Archive for month: June, 2014
HAM radio expedition Klondajk from anti-aircraft military base from Czech Republic. Radioamatérská expedice z raketové základny Klondajk v Brdech.
This Video shows Amateur Radio signals received on an AM Band radio in India. Voice, CW and Digital Signals Received. Many many thanks to VU2MUE for his help…
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PSK31 QSO to RX4AB @ 14.070 MHz.
The annual 13 Colonies Special Event takes place starting at 1300 UTC on July 1. The event wraps up at 0400 UTC on July 7. This year’s theme is “Revolutionary War Era Colonial Currency.” Stations working just one state are eligible for a certificate, and a “Clean Sweep” endorsement will be attached for stations fortunate enough to work all 13 Colonies. A special endorsement will be attached for…
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In the first minutes ( first part ) of recording can see two pirates stations in Central America using the frequencies of the ISS repeater. In my attempts to…
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Sportsday – Monday as it happened
Follow live text commentary online and listen on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra. Posted on 17:33 ….. Jon Worby: Wouldn't mind West Ham offering a cheeky short term deal for Frank Lampard, wouldn't be the most welcome signing mind. After Rickie Lambert …
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Audi A3 mixes luxury touches with cost compromises
Does a less expensive Audi mean a cheap Audi? Of course, you can't actually get … In all, it falls short of total luxury, but it's far better than, say, a dash overtaken by a digital touch screen, like Cadillac's ham-fisted CUE system. We'll be …
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Alex Putney who is behind the interesting website HumanResonance.org joins us on the program to discuss his work and theories on standing waves, geometrical …
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The speaker is being driven with a sine wave at a frequency which matches the frame rate of the video camera (29.97 fps).
One of the series of films made by Dave Bell, W6AQ, for the ARRL. This one comes from approximately 1970. It is interesting to see how many things have chang…
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27ste Radiobeurs te Lummen van de sectie DST.
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The DX Blaster antenna may seem a little pricy at first but when you realize that your getting the same amount of wire as 6 conventional dipole antennas, the…
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A small hand held portable amateur radio dual band 2 meter / 70 cm satellite antenna.
The R820T tuner is able to tune down to 40Mhz where older cordless phones and baby monitors transmit on. This video shows the importance of using newer cordl…
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National Weather Service forecaster, storm chaser, and SKYWARN pioneer Alan “Al” Moller, N5ZCB, of Benbrook, Texas, died June 19. He was 64. Moller and Chuck Doswell were the primary contributors to the development of the national SKYWARN program.
Moller was a Senior Forecaster (retired) at the National Weather Service Fort Worth, Texas, Office, where, the NWS said, he “tirelessly worked to bett…
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[Updated 2014-06-24 @ 2217 UTC] The ARRL National Centennial Convention July 17-19 in Hartford, Connecticut, will feature a wide-ranging slate of youth activities aimed at younger hams and prospective hams. Scheduled on Friday and Saturday, the youth activities include two youth forums, a hidden transmitter hunt, a scavenger hunt, and the Youth Radio Lab. The ARRL Discovery Station in the ARRL …
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A talk on June 25 by ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, at the Norfolk Amateur Radio Club (NARC) in England will be streamed live on the Internet. Sumner’s topic is “Amateur Radio Across the Pond.” His live presentation will start about 1900 UTC on Wednesday and be streamed via the BATC website. Click the LIVE EVENTS button to access the stream.
Sumner is making a brief stopover in the UK while en rou…
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Bad light, but sounds healthy!
Solar activity continues to weaken, with average daily sunspot numbers dropping nearly 69 points to 72.3, and average daily solar flux down nearly 36 points to 98.8.
On Wednesday the predicted solar flux on Friday through Sunday, June 27-29 (Field Day weekend) was 105, 110 and 115, but on Thursday those numbers were revised downward to 100, 105 and 105. Predicted planetary A index for those date…
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Iroquois County to withdraw from joint dispatch group
WATSEKA — The Iroquois County Board voted in May to leave ICOM, the emergency dispatching group that formed 14 years earlier as a joint effort between the city of Watseka, Iroquois County and the Iroquois County Emergency Telephone System Board.
