Spaceweather.com reports a strong geomagnetic storm is in progress as Earth passes through a region of south-pointing magnetism in the solar wind. The storm has generated auroral displays as far south as Kansas in the US. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center indicates the storm is a G3 level event. WWV announced at 0900 UTC, “Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level are likely” over the nex…

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Video 1 of the main hall at the excellent National Hamfest held at Newark on 28/29 September 2012. The Hamfest is hosted by Lincoln Short Wave Club in associ…
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ARRL President Kay Craigie generously gave us nearly an hour of her time at the Hamvention on Sunday morning. Then we brazenly stole another 15 minutes! We h…

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers mustered to support emergency communications after wildland fires broke out in Colorado in June.

“For the second summer in a row the entire state of Colorado seems to be on fire,” said North Central Colorado Region ARES Emergency Coordinator Perry Lundquist, W6AUN. “Currently there are 16 wildfires burning within Colorado.”

Several Colorado ARES d…

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How to receive and decode PSK and digi modes with out a rig!

desolé pour le retard !
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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program hopes that an Amateur Radio digital TV system will be up and running aboard the International Space Station by later this year. A project initiated by AMSAT-Italy, HamTV would provide one-way video and audio from the ISS to complement the FM radio voice link used for ARISS school group radio contacts. According to an overview …

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Psk31 sample.
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UT4UJQ/M c антенной Sirio T3-27 удлинённой до диапазона 40м. КСВ = 1.1 во всём диапазоне. Спасибо за конструкцию RA1OKS. Антенна в зависимости от удлиняющей …
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Recorded on January 23, 2011 at Saguaro Lake, AZ. I was mountain top mobile about 3 miles north of the Lake. Beam was 3 element Arrow antenna mounted on a tr…
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Need a mobile antenna for your UV-5R? Take a look at the Tram 1185. Presented by Danny Feemster from http://www.buytwowayradios.com .
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Buy Now – http://www.abt.com/product/9123/Sony-ICFSW7600G.html Shop Radios – http://www.abt.com/category/365/Radios.html Sony presents the ICF-SW7600GR FM St…

Amateur Radio volunteers have been providing emergency communications in the flood-stricken state of Uttarakhand in northern India. Jim Linton, VK3PC, who chairs the IARU Region 3 Disaster Communications Committee, reports that unusually heavy early seasonal monsoons are causing flooding and mudslides. At least 800 people have died. “The disaster caught everyone by surprise,” Linton said. “The …

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A few nice RTTY images I found:

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FAA regulations let you travel with dry cells in either your carry-on or checked baggage, but prohibit loose lithium batteries in checked baggage. But what about rechargeables in carry-on luggage? Stu Martin, K2QDE, reports that he ran into a small hitch when attempting to carry his spare hand-held transceiver battery in his carry-on bag. A notice within his boarding pass declared: “Lithium Bat…

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Worldwide news media for several days have been proclaiming the impending the demise of telegram in India next month. Unfortunately various reporters and news outlets seem to have conflated the words “telegram” and “telegraph,” with the result that many Morse code enthusiasts in the ham radio community have begun lamenting the occasion as the end of an era and perhaps even as another nail in CW…

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PSK Reporter feature in Ham Radio Deluxe, Digital Master 780.
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PSK31 on 14.070Mhz as seen on Sunday afternoon in Sydney Australia. This is after the geomagnetic storms subsided and shows typical afternoon activity at my …
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late night receiving psk31…no tx.
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A few nice JT65 images I found:

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Longtime AMSAT Area Coordinator Kevin Smith, N3HKQ, of Monongahela, Pennsylvania, died June 10. AMSAT Area Coordinators are volunteers who serve as AMSAT’s ambassadors to the Amateur Radio community. Smith also co-chaired the team that hosted the 2007 AMSAT Symposium in Pittsburgh, and he was a key player in executing an earlier ARISS contact from Upper St Clair (Pennsylvania) High School. He w…

