This video shows you the heart of the longwire antenna. This antenna has been desinged for receiving usage from 100kHz until 30MHz. This antenna will be deli…
Archive for month: November, 2013
The Daily DX reports that theK9W DXpedition to Wake Atoll is over. A final log upload to ClubLog is pending. The K9W team logged more than 100,000 contacts with stations in 186 DXCC entities. Meanwhile the XRØZR team on Juan Fernandez reports that it has surpassed 35,000 contacts, and it’s beefing up efforts to put even more contacts into the log. The DXpedition has 6 more days to go.
“With the …
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Coverage of the Orlando, Florida HamCation event on Feb 11-13, 2011 huge turnout this year with thousands attending the trade show which features new and use…
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the local ham radio clubs yearly hamfest in lincoln nebraska march 19, 2011 at the lancaster county event center.. see the other video fo the presentation of…
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The results of the 2013 ARRL Field Day have been posted. Less-than-ideal conditions this past June likely accounted for a slight drop in participation from 2012. Nonetheless, there were more than 2500 entries, and more than 35,500 people participated.
The team at W3AO (Potomac Valley Radio Club/Columbia Amateur Radio Association) claimed top honors this year, running class 29A(!) to compile a sc…
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Yaesu FT 2000 Panadapter low cost.
[UPDATED 2013-11-14 1412 UTC] The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced this week that it has deployed satellite communication equipment to the Philippines to help re-establish “communications vital for search and rescue” in areas severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). Amateur Radio volunteers throughout the Philippine archipelago have been a primary communication link s…
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9 year old Chinese Primary School pupils calling CQ from their classroom in Guangzhou City China! Transmissions were received at my location on the Gold Coas…
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02 sep 2012 ur3ctb worked with vk3kcx on 10m psk-31 mode (part1)
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ARRL’s Field Day 2012 – June 23rd 2012. Ashton and Ms. Carsyn rackup of the Points for contacts on 15 Meters. Ashton and Carsyn representing the SCARC (Ski C…
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Rich, N0HJZ, pilots the VP5H Multi-Op on a 20 Meter run during the 2013 ARRL International DX Contest. Rich works AE6OU, NT5V, KC2YEA, AD1C, KR2E, WN4S, K1DA…
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Six meter operators were treated November 9 to an F2 opening from approximately 1500 until 1630 UTC.
“These have been very rare in solar cycle 24,” said QST “The World Above 50 MHz” Editor Jon Jones, NØJK. He described the opening as “mostly single-hop F2” from the East Coast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and to the West Coast to Central America, Northern South America and Caribbean.
Jones said the geoma…
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Two astronauts and a cosmonaut returned safely to Earth from International Space Station today. The Expedition 37 crew of European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP; Russian ISS Crew Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg landed in a Soyuz spacecraft in the Kazakhstan steppe, returning in the same spacecraft that took them to the ISS last May.
They carrie…
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http://www.kq8rp.us/end-fed-wire/mfj-998-intellituner-remote-setup-to-165-end-fed-wire/ Remote Antenna Tuner MFJ-998 to 165′ End Fed Wire.
A day out testing our communications and evaluating. Actual price of the buddipole without extended mast was 399.00.
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Members of The American Legion Amateur Radio Club (TALARC) will honor their fellow veterans in a special on-the-air tribute on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11. TALARC will operate on 20 meters, IRLP, 2 meter simplex and a Central Indiana repeater from 9 AM through 5 PM Eastern Time (1300-2200 UTC), using special event call sign W9L. Anyone contacting the station is eligible to receive an attr…
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Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Geoffrey Bawden, VE4BAW, told the RAC’s Annual General Meeting in his Report to RAC Members last month that the organization is solvent.
“After two and a half years of hard work, RAC is on a firm financial footing,” Bawden said. At the 2010 Annual General Meeting, Bawden had raised the specter of financial failure. “We were insolvent and on the very brink…
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6m用のHB9CVわベランダ設置する際のSWRの変化の実験です。
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standing waves.
