Radio On A Tight Budget: RTL-SDR For Everyone Reviews

Radio On A Tight Budget: RTL-SDR For Everyone

Radio On A Tight Budget: RTL-SDR For Everyone

Hands-on guide to hear to world using the 10-dollar RTL stick. Easy-to understand text covers software installation, antennas, noise reduction, guides from shortwave to airplane information reception – and many more. Diagrams and photos help the beginner, common tools and materials used: no soldering or expensive gear used. Useless tales, anecdotes, complicated theoretical explanations left out: only relevant information included.

If you ever had problems setting up the RTL stick, wish to

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DXCC Honor Roll Member, ex-Navy Pilot John M. Wondergem, K5KR, SK

ARRL Life Member John M. “Wondy” Wondergem, K5KR, of Metairie, Louisiana, died June 7. He was 91. A retired US Navy captain and World War II veteran, Wondergem in May of 1962 was at the controls of the helicopter that retrieved Astronaut Scott Carpenter after his Project Mercury Aurora 7 space capsule splashed down some 250 miles off course in the Atlantic. Wondergem was on the DXCC Honor Roll …

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Ham antennas i max 2000 push up pole tram 1480

Ham antennas i max 2000 push up pole tram 1480

How to make a 25-30 foot push up pole and antennas.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Colorado Ham Tracks Down, Resolves Interference from Pot Cultivators’ “Grow Lights”

The ARRL already has complained to the FCC that so-called “grow light” ballasts can generate severe interference on the HF bands. According to a recent article in The Coloradoan, retired electrical engineer Tom Thompson, W0IVJ, first noticed interference on 40 meters at his location in Boulder a couple of years ago. So, he coupled his own portable receiving loop with a direct-conversion receive…

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radio mobile

Video tutorial para instalar y utilizar el radio mobile así como el complemento de google earth para dicha aplicación. Video creado como requisito para solve…
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N9SJA Contacts OH1F – 10m ARRL International DX Contest

My quick QSO and exchange with OH1F in the 10m ARRL International DX Contest. Proving that HF contesting is pretty easy.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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In Brief — News Shorts From All Over!

  • K8CX Dayton 2014 Gallery Has Been Posted: Tom Roscoe, K8CX, has announced that The K8CX Dayton 2014 Gallery has been posted on his Hamgallery website. Roscoe said he’s scrapbooked 361 photos from Dayton Hamvention® 2014 and nearly 4100 Dayton photos altogether; this is his 18th year of recording Dayton activities. “The site has Dayton photos in The Gallery back to 1971,” he said. “If you have a…

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Encrypted RTTY Signal at 10.429, Possibly Part of AWACS System

Recording of what seems to be an encrypted RTTY Signal at 10.429. As the video shows, I used the FLDIGI decoder, set to Op-mode RTTY 75-W. No decoding was po…

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The Mythology of Jay Z

The Mythology of Jay Z
The obvious question it raised, aside from exactly why the public salivates over seeing the very celebrities they build up be knocked back down, is this: What did the 44-year-old icon do that set lil sis off to the point where she went H.A.M. on his …
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Residents Urged to Join Bone Marrow Registry on Friday
Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez and the Murrieta Firefighters Association will sponsor "Be the Match", a local effort this Friday, May 9, to donate to the national bone marrow registry. Residents beteen the ages of 18 and 44 are invited to contribute to …
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Rohn Z Tower On Break Over Raised with ATV winch CB Radio Antenna Maco V Quad

Video shows my tower and Delta Loop repaired and being raised with the winch and winch pole. The winch is an inexpensive Chinese made 3000 pound ATV unit. Th…

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Nice Ham Radio photos

A few nice Ham Radio images I found:

GAP Titan DX Antenna

Image by Paul L McCord Jr

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Hams Invited to Submit Papers for Digital Communications Conference

