Teams of radio amateurs have responded to assist in the aftermath of powerful Cyclone Phailin, which came ashore at Odisha and Andhra Pradesh in the Bay of Bengal. The storm forced some 500,000 residents to evacuate ahead of the storm, which flooded thousands of homes. Jayu Bhide, VU2JAU, has asked other operators to keep 7145 kHz clear for disaster-related traffic. He says VU2DPI, VU3BHI, and …
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Frostfest 2012 Ham_Radio See Appalachia where N4USA is located http://www.floydfolks.org Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/n4usa 1-540-808-2880 http://www….
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The ARRL Executive Committee has authorized ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, to file a Petition for Rule Making on the League’s behalf calling for the deletion of symbol rate references for data emissions in the HF bands. The League will be unable to file its Petition, however, until the partial federal government shutdown ends, and the FCC reopens. The EC met October 5 in Aurora, Colora…
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Special Weather Statement for the Sterling, VA CWA. The National Weather Service in Sterling, Virginia has Activated the Skywarn Amateur Weather Radio Networ…
Skywarn spotter class for 2010. Part 5. IMPORTANT: Watching this video does not certify you as a Skywarn spotter! You must attend a class in person.
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Students from the Caribbean and South America attended the 30th United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC) September 30-October 4 at ARRL Headquarters. ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, coordinated the session and administered the course, designed government officials in developing countries who regulate and manage Ama…
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Polícia Civil de São Miguel do Oeste prende receptadores e apreende rádios …
Em revista pessoal, foi encontrado com Escanes e Rech R$ 3,276 mil em uma mochila, um Rádio VHF-Receptor/Transmissor, marca ICOM, já no interior do veículo Citroen C4 foi localizado um Rádio YAESU, mod. FT-2900. Durante as buscas no carro, em …
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ham radio contact between amateur radio from Arizona and my self from south Italy (JN71EF). Me and Larry in qso.
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Ein wirklich gelungener Film welcher unser Hobby Amateurfunk und die Rolle des „Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club” — DARC endlich mal in einer angemessenen Weise…
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The Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF) has announced the W7OO Contribution Challenge. Long-time DXer Bill Everett, W7OO, is challenging the worldwide DX community to contribute to NCDXF, which supports and promotes DXpeditions all over the globe. W7OO will match contributions received by NCDXF between October 15 and December 31, 2013.
“This is a terrific opportunity to make your contribut…
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On Tuesday morning, October 15, the ARRL.net E-mail Forwarding Service will be making the transition to a new provider for this popular ARRL member benefit. POBox.com, with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA will be taking over the operations for this service. The transition is expected to begin at approximately 8 am and is expected to take about two hours to complete. There is not expected to …
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I did some pre-measurements and calibration of this antenna for the 20 Meter band (14MHz). Now 25/9/2010 it is time to make my first contacts with this anten…
NASA has awarded its first CubeSat-class launch services contract. It has selected Generation Orbit Launch Services Inc of Atlanta to provide a CubeSat-class launch via a NASA Launch Services Enabling eXploration and Technology (NEXT)contract. The launch will take place in 2016 from Jacksonville, Florida.
NEXT is an element of a strategic initiative led by NASA’s Launch Services Program that is …
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The Las Vegas Repeater Association entry into the 2013 annual ARRL Ham Radio Video contest.
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Due to the partial US Government shutdown, the National Wildlife Refuge Week Amateur Radio special event October 12 until October 20 has immediately suspended rules that confine NWR Week stations operations within the boundaries of national wildlife refuges and wildlife areas. The government shutdown has closed some, if not all, federal wildlife refuges, so stations may operate from any locatio…
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How I used Anderson Powerpole Connectors to make my factory Yaesu charger a little more useful.
Here is the FTdx3000D from Yaesu. Shown in the video are all of the contents packaged with the transceiver, and how it appears when first powered on. I’m pre…
Radio amateurs around the globe greeted NASA’s Juno spacecraft October 9 as it looped past Earth for a gravity-assisted boost on its way to Jupiter. Participants were invited to spread out across 10 meters to transmit “HI” in very slow speed CW (1/25 WPM), sending 30 second dits punctuated by 30 second spaces and 90 seconds between the two characters. The experiment involved 16 identical rounds…
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Video of Hamfest India 2012 Inaugural Function held at AVM Kalyana Mandapam, Chennai on 15th December, 2012. Mr.K.Dhanavel, I.A.S., Secretary to Govt. of Tam…
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The Princeton Hamfest is sponsored by the Starved Rock Radio Club http://www.qsl.net/w9mks/ This Hamfest was held at the Bureau County Fairgrounds on June 3rd.