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Officials in the Philippines are still assessing the extent of damage wrought by Typhoon Haiyan (locally called “Yolanda”), which hit the central Philippines November 8. The death toll is at least 100, with many others injured and some 500,000 people left homeless. The typhoon (tornado), with sustained winds approaching 150 MPH with gusts to 170 MPH, swept away homes and buildings, blocked road…
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Observen el minuto 54 la entrega de la plaqueta como persona destacada en Lincoln a Ruben LU8EEM y como si fuera poco pero bien merecido que lo tiene, en las…
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Powerful Typhoon Haiyan (called “Yolanda” locally) struck the central Philippines on November 8, leaving at least four people dead and cutting off power and communications. Ramon Anquilan, DU1UGZ, of the Philippines Amateur Radio Association (PARA), reports that the Ham Emergency Radio Operators (HERO) have been supporting authorities with reports and message-handling.
“They helped track the d…
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CP18 – Włocławek.http://www.facebook.com/CopernicusProject oraz http://copernicus-project.org.
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Solar activity eased off over the past week, with average daily sunspot numbers declining nearly 30 points from 161.6 to 131.7, and average daily solar flux down over 12 points from 158.3 to 146. Geomagnetic indicators were quiet. Still, activity remains strong. The last three days of the reporting week (November 4-6) had increasingly stronger sunspot numbers, all higher than the week’s average…
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VBF Monterey Bay California on CB channel 38. Recorded on the Gold Coast, Australia.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan, a category 5 storm, has hit the Philippines, triggering flooding, destroying buildings, and causing millions to take shelter. Ramon Anquilan, DU1UGZ, of the Philippines Amateur Radio Association (PARA) reports that the typhoon made landfall at about 4:40 AM local time November 8 in Guian Estern Samar, about 600 kilometers southeast of Manila. Neighboring provinces are affe…
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Part 2 of 3 of the entended review of the Icom IC R20 communications receiver.
NASA’s Richard Mastracchio, KC5ZTE, Russia’s Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, and Japan’s Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA, arrived at the International Space Station November 7, expanding the ISS crew complement to nine members. The new crewmembers carried the torch that will be used to light the Olympic flame in Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Games.
The arrival of Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata brings the stat…
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A few nice Skywarn images I found:
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The president of the European DX Foundation, Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T, has written the ARRL DX Advisory Committee (DXAC) in support of DXCC recognition of Kosovo. Timmerman, who is also IARU Region 1 president, has been involved in getting Amateur Radio back up to speed in Kosovo and operated in September 2012 as Z6ØK. Under current DXCC rules, Kosovo does not qualify as a DXCC entity. For…
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OE3K ARRL CW 2013 – Braco E77DX replacing broken stack match.
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What’s the frequency, Kenneth? The annual Frequency Measuring Test (FMT) will take place on November 13, at 0300 UTC. See page 88 of November 2013 QST for the schedule and full details.
The FMT will employ a “roundtable” format, with all transmitting stations close to the same frequency. The four test signal stations will be K5CM in Oklahoma, W8KSE in Ohio, W6OQI in California and WA6ZTY in Cali…
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A program by the National Weather Service allows community members to use their passion for the good of the public. Katelyn Baer reporting.
Just a quick note, I took a lot of what I said from the SKYWARN website to give an idea of how much of an impact you can have but from personal experience it…
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Technology marches on and, controversy aside, operating a remote station via the Internet has become more common in recent years. In the ARRL November Sweepstakes CW event last weekend, a ham who lives in Uruguay remotely operated a station in the US, making a clean sweep in the process. Tom Morton, K6CT/CX7TT, who lives in near Montevideo, logged into one of the operating positions at K4VV in …
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Shakespeare 393 23′ Single Side Band Antenna
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A hiker in distress in Nevada is thankful that he had his hand-held transceiver along when he found himself stranded in the hills near Henderson. Western Intertie Network (WIN) System member Jim Frederick, KF6QBW, in Arizona reports he was monitoring the system November 3 around midday when he heard, “Mayday, Mayday. Hiker in distress!” from his WIN System repeater.
“I grabbed a charged battery …
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Some cool ARRL images:
The elder statespeople
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Special event station KP4AO Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be on the air Sunday, November 10, 1230-2000 UTC.
“We will be on the air commemorating our 50th anniversary of Radio Astronomy Science,” explains Angel M. Vazquez, WP3R, the head of telescope operations and RFI/spectrum manager at the facility. “We will operate 20 meter phone only at around 14.250 MHz. All participants locally w…
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Waltzmart USB AC Charger Adapter Power Supply Cord For Microsoft XBOX 360 Kinect Sensor
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- Input: 100V~240V 50/60 Hz
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LED indicator.
