DJ Bardopoulos (Thanos Bardopoulos) was born on 13 September on the island of Rhodes where he lives to this day. He studied electronics, but his passion for …
Archive for month: April, 2013
By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
This week, Surfin’ explores the website of the Young Ladies in ham radio.
It’s no secret that men dominate ham radio; women only represent about 15 percent of the US ham population. This demographic is also evident when attending ham radio events, such as the Dayton Hamvention®: The guys are everywhere, whereas the gals are few and far between. But there…
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AE6LX from http://www.worldwidedx.com covers the basics of the MFJ-998 1.5 KW Auto Tuner.
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New Hampshire Public Radio – Word of Mouth
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Both the average daily sunspot numbers and the solar flux were up this week, with the sunspot numbers rising nearly 57 points to 138.1, and the average daily solar flux up more than 25 points to 138.8. Paired with the average daily planetary A index dropping from 9.4 to 4.1, this is great news for HF propagation. On April 8, the daily sunspot number reached 162; two days later, it was at 163. T…
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Ground decals are one of Platform Masters’ special ways for getting its 3D effects with a purely 2D game engine and is why Jeremy’s House (world 1) is otherw…
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Understanding what is Single Side Band, Lower Sideband and Upper Sideband signals.
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This video shows my dual band antenna that I made for use on the 70 centimeter band (432 MHz) and the 2 meter band (144 MHz). It is horizontally polarized an…
The American Legion Amateur Radio Club (TALARC) held their 2nd annual special event March 15-16, 2013 to commemorate the 94th birthday of The American Legion.
On April 1, Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter (R) signed Senate Bill 1065 into law. This new law is amendment to a current Idaho law regarding guyed towers, which states that guyed towers “shall be lighted, marked and painted or otherwise constructed to be visible in clear air during daylight hours from a distance of not less than 2000 feet.” With the passage of SB 1065, both guyed Amateur Rad…
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TRUCKSPEC Side Body Mount For 3/8-24 CB & Ham Radio Antennas
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SWR testing Sirio Performer 5000 & Sirio ML 145 with low cost SWR – meter.
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头衔：果派小弟
台机是不行了，就向手台中录找，在YAESU VX-6R，VX-7R，KENWOOD F6，F7及icom 91A之间纠结，三者里面灵敏度最好91A，但电池不耐用。6R，7R市场占有率大，U/V段效果也不错，但前面的这三款都没有SSB接收，F6，F7带SSB接收，但是 …
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1st Prize: $ 500
Levi Maaia, K6LCM, for his outstanding video highighting the activities of the Near Space Exploration Club at the Anacapa School in Santa Barbara, California. Watch this video on YouTube or on the ARRL website at www.arrl.org/winners.
2nd Prize: $ 250
Kevin Thornton, K5KVN, for his video of the 2012 first-time “activation” of Horseshoe Island on Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas as …
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Showing a demo of the APRS to MotoTRBO Gateway running on a RaspberryPi connected to a control station on the MI5 DMR Network… KD8EYF and W8FSM configured …
Hola Bienvenidos a mi primer Video tutorial donde instalamos la aplicacion Mgmaps Aprs la Cual nos permite Trabajar aprs desde Nuestros Blackberry les dejo l…
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Julie N. Zoller, KJ4EMJ, has succeeded Richard C. Beaird at the Department of State as Senior Deputy Coordinator of the Office of Multilateral Affairs, Communications and Information Policy Directorate, Economics and Business Affairs Bureau. In this position, she will serve as principal advisor to the United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Beaird reti…
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Sample Voice.
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Scenes from the exhibit hall, Maritime Radio Historical Society and W1AW/6 Special Event Station.
The Dayton Hamvention Awards Committee announced on April 7 that it would be withdrawing its Amateur of the Year Award for 2013. According to Dayton Hamvention General Chairman Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, the committee had received “conflicting information from credible sources regarding the accuracy of the winning nomination.”
After verifying these reports, Kaiser made the decision to withdraw the …
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Amateur radio digital transmissions on HF 12 meters as received in Comprida Is, Sao Paulo, Brazil, by Japy DX during AVHFC 2010.
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Secuestran equipo de comunicación con frecuencias policiales grabadas
Efectuada la requisa en el interior del rodado se constata la presencia de un equipo de comunicación (Handy) marca Yaesu modelo FT-270 Nº de serie 9LS11445, el cual tenía escrito en unos de sus laterales con corrector casi borrado las siglas A.U.E. …
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«Radiantistica Expò»: vetrina ad alta fedeltà
… l'area Ham Radio con espositori altamente specializzati del settore radioamatoriale che esporranno apparati Rtx e accessori di ultima generazione, aprendo una finestra sulle nuove gamme di brand mondiali del calibro di Elecraft, Yaesu, Kenwood e Icom.