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Representatives of the US Army Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS) met with ARRL staff at League Headquarters October 2 to discuss ways the two organizations might collaborate in emergency response activities. Army MARS Region 1 Director Bob Mims, WA1OEZ, headed the delegation. Mims, who is also manager of the Army MARS National Net, said most of the discussion centered on how ARRL Headquar…
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Museum celebrates women in tech
It involved building a 20m PSK-31 radio and using a Raspberry Pi to decode and display the text data being received. The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is located in the grounds of Bletchley Park. The new gallery, sponsored by Google UK, …
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Steve, M0STC, only worked EA8/DD5ZZ 5/7 PSK31 on Monday and he has a good beam! Most popular DX (three or more contacts, any mode). Monday DX: H70ORO, D44AC, PY2VI, ZV1WSA, K3ZO, 9K2YM, SU9AF, PR7AP, LU2FLB, WP4OPF, VK6IR, …
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Solar activity picked up over the seven days of our reporting week, October 3-9, and the outlook has improved somewhat. There now are no predictions for the solar flux dropping below 100 in the next 45 days. October 6 was the date of the last forecast predicting any flux values below 100. These predictions were for periods later in October and again in November.
Average daily sunspot numbers inc…
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Carl Smith, N4AA, editor of The DX Magazine and QRZ DX, reminds DXers that the deadline for this year’s Most Wanted Survey is October 15. Many DX clubs and DXpeditioners use this data to help make decisions about upcoming DXpeditions. The results will appear in the January/February issue of The DX Magazine. The most-wanted DXCC entity for the past 2 years (weighted rankings, mixed mode) has be…
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I start this series by introducing some basics about antennas, antenna tuners, antenna analyzers and noise / interference / QRM / QRN. Equipment used / menti…
It was 30 years ago this month, after a 1979 pro-Soviet coup degenerated into civil disorder on the Caribbean Island nation of Grenada, that the US spearheaded a military intervention known as “Operation Urgent Fury.” As The Daily DX reports, Mark Barettella, then KA2ORK and a student at the Saint George’s Medical School, got on the air /J37, becoming a source of news and vital information rega…
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Despite the partial US government shutdown, the NASA Juno spacecraft Amateur Radio fly-by activity Wednesday, October 9, 1800-2040 UTC, is still on, the website containing full details remains available, and the Juno team expects to be able to go forward with the experiment as planned.
“The laws of gravity have not been suspended, and the flyby will occur as planned,” Don Kirchner, KDØL, a Univ…
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He is a qualified hypnotherapist,he has completed his formal studies in yoga from the University of Bihar and holds a degree in counselling psychology.
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The ARRL Foundation is currently accepting applications from eligible young radio amateurs pursuing higher education. More than 80 scholarships ranging from $ 500 or $ 5,000 are awarded annually. Additionally, one applicant is selected for the prestigious William R. Goldfarb Scholarship, awarded to a high school senior pursuing a degree in business, computers, medical, nursing, engineering or sci…
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The TAPR Board of Directors has elected officers for the following year: President Steve Bible, N7HPR; Vice President Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z; Treasurer Tom Holmes, N8ZM; Secretary Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU. At the TAPR Annual General Membership Meeting on September 21, the three unopposed nominees John Ackermann, N8UR; Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z, and Mark Thompson, WB9QZB, were affirmed to serve as TAPR…
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Solar activity weakened again, with the average daily sunspot number dropping from 75.6 to 52, and average daily solar flux down three points to 106.6, when compared to the previous week, September 19-25.
Geomagnetic activity was up, with planetary A index at 39 on October 2, mid-latitude A index at 29, and the high latitude college A index at 64.
The cause of the upset was a coronal mass ejectio…
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The Daily DX reports several opportunities to work some rare and semi-rare DXCC entities in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific this fall.
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HamRadioNow: The DCC is Done!
I still have some interviews from Huntsville and the Shelby Hamfest to produce, and even some material on some big Emcomm vans at both Dayton and Orlando that I want to get out. I'm never sure how long they'll take to finish, but I'll be working on …
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It's Crunch Time for Me to Learn the Arduino
However, every time I've been poised to leap into action, something has occurred to distract me. But now it's crunch time. There are several reasons I've been roused into activity. It all started with the Huntsville Hamfest I attended a couple of weeks …
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In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the ARRL, the ARRL Centennial QSO Party is set to kick off January 1 for a year-long operating event in which participants can accumulate points and win awards, as well as working new stations and making new friends. During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it will be easy to work all states s…
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Robert W. Ford, who operated from Tibet as AC4RF from 1948 to 1950, died September 20 in London. He was 90. His fascinating autobiography, Wind Between the Worlds, published in 1957 and available as a free Internet Archive download, describes his time and travails in Tibet and how his radio work nearly cost him his life.
