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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client asked for something like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMMSmUYHy8 so i made what you see and he Loved it 🙂 check out Project-4D Textures V1 …
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The first IARU Region 2 Emergency Communications Workshop, held September 24-25 in Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with the IARU Region 2 XVIII General Assembly, explored international issues facing Amateur Radio’s response to emergencies and disasters. Sponsored by IARU Region 2 and the ARRL, the event was co-chaired by ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U, and IARU Region 2 Emer…
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Prove di accordo Yaesu ft 450d.
My Yaesu listening to the Southcars net and the Midcars net on the 40M band.
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07/07/2013 BPSK-31 QSO ON 10M UR3CTB WITH LU2XPK.
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Our sun is still very quiet, but solar flux and sunspot numbers were higher this week than last. Average daily sunspot numbers rose from 42.3 to 75.6, and average daily solar flux rose from 95.3 to 109.6. There were no big geomagnetic events this week.
Predicted solar flux is 110 on September 27 through October 2, then 105, 100, 95, 100, 105 and 100 on October 3-8, 95 on October 9-10, then 100, …
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This is Icom IC-746 in my shack. It is small presentation of this fabulous radio. Enjoy.
The Radio Amateur of Canada (RAC) annual general meeting will take place in Ancaster, Ontario, on October 5, in conjunction with the Hamilton Amateur Radio Club and the Hamilton Amateur Radio Hamfest. The session gets underway at 1 PM in Merritt Hall on the Ancaster Fair Grounds. A question-and-answer session will follow a business meeting, with a chance to discuss the future of RAC with the pr…
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Rechargeable lead acid battery 12V 7amp as DC power supply for my Yaesu FT817 radio.
We inadvertently omitted the Maine QSO Party from the Radiosport listing in The ARRL Letter for September 26. Sponsored by the Wireless Society of Southern Maine, the event runs from 0000 UTC to 2359 UTC September 29. Bands and modes include 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10, CW, and phone (SSB, FM, AM). Maine stations exchange signal report and county (16 in all). Others send signal report and state…
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Microwave radiation from mobile phones! The makers say to hold the handset 1.5 inches away from your head or body to avoid cooking your brain / Flesh. This v…
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Radio frequency interference caused by poorly designed electronic ballast in fluorescent Lighting. Testing RFI-EMI radiating from electronic ballast where th…
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Upon the Invitation of Qatar Stars League, Mr. Gerald Fritz, we performed the cut version of our new module. It was held last 26th of April in City Center, I…
This is my clan going against some Scrubs called Qsl. We Won 2-0. Check out our clan Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/WCKGaming.
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council (AC) is looking into ways to work with non-IARU Amateur Radio organizations in countries where the IARU member-society may not be representing all of that country’s hams. The issue came under discussion at the annual AC meeting September 21-22 in Cancun, Mexico.
“For example, some do not participate in their regional organizatio…
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This is another video to help you get on six meter. In this video I explain the half wave dipole antenna and show as an example the dipole that I built. A ha…
Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) developer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, is looking for someone who will build a linear satellite transponder for PSK31.
“If someone will build a linear PSK31 transponder, I have a launch opportunity in 9 months,” Bruninga said in a posting to the AMSAT Bulletin Board. “All it needs to be is a PSK31 linear receiver on 28.120 MHz (3 kHz bandwidth) with AGC coupled …
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Episode 6 – Tips on buying your First HT Radio.
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The 2013 running of Scouting’s Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) is less than a month away. The 56th JOTA will take place the weekend of October 19-20, from 0000 local time Saturday to 2400 local time Sunday. JOTA gives members of the Boy Scouts of America a chance to experience Amateur Radio firsthand, perhaps planting the seed for a lifetime of hamming. But this year’s running of the world’s largest…
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World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 (WRTC-2014) organizers have announced the operators (listed below) who have been invited to form teams for the competition to be held in New England during July 2014. In addition to the 51 team leaders who emerged from the qualifying process, the announcement includes two “wild card” selections, a youth team, and the defending champion from WRTC-2010. WRT…
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Ham radio USA.
Mike Carroll, N4MC, who operated the “Vanity HQ” website for 14 years before taking it dark earlier this year, says the National Silent Key Archive™ of Amateur Radio Operators that he founded remains up and running.
“The only thing that was carried over from Vanity HQ would be the unique call lookup,” Carroll told ARRL. On the “Tools” menu, click on “Research Hams” to enter a name or a call sig…
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3 Foot antenna on the trunk emits corona discharge. The audio you hear is not bleed over in the camera, its the fire modulating and acting as a speaker.
Поднятие антенны ER6A в “Полевой День 2012”
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The White House has recognized Matt Brisbois, KI6RBS, of Newport Beach, California, as part of its Champions of Change program. The Newport Beach Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program coordinator “has trained and mentored more than 1000 residents, business and community leaders, and educators, resulting in the highest per-capita volunteer-to-resident ratio for CERT programs in all of…
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Amateur Radio volunteers assisting with communications in the aftermath of the devastating Colorado flooding came in for high praise recently for their role in helping to safely evacuate youngsters and others from a mountain environmental education center threatened with being cut off by road washouts. In an Op-Ed piece last week in the Longmont Times-Call, Sandra Harem, the executive director …
Here’s how I received VK2JI’s relay of the Sunday broadcast via FreeDV on 7.240MHz this evening.
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This test is rather interesting. My voice sounds worse than my friend’s. — This was just us goofing off at our campus radio station – His voice was fed into…
Even as preparations continue apace for World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 (WRTC-2014) next July in New England, the World Radiosport Team Championship Sanctioning Committee is seeking a sponsor for the 2018 competition.
“Like the International Olympics, it is important to provide continuity for the WRTC program and give the radiosport community as much time as possible to prepare for eac…
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ARRL Laboratory Engineer Bob Allison, WB1GCM, speaks with builders at the Kit Expo in the ARRL booth at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention.
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The Daily DX reports several upcoming opportunities to work some rare and semi-rare DXCC entities in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific this fall. FW5JJ, Wallis and Futuna Islands, will be coming on the air as Jean Jacques, TK5JJ, heads there to live for a couple of years. A start-up date has not been announced, but he plans to be active on all modes and expects to have a 2 meter EME and 6 me…
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OUR COMPANY PSK TECHNOLOGIES is academy of advance hardware & network technology. This academy covers IT related general topics. First time in Nagpur (india)…
The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) reports that radio amateurs in Australia may win a reprieve for the 2300-2302 MHz amateur band, which is under threat from spectrum licensing.
In February 2013, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Australia’s equivalent to the FCC, released a discussion paper proposing to withdraw the 2300-2302 MHz amateur allocation so that 2300-24…
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Kun je gebruiken voor redstone enz. enz. enz. (Van zelfsprekend)
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Duplexer para VHF/UHF.
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The winner of the September QST Cover plaque award is Bob DeVarney, W1ICW, for his article “Decibels and dBm Demystified.” 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 October issue today.
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Демонстрация работы согласующего устройства. Часто задаваемый вопрос – какую мощность может пропустить это СУ? Зазоры в применяемых в СУ КПЕ 0,3мм – т.е. про…
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is hoping its “Ham Video” digital television transmitter, now stowed onboard the International Space Station (ISS), will be installed and commissioned this fall. US Astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, who heads into space September 25, is scheduled to handle the tasks involved with getting the S Band Ham Video DATV setup on the ai…
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