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In this issue . . .
• Build a 1.5 kW “Centennial Amplifier” for 80 through 6 meters
• Add a handy external power control accessory to your transceiver
• See the 2014 ARRL Field Day results
… and much more.
Enjoy Content You Won’t Find in the Print Edition…
• A video overview of the CommRadio CR-1a Communications Receiver
• A video overview of the HobbyPCB Hard…
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Peregrine Semiconductor Expands Integrated Product Portfolio Into Both Ends …
European Microwave Week – Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announces the expansion of its integrated product portfolio into DC and X-band frequencies. Recently, Peregrine …
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Using RAPID 'The Digital Tuner' To Add High Speed Harmonic Capability To …
Mesuro with support from National Instruments announces its latest advance in the utilization of PXI to improve the speed of test for today's technical demands…At European Microwave Week in Rome, 7-9th October, the two organizations will demonstrate a …
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in Kansas (W1AW/0) and Washington (W1AW/7). They will transition at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, November 12 (the evening of November 11 in US time zones), to Mississippi (W1AW/5) and Rhode Island (W1AW/1). W1AW/KH8 operations from American Samoa will continue until November 12. So far during …
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Saturday, November 15, will mark 40 years since the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) ham radio satellite went into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Special Event W7O will be on the air November 15-24 to commemorate the launch of AO-7, the oldest working Amateur Radio satellite. Satellite aficionado Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK, who secured W7O for the occasion, plans to work satellite…
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REC from Deutschlandfunk 1269 kHz (The Swedish section) for the members of Mälardalens Radiosällkap during Killingi DX-pedition 1974.
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Past ARRL Connecticut Section Communications Manager (SCM) Victor L. “Vic” Crawford, W1TYQ (ex-W8NUV, HZ3TYQ), of Rapid City, Michigan, died November 8. He was 94. An ARRL Life Member, Crawford served as Connecticut’s SCM from 1957 until 1960, when he stepped down to work in the Middle East.
As HZ3TYQ from 1963 until 1976, Crawford made two DXpeditions each to what were then called the Saudi Ara…
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The FCC has reversed the decision of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) who ruled in 2010 that David Titus, KB7ILD, of Seattle, Washington, could keep his Amateur Radio license in the wake of his conviction for a sex-related crime 17 years earlier. In his March 9, 2010, Initial Decision, ALJ Richard L. Sippel determined that Titus “has been a law-abiding member of his community for many years” a…
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International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU R1) has established a Youth Working Group and appointed Region 1 Youth Coordinator Lisa Leenders, PA2LS, as Youth Working Group Chairman for the next 3 years. The action came as delegates from IARU Region 1 countries (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia) met September 21-26 in Bulgaria for the 23rd IARU Region 1 General Conference….
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Here is my current storm chasing truck. It is setup up for this year’s chase season. The lights are only used in emergencies. I am Red Cross CPR and first ai…
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Detailed review on a Dualband Slim Jim antenna. Extremely economical, transportable, good performance antenna for any preparedness situation. This is what I’…
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In comments filed November 5, the ARRL has recommended that the FCC continue to provide paper license documents to Amateur Radio licensees who want them. The League’s remarks were in response to an FCC Public Notice (in WT Docket 14-161) that proposed to cease the routine issuance of hard-copy license documents to all Wireless Service licensees, including radio amateurs. While having a paper li…
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Here We have a Wind Turbine package from ReDriven a Canadian establish Alternative Power Company. I just want to show folks how easy it is to lower this towe…
http://copaseticflows.appspot.com/hamtest Brief overview of the practice exam website.
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A team of nearly 2 dozen Amateur Radio volunteers established an emergency communication net as Cyclone (hurricane) Nilofar approached the west coast of India from the Arabian Sea last week. The late October activation came right on the heels of the Amateur Radio response to powerful Cyclone Hudhud, which caused widespread flooding and property damage and claimed several lives. Especially hard …
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Listening to my homebrew SW-20 QRP ham radio transceiver outdoors. The antenna is an N6BT Bravo 7kr vertical antenna.