Amateurs are invited to submit technical papers for presentation at the 33rd Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference to be held September 5-7 in Austin, Texas. These papers will also be published in the Conference Proceedings (you do not need to attend the conference to have your paper included in the Proceedings). The submission deadline is July 15. Please send papers to: Maty W…

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WD9EWK/KJ6DDS: Yuma hamfest AO-27 demo 2010-02-20

Satellite demonstration using the AO-27 satellite at the Yuma (Arizona) hamfest in grid DM22qq on Saturday, 20 February 2010 at 2111 UTC. For most of this pa…
Video Rating: 4 / 5

A quick tour of the aisles of tables in the flea market at the Green Country Hamfest in Claremore, OK (1/2).
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“We Are Ready!” 2014 WX4NHC On-the-Air Station Test a Success

The National Hurricane Center’s WX4NHC May 31 on-the-air station test was a success, according to WX4NHC Amateur Radio Assistant Coordinator Julio Ripoll, WD4R. WX4NHC conducts the event each year in preparation for hurricane season, which began June 1 and continues through November.

“We had the best annual station test that I can remember,” Ripoll said this week. “Hopefully we will not have to …

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Ham Radio World Map with DXCC Country List. 2013 Edition Reviews

Ham Radio World Map with DXCC Country List. 2013 Edition

Ham Radio World Map with DXCC Country List. 2013 Edition

  • Up to date with ITU and ARRL updates
  • DXCC Prefix Lookup table
  • Full Color, Poster size 33″x23″ (84.1 x 59.4 cm)
  • Maintained and printed in Kiev, Ukraine by UT0UM
  • Robinson Projection

An accurate and up to date ham radio prefix map. Maintained and kept current by experienced DXers. Professional quality offset printing. Highly detailed, with CQ zones, US and Canada call areas, and all current DXCC entities.

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The K7RA Solar Update

Boy, has solar activity declined this week, and the near term outlook weakened as well!

Average daily sunspot numbers for May 29 through June 4 dropped from 103.3 (for the previous seven days) to just 60.1.  Average daily solar flux declined from 110.3 to 104.1. Last week the predicted solar flux for Field Day weekend was 108 and 110, and on June 2 that changed to 95 and 110.

Predicted solar flux…

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Software Defined Radio Vlog Part 5 – Baseband Capture and Audio Out

Software Defined Radio Vlog Part 5 - Baseband Capture and Audio Out

I designed a board board for the SDRadio FPGA to capture IQ baseband and output audio with a CS4272 ADC/DAC .
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ICOM IC-271

Base Vhf all mode.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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LoTW, Centennial QSO Party Page, and ARRL E-Mail Will Be Offline Briefly on Saturday, June 7

Due to network maintenance, ARRL’s Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down on Saturday, June 7, from 1200 until 1600 UTC. All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for delivery following the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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NAVICO TD-L1550A / Simrad Fisheries TD-L1550A Taiyo Compact VHF Automatic Digital Direction Finder

NAVICO TD-L1550A / Simrad Fisheries TD-L1550A Taiyo Compact VHF Automatic Digital Direction Finder

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W100AW/7 On the Air from Sea-Pac — ARRL Northwestern Division Convention

W100AW/7 will be on the air from Sea-Pac, the ARRL Northwestern Division 2014 Convention and an ARRL Regional Centennial Event, in Seaside, Oregon. W100AW/7 will be active from June 6 until June 8. Contacts with W100AW portable operations are worth 5 points in the ARRL Centennial QSO Party. Operation will be on SSB, CW, and possibly on digital modes.