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Learning experience: Beaconhouse 'blending learning' college opens
At first, the college would offer FSc pre-medical, FSc pre-engineering, ICS, ICom and FA. Master's and bachelor level programmes will be introduced next year. In the first phase, 14 college campuses would be established: eight in Lahore, two in Allama …
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Vietnamese fisherwoman gets free legal aid in suit over Chinese attack
All of the equipment was out of order, including an internal communications system (Icom), a global positioning system (GPS), and a fish finder. The deck of the boat and personal belongings of the crew members were covered in mud. The ceiling of the …
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The QST iOS app was recently updated, but the ARRL has been notified by the app vendor that a serious defect has been discovered that may cause the app to stop functioning.
ARRL is in discussions with the vendor to alleviate the problem. Until a solution has been found, however, members are urged to avoid updating their QST iOS apps.
This issue does not impact QST Android app users.
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Effective July 1, the ARRL is upgrading its website SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate in an effort to keep up with industry standards.
This upgrade only affects HTTPS (secure) pages on the ARRL website, including the e-store checkout pages, any pages that accept donations, or pages that allow amateurs to join the ARRL or renew their memberships. As a result of this upgrade, users running Win…
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This 335 foot broadcast tower at 5831 Rosebud Lane, Sacramento, CA 95841 bears the broadcast antennas of 25 kW KKDO-FM on 94.7 MHz, 15 kW K22FR translator on…
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GAP Titan DX
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
This is the assembly of my GAP Titan DX at our new house on August 27th and 28th 2011.
A bill with bipartisan support has been introduced in the US House of Representatives that calls on the FCC to apply the “reasonable accommodation” three-part test of the PRB-1 federal pre-emption policy to private land-use restrictions. HR.4969, the “Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014” was introduced on June 25 at the request of the ARRL, which worked with House staffers to draft the proposed le…
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ＮＨＫの海外向け国際放送ですが、季節によっては国内でも受信できます。ＶＸ－８で受信。
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Some audio frequency modulation this time. This synth is based on four Schmitt-trigger NAND gate oscillators.
I plan out my Ham Radio sound interface between my iPhone or iPad to my Icom HT for 2M SSTV. This can also be used for PSK-31. This video was shown on Ham Na…
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Another Atco’s Collections video – Oh well, the end of hamfest season in my area is done. But, last Sunday I did find some nice scores. Got two 8-track playe…
Maxim Memorial Station W1AW has announced its 2014 Field Day bulletin schedule. Any Field Day station W1AW Bulletin can earn 100 bonus points for copying the special Field Day bulletin transmitted by W1AW or K6KPH during Field Day weekend, June 28-29. The Field Day bulletin must be copied via Amateur Radio. An accurate copy of the message is required to be included in your Field Day submission….
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NASA ISS Ham Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO, said NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, may be on the air for ARRL Field Day from the International Space Station (ISS) June 28-29.
“I have received a response from Wiseman that he is willing to try and work some stations on Saturday,” Ransom said on June 23. “Pass times begin very soon after the start of Field Day.” Wiseman would use …
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Glenn Munro aka “The Roaming Gnome” is a member of the NWS Volunteer Sky-warn Sky Spotters Program, and spends many hours Volunteering to help alert those who are in the path or possibly in…
The annual “Alexanderson Day” transmission from the World Heritage Grimeton site in Sweden, using the vintage Alexanderson alternator on 17.2 kHz will take place Sunday, June 29 at 0900 UTC (SAQ will start tuning at about 0830 UTC) and again at 1200 UTC (SAQ will start tuning at about 1130 UTC). An SAQ transmission will take place on July 2 at 1430 UTC (SAQ will start tuning at about 1400 UTC, …
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In this video I show the result of AM demodulation with a DSP floating point pipeline. Follow my work on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jeriellsworth Faceboo…
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Part 2 – I show the progress of a homebew Software Defined Radio(SDR) or Direct Conversion receiver (DC). IQ signals now being generated correctly, but harmo…
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- Canadian Mounties to Mount Special Event Station During Field Day: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Amateur Radio Group in Ottawa will operate special event station VE3RCMP during Field Day weekend, June 28-29. The group also plans to activate the call sign during the RAC Canada Day Contest on July 1. The special event commemorates the 75th anniversary of the first RCMP owned and operated radi…
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This was one of the wide number of pile-ups managed by the TO2FH team. This one was formed by Japanese colleagues in 20m essentially.
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DXpedition to Märket Reef and Aland Islands was a test drive of field day and camping equipment. Total of 1057 QSOs were made on five bands on SSB, RTTY and …
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This is a 10 minute PREVIEW of the 60 minute DVD available from ARVN. It introduces you to the new Digital Voice modes being used in Amateur Radio.