Solar activity softened a bit this week. From October 30 through November 5 the average daily sunspot number was 95.7, down 24.2 points from the previous seven days. Average daily solar flux declined from 198 to 127.9.
On November 5 Penticton reported the noon solar flux reading at 145.2, but it must have been flare-enhanced because NOAA scaled it back to 135 in their data.
The latest forecast ha…
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Amateur Radio operators who are members of the American Legion will honor the military services and their fellow veterans in a special on-the-air tribute on Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11. Members of The American Legion Amateur Radio Club (TALARC) will be on the air as W9L from 1400 until 2100 UTC, from American Legion national headquarters in Indianapolis. Radio amateurs who contact the st…
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Receiving FSK RTTY with BBterminal, the digimode interface implemented on BBlogger, using Yaesu FT1000D and MicroHam MicroKeyer II.
It has been determined that some CQ WPX Awards Program applications using ARRL’s Logbook of The World (LoTW) were not properly processed. If you used LoTW to apply for a WPX Award between mid-October and early November and have not yet received a e-mail acknowledgment, contact WPX Award Manager Steve Bolia, N8BJQ.
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I have a project I am seriously considering doing in the spring or summer of 2012. I have a rohn 25g free standing tower at 45 feet and want to convert it to…
Tower base is now set in concrete.
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The title says it all! Schems on http://www.SWHarden.com.
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The ARRL website is scheduled to be offline on Friday, November 7, starting at 2100 UTC. The length of the outage could run for several hours and possibly into Saturday, November 8. The ARRL IT Department will be performing maintenance and testing in the process of switching the site to a new server.
A “Down for Maintenance” message will appear for the duration of the outage whenever someone at…
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The Amateur Radio payload on the Luxspace (LSE) Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) lunar flyby experiment likely will continue to transmit for a few more days while it remains in Earth orbit. The Chinese Chang’e 5T-1 lunar mission payload that it initially accompanied into space on a Long March 3C rocket already has been recovered. The 4M was reported on November 6 to be some 248,000 miles from…
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At the 19th International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, South Korea, member states confirmed candidates for the organization’s five elected posts, as well as the 12 members of the Radio Regulations Board and the 48 Members of ITU Council, the administrative body that governs the ITU in between quadrennial plenipotentiary conferences.
Houlin Zhao of China succ…
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VK Pico balloon flights test weak signals
The tracking of the 25-Milliwatt balloon involved stations in VK1, VK2, VK3, VK5, VK6, VK7 and ZL1 using Olivia and JT65 on 30m and 20m. Andy VK3YT says PS-23 landed near Tamworth to be recovered by a team of Scouts from the local JOTA, led by …
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Every radio connection brings you a point/band and/or work mode (CW, PH, RTTY, PSK, other DG( – a single category: JT65, ROS, Olivia, Hell, etc.) You can work with any authorised band. There are not accepted the connection through repeater with or …
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Pileups on the HF band are “still big and wide,” according to the FT4TA DXpedition team on Tromelin Island in the Indian Ocean. Operators say they’re doing their best to find “the best balance between rate and bandwidth usage;” the sprawling and, many would say, unruly pileups are a result of the “thousands still calling.” Over the November 1-2 weekend, DXers and ARRL November Sweepstakes CW pa…
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2 new antennas have arrived for my shack. They will mainly be used connected to the USB- Software Defined Radio Dongles. One is a QFH for NOAA satellite imag…
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Testing my EzCap RTL2832U RTL-SDR dongle on pocsag pager decoding. Using a TV antenna. RTL-SDR is a low cost software defined radio. You can buy a RTL SDR do…
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A 5 MHz propagation research project in South Africa has encountered some unexpected results regarding near-vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) propagation on that band. The project is a joint venture between the South African Radio League (SARL) and the Kempton Park Amateur Radio Technical Society, where one 5 MHz beacon has been installed. An interesting, but tentative, finding was inconsistent…
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In this video we setup the HRD Ham Radio Deluxe, Digital Master 780 PSK Super Browser to report received callsigns to the internet. You can see the stations …
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The ARRL has introduced a digital edition of The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, its most popular introduction to Amateur Radio. The e-book includes everything a newcomer needs to prepare for the Amateur Radio license exam. The digital edition is available in the Kindle format from Amazon, which has long identified the print edition as a best seller.
