The Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF) has announced a $ 25,000 grant to the FT5/T Tromelin Island DXpedition planned for October 3-November 10, 2014. Tromelin is number10 on The DX Magazine’s latest Most Wanted List.

“The team’s antenna plans, pilot feedback plans, and enthusiasm should make this entity available to many DXers,” NCDXF President Glenn Johnson, W0GJ, said in announcing the …

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This video shows the new version of BMW ICOM ISTA/D 3.39.30 to work with old BMW by 20pin cable, the software is internal installed in DELL D630 laptop. For …

Ham Radio Outlet on eBay:

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The ARRL Centennial “W1AW WAS” operations that are taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, January 22 (the evening of January 21 in US time zones), from Nebraska and Delaware to New York (W1AW/2) and Oklahoma (W1AW/5). 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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Some recent ham radio deals auctions on eBay:

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[UPDATED 2014-01-19 1758 UTC] The ARRL Board of Directors has elected League President Kay Craigie, N3KN, to a third two-year term. The Board met January 17 and 18 in the Hartford, Connecticut, area for its annual meeting, and the election of officers was at the top of the business agenda. The League’s 15th president, Craigie lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, and has been in office since 2010, suc…

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A few nice QSL images I found:

QSL OEH61
QSL
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At this video, i show how APRS Tracking works. And a little ride on my city, to exemplify. Neste video, eu mostro como funciona o Rastreamento por APRS. E fa…
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Video curto feito no transito de São Paulo, mostrando um pouco da função APRS no TM D710 da Kenwood.
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Some recent ham radio outlet auctions on eBay:

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Here is a 140mm AEROCOOL SHARK 15 blade fan that I am using to cool my radio. It fits perfect and keeps the radio at 98 degrees or below even at 75 watts. Th…
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Comentar que no me dedico profesionalmente a este tipo de actividades, este ha sido un caso especial ya que no dispongo de tiempo para dedicarselo a este tip…
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Ham Radio eBay auctions you should keep an eye on:

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A new FUNcube guide developed by ARRL Education & Technology Program (ETP) Director Mark Spencer, WA8SME, aims to maximize the educational focus of the tiny AO-73 satellite. Spencer’s Pragmatic Guide for Using the FUNcube (AO-73) Materials Science Experiment in the Classroom prompts readers to dig beyond AO-73’s Amateur Radio transponder and telemetry uploads and downloads and “take a closer lo…

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Special Event 198 Aniversary of Mexican Independency Field day for Aniversary of Mexican Independency in Tomás Garrido Park, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México Ta…

Most popular ham radio outlet eBay auctions:

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Solar activity suddenly weakened during this bulletin’s reporting period, January 9-15, and the lower activity and expectations continue. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 188.1 to 111.4, and average daily solar flux went from 201.6 to 155.4. Those drops compare the January 9-15 period to the January 2-8 week. Daily sunspot numbers dipped below 100, to 95, 87 and 77 on January 14-16.

T…

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In this video I give the dimensions of the drive unit and show you the other motors that I’ve bought. Please read the rest of this box. I’ve found a good sup…
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The digital version of the February issue of QST is now available to ARRL members.

In this issue . . .

• Build a stealth antenna for HF
• Create a deluxe Morse code keyer
• Build your own 10 meter beacon transmitter.
• Reacquaint yourself with the grid dip meter
   …and much more!

Enjoy content you won’t see in the print edition . . .

• Watch a video overview of the Kenwood TS-990S transceiver.
ARRL C…

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Testing out the Visteon CD-6 car radio with the wiring harness connected. It has C-Quam AM Stereo, RDS, a built-in 6-disc CD changer, and a digital signal pr…
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In the early years of the ARRL, co-founder and first President Hiram Percy Maxim occasionally penned editorials in QST magazine using the pseudonym “The Old Man.” These “rants” became legendary. As part of the ARRL Centennial celebration, we’ll be re-publishing a number of The Old Man’s observations throughout the year.

 

Rotten QRM (January 1917)

By “The Old Man.”

Say, fellows, here’s the old man …

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Unpacking the SB 2000 radio interface.
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The February issue of QST includes a biography of ARRL co-founder and first President Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, written by Chris Codella, W2PA. The Digital QST version of the article, available to members today, also includes four minutes of rare movie footage of Maxim filmed in the 1920s.