Several states, counties and municipalities have issued proclamations recognizing the value of Amateur Radio to the greater community. Such proclamations often tie in with ARRL Field Day, which is June 28-29.
- In New Hampshire, Gov Maggie Hassan has proclaimed June as Amateur Radio Month in the Granite State. In her proclamation, the governor highlighted ham radio’s value as “an organized, volun…
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This is my first video on YouTube! I show off my Argent Data Systems ADS-SR1 Simplex Repeater and key up the local repeaters I’m active on.
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World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 (WRTC-2014) will benefit from an ARRL Foundation grant. WRTC-2014 announced what it called “a significant financial grant” on June 22. The grant will help to support WRTC-2014’s public relations effort to use the event to promote Amateur Radio to the general public. An international competition involving 59 teams of radio contesters, WRTC-2014 will take p…
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RTL-SDR, SDRConsole simultaneously Using PSK31, JT65, RTTY and USB Voice (with room to spare for two more modes) SDRConsole v2.2, Digital Master 780, Ham Rad…
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
APRS Tracker Internals
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Internal shot of Tiny Tracker
Video taken from Loveland and Johnstown Colorado june 9th 2009. Colorado Amateur Radio Emergency Services Skywarn net was activated as a tornado warning went…
Amateur Radio = Bad.
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Reception of AIS with RTLSDR and decoding with AISMON. The OpenCPN used for the display of the vessels on the map.
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RTL-SDR Panoramic Spectrum Analyzer. Панорамный анализатор спектра на основе RTL_POWER и DVB-тюнера за 10 баксов. Разработчик: Бадло Сергей Григорьевич H-pag…
This is the unit of Sir Moises Jacobo from Masbate, the ICOM IC-2100H that has NO Received and now restored to its Normal Reception… Test unit were tested …
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Amateur Radio’s history, public service role, satellite program, utilization of computer and digital technology, and even its relationship to the Common Core education standards are on the forum menu Friday and Saturday at the ARRL National Centennial Convention. With ham radio notables such as Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, Martti Laine, OH2BH, Carole Perry, WB2MGP, Gordon West, WB6NOA, and Joe T…
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IEEE at my college helped me fund this little project. It’s an SDR transceiver for the ham bands. I purchased it in kit form. I’ll be sure to post some more …
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The daily sunspot number rose dramatically this week on June 13 when it increased to 276, but two days later it was back below 100. The resulting weekly average for June 12-18 (141) was actually down 2.3 points from the previous seven days. Average daily solar flux was down 11.7 points to 134.7.
Predicted solar flux has weakened lately, and for the near term flux values are predicted at 105 on J…
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Test Empfang mit Funkscanner “Stabo XR 100” (Yupiteru 7100) auf Kurzwelle 3853 khz USB Wetterfax (Deutscher Wetterdienst) und 4581 khz RTTY Wetter Fernschrei…
Commodore sx64 decodifica chiamata generale di un radioamatore.
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The annual ARRL® Field Day is touted as the largest disaster communications exercise in the world. Each year thousands of amateurs in North America working with clubs, a group of friends, or as individuals, take to the fields with thousands of dollars worth of equipment. But what does it take for this effort to be successful and stress free?
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Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
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Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
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Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
The FCC’s recently announced revisions to the Part 97 Amateur Radio rules governing exam credit to former licensees, test administration, and emission types will go into effect on Monday, July 21. In a wide-ranging Report and Order (R&O) released June 9, the Commission announced that it would grant examination credit for written elements 3 (General) and 4 (Amateur Extra) to holders of “expired …
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The FUNcube-3 payload has reached orbit, and its 145.815 MHz beacon signal has been copied. FUNcube-3 is a transponder-only payload on the QB50 precursor CubeSat, QB50P1, which launched on June 19 from Russia. FUNcube-3 carries an inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder, with an uplink passband of 435.035-435.065 MHz (LSB) and a downlink passband of 145.935-145.965 MHz (USB).
The QB50P1 and QB50P2 p…
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I’ve replaced the local oscillator with a Spartan-6 FPGA and scanning with it’s internal PLL.
I show VGA output, IQ processing, 256 point FFT and audio from one bin. The final details will be published with the next Element14 video about communication…
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Because of network maintenance, the ARRL Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, the ARRL Store, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down overnight Friday to Saturday, June 20-21 (Saturday, June 21, from 0000 until 1000 UTC). All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for later delivery. E-mail to @arrl.net Forwarding Service addresses will not be af…
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