Morse Code Straight Key J-38

A few nice Morse Code images I found:

Morse Code Straight Key J-38

Image by Whiskeygonebad
This J-38, manufactured by LIONEL TRAIN Co during the common factory "repurposing" of WW2. It was in very, very sorry looking condition before restoration but all the parts were there, most importantly. Restored using dental lab equipment at work. Iron & Brass ultrasonically cleaned and high polished. Iron pits rubber-wheeled first. Metal Center Hub sand blasted and painted semi-gloss black. All metal/brass varnished with q-tip applicator. Bakelite was water and compound ragwheel polished on denture polishing machine Under key: Two-decade-old 13th editon of the Radio Amateur’s World Atlas. WW2 pilots used an upper leg clip on version to send morse code while flying. And you have trouble driving with your cell phone.
Minolta D500 flash and incandescent available light mix @ 1/20sec.
J-38 parts listing:
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morse code explained

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One of Tim Duckett’s slides explaining morse code in 10 minutes at Interesting2009

crosshatched stag with morse code

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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 9 January 2012

NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 9 January 2012
At ~5:10am, the CDR powered up the SM's amateur radio equipment (Kenwood VHF transceiver with manual frequency selection, headset, & power supply) and at 5:15am conducted a ham radio session with students at Descartes, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France. …
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Digicom Global Launches a Blog Site to Answer Customer Questions
Digicom also offers a full range of 2-way radio products. Everything from portable 2 watt analog radios to state of the art 5 watt digital radios and 100 watt mobiles for wide range coverage. The Kenwood NEXEDGE digital radios not only talk further, …
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St. Clair County police news 12-21-11
The owner said the vehicle was parked in the driveway and that someone entered the rear hatch of the vehicle and removed a Kenwood radio and a blue Zune, with his name etched onto the back side of the player. The vehicle owner's wallet and debit card …
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Hamfest 2009 – misc goodies

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Hamfest 2009 – misc goodies
Hamfest
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The strips of ICs were being given away – I plan to use them for teaching people soldering skills.

Bunch of decent sized 2×8 segment LED displays + misc stuff.

500k ohm dual gang audio taper pots – good for volume control.

Hamfest 2009 – EICO Oscilloscope
Hamfest
Image by Evil Paul
My catch of the day. Very pretty, but ‘needs work’. Came with a spec sheet that includes the schematic, so there’s still hope for this one.

Hamfest 2008 – takeaway containers
Hamfest
Image by Evil Paul
Takeaway containers from to each, filled with various components.

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Tactile Morse Code

Tactile Morse Code

Tactile Morse Code (T-Morse) is formed by repositioning the dots and reorienting the dashes of the Morse code. The reconfigured letters of T-Morse have a tight, compact aspect that can be read like Braille.

T-Morse is a dynamic new approach to blind readership. Significant innovation in coding for letters, numbers, punctuation and symbols form the basis of this simple, easy-to-learn code that may offer a compelling alternative to Braille.

Learning T-Morse is a breeze. Morse

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Building up your ham shack (A Howard W. Sams photofact publication)

Building up your ham shack (A Howard W. Sams photofact publication)

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Police License Plate Scanner

This video was made in Canada. More recently, these systems have begun to see use in the United States to quickly pick out vehicles without insurance, unregistered, reported stolen, involved in crimes, etc… that have been entered into a database. I have disabled comments because the mass majority of people are stupid, and so are their comments.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Latest HF Antenna News

SMD isotropic antenna for NFC applications
PREMO NFC antennas also include SDTR1103-HF family. PREMO has recently enhanced this family with new inductance values from 1 to 20uH. SDTR1103 and 3DC15 series meets the AEC-Q-200 (one of the most restrictive quality standards for electric components) …
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Premo offers 3D coil isotropic magnetic NFC antenna for use over wide …
Premo has launched 3DC15-HF, a 3D-coil isotropic magnetic antenna for Near Field Communications (NFC) that can be used in the E-Wallet application on tablets and smart phones. The antenna has a high-surface-resistance NiZn ferrite core material …
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Amateur Radio makes its debut on Last Man Standing
Mike's shack boasts an ICOM IC-9100 HF/6 meter/2 meter transceiver and an IC-92AD handheld transceiver, both provided to the show courtesy of ICOM America, as well as a Comet CHV-5X HF dipole and GP-1 antenna for 2 meters and 70 cm (courtesy of …
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Nice Ham Shack photos

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WB0IRD

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Me (Michelle) in dad’s ham shack.

parents house033

Image by Paul L McCord Jr
My dad’s ham shack 7/17/05

MØVKG – The setup

Image by Andy M Smith
A modest setup by most ham shack standards, but currently consists of a Yaesu FT-897D for HF/6m, a converted Ascom SE550 for 4m and an Icom IC-T8E for 6m/2m/70cm. Not pictured are a Yaesu FT-50R and a Yaesu FT-60E, both for use when mobile on 2m and 70cms.