“Maxim was a man of diverse interests,” said QST Editor in Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY. “One of his many pursui…

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Yaesu ft890at nov21 2012

This video demonstrates a Yaesu FT 890 at HF ham radio transceiver. This transceiver is on Ebay this week of Nov 21, 2012 to Nov 26 2012.
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Winona Amateur Radio Club hosts holiday party
The Winona Amateur Radio Club will celebrate the season with its winter 2014 holiday party at Timbers Restaurant on Jan. 16. The party is open to the public. The party will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., with dinner orders taken about 6:30 p.m …
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A Century of Amateur Radio and the ARRL:
Editor's note: "A Century of Amateur Radio and the ARRL" will be a weekly feature as the ARRL celebrates its Centennial http://www.arrl.org/centennial in 2014. In Amateur Radio, as in all fields, 100 years has brought about amazing progress and changes.
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Volunteer Connection: Amateur radio a key component of Disaster Services
RSVP-Racine County offers senior volunteer opportunities at seven Disaster Services sites including four complementary amateur (ham) organizations: Racine County Amateur Radio Emergency Services, Racine Megacycle Club, Lakeshore Repeater …
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RECEPTOR SDR - 10 METROS CW E RTTY

RECEPTOR SDR COM FILTRO MECÂNICO ACOPLADO www.ribradio.com.br NILSON – PU2PYF.
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TEN-TEC, Inc has announced that Jack Burchfield, K4JU, effective January 1, has turned over day-to-day management responsibility at the Tennessee Amateur Radio equipment manufacturer to TEN-TEC President Jim Wharton, NO4A. “Jack will still remain as CEO and majority stock holder,” Wharton said, “however his plans to begin retiring and spending more time with family will begin this year.” Wharto…

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Some cool ARRL images:

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Marching the dinner

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Check out these Amateur Radio images:

Day in the park

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Description of set: a late night lab cleanup uncovered a box of old amateur radio magazines from the 1950’s (with some dating back to 1930).

Amateur Radio W1JNC 14 Lenox Road Derry, N.H.

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Amateur Radio W1JNC 14 Lenox Road Derry, N.H.
Feb. 24, 1936

Amateur Radio W1JNC 14 Lenox Road Derry, N.H.

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Amateur Radio W1JNC 14 Lenox Road Derry, N.H.
Feb. 24, 1936

QST Contributing Editor and ham radio humorist John G. “Jack” Troster, W6ISQ, of Atherton, California, died January 11. He was 93.

“While his contributions to QST were not limited to fiction, Jack will always be remembered for some of the most humorous pieces ever to be written about Amateur Radio,” said ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ.

Licensed in 1935 at age 14 as W2ISQ in Yonkers, New York, Trost…

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Collection of funny pictures from the internet.
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The ARRL Centennial “W1AW WAS” operations that are taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC, January 15 (the evening of January 14 in US time zones), from Utah and South Carolina to Nebraska (W1AW/0) and Delaware (W1AW/3). 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 all states…

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莫斯电码,那是无线电里的天籁(图)
李家伟告诉记者,在业余无线电里可以玩的通讯方式很多,有SSB、CW、FM、AM、SSTV、RTTY、PSK31、JT65等等,但他最喜欢的还是CW模式。原因有很多,一方面是小时候对电报的印象;另外就是CW在信号传播不好的时候可辨度比其他的 …
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This video covers the aspects of Amateur or Ham Radio in the 2 Meter and 70 cm bands, types of radios, Handhelds (HT’s) Mobiles and Base and some basic progr…
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The December newsletter of the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports a new intruding Russian over-the-horizon (OTH) radar signal on 20 meters, audible in Euroope. IARUMS monitor Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, said the 10 kHz wide OTH radar signal often jumps frequency. He has posted a sound file. Others posted reports of OTH radar signals on 15 and 10 meters. Hadel also reported the occurrence o…

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A few nice ICOM images I found:

Shifting Sands
ICOM
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I took this photo earlier this year. Here are two others.

The Drents-Friese Wold National Park is on the border of the provinces of Friesland and Drenthe. This particular area is called the shifting sands of Aekingerzand.

Het Nationaal Park Drents-Friese Wold is een natuurgebied op de grens van de Nederlandse provincies Friesland en Drenthe. Het Nationale Park bestaat uit bos, heide en stuifzanden. Het is vooral bekend vanwege De Kale duinen (het Aekingerzand). Dit stuifzandgebied is groot genoeg om de wind de kans te geven het zand ook echt te laten stuiven. Met behulp van grazers wordt het gebied verder vrij van gras en bomen gehouden.

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ICOM
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Tamboti sunset
ICOM
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View from no 40 Tamboti
View On Black

An unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp Antares rocket that blasted off from NASA’s Wallops Island launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore January 10, carried aloft an Orbital Sciences Corp (OSC) Cygnus freighter with a bevy of Amateur Radio CubeSats aboard, bound for the International Space Station (ISS).

“We’re in good shape,” Orbital Sciences Executive Vice President Frank Culbertson, ex-KD5OPQ, tol…

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Alinco Dr635 con problema de Rx

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CP13 Przemiennik na balonie SR0FLY cz.2

Odbiór przemiennika SR0FLY w miejscowości Trąbki koło Wieliczki. Antena DK7ZB 10 el.
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6 in a series of ham radio videos for beginners TelescopeMan does a show and tell on his amateur radio station grounding system. Ideally the ground rod woul…
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Student registration is open for the 2014 Contest University (CTU) Dayton session, May 15, 2014, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Dayton. This will mark the eighth consecutive year that CTU sessions have been held in Dayton. More than 3000 students have attended CTUs in the US and abroad, with more than 70 CTU “professors” sharing their contesting experience and expertise.