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Radio Amateur’s Sub-9 kHz VLF Signal Detected Across the Atlantic

How low can you go? A signal on 8.971 kHz has spanned the Atlantic, from North Carolina to the UK. Running on the order of 150 µW effective radiated power, very low frequency (VLF) experimenter Dex McIntire, W4DEX, transmitted signals on June 2 and 3 that were detected by Paul Nicholson, an SWL in the UK. Earlier this year, Nicholson detected McIntire’s WH2XBA/4 Experimental Service VLF signal …

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Testing my new TYT TH-9800 29/50/144/430 MHz Quad Band Transceiver on 2m

Testing my new TYT TH-9800 29/50/144/430 MHz Quad Band Transceiver on 2m.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Purchased at http://stores.ebay.com/Nicheone?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 This radio is great. Full of features and at a better price than the Yaesu 8900. Check it…

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Nice Amateur Radio photos

Check out these Amateur Radio images:

Tim/WA4CLK and Dave/K2VX at the QC@A table

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Gary/KI4EKM

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Stacked Radios

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Amateur Radio Satellite Payloads Set to Launch into Orbit this Month

Several CubeSats carrying Amateur Radio payloads are set to launch during June. These include two FUNcube projects.

FUNcube-3, the transponder-only payload on the QB50 precursor CubeSat, QB50P1, is scheduled for launch on June 19 from Russia, at a tentative launch time of 1911 UTC. Initial beacon signals from the main transceiver are expected to be AX.25 1200 bps BPSK packets on 145.815 MHz. FUN…

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Radio-Frequency Ingenuity (RFI)

Let’s beat the RFI beast with our own RFI. http://www.sciencewriter.net.
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Promoting Amateur Radio

How to Promote Amateur Radio.

Today I review some websites that will help you study for your amateur radio license exam.

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AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominating Petitions Due by June 15

Nominations are invited for open seats on the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. Three terms will expire this year, and a fourth director will be elected for 1 year to complete an unexpired term. Up to two alternates may be elected for 1-year terms.

A nomination requires either one Member Society or five current individual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for Director.

Hard copy …

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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA 120GB 120 GB 6Y120M YAR51HW0 9500 Donor PCB

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA 120GB 120 GB 6Y120M YAR51HW0 9500 Donor PCB

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA 120GB 120 GB 6Y120M YAR51HW0 9500 Donor PCB

Model: 6Y120M Code: YAR51HW0 Capacity: 120GB Main Chip #: 040119500 What this board is supposed to do for you: If your hard drive has stopped working, chances are you have some important data stored on it. Sometimes the hard drive failure is caused by a circuit board failure. This product is made to be an identical and functional replacement for your circuit board, therefore repairing your hard drive and saving you expensive data recovery charges. Please note that hard drive failures are NOT alw

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Five things you didn't know about Amanati's Frosty Boy of Jackson

Five things you didn't know about Amanati's Frosty Boy of Jackson
The popular ice cream outlet is open seven days a week throughout the warm months, offering both soft-serve and homemade ice cream, as well as a variety of food items. "There are certain … In addition to popcorn, Frosty Boy also sells a wide variety …
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Amateur radio hobby remains relevant
By Don Robinet, QMI Agency. Friday, May 9, 2014 9:59:03 EDT AM. Don Armstrong, president of the Chatham-Kent Amateur Radio Club, holds a portable transceiver while he poses next to the club's repeater system, located inside the Scouts Canada hut at …
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Tonga Islands A35UD DX pedition by UT6UD May 1 – 7, 2013

Kingdom of Tonga Tongatapu island OC-049 May 1 – 7, 2013 single op DX expedition by Vadim Ivlev UT6UD.
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Honor Roll DXer, Assistant ARRL Director H.O. Townsend, K5CX, SK

ARRL Life Member Howard O. “H.O.” Townsend, K5CX (ex-WA5MLT), of Naples, Texas, died on May 30. He was 69. Townsend was a retired software designer and a US Army veteran.

An Honor Roll DXer, West Gulf Division Assistant Director, and past Section Emergency Coordinator, Townsend participated in the W1AW/5 Centennial QSO Party operation from Texas (12 meters SSB).

