responsive to a received mode control signal to couple the input/output terminals to either a command bus or an input/output bus. A latch in the memory device latches the command
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Georgia (Dec. 21)
The abstract of the patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described herein for achieving network-based wake-up functionality for power management functions using a standard network controller for embedded
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Hampshire (Dec. 2)
An impedance matching apparatus includes a mismatch detection circuit that produces a difference between source and load impedances, a match network controller that produces a control value based on the difference, and a reconfigurable varactor match
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Connector adapters warm the engineer's heart
For example, I have an RP-SMA to RP-TNC adapter which came with my D-Link ANT24-0700 external 802.11 antenna (an accessory which "saved the day" for me, see here.). Turns out I didn't need the adapter, but someday it may solve an RF-connector mating
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Dec. 17)
a phase shift, a capacitive coupling change, an impedance change, or any other change which notes the presence of a target relative to the transceiver. The control circuitry may be used to change the amount of power applied to the antenna and/or to
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