Sunday 2000Z of ARRL DX Contest SSB, quickly working stations off my bandmap packet spots on 15M into my Apache Labs ANAN-100D, stereo diversity recording, 3…
Archive for month: April, 2014
The USA ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding) Championships return to the Northeast this year. ARRL ARDF Coordinator Joe Moell, K0OV, said on-foot foxhunting fans of all skill levels will gather near Boston on the first weekend of June for 4 days of intense competition.
Activities begin on Thursday, June 5 with a 10-transmitter short-course sprint competition on 80 meters. The following day is …
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A behind the scenes look at the Ham radio gear used on the set of Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing.
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Just having fun. RX only. Yaesu FT-920 w/MFJ 993b autotuner. Antenna is shortened G5RV in inverted vee config with apex at 20′ (new DX-CC goes in air in a we…
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Foxnovo DVB T USB TV RTL SDR FM DAB Radio Tuner Receiver Stick Realtek RTL2832U R820T
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Vantech Mini P160 RTL2832U R820T DVB-T SDR DAB FM USB DIGITAL TV Tuner Receiver RTL-SDR Project + DAB dongle Tuner For Laptop PC Windows 8 / 7 White
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- fit for RTL-SDR Project DVB-T Tuning Range (approximate)
- Runteck Original DVB-T FM + DAB
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- Chip is R820T, the frequency range 25-1000MHz
Sticks with this combination (RTL2832 + R820T) are relatively new on
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the middle of the spectrum.
So far the tuner driver com
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Proceeds from the 2013 ARRL Hudson Division Awards Banquet last fall have been donated to the ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund by banquet sponsor, the Orange County Amateur Radio Club (OCARC) The donation totaled nearly $ 5000, a record for the Division. Nearly 170 attended. Awards for 2012 and 2013 were presented, since the 2012 banquet had to be called off due to Hurricane Sandy.
Award recipients wer…
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Recorded whilst mobile in my car on the Gold Coast, east coast of Australia.
Recorded whilst mobile on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia.
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Amateur Radio propagation and solar phenomena authority Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, said in an April 27 webinar, “Are We Headed into Another Maunder Minimum? What Does That Mean for Propagation?” that most solar scientists believe several low solar cycles lie ahead, ushering in periods of diminished HF propagation, especially on the higher bands. Luetzelschwab, who maintains K9LA’s Amateur Radio …
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HAM RADIO OUTLET ATLANTA.
A few nice RTTY images I found:
A “Commodore 64” at Museum of Arts and Industry, Paris
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One of my favs! I had one in once in the 90’s that had a module to decode cyrillic radio-teletype (rtty) and used to to print out russian maritime cables. This is on display at the Museum of Arts and Industry in Paris (Arts et Metiers).
Globephone “Space Commander ICF 2003 DX”
Image by Wanderlinse
The Globephone "Space Commander ICF 2003 DX" is a multiband receiver from 1981 and covers frequencies from 0,15 khz – 478 Mhz. It receives radio stations world wide, SSB, USB, LSB (RTTY, weatherfax, ham radio etc.), air band and others. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=goOxw3ySDOE & www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKjsWb33ow
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Infos: www.richy-schley.de/pages/funk-kommunikation/globephone-s…
Der Globephone "Space Commander ICF 2003 DX" ist ein sogenannter Allwellenempfänger von 1981, der Frequenzen zwischen 0,15 khz und 478 Mhz abdeckt. Man kann mit dem Gerät weltweit Radiosender empfangen, SSB, LSB, USB (RTTY, Wetterfax, Amateurfunk etc.), Flugfunk, Polizeifunk u.s.w. www.radiomuseum.org/r/globelec_icf_2003dxicf2003_d.html
The 2014 Armed Forces Day Cross-Band Communication Test will take place on Saturday, May 10. The US Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard co-sponsor the annual Amateur Radio/US military communication test. The 64th Armed Forces Day officially takes place on May 17, but the Armed Forces Day event takes place a week earlier, on May 10, to avoid conflicting with Dayton Hamvention®. …
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A memorable title game twenty-five years ago brought joy, heartbreak
Even Robinson, who had taken an outlet pass and was dribbling into the paint when Greene stepped in and bumped him slightly on the hip, couldn't believe it. "Honestly," he said afterward, "I thought it was kind of weak to make that …. The following …
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Each month SDJ will pick some products from the QSL Sound and Lighting shop to be pick of that month. This month is November 2012. Visit the website at http:…
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الجولة الخامسه من دوري نجوم قطر 2013/2014 .. السد يفوز على قطر برباعيه نظيفة احرزها المهدي علي و دوغلاس بالخطأ في مرماه وحسن الهيدوس وخلفان ابراهيم.