There are full-d…

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In this video I demonstrate how to deploy your J-Pole Antenna using a tree branch as a base. I used 25 feet of high viz paracord, tied one end to a rock. I t…
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The ARRL Board of Directors will gather in the Hartford, Connecticut, area on Friday and Saturday, January 17 and 18, for its annual meeting. Its first order of business will be the election of officers, including the office of ARRL President, now held by Kay Craigie, N3KN. The League’s 15th president, she has been in office since 2010, succeeding Joel Harrison, W5ZN, and was re-elected to a ne…

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ARRL Amateur Radio Field Day

This weekend Saturday June 23 – Sunday June 24 Great chance to learn more about Ham Radio. Especially for Preppers considering getting into Ham radio and or …
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Some recent ham radio outlet auctions on eBay:

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PSK31 mit dem AATIS AS631 und mit einem Galaxy Tab.

Check out these ham radio outlet images:

Instructions included “form” Gordon West

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Not sure what I should use for non-SSB radio grounding and also what about my 51 foot boat?

Oak PD unmarked 11-9-12

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An unmarked Oakland, CA police car, a Ford Police Interceptor, seen near the Ham Radio Outlet store in Oakland. There was evidently an impromptu meeting going on at a nearby restaurant, as there were at least three other Oakland cars in evidence in the surrounding area (I could only get a clear shot of one, next in my photostream…) Taken by a Nikon D40x at ISO 400 with a Sigma 17-70mm ƒ 2.8-4 OS HSM macro lens. (at 38)

Note that the white pickup is a parking slob: he/she is lapped over into the police car’s slot.

Antique Radio Classified (ARC) magazine has announced that it will resume monthly publication starting with the February 2014 issue, but with some changes. The last issue published was the March/April 2013 issue.

“The antique radio community as well as the magazine publishing market is changing,” said ARC Publisher Jon Kummer, WA2OJK, “and we are changing what we do and how we do it in order to…

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I Dragged a trolley up to the top of the hill to contact the balloon, I had a truck battery on there with an alinco dr635 and a mobile dual band antenna, I a…
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Heritage: Comic, cartoonist and Private Eye founder Willie Rushton – the
But he is, perhaps, remembered most fondly for his 22 years as an irreplaceable team member on BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Sitting alongside his dear friend … His theatrical talent first found an outlet at school. He recalled that when …
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Going offroad with Chevy Silverado 1500
One of the 12-volt outlets I used for a hand-held amateur-radio transceiver, and I used the other for an iPad. We even used the 115-volt outlet to recharge the battery on a notebook computer. Yes, we are a connected family. There are cubbies and …
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The Intrepid DX Group is seeking nominations for an individual or group that most displayed “Intrepid Spirit” during 2013. “An Intrepid Spirit is bold, courageous, dedicated, innovative, fearless, generous, resolute, and visionary in their approach to Amateur Radio,” said Paul Ewing, N6PSE, in announcing the call for award nominations. “We are seeking to make this award to the group or individu…

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G0SEC quick shack tour and QSO on Dstar Part 1

Dstar QSO contact and shack tour.
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“Episode 2 / Cables” This Old online casino Ham Shack is a W2SO video production of the Lancaster Amateur Radio Club inc. It”s production is for the enjoyment of club memb…
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The DX Magazine has published the results of its most-wanted DXCC entities, and, once again, North Korea (P5) is number 1. Here are the Top 10 overall worldwide results, as they appeared in The DX Magazine’s January/February 2014 issue. 

2013   Prefix/Entity (2012)

1         P5 North Korea (1)

2         KP1 Navassa Island (2)

3         3Y/B Bouvet  (3)

4         FT5W Crozet (6)

5         FT5Z Amsterd…

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here is m0wia in action with myself john 2e0rdu today in derbyshire from the mobile station a yaesu ft 897d with an atas 100.

I am selling an FT-857D and this video is to demonstrate that it is 100% functional.
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April 19 2012: KC9VUQ’s first amateur (ham) radio contact! Thanks to Mike, KC9LHB and Kurt, KC9SSR for their contacts! Sorry for the poor quality, the video …

The Library of Congress Braille and Talking Book Program has a free Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) app for iOS devices available via the iTunes Store. QST is among the available publications that can use this app. “People who are blind, visually impaired or have a physical disability may now download audio and Braille books to their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, if they are registered

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Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. To celebrate the beginning of the ARRL Centennial Year, these questions have a historical theme!

Who was Clarence Tuska?

In what year was QST magazine first published?

What name did Hiram Percy Maxim use to refer to his favorite spark gap transmitter, which can still be seen at ARRL station W1AW today?

The …

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Odbiornik z bezpośrednią przemianą na NE612. Jak widać można za jego pomocą odbierać stacje PSK 🙂
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