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ตัวอย่างการ connect โปรแกรม Ham Radio Deluxe กับวิทยุรับส่ง FT-897D.
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Owatonna emergency personnel test new siren system
With the new equipment, each siren is digitally connected through a signal to the Steele County SKYWARN command center in the basement of the Owatonna Fire Hall. Every day, an electronic message, or ping, is sent to each siren. The siren then sends a 
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It's official: May snow record set
He's also a Skywarn Storm Spotter and Skywarn instructor for Steele County. The old record for a one-day and three-day May snowfall in Minnesota was 12 inches set twice, on May 8, 1938 in Windom and May 3, 1954 in Leonard. We can only hope the new 
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I recently purchased some elctro software for my DJ stuff so I though i’d make this as the start of my next album.

Earth Changes Explained: The cause and what we can expect in the very near future. * Symptoms: Earths Erratic Magnetosphere, Mysterious Magnetic Blasts, Inte…
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San Diego Contest Club members working DX contest from W6HCD QTH.
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ARRL Field Day 2010.

As of 9:30 AM EDST, e-mail service to and from ARRL Headquarters has been down for more than 24 hours and is not working at the present time. Work is continuing to restore service as soon as possible, but at the moment there is no specific estimate of when service will be completely restored.

Updates regarding e-mail restoration will be posted here as available.

We apologize for the inconvenience…

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Demonstration of working with JT65-HF “Comfort” software and the JT65A mode. In the beginning, I call CQ and so on… toward the end of this demonstration, I…
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Due to the continued e-mail outage at ARRL Headquarters, a separate external e-mail address has been created specifically for amateurs with questions concerning Field Day.

arrlfd@yahoo.com will be available until ARRL e-mail service has been restored. You can also call with Field Day questions at 860-594-0328.

 

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Logbook of The World users will be pleased to know that the new Trusted QSL software is now available for downloading from the ARRL Logbook of The World page.

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ICOM IC 7000 – RTTY Test 3.585.15 Mhz – 2011-03-05.

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The FCC this week extended until July 24 the deadline to file reply comments in its proceeding to allow unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices at 5 GHz. The FCC in February sought comment on making available an additional 195 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.35-5.47 GHz and 5.85-5.925 GHz bands for U-NII use. Reply comments are responses to comments already filed in the pr…

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Demo of my old yamaha that I re-did and upgraded.

E-mail service at ARRL Headquarters is presently offline. An announcement will be posted when e-mail service resumes.

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NOAA 18 Weather Satellite Reception With Homemade QFH Antenna In Scotland Received on 21st June 2011.
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ทดลองการควบคุมวิทยุโดยโปรแกรม ham radio deluxe โดยใช้สาย CAT (Computer Assisted Transceive) ที่ประกอบขึ้นเอง ผลการทดลองสามารถใช้งานได้ดีครับ http://hs8jyx.bl…
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Yaesu FT 2800M radio transceiver VHF 137-174 MHz / 65 W.
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yaesu dual receive with radio receive triple receive.
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QSO between Nova Scotia, Paul VE1DX and myself in Belgium ON3JMV ! Power only 10 Watts and a Fritzel GPA 50 antenna ! I had also made a contact with YB8EXL i…
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A parody for hams.
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A few nice Ham Antenna images I found:

Beam Cable Replacement

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Beam Cable Replacement

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The ARRL.net system is experiencing intermittent delivery issues with a few ISPs, the largest being Comcast.net. We are working diligently to resolve the issues and we appreciate your patience as we work with Comcast to rectifiy the situation.

If you discover that valid messages forwarded from ARRL.net to your regular e-mail account are not being accepted by your ISP you can, and should, call yo…

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This is the third video of the 2011 National Hamfest organised by the Lincoln Short Wave Club in association with the RSGB held at the Newark Showground on 1…

Saratoga County R.A.C.E.S. Association Ballston Spa Hamfest 2010 Saratoga County Fairgrounds Ballston Spa, NY Always a great time, good food, nice location, …

Dallas Hardin, KE4ZWD, once an avid servant of the community as a firefighter, arson investigator, and search and rescue diver, had a stroke in 2008. This resulted in his body losing some coordination and certain fine motor skills. Subsequently he started having problems with his sight, going completely blind in one eye with frequent periods of near-blindness in the other.