Streaming audio will be available for a scheduled Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact, May 1 at 1628 UTC, with students at Hidden Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The event will last up to 10 minutes.
The direct contact between NA1SS and NR0T at the school will be audible over portions of the Midwest and Southern US on the 145.80 MHz downlink.
Str…
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Night time air band scanning in Montreal 118 – 136 mhz on icom ic r 8500 receiver.
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Radio amateurs and AM broadcasters have some common ground in cleaning up “a worsening RF noise environment in the AM broadcast band,” according to recent comments filed with the FCC by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) on the issue of revitalizing AM broadcasting. ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, who is also general counsel for the SBE, drafted the remarks.
“There are numerous com…
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Decode GSM with RTL-SDR.
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The V.2 version of SDR-radio.com now supports the RTL-2832U DVB-T sticks for SDR reception using TCP. To set up SDR-radio.com V.2 for a RTL-2832U you will ne…
QSO to K8NY on 28 SSB Как-то этот америкос сдержанный был при QSO. Я уж удивился. TRX: ICOM IC-735.
If you are antenna challenged and need to keep a low profile, then a small gauge random wire is often the answer. However, if your shack is deep inside your …
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Extruded Aluminum Enclosure Kit, Blue, for Ham It Up v1.1 & v1.2 RF Upconverter for RTL-SDR Radios
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Unknown military or coastguard on 8993 kHz. This freq is usually used by the USCG but if anyone knows who these guys may be please let me know. (Maybe PNG or…
This is a quick video I knobbled together yesterday, to support my part of tuition in a weekend course for the New Zealand Amateur Radio Certificate. Vaughan…
Where to get contact information for QSL cards.
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Amateur Radio Floyd County VA High School Club N4FCH N4FCV http://www.floydamateurradiosociety.com Floyd County High School Amateur Radio FaceBook https://ww…
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Amateur Radio N4USA 2011 http://www.fairs.org http://www.floydfolks.org & http://www.littlefamilyfarm.com 1-540-745-2322 floydlcfgroup@gmail PO box 179 Floyd…
Mike and I decided to meet at the mic and key hamfest in Puyallup. I had no idea that Mike was such a pushy guy.
Average daily sunspot numbers during the past week rose 84.3 points, from 118.4 to 202.7. Average daily solar flux was up 11.3 points to 160.4.
The predicted average solar flux on April 19 for the next four days, April 24-27, was 150, but this was downgraded yesterday. On April 23 the average for the same period was adjusted down to 122.5, and on April 24 the average over the same period was 123…
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This video was recorded by Joe Carter it Shows the presence of Radio frequency Induction and sound transmission on a grounded Distribution Circuit the Sound …
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The Ham Whisperer’s Technician Class License Course
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After 30 years in the same location, AMSAT-NA is moving to a new office and will be closed today, Friday, April 25. AMSAT-NA will re-open in its new digs on Friday, May 2. The new address is AMSAT-NA, 10605 Concord St #304, Kensington, MD 20895.
AMSAT said its e-mail will remain operational, but it may be slow in responding. Purchases may be made as usual through the AMSAT Store, but they will n…
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Quick overview of the configuration of mesh nodes for network contest logging.
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Auf seiner Forschungsreise durch Ispra entdeckte Wolfgang Back das Institut für Schutz und Sicherheit des Bürgers (Institute for the Protection and the Secur…
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Software Defined Radio is it today, right? So why no SDR handhelds? And for all their high-tech wizardry, why no SDR cell phones? Mostly it’s power consumpti…
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Standing wave of particles Simulated by Hades.