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Sworn into office November 4, Tom Wheeler, the new FCC chairman, has named current Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Ruth Milkman as his chief of staff. Replacing Milkman as acting Wireless Bureau chief will be Roger Sherman, a communications attorney with strong links to the Democratic Party. The WTB oversees Amateur Radio within the FCC. Sherman previously served as the Democratic Chie…
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Direct TV refuses to help others with this problem or even acknowledge it… This is how to fix the RFI susceptibility problem with your Directv HR24 dvr fro…
CHP radar antennas can interfere with radio receivers. It affects lowband and VHF frequencies. The radar antennas are located in the front and rear windows o…
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Dmitry Pashkov, UB4UAD, reports that the Amateur Radio slow-scan television (SSTV) experiment onboard the International Space Station has been active for the past couple of days on 145.800 MHz FM, mainly while the ISS is above Moscow. UB4UAD says that on October 31, RSØISS will transmit SSTV images showing images from the life and work of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
Stations can view the …
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When the 2013 ARRL November Sweepstakes kicks into gear in a few days with the CW event, it will mark the 80th running of the oldest domestic ham radio contest, which debuted in 1930. Amateur Radio was ordered off the air during World War II, so no Sweepstakes events took place during those years. The CW event is this weekend, November 2-3, while the phone event is the weekend of November 16-17…
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First QSO with the International Space Station! Click the link below to download my ISS / Satellite Track Data Sheet http://www.box.net/shared/09nk3y01t7 20J…
In this video, KD0FRL and myself are testing a foxhunt antenna. We’re using this type of antenna for our A.R.E.S. foxhun next Saturday. This was recorded wit…
The Federal Communications Commission once again has its full complement of five commissioners. On Tuesday, the US Senate confirmed the White House nomination of venture capitalist and industry insider Thomas Wheeler, a Democrat, to be FCC chairman. He succeeds former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who stepped down in June. The Senate also confirmed Michael O’Rielly as a commissioner to one o…
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Wayne Burkett, KA1VRF, discusses the Treasure Coast Weather Network and SKYWARN services for Indian River, St Lucie, and Martin Counties.
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Scott Spratt NWS Melbourne– 2011 Hurricane Hazards Seminar at IRSC Wolf Center in Stuart, FLorida. Sponsored by IRSC and WQCS Part 03.
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Das von mir in AVR-Assembler geschriebene Programm arbeitet in einem AVR ATtiny2313 (oder auch im neuen pin-kompatiblen ATtiny4313) mit dem “Pollin-Spiel”-Ba…
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weather bullettin for ship. 11038 khz radioteletype.
WFAT 1620 AM Brooklyn, New York. Circa 1980. This film features DJs Hank Hayes, Jim Nazium, and the FCC agents that kept busting them, Judah Mansbach and Ale…
It’s been a lively couple of weeks, with plenty of sunspots and great HF propagation. Average daily sunspot number for the week was 161.6, unchanged from last week’s average of 162. Solar flux values were up quite a bit though, rising from 139.6 to 158.3, quite a healthy jump.
On October 26 the Penticton solar flux reading was 171.8, but NOAA downgraded it to 165, probably because the higher val…
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It’s finished!
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Finally fixed my antenna! It’s a 3 elements HF (14/21/28 mhz) antenna called the FB-33 from Fritzel. I tested it the same night, but the conditions where lousy, only had portugal, sweden and heard brazil and israel (amongst the usual russian stations).
I think I really scared some people while setting this beast up by the way ;o)
Græsk partileder flyttes til superfængsel
… hvis han bliver dømt. Retssagen er endnu ikke berammet. Varetægtsfængslingen af ham er den mest højprofilerede udvikling i de græske myndigheders bestræbelser på at neutralisere Gyldent Daggry, som har 18 medlemmer i det 300 pladser store …
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Preparatory to a “DXcursion” to Albania, a team of operators in Kosovo will fire up Z6ØA for the first time November 1 through November 3 on SSB, 14.210, 21.310 and 28.510 MHz, operating split as needed. Special emphasis will be given to Japan and the US.
Operators will include Vjollca, Z61VB; Ali, Z61DD; Driton, Z61DX, and Fehmi, Z62FB. Some new hams will participate as well. A special QSL car…
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