ARRL West Gulf Division Director D…

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Sportsday – Friday as it happened

Sportsday – Friday as it happened
That is it from Sportsday Live for another week. Don't forget we will have all the action from the final day of the Premier League on BBC Radio 5 Live and online on Sunday. You can listen to live commentary of Wigan's Championship play-off semi-final …
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Juneau Calendar
Juneau Amateur Radio Club Monthly meeting, 7 p.m., National Weather Service office, 8500 Mendenhall Loop Road. JARC meets …. Join Juneau's preeminent gardening organizations for deals on proven plants for Juneau's challenging growing conditions.
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Your Sugar Detox Plan
Here, Sarah shares a sampling of her delicious, low-sugar recipes: Green Eggs & Ham · green eggs with ham Sausage Breakfast Casserole · Breakfast Casserole Sausage, Walnut & Beet Hash · Sausage, Walnut and Beet Hash Sweet Potato Casserole …
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Sportsday – breaking sports news
The live text will be on the BBC Sport website from 1830 BST, with full commentary from Old Trafford available on BBC Radio 5 live. Enjoy the game and thank you for …. moves have been widespread. "It's been very easy because none of it is true, there …
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Transmitting IC-718 17 watts Europa Psk31..

I transmitting in Digital Mode PSK-31 with 17 watts**** ****Yo trasmitiendo en Modo Digital con 17 Watts ****
Video Rating: 3 / 5

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Huntsville to Host GAREC 2014

The 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC-2014) will take place Thursday and Friday, August 14-15, in conjunction with the Huntsville Hamfest in Alabama. The Huntsville Hamfest, August 16-17 at the Von Braun Convention Center, is the Southeastern Division Convention and a Regional ARRL Centennial Event.

The GAREC conference will focus on the application of advanced…

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Latest Ham Radio Outlet News

100 reasons why it's great up north: Read the 2004 edition and then suggest …
8) Stepping out in Newcastle's Grey Street – John Dobson's masterpiece was voted the best street in Britain by the Commission for the Built Environment, and Radio Four listeners. 9) Building for the future – a £21m Biofuels plant at Seal Sands … 37 …
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Parish pump Hailsham – May 9, 2014
Currently 11 local producers have their goods in the emporium and Geoff and Jackie Knights are continuing to develop the range and are happy to hear from anyone in the neighbourhood who may wish to use the shop as an outlet or point of contact. At this …
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No one cares about the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
And America needs to figure out how to stop losing so much good media, and replacing it with tabloids and outlets, some of which, try even less to get to the truth. To paraphrase Mitt Romney, and Soylent Green, the media are people. They have bills to …
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ARRL Foundation Awards 79 Scholarships in 2014

The ARRL Foundation Board of Directors has announced the scholarship recipients for 2014. Each year, the Foundation’s Directors have the honor and privilege of selecting Amateur Radio operators who will receive monetary assistance to further their undergraduate or graduate education. For 2014, the Foundation awarded 79 annual scholarships through 58 funds to young Amateur Radio operators, value…

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IC-751 JT65 TX +250

Potenza in uscita del IC-751 in JT65HF a +250.

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First Call for 2014 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers

AMSAT-NA has issued its first call for papers for the 2014 AMSAT Symposium and General Meeting the weekend of October 10-12 in Baltimore, Maryland. Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community.

AMSAT requests a tentative presentation title no later than August 1, and final papers and presentations …

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Latest Software Defined Radio News

B-52 receives first tech upgrade since 1961: Now with color screens and …
Previously, the only way to integrate data from ground intelligence was via standard voice radio, which was written down on a paper pad and keyed into the aging targeting systems. Now, thanks to new software-defined radios such as the ARC-210, ground …
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Goodbye BNC, Hello 8P8C
But streaming synchronous live uncompressed high definition video as a playout signal or pass-through signal or a live camera source back to the studio, remains a very tall order for a TCP/IP network. It isn't only a matter of having enough bandwidth …
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2012 Dayton Hamfest Hamvention Scenes in True Binocular 3d

Select: -3d – change viewing method – select side by side – half width, for best 3d viewing on a 3d TV. This 10 minute HD video is a true binocular 3d record…
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Ham Radio Helps Get Medical Attention for Mobile Operator in Distress

In this era of nearly ubiquitous cell phones, Amateur Radio still offers a way to summon help in an emergency. Ron Smith, N1PXX, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is living proof. Over Memorial Day weekend, on May 24, Smith, who’s in his 60s, broke in on a conversation on the N1ZIZ 146.685 MHz repeater in Plymouth to say he was having a medical problem.