The ARRL Foundation Board of Directors has awarded the 2014 William R. Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship to Padraig Lysandrou, KC9UUS, of Bloomington, Indiana. The 17-year-old Bloomington High School South senior has been licensed since 2011, is Indiana’s Assistant Section Manager for Youth, and is in the top 10 percent of his class. Lysandrou’s May 2013 QST article “A Crazy Idea: DXpedition to Cyp…
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Chasing der ersten sturkturreichen Superzelle in Niederösterreich. Neben Starkregen und Sturmböen gab es auch größeren Hagel, welcher zahlreiche Anwohner zum…
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You too can become a weather expert by participating in the Young Meteorologists program. Visit http://youngmeteorologist.org/ to learn more! This video has …
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Wenger is running out of petrol
Yes, we are missing speed through the likes of Walcott and it is exacerbating this effect, through the lack of pacey outlet, but we are failing to make the most of Oxlade-Chamberlain and Gnabry. ….. have fulfilled his first brief which was to stop us …
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Work is underway to complete the construction of an ionospheric research facility at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that bears some similarities to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) far to the north in Alaska, but on a different scale and with different research goals.
“It is basically the same as HAARP for the science, except that HAARP was in the Auroral Regio…
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The K7RA Solar Update
Raydel says, “This last Saturday March 29, at 1744 UTC I was at home recording APT satellite imagery from NOAA-19 on 137.1 MHz with a RTL-SDR dongle, a simple QFH antenna and a 25 dB pre-amp. “A couple of minutes into the pass I noticed a deep …
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A few nice Ham Antenna images I found:
another ham antenna
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My Old Digs (I had my first ham antenna there)
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A Texas radio amateur has agreed to turn in his Amateur Extra class license as part of an agreement with the FCC to settle an enforcement action against him. The FCC earlier this year issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) to James R. Winstead, KD5OZY, of Coleman, Texas, after determining that Winstead “apparently willfully violated” FCC rules by interfering with Amateur Rad…
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Part # 2 – – These 9 videos show how my son and I used a potato canon to put a rope through a tree, so that I could hang one end of my Double Bazooka (80 Met…
Tuna Tin 2 40m Transmitter
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Low Power Ham Radio transmitter in a Tuna Can. You can read more about it by downloading the PDF file at this link.
Radio Volunteers Provide Critical Support for 30th Challenge Cup Relay:
Amateur Radio volunteers were key to maintaining safety and security for the thousands of law enforcement personnel who took part in the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay http://www.bakervegas.com/ (B2V) race on March 22. This year marked the 30th …
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Ofcom 2300 and 3400 MHz ham radio bands statement
Following a consultation last year, Ofcom has decided to remove from the Amateur Radio Licence all frequencies in these bands which overlap with those planned for award (2350 to 2390 and 3410 to 3475 MHz) , giving amateurs at least twelve months' …
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW WAS operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, April 23 (the evening of April 22 in US time zones), from North Dakota and Mississippi to New Jersey (W1AW/2) and New Hampshire (W1AW/1). 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 …
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Icom IC-7100 HF/VHF/UHF amateur radio transceiver with D-STAR capabilities.
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There will be no ARRL Audio News this Friday, April 18, due to the fact that Headquarters will be closed for the Good Friday holiday. Audio News will resume April 25.
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Some cool Ham Radio images:
Tower base
Image by buba69
Ham Radio Antenna tower, US tower with motor and base. Tower is 23 feet in down position 39 feet in the up position.
Antenna is a Crushcraft 3 element 4 band antenna, 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters.
Rotator is a HAM rotator
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370)[a] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that lost contact with air traffic…
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The ARRL Centennial “W1AW WAS“ operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, April 16 (the evening of April 15 in US time zones), from Massachusetts and Virginia to Mississippi (W1AW/5) and North Dakota (W1AW/0). 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 …
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
Antiques
Image by Karl-Martin Skontorp
SPECIALIZED on M.TECH VLSI DESIGNING (FRONT END & BACK END) DOMAINS: PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE BIST ALGORITHMS SIGNAL PROCESSING IMAGE & VIDEO PROCESSING COMMUN…
Amateur Radio volunteers in Puerto Rico participated in the CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX 14 exercise in March. The purpose of the exercise was to assist tsunami preparedness efforts in the Caribbean and adjacent regions, including the east coasts of the US and Canada. Since 2010, Amateur Radio has played a role in the exercise, executed in Puerto Rico in conjunction with the Seismic Net of Puerto Rico (R…
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2010-10-19 Talks about The Tower of Power CB Radio Station in Albuquerque, NM.
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This is my 7 foot Pal Firestik that will be used Static Mobile from Nettleton Top for the 2010 Easter DX Weekend.I also show the new Intek 100 Plus installed…
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