As Ford explains, he first came to Tibet “by accident” to relieve the radio…
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Learn how to register your Icom radio with a D-STAR gateway!
Dayton Hamvention® is soliciting nominations for its 2014 awards for Amateur of the Year, Special Achievement, Technical Excellence, and Club of the Year. All Amateur Radio operators are eligible. Nominations must be received by January 17, 2014, to be considered. Winners will be recognized at the 2014 Dayton Hamvention,® May 16, 17 and 18.
The Amateur of the Year Award goes to an individual who…
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ICOM ID-51E VHF/UHF Dual Band Transceiver – Unboxing – GUNMAGAZIN.
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The 13th USA Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) Championships of on-foot hidden transmitter hunting gets underway in North Carolina October 8-13. Backwoods Orienteering Klub (BOK) will host the event. This year’s USA Championships are being combined with the Seventh ARDF Championships of International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 (the Americas). An e-mail reflector is available for Q…
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Download: http://bit.ly/16LHaAj Ham Radio Deluxe IC7400 SB-2000 sintonizzare frequenza dal cluster Ham Radio Deluxe IC7400 SB-2000 sintonizzare frequenza dal…
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The US Army MARS gateway station at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is operating on its normal schedule during the government shutdown, but routine administrative activity is on hold, computer systems are down, and no membership paperwork can be processed for the duration. As a civilian contractor not covered by the shutdown, Operations Officer David McGinnis, K7UXO, is completing final preparations fo…
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Programming demo for the Icom IC-A6.
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Ipsk31Ipad is a modem application for HF ham radio, using BPsk31 and QPsk31 coding/decoding. Easy to use but powerful, with spectrum analyzer and Macros. Ple…
Marc Tarplee, N4UFP, ARRL South Carolina Section Manager speaking at the Hamvention Field Day forum.
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The FCC remains closed, as the Federal Government shutdown continues. All FCC websites, including the Universal Licensing System (ULS), are offline until further notice. The Commission’s Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, facility, which handles all Amateur Radio licensing transactions, is shuttered as well. Here’s how the FCC shutdown will affect Amateur Radio licensing application transactions and VE-…
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HQ video showing SSB variable power “dial-a-watt” control function dual concentric knob (outer concentric knob on the CRE8900) in single side band mode. YES!…
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The ARRL Executive Committee (EC) will face an agenda heavy on FCC and regulatory issues when it meets Saturday, October 5 in the Denver, Colorado, area.
Among action items, the EC is expected to consider the filing of a Petition for Rule Making, now in draft, seeking to delete restrictions on symbol rates for data communication and to establish a 2.8 kHz maximum authorized bandwidth for HF dig…
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Some stations worked by XE2NS thru the contest. Most of the QSOs where done with the 1/4 10m vertical, others with the 160m loop antenna. Hope to contact you…
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Warren B. Bruene, W5OLY, of Richardson, Texas, died September 28. He was 96. A pioneer in HF communication, Bruene worked closely with the late Art Collins, WØCXX, on many aspects of HF design during his 44 years with the Collins Radio/ Rockwell Collins.
“I worked at Collins Radio for many years and knew Warren,” Earl Milliken Jr, WB5M, told ARRL. “He was very dedicated, intelligent, and a very …
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Video Lecture Series by IIT Professors (Not Available in NPTEL) “EMBEDDED SIGNAL PROCESSING (REAL TIME)” by Prof. Aurobinda Routray for more video lectures ….
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The FCC appears to have ground to a complete halt for all intents and purposes beyond emergencies, as the Federal Government shutdown continues. This includes functions at the Commission’s Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, facility, which handles all Amateur Radio licensing transactions, as well as the FCC’s main website and the Amateur Radio call sign database (ULS).
“We regret the disruption, but duri…
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Emcomm training in Malaysia
The day-time test will manage battery power, use telephony and PSK31, measure the Near Vertical Incidence Skywave propagation on 40m, while try out west-east paths across the country on 20m and 15m. Johnny 9M8DB said evaluations will be made of …
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