Listening to my homebrew SW-20 QRP ham radio transceiver outdoors. The antenna is an N6BT Bravo 7kr vertical antenna.
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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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me and erica dancinggggg.
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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#1 Falcon 440 Mhz Double Bazooka Base Station Ham Radio Antenna
- 440 mhz Amateur Radio Antenna
- Weather Tight Indoor Outdoor Design
- 1500 Watts Maximum
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This is an Indoor, Outdoor apartment, house, condo, attic or garage, 440 Mhz Ham Radio Transmitting antenna.
It is made to be hung in the rafters or from the ceilings. Or outside on the roof, or between 2 trees or the side of a wall, or whatever you can imagine.
It will handle up to 1500 watts PEP and comes pretuned.
These can be mounted almost any where, and in any shape, horizontal, vertical, in a V or an L they work. Talk about a stealth
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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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The Diploma 'Bucharest 555'
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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15 Meter Mobile Ham Radio Band Stick Antenna
- Mobile Antenna for The 15 Meter Amateur Radio Band.
- Approx 4ft FiberGlass w/ another 4ft Stainless steel Top whip.
- 8ft overall, Black, handles 250 Watts. Tuneable.
- Has regular 3/8-24 base mounting thread.
- Requires suitable Optional mount & cable.
15 Meter Ham Amateur band mobile ham stick type tunable 3/8-24 antenna.
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• Do you operate WSPR?
• How often do you build projects featured in QST articles (including antennas)?
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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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Beaglebone rtlizer
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My rtl-sdr based spectrum analyzer running on the Beaglebone.
For a video demo see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzmFXreuFR4
More info: www.oz9aec.net/index.php/beaglebone/480-rtlizer
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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THAILAND AMATEUR RADIO STATION E21EJC CQ ZONE 26,ITU ZONE 49,OK03FP HF-FM 29.600 MHZ 15-04-2011 0120Z TKS BG7KLC,0122Z BD4CG/M. 22-04-2011 0354Z BH3RDV,0357Z…
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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Hints and Kinks for the Radio Amateur
- Practical ideas.
- Workshop and station plans.
Tips, tricks and projects for amateur radio enthusiasts.
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DX-pedition im test Yaesu FT-897D auf 144.273 Mhz USB am 12.10.2010 / 11:00 Uhr.
flat as a witches tit.
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.
You can see daily X-ray flux at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/DSD.t…
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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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E4000 USB DVB-T + RTL-SDR Realtek RTL2832U + R820T DVB-T Tuner Receiver PAL IEC
- What in the Package? 1 x E4000 USB DVB-T Stick 1 x Extra powerful antenna 1 x driver and software CD 1 x remote control
This item is very new and can be support WINDOWS 8!The chip of this item is RTL2832U + R820T. Chip E4000 runs out of stock!!!Overview:Sticks with this combination (RTL2832 + R820T) are relatively new on the market. The main difference to all the other supported tuners so far is that it uses a Low-IF (3.57 MHz) architecture instead of Zero-IF. That means the tuner is only connected to the In-Phase ADC input, and the internal down converter of the RTL2832 is generating the complex samples. This ha
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Using your bench signal generator to inject a carrier back into a Single Side Band (SSB) signal to copy it. I made this quick video for youtube user “joernon…
The co-founder of Mirage Communications and KLM, Ken Holladay, K6HCP, of Gilroy, California, died October 14 after an extended illness. He was 75. Holladay and Everett Gracey, WA6CBA (SK) co-founded Mirage Communications, now a part of MFJ. He also was the “K” in KLM Electronics, Inc, which he co-founded with Leeland “Mel” Farrer, K6KBE, and Mike Staal, K6MYC.
A radio amateur from his high schoo…
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Check out these Amateur Radio images:
671B1224: Angie, Matthew/KB1EXM, and Gene/KG4JBC
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Fotos y videos editados desde mi telefono movil. La pasamos de maravilla, aqui lo que mas importa no es la calidad del material, sino lo vivido por todo el g…
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J34J- nippon DX-Pedition GRANADA isl.- IOTA: NA-024- 06:20 utc – 28-Nov-2013 – 40 meters band.
Former ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Gary Johnston, KI4LA, has been named as the recipient of the Kentucky Historical Society’s 2014 Award of Distinction. Johnston chaired the ARRL Board of Directors Historical Committee during his tenure, which included stints as both a Vice Director and Director. Johnston is president of the Board of Trustees of the Behringer-Crawford Museum (BCM) in Cov…
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A few nice ARRL images I found:
Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
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Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
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A software-defined radio system, or SDR, is a radio communication system where components that traditionally have been implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, …
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Bidding in the ninth annual ARRL On-Line Auction concludes October 30 (at 0300 UTC on October 31). More than 230 items are on the block, including 24 pieces of gear that were the subject of QST “Product Review” articles. One-of-a-kind items include a hard-cover 2014 Centennial edition of The ARRL Handbook, imprinted with “Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW” and a hardcover edition of the 2014 Centennial H…
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Reception of KQ2H Amateur Radio repeater (New York, NY, USA) on 29620 kHz (FM) by CX2ABP in Montevideo, Uruguay (GF15wc). October 11, 2012 at 1856 UTC. Recei…
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Here’s a shot of our new Icom repeater at the Community Hospital.
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N8RT uses a Vintage Galaxy GT-550 , making contact with UT5MM Vic.Ukraine.
The GOMX-2 and RACE CubeSats were among more than 2 dozen satellites that were lost after an unmanned Orbital Space Sciences (OSC) Antares 130 vehicle exploded spectacularly shortly after launch at 2222 UTC on Tuesday, October 28, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Both satellite packages carried payloads that operated on Amateur Radio freque…
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Start decoding signals in less than five minutes! For more, visit: http://instant.ettus.com/ Read the full blog post: http://www.ettus.com/blog/2013/02/ettus…
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Glen Popiel, KW5GP, author of the newly released ARRL publication Arduino for Ham Radio will be the featured guest on a webcast on Thursday, October 30, at 0100 UTC by Tom Medlin, W5KUB. Arduino devices are powerful and inexpensive microcontrollers, and they are an easy way for radio amateurs, students, and professionals to create devices that interact with their environment through sensors and…
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