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http://hamradioireland.blogspot.com A live recording of Anthony EI2KC making only his second ever digital QSO on 50 Mhz (6 metres).
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Wilse Morgan, WX7P (formerly KL7CQ) passed away June 13 in Rice, Washington. He is survived by his wife, Gimmie AL7LB.

An ARRL Life Member, Wilse was an Assistant Section Manager for Eastern Washington and was very active on satellites, PSK31, DXing and contesting. In 2009 he was inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.

During his 20 year tenure in Alaska as KL7CQ, he taught courses in Am…

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The winner of the June QST Cover plaque award is Robert Wilson, NTØA, for his article “The Great RFI Hunt.” The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular 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 July issue today.

 

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Introduzione alla realizzazione dell’evento “Symposium” del 2008 a Roma. Effetti speciali a cura di FIX.

Tektronix to Showcase Industry Leading Real-Time Signal Analysis Portfolio at
"While some vendors are just getting started in meeting these needs, Tektronix invented the category and we are continuing to innovate with new instruments such as SPECMON for RF field interference hunting and the new mid-range RSA5000 spectrum 
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Cobham Broadcast Supports Radio 1 Big Weekend Concerts
Cobham, the RF specialist company, provided wireless HD, fibre systems and camera control support to Ireland-based Television Mobiles Ltd's (TVM's) televised coverage of BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend concert series in Derry-Londonderry over the 24-26 May
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MtronPTI Digitally Tunable Filters – Key to Software Defined Radio Evolution
The TF010x series blocks interfering sources, provides up to 250 digitally selected on-the-fly center frequencies and has in-band loss around 3 dB, half as much as alternative solutions, increasing radio range further." Diverse, physically broad
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Standing Wave.

its some physics demonstration on sound waves, think of it like a visual player on your media player or sumthin.
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For a full FM Bandscan from this great DX-location, please visit http://site.voila.fr/fmdx/rakovica.htm . LOCATION: The village of Rakovica in NW Bulgaria, i…

30-04-2012.

In 1937 one of the 20th century’s premier inventors, Maj Edwin H. Armstrong, began regular FM radio broadcasts from experimental W2XMN, a 40 kW station transmitting from his iconic tower on the Palisades above the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. Legend has it that Armstrong, who invented FM as well as the superheterodyne and superregenerative receiver, picked the site so he could view the t…

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This is my Yaesu 950 in it’s temporary location. There’s a LOT to learn on this menu-driven beast. I’ll update as I go. (Purple platypus NOT included)
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The West African nation of Ghana may become less of a “rare one” in the future, thanks to an Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC) held earlier this month by International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representatives. The IARU offers ARACs in developing countries, primarily to train regulators or prospective regulators on the administration of the Amateur and Amateur-Satellite services.

“The…

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Atlanta Hamfest at Jim Miller Park Saturday June 4th 2011.
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ARAST SEPTEMBERFEST 2010 The Amateur Radio Association of the Southern Tier, Inc. Presents its: 35th Annual Elmira International Hamfest / Computerfest SEPTE…

The next Kids Day is Saturday, June 15. Sponsored by the Boring (OR) Amateur Radio Club, Kids Day is the perfect way to introduce a young person to the magic of Amateur Radio.

Open your doors, have some hot dogs or pizza, and let the Little Folks take the Big Chair. Let them find stations they hear or work on a map, color in a map of states worked, show them the insides of a kit or help them bui…

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QSL on 145.500 MHz between IX1CKN (in Aosta, loc. JN35pr, local voice) and IW2LVG (in Olgiate Comasco, loc. JN45lt), at 20.39 UTC of 29th February 2012. IX1C…