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Colpiscono un'auto a bastonate durante un sorpasso, la mandano fuori strada e …
… e fiamma ossidrica, uno zaino contenente un flessibile elettrico con relative batterie, svariate radio ricetrasmittenti marca Yaesu, sintonizzate sui canali delle forze di polizia, una penna laser, berretti con visiera, mascherine, guanti in pelle …
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Solar activity increased over this past week, with the average daily sunspot numbers up 32 points to 81.6, while the average daily solar flux increased more than 16 points to 113.4. The geomagnetic field was active on March 29 due to solar wind. Sunspot numbers for March 28-April 3 were 49, 73, 70, 83, 84, 103 and 109, with a mean of 81.6. The 10.7 centimeter flux was 98.7, 105.1, 108.4, 113.3,…
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Me in the hole, just after leveling the tower. Not the best shot, the lighting is a little funny.
Atas schuim wassen zonder borstel.
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Instructional video clip on how to set up a Digital Repeater for APRS, or digipeater, with a kenwood D710a. We did an event on may 24th 09 that aprs was in u…
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This year marks the 88th anniversary of the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). To mark this occasion, the IARU and its more than 160 Member Societies will celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on April 18. For many years, the IARU Administrative Council has declared a theme for each World Amateur Radio Day. The theme for 2013 is Amateur Radio: Entering Its Second Century of D…
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Magic: the Gathering – Mystic Penitent – Odyssey – Foil
- A single individual card from the Magic: the Gathering (MTG) trading and collectible card game (TCG/CCG).
- This is of Uncommon rarity.
- From the Odyssey set.
- You will receive the Foil version of this card.
Magic: the Gathering is a collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. In Magic, you play the role of a planeswalker who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you know and the creatures you can summon to fight for you.Card Name: Mystic PenitentCost: WColor: WhiteCard Type: Creature – Nomad MysticPower/Toughness: 1/1Card Text: Vigilance Threshold – Mystic Penitent gets +1/+1 and ha
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
This week, Surfin’ finds radio parts on a fascinating website.
Back when I began stinking up my parent’s house with the scent of liquefied solder, there were radio and electronic stores in the area where I could buy all the parts to build my projects. But in the 1970s, those stores went the way of the vacuum tube. I had to go the mail order route to buy …
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Seting up a radio system with a yaesu ft 857 in Haiti and a g5rv jr.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, met with ARRL leadership at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, DC last month. Fugate, an ARRL member, spoke with ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, and ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, as well as ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, and ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U, about Amate…
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Modificación del BYPASS acoplador automático MFJ 998 El motivo de realizar esta modificación es que el BYPASS no es real ya que el acoplador es inteligente y…
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On March 27, the FCC released a First Report and Order, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and a Notice of Inquiry (ET Docket Nos. 13-84 and 03-137). The documents seek to reassess the FCC’s RF exposure limits and policies, as well as to propose changes to the FCC’s rules regarding human exposure to RF electromagnetic fields. These proposed changes would affect the Amateur Radio Service (Par…
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NEW Amateur Ham Radio Workman UVS-300 144 / 440 MHz Dual Band Base Antenna
- Workman UVS-300 144 / 440 MHz Dual Band Base Antenna
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Base Antenna
VHF 144-148 MHz 8.3dB Gain
UHF 435-450 MHz 11.7dB Gain
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50 Ohms
5/8 Wave
VHF 144-148 MHz: 8.3dB Gain
UHF 430-450 MHz: 11.7dB Gain
UHF is tunable for either 430 – 440 MHz or 440 – 450 MHz
3 Section Fiberglass Radiator
3 – 5/8 Wave c-load elements on 2m
8 – 5/8 Wave c-load elements on 70cm
20.5″ Stainless Steel Radials
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H. Ward Silver, N0AX
n0ax@arrl.net
Worse than the dreaded “word problem,” this April quiz is full of backward problems where I give the answer and you pick the problem. Or something like that. You’ll figure it out!
1) 9
a. The dB equivalent of a power ratio of 4.
b. The number of wavelengths traveled by a 7 MHz signal in 1.29 µs.
c. Value of SWR if a 337.5 Ω load is connected to 75 Ω coaxial cable….
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LUSO Crank-up tower 44m height LUSO44TN.
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Here is a custom map by me which is a parkour map sorta :p Links map: http://adf.ly/1aSFh Forum: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/336200-parkour-the-eleme…
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Truck.
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By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
ARRL Contributing Editor
Many years ago, my grandfather used to build radio sets and sell them to his neighbors. Somewhat later, just after World War II, he and my father installed radios in cars for Western Auto. They saved up their earnings and eventually started Hoffman Radio-Television Sales and Service, which was the premiere TV shop in Savannah, Georgia for a number of…
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The winner of the March QST Cover Plaque Award is Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA for his article “The Sun and the Ionosphere.” Congratulations Carl! The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the best article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the April issue today.
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Tour of the ham shack.
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PSK31 14.0700mhz.
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PSK 31 QSO with China using DM780 and 75 watts.
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