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Radio amateurs in the United Kingdom have set a new 76 GHz distance record of 102 kilometers (approximately 63.24 miles). The September 14 contact between the team of Chris Towns, G8BKE, and John Hazell, G8ACE, at Batcombe Hill, Dorset (IO80rt59) and Ian Lamb, GW8KQW, in Eglwysilan Mountain, Gwent (IO81io36). This is also believed to be the first 76 GHz contact between England and Wales.
The par…
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Check out these QSL images:
QSL Austria 1989
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QSL Italy 1989
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QSL France 1989
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Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 17-19, US Army MARS national leadership approved a study of HF transmission methods for use in extreme propagation failures, and it invited nominations for an IT specialist to coordinate such a project. Program Officer Paul English, WD8DBY, who presided, addressed the need for an HF mode capable of high penetration through adverse conditions, such as an ex…
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Yaesu FT-101.
Limpieza y mantenimiento (Engrase) a un Rotor para antenas de Radio Aficionado YAESU G2800GXA.
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Fred Laun, K3ZO, who manages the NCDXA/ARRL Third Call Area Incoming QSL Bureau, advises operators who routinely send cards “via the bureau” to first check the DX station’s QRZ.com or personal websites first to find out if the DX station replies to cards sent via the bureau.
“Each month our bureau receives hundreds of cards for rare DX stations and DXpeditions who…state that they will not answer…
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Rx degen de1103 & 30′ wire thrown up tree in Walden Wood.
Jay Oka, JA1TRC, reports that XZ1Z returned to the air a day earlier than expected from Naypyidaw, Myanmar (Burma), the nation’s capital. Two stations are on the air, with Zorro, JH1AJT; Champ, E21EIC; and Ted, JJ1LIB, as operators.
Operation is primarily on CW and focused to the Americas. Wire antennas are in place for 160, 80, 40, 30 and 17, as well as a triband Yagi. Oka says he plans to upda…
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Later in the broadcast reception has improved a little.
Paul Chilsen has worked in the film and television business for more than two decades. His career has taken him all over the world and into most aspects of t…
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The FCC has dismissed a Petition for Rulemaking (RM-11699) from a Massachusetts ham, that sought to amend the Part 97 Amateur Service rules to permit the encryption of certain amateur communications during emergency operations or related training exercises. The FCC put the petition filed by Don Rolph, AB1PH, of East Walpole on public notice in June. Rolph requested an additional exception to §9…
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Check out these ICOM images:
Ray Novak (N9JA) and Kevin Trotman (N5PRE)
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Carrying my new HF radio.
Brett is at the Dayton Hamvention
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Just proving that Brett was here.
outlook
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Didnt make it to the SPE Annual Reception? Catch all of the entertainment here.
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Rx degeneration de1103 & 39″ wire thrown in tree in Walden Wood.
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Palomar Engineers President John E. “Jack” Althouse, K6NY, of San Diego, California, died September 15 after suffering a massive stroke. He was 90. With his death, his alter ego “Kurt N. Sterba,” who penned the “Aerials” columns from 1999 until 2012 and authored books on antennas for WorldRadio, also passes into Amateur Radio history.
Palomar Engineers, the Escondido company he operated, may bec…
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8pill Base with internal power supply rated at 200 amps with a 110 plug-in. The amplifier is completely custom with large digital volt meter on front panel, …
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Well-known DXer Martti Laine, OH2BH, reports that the first Amateur Radio licensing course in the Republic of Kosovo is nearing its end; passing the license exam will pave the way for Technical University of Pristina students to join the hobby ranks. The course was supported by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 1, and it used both Croatian and UK course material. Radio equipme…
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The Ten Tec Pegasus does all IF processing and modulation/demodulation processing in the digital domain, by means of an Analog Devices digital signal process…
The votes have been tallied, and Barry Baines, WD4ASW; Tony Monteiro, AA2TX; Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, and Mark Hammond, N8MH, have been elected to the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. The first alternate is JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM, and the second alternate is Steve Coy, K8UD. Frank Griffin, K4FEG, and Bryan Klofas, KF6ZEO, did not attract sufficient votes to become a Board member or alternate. Baines is …
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This is my review of my I com 718, enjoy and 73s.
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Friday the 13th came early for cluster balloonist and radio amateur Jonathan Trappe, KJ4GQV, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Trappe’s attempt to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon ended the evening of September 12, when he “Landed safe, at an alternate location,” as he put it in a Facebook post. That “alternate location” was in Newfoundland, where he remained for the night.
His lighter-than-ai…
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US Astronaut Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR, and Russian Cosmonaut and Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station September 11 aboard a Soyuz capsule. Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin rounded out the trio that landed in Kazakhstan after 166 days in space.