“Ron had pulled over on the highway and was ha…

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Modulacion Psk- Video de la asignatura Comunicaciones Digitales uft Saia.

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FCC Releases Warning Notices to Several Radio Amateurs

The FCC Enforcement Bureau has made public several warning notices issued over the past few months to radio amateurs. A couple of the letters from Special Counsel Laura Smith involved alleged infractions on 20 meters. On April 15, the FCC wrote Larry S. King, KI8NGS, of Owosso, Michigan, regarding failure to properly follow station identification rules on March 21. Smith told King that he was m…

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Latest Psk31 News

ATS4 Board

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DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #20:
Activity will be on all bands using CW, SSB, RTTY and PSK31. QSL via IZ4SUC. HONDURAS, HR. Dennis, W1UE and Rudy, N2WQ will be QRV as W1UE/HR9 and N2WQ/HR9, respectively, from Roatan, Bay Islands, IOTA NA-057, from May 22 to 28. Activity …
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New QST QuickStats Poll Posted

This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

Have you ever converted a wireless network router into an Amateur Radio Mesh transceiver?

Among the WARC bands, which is your favorite?

Have you ever used Amateur Radio digital communications in a public service application?

Have you ever heard a Long Delayed Echo (LDE)?

Visit the QuickStats page…

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Icom IC-2800H Dual Band FM Amateur Mobile Transceiver

Icom IC-2800H Dual Band FM Amateur Mobile Transceiver

Icom IC-2800H.
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1SD227 Italy

Italian station calling CQ in 27555.
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The K7RA Solar Update

Solar indicators continue to weaken. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 129.4 to 103.3, and average daily solar flux went from 128.5 to 110.3. This is comparing data from May 22-28 to the previous seven days.

The instruments used to measure solar flux at the observatory in British Columbia were overloaded on May 24, and the estimated solar flux was 118. The actual measured value was 124…

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Cool Amateur Radio images

Some cool Amateur Radio images:

Headed over.

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Gear packed and underway.

Radio Reinstall

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Cut a couple boards to support a contoured "shelf" for all of the radios. Worked well!

Rigs

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All easily controllable from the cab! 🙂

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KAREES MERDEKA HAMFEST 2013 mobil video

ORGANISASI AMATIR RADIO INDONESIA (ORARI) KAREES MERDEKA HAMFEST 2013 14 – 15 SEPTEMBER 2013 BANDUNG – JAWA BARAT INDONESIA Mobile Video Created by YC1NOE up…

AmateurLogic.TV 50: NS40 Kit, Hamfest & HRD

Peter builds the NS-40 40-Meter QRP Transmitter Kit. George and Tommy visit friends and find new toys at the 2013 Capital City Hamfest. Emile talks about Ham…
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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EchoLink/IRLP Conference, Nodes Changed for May 31 WX4NHC Station Test

WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, will be on the air Saturday, May 31, for the annual NHC Station Test. The event will begin at 1300 UTC and wrap up at 2200 UTC.

Due to a server issue the EchoLink/IRLP conference and nodes have changed. The EchoLink conference will be *VKEMCOMM* EchoLink Conference Node 270177/IRLP 9508. WX4NHC plans to be on EchoLink and IRLP from 2000 unt…

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شعار مودرن اكاديمى فى معسكر إعداد القادة سنة 2011

شعار مودرن اكاديمى فى معسكر إعداد القادة سنة 2011.
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what can i do in 30 min. C&C generals zero hour.

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