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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SWR testing Sirio Performer 5000 & Sirio ML 145 with low cost SWR – meter.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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PSK 31 QSO with China using DM780 and 75 watts.
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https://sites.google.com/site/obektpriselecnlo/drone-dron- Skynet-global protective system or human’s biological artificial High level intelligence controlle…
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Many people feel that alarm systems are too complicated to use. They don’t have to be. The 4160 control communicator from ADEMCO is so simple that anyone can…
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http://StuartHamfest.com/ This video covers assembly of the Nightfire Kits Torch Kit step-by-step as donated to MCARA for the Stuart Hamfest in Stuart, Flori…
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Utica Amateur Radio Hamfest at the Herkimer Fairgrounds 2012.
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Sterling Coffey, N0SSC
ARRL Youth Editor
Moving to a new town is a big undertaking, whether as a family, a temporary move to study abroad or get work experience while in college — or even moving to college itself. Although it’s never easy to let go of the old and become acquainted with a new place, you never know what amazing opportunities can lie ahead.
Last month, I wrote about my move to Soco…
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ICOM HF TRANSCEIVER IC-745.
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
This week, Surfin’ remembers George Hart, W1NJM, and his National Traffic System.
My first professional job after graduating from college in 1977 was at ARRL Headquarters, working for ham radio legend George Hart, W1NJM.
George ran the Communications Department at the League. While I worked in the department’s Public Service Branch and reported directly t…
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Week 1.
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Solar activity was down this week, with the average daily sunspot number at 49.6, less than half last week’s figure. The average daily solar flux dropped 22 points to 97, and geomagnetic activity was quiet also. Sunspot numbers for March 21-27 were 60, 54, 56, 45, 56, 41 and 35, with a mean of 49.6. The 10.7 centimeter flux was 106.1, 100.9, 98.2, 96, 92.6, 92.4 and 93, with a mean of 97. The e…
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Using a Raspberry PI for a complete D-star Repeater/GW & APRS IGATE Raspberry PI only uses 190 mA !! wich is about 3 W .. Complete Repeater uses 92 W @ High …
Not much action and adventure but I video the computer screen as it crossed previous first place holder. Packet noise in background was my 2-meter radio tune…
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Robert “Smitty” Smithwick, W6CS (ex-W6JZU), of Los Altos Hills, California, passed away March 22. He was 92. An ARRL Life Member, Smithwick served as ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director from 1978-1981. A pediatric dentist by trade, Smithwick was one of the founders of Foothill College, a two-year community college in Los Altos Hills, and served as the first president of the college’s Board of T…
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NATIONAL HAMFEST 2011.
Mary Lewis, W7QGP, of Seattle, Washington, passed away March 12. She was 85. An ARRL Life Member, Lewis served as ARRL Northwestern Division Director from 1981-1987 and 1991-1995. She also served as ARRL Section Communications Manager for Washington and ARRL Section Manager for Western Washington, as well as ARRL Assistant Section Manager and ARRL Affiliated Club Coordinator for the Western Was…
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Beacon do balão N2XE recebido em Cascais ás 02H35 de 26MAR2012.
FCC Commissioner Julius Genachowski and FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell both announced last week that they would be leaving the Commission. McDowell announced his resignation during the FCC’s open meeting on March 20, while Genachowski made his announcement in remarks to FCC staff on March 22.
Genachowski was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the Commission in June 2009. McDowell — …
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Short view on the Yaesu FT-2000 & DMU Showing the capacities of the DMU unit. Yaesu FT-2000D, DMU connected with GPS Unit Musik: Mozart Concerto for Piano 25…
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NASA will televise the launch and docking of its next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning at 3:30 PM EDT on Thursday, March 28 (1930 UTC). NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, and Alexander Misurkin are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:43 PM EDT (2043 UTC). They will join Canadian Space Ag…
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Airborne aerial unmanned bulletproof combat drone of monitoring system.Авиационный воздушно-десантный беспилотный боевой пуленепробивной дрон системы монитор…
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Acting upon a subsequent request by the ARRL, the FCC issued an Order (WT Docket No, 12-283) on March 25, granting a temporary waiver to transmit communications on amateur service channels above 30 MHz using single time-slot Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems. The temporary waiver was granted pending the resolution of a related rulemaking proceeding (RM-11625).
Currently, amateur stati…
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George Hart, W1NJM — the chief developer of the National Traffic System (NTS) — passed away Sunday, March 24. He was 99. An ARRL Charter Life Member, Hart spent more than four decades as a member of the ARRL Headquarters staff and continued to be an active amateur and regular participant in Field Day. In 1984, the ARRL Board of Directors named Hart as an ARRL Honorary Vice President.
First lic…
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Poslech 3.7 Mhz.
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How to set up a Q in the back office for Shelf Reliance Consultants.
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93-series mobile HF antenna family initially designed for military and professional applications. Capable to 200W PEP RF power handling the 9310 (HAM Version…
The ARRL will be promoting Amateur Radio at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) — NAB Show — scheduled for April 6-11 in at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Members of the Las Vegas Radio Amateurs Club (LVRAC) will staff the ARRL booth at NAB, providing attendees with information about Amateur Radio. The booth also serves as a meeting place for radio amateu…
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DX-Pedition 2011 Mike & Micha am 20.05.2011 um 20:00 uhr FM (2)
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Updated tour, recent aquisitions and old legends.
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