A day earlier, Vinogradov handed over command of the ISS to anothe…
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We’re going to guess that most D-STAR users only use voice. Low speed data is part of every transmission, but it requires a computer (or maybe a smart phone)…
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Wayne S. Green II, W2NSD (“Never Say Die”), of Hancock, New Hampshire, died September 13. He was 91. A well-known and often outspoken figure during what some consider Amateur Radio’s golden years in the 1950s and 1960s, Green helmed CQ Magazine for 5 years before becoming the self-proclaimed “El Supremo and Founder” in 1960 of 73 magazine, which he published until 2003.
“The purpose of [73] at t…
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K2HAT W2BK K2CK KC2PGL N2PEN N2WJR WA2ZNO.
This is my video of the 3rd National Hamfest at Newark Showground in the United Kingdom. It was a superb day with many traders and very unlike UK weather wel…
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[Updated Sep 14, 23:15] Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, has announced that the net plans to activate Sunday, September 15, at 1500 UTC on 14.325 MHz in response to the approach of Hurricane Ingrid, only the second hurricane of the 2013 season.
A hurricane warning has been issued from Cabo Rojo to La Pesca, Mexico. A tropical storm warning has been issued from north of La…
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Example of CW Skimmer , SDR-IQ , and CW “skims” imported in to DXLAB’s Spotcollector. Feb 18, 2012 International DX Contest.
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If a quick conversation with someone far away (similar to a contest contact) while running minimal power to a limited antenna is your type of fun, JT9 is worth a try. I’ve always thought that bouncing signals off the ionosphere is next to miraculous in and of itself but JT9 seems to go one better. In the following piece I will explain how you can use JT9 to do an unbelievable job of working ver…
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A few nice Ham Shack images I found:
About five dozen Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers have deployed in and around flood-stricken counties of Colorado, providing critical communication for Red Cross shelters and state and local emergency operation centers. Recent heavy rains have caused veritable mountainside tsunamis that have caused rivers and streams to overflow their banks, ravaged roads and property and displ…
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ICOM A: Vehicles with OBD capability (Connect to ISIS/SSS/ISID with LAN or WAN) ICOM B: For programming with MOST port (Connect to MOST in vehicle / to ICOM-…
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Solar activity was very, very quiet over the past week. For the reporting period September 5-11, the average daily sunspot number was only 37.7. Average daily sunspot numbers as reported in this bulletin have not been nearly this low since June 6-12 of this year, when it was 39.6. The last time it was lower was June 21-27 of last year, when it was 26.3.
Australia’s IPS Radio and Space Services i…
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JBA W06499 Blue Ignition Wire for Ranger 3.0L 02-03
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ViewSonic VX2370SMH-LED 23-Inch IPS LED Monitor (Frameless Design, Full HD 1080p, 30M:1 DCR, HDMI/DVI/VGA)
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Radio amateur Jonathan Trappe, KJ4GQV, of Raleigh, North Carolina is trying to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon. He took off September 12 at 1200 UTC from Caribou, Maine. According to a reporton AMSAT-UK, Trappe is carrying Amateur Radio beacons on 14.0956 MHz and 144.390 MHz APRS.
The 14.0956 MHz beacon is just above the WSPR frequency (approximately 1880 Hz in the waterfall display), ru…
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This video shows live reception of Slow Scan Television transmitted from the International Space Station. The receiver chain consisted of USRP+TVRX, GNU Radi…
The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) went on standby alert, and the Red Cross and the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) were called out earlier this week in the wake of the so-called Morgan Incident Fire, in chaparral southeast of Clayton, California. The blaze, on the eastern flank of the north peak of Mount Diablo, put at least four Mount Diablo Amateur Radio C…
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World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 (WRTC-2014) organizers remind prospective competitors that all team leader applications are due by Friday, September 13. So far, more than 100 applications have been received for the international competition set for July 8-14, 2014, in New England.
Not everyone who qualifies will submit an application to compete in WRTC-2014, so if a top qualifier does no…
Does your FT-950 seem as sharp as this when tuning around? If not, perhaps you should try fitting the 3KHz replacement filter from Network Sciences, marketed…
Special event station ZM9ØDX will be on the air from New Zealand during the full month of October to mark the 90th anniversary of that country’s first DX activities on the amateur bands and to commemorate the DX pioneers who made them happen.
The first New Zealand-to-Australia contact took place in April 1923, followed by then-world record contacts between New Zealand and Argentina the following…
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This is video showing start to semi finnished Skywarn Hyundai Ellantra . Enjoy everyone!
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Skywarn activation Storm warning. 6-15-2010.
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The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) is seeking papers for its 2014 Western Regional Conference. The event takes place March 22-23, 2014, in Bishop, California, and at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.
The first day of the conference will be spent at Cal Tech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory, with presentations by OVRO staff and SARA members and supporters followed by a tour of the …
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S21XV on 20m CW as copied in Houston on a Force 12 C3E up 16m.