“As the leading publisher of Amateur Radio lic…
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Part 2 of How to Setup Flex Radio Systems, Flex 5000 and SDR 1000 for digital modes.
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Brian Short, KC0BS, of Olathe, Kansas, is the recipient of the 2014 Philip J. McGan Silver Antenna Award. The award recognizes outstanding public relations efforts in promoting Amateur Radio to the non-ham community. Short, an ARRL Life Member, appeared on Kansas City Public Media’s “Up To Date” interview program on KCUR-FM in November 2013. The show, “Exploring Ham Radio in a Digital World,” h…
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Let's Save a Vital National Media Resource: AM Radio
It has been all too easy for the receiver manufacturers to simply reduce overall receiver bandwidths down to even 2–3 kHz to address the pervasive issues of electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise from power lines, fluorescent-lamp ballasts, personal …
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Tailored flexible illusion coatings hide objects from detection
… tags work or could redistribute energy in different, controlled patterns making things more visible rather than less visible. The materials shielding ability can also be used to protect any type of equipment from stray or intentional …
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The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is offering a paid “CubeSat Simulator Upgrade Plus” internship position for the Spring 2015 semester. Applications are being taken on the NASA One Stop Shopping Initiative (OSSI) recruiting website. The deadline to apply is November 9.
“The objective of this opportunity is to allow a university-level student to rework, repair and improve a prototype 1-…
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Homemade setup with Arrow II satellite tracking antenna and tripod with 2 handheld radios attempting to call AO-27 Amateur Radio Satellite.
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My rtl-sdr based spectrum analyzer running on the Beaglebone.
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Sheldon “Shelly” Weil, K2BS (ex-W2GQN), of Delray Beach, Florida, died October 29, following complications resulting from serious injuries sustained in a fall. He was 81. Weil, an ARRL member, was legendary within Scouting’s Amateur Radio community, and regularly attended National and World Jamborees, helping to staff the Amateur Radio station and sharing his affection for ham radio with the Sc…
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This is the second class in preparation for the FCC Technician Class Amateur Radio exam. It covers section T1B of the exam question pool. For the answers to …
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in Wyoming and Massachusetts and the US Virgin Islands. They will transition at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, November 5 (the evening of November 4 in US time zones), to Kansas (W1AW/0) and Washington (W1AW/7). Some W1AW/0 operation from Kansas will take place from the Marshall Ensor Memorial O…
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DX-pedition im test Yaesu FT-897D auf 144.273 Mhz USB am 12.10.2010 / 11:00 Uhr.
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Amateur Radio in the 21st Century… mainstream or backwater by Art Goddard W6XD Presented to the South Orange Amateur Radio Association on September 16, 2013.
Here’s your video introduction to section 2.1 of the ARRL General Class Ham Radio License Manual. For more information see www.ke0og.net/general. Sorry about…
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Strong solar activity continued this week, with average daily sunspot numbers rising 36 points to 119.9 and average daily solar flux up 24 points to 198. The X-Ray background flux from GOES-15 has ranged from C1.2 to C2.6 since October 19. RWC Prague predicts a range from B2.0 to C1.5 from October 31 through November 6.
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Beskrivning.
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Unknown marine weather broadcast. I’m guessing its USCG from Guam, Hawaii or mainland USA? Received from the Gold Coast, east coast of Australia.
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