An example of decoding the CW telemetry signals transmitted by the CubeSat CO-65 (CUTE-1.7+APDII, JQ1YTC). This satellite, launched in 2008, was the result o…
Jagjeet Singh Virdee, 5Z4GB, died August 29 after he and his 70-year-old mother were shot and killed outside their residence in Kericho County, Kenya, by five men armed with automatic weapons. He was 50. The attackers got away with a wallet and a pistol, according to one local news account. Singh Virdee, who also held the call sign 5H3JS in Tanzania, was reported to be a prominent Asian busines…
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The so-called Morgan Incident Fire, in chaparral southeast of Clayton, California, on the eastern flank of the north peak of Mount Diablo put at least four Amateur Radio repeaters off the air September 8. These include the K6MDD D-Star repeater, the W6UUU MotoTRBO repeater, the recently relocated W6CX APRS digipeater and the W6CX ATV repeater. Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club President Jim Siemo…
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Origens dos nomes de bandas e artistas de rock
A Certain Ratio – Uma frase tirado da uma música de Brian Eno. A&M Records – As iniciais dos donos (Herb) Alpert e (Jerry) Moss. ….. Cassandra tem o dom da profecia e a maldição de ninguém acreditar nela. CBGB's – Templo Nova Yorquino para o new wave …
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Universal Digital Sensor Interface – Design Possibilities
This is addressed by IO-Link with standard connector, interface specification and communication protocol by the means of connecting hubs with a cluster of IO-Link sensors to the Field Bus. Figure 2 shows such a network structure with IO –Link … with …
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Fujitsu dodává první servery PRIMERGY se systémem Windows Server
Společnost Fujitsu je celosvětově prvním dodavatelem, který získal certifikaci pro systém Windows Server 2012, ještě před jeho oficiálním uvedením, a také jako první nabízí řešení typu Cluster-in-Box s již novým systémem. Ačkoliv příjmy z … Díky úzké …
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Yaesu FT-7900R Mobile Dual-Band Amateur Ham Radio 50W/45W VHF/UHF Transceiver
- Mobile Amateur Radio Transmits 144-148Mhz & 430-450Mhz, Receives 108-520Mhz, 700-999Mhz.
- Output power of 50W VHF & 45W UHF, with lower 20/10/5W power settings.
- 1000 memory channels with AlphaNumeric Display, ctcss/dcs (PL/DPL).
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Dual Band VHF-UHF Amateur Radio mobile Transceiver.
* 50W VHF, 45W UHF, (with selectable 20W, 10W & 5W settings).
* Xmit 144-148Mhz & 430-450Mhz. Receives 108-520Mhz & 700-999Mhz (except cellular band).
* Features AlphaNemeric Display, 1000 channels, lighted microphone w/ direct freq entry.
* Includes 12Vdc power cord & mounting bracket.
* Requires suitable optional Dual Band Amateur antenna.
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Video showing me making an home-brew antenna (Multi Functional Dipole copy). May I apologize for the video quality as I used my mobile phone for this video.
A familiar DX and contesting call sign has gone quiet. Steve Hodgson, ZC4LI, of Cyprus died August 31 of cancer. He was 69. Hodgson also was on the air over the years as 5B4AHA, C4C, GØLII, G6G and ZD8LII, and was active until a few weeks ago. Adrian, 5B4AIY, called him “an enthusiastic contest operator [who] had won many awards. I’m sure his call will be sorely missed.” Mark, N2QT, said ZC4LI …
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Yaesu FT-857D, FC-40 tuner, 4m whip. Yaesu FT-897D, SG-230 tuner, 5m whip.
On the occasion of the EuroBasket 2013 basketball competition 2013 in Slovenia September 4-22, ZRS, the Association of Radio Amateurs of Slovenia) is offering an award to all radio amateurs and SWLs for contacting/monitoring S5 special event stations with three-digit prefix and EB suffices (eg S513EB, S541EB) and stations from the 24 countries fielding EuroBasket teams, between August 1 and Sep…
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Received in Japan with a long wire of a stainless-steel fence. There’re only a few RRI stations left on SW, and Wamena is one of them. Radio Republik Indones…
Conditions were quieter again this week. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 77 to 69, and average daily solar flux was off by 9.5 points to 106.9, when compared to the previous seven days, August 22-28.
Predicted solar flux for the near term is 105 on September 6-10, 100 on September 11-12, 110 on September 13, 120 on September 14-15, 115 on September 16-17, 110 on September 18, 105 on …
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Review of the Radio Shack center loaded portable antenna for amateur radio HT and scanner radios.
instructional video on installing a common PL259 connector on inexpensive RG6 aluminum shielded coax standard or quad shield .
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Breve demonstração e teste de TX / RX do Icom IC-718 enviado ao Amigo Claudmir PU2FBA de Luiziânia-GO! Grato pela confiança e fraterno 73. Marcos PU2RUD.
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