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Ham Tower

VHF/UHF on top of VHF Beam
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The ground was wet and soft so we had to drive some pilings

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Skywarn Tornado car bumper sticker window decal 5″ x 4″

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Introduction to microcomputers for the ham shack

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Uniden BC72XLT Handheld Scanner (Black)

Uniden BC72XLT Handheld Scanner (Black)

  • Handheld scanner for monitoring police and fire signals, weather transmissions, ham radio bands, and more
  • Comprehensive memory with 100 channels over 10 banks; Close Call RF technology identifies nearby signals
  • Easily locate specific calls with 6 preprogrammed service searches, including public safety, railroad, and marine
  • Compact design fits comfortably in hand; easy-to-read backlit display, lockable keypad for saving settings
  • Runs on 2 AA alkaline or rechargeable batteries (these can be be recharged while in the scanner)

Uniden BC72XLT Handheld Scanner (Black) Versatile, compact, and easy to use, the Uniden BC72XLT handheld scanner offers a simple way to monitor the “action” bands, including police and fire channels (including rescue and paramedics), NOAA weather transmissions, business and industrial radio broadcasts, utilities, marine and amateur (ham radio) bands, air bands, and more. In short, the scanner keeps interested parties in the information loop. A versatile, compact, and easy to use hand

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Latest Morse Code News

Morse Code: From Outside Looking In at the Sundevils
By George Morse The Española Valley boys basketball team made the past year one that this community will always remember, winning the Class AAAA state basketball championship. It was a special time. I had always wanted to write about the Sundevils …
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Morse Code: A New Year's Wish: Teach Young People To Love Learning
By George Morse One of the things New Mexicans like to joke about is how so many people from other parts of the United States don't know that our state is not a foreign country. For a while, they were even putting the initials USA on state license …
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Sailors riding safer waves thanks to airwave treat

Sailors riding safer waves thanks to airwave treat
Harbour House Marina has donated two state of the art ICOM handheld VHF radios to the Cayman Islands Sailing Club as part of the on-going programme of safety improvements at the club. Raph Harvey, the Head Sailing Instructor, said: “This donation means …
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South Whidbey port officials approve lease of park property for cell tower
ICOM, the 911 service, will get free access to the tower," Rhinehart said. "And [it] maintains public stewardship of the park and trail, which as we've seen at the state and the county … is getting harder and harder to do," he added. …
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Lowepro Edit 130 Video Bag (Arctic Blue) Reviews

Lowepro Edit 130 Video Bag (Arctic Blue)

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HF Digital voice

This is an audio quality sample of ADR9000MKII, AOR fastmodem, for voice service. This QSO was made in 40m band about 12:00 UTC, with a signal strenght about S9. Thanks to CT1BWI and CT1PT for our colaboration on this test.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

I used VH Capture to record this power point it has some sound samples of the HF Digital modes. The reason I did this is that I could not find a way to have this power point work right with out it being in a MS power point environment and it did not work in Google Docs.

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Motorola Minitor WX SKYWARN Weather alert pager EAS NOAA NWS

I’m a Skywarn spotter, Retired Firefighter, and radio nut, I programmed these VHF converted Fire Department & 160mhz pagers to do weather alerting. Unlike the SAME, but similar. You will get ALL Alerts that the NWS/NOAA puts out. They are all Computer programmed & can accept 2 Freqs opposed to others which only do 1, without monitor. I add monitoring in so the squelch does not need pressed to hear the alert like the old ones. I do the Free minitor programming, low cost alert systems, and alike. Certain things should simply be free. I’ve been screwed by radio shops before, which is why I do this cheaply it’s not right people profit from simple things like programming pagers.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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A Scanner Darkly Trailer

The New trailer for the animated film A Scanner Darkly
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Localization and remote maintenance of mobile machines: MLR cellular routers …

Localization and remote maintenance of mobile machines: MLR cellular routers …
INSYS icom adds a number of features to its well-established MLR series of highspeed cellular routers. A new GPS functionality, for instance, enables the continuous localization of mobile machines such as large emergency generators or construction …
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Super light VHF handhelds: Icom M24 vs Standard Horizon HX300
I've been meaning to write about the Icom M24 handheld VHF for some time. While I haven't actually tested this model myself, just holding one at a boat show was a revelation about how light and hand-friendly a full-featured portable marine radio can be …
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Man sought in home invasion
Mark Plumberg through the ICOM dispatch center at 360-679-9567. Since late October, South Whidbey has experienced a rash of residential burglaries and car prowls, with most occurring on weekdays during early morning hours. The incidents prompted Island …
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Inflatable HAM Tower – 33 Ft

New! Inflatable Antenna Tower for Amateur Radio – sets up in under 10 minutes. Simple, safe, and VERY affordable. Perfect for contests, Field Day, Club Meets. CERT Teams, ARES, Search & Rescue/ Customize with your Callsign or Club Logo. For more information, call LTA Projects at 877-897-5158 or go to our website at www.ltaprojects.com.
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This is One of my other Hobbys & I am the Ghost Rider Unit 427 Empire State Tower raising, You are looking at a 75 foot overall Tower with a Maco 5 Element Beam.. Special Thanks to The linearone Crue, Dooley (413) Who Engineered this project, also like to Thank Jack Rabbit (383), Billy Goat (279), Chopper (25), My Two Cousin’s George & Mikey, for there Brute strength, & SpeedBuggy (114) for My B-Day gift The maco, You Guys made this happen & I thank you, oh yeah Thanks to FireBird (454) for offering your truck & winch ~ LOL ~ I”ll take credit for the Welds Not Breaking.. Check us out at BIGASSAMPS.COM I am the GhostRider (427) Empire State.. & I just Got Down!
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ICOM IC-735 PASSBAND FILTER MOD

A few nice ICOM images I found:

ICOM IC-735 PASSBAND FILTER MOD
ICOM
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Modificación de los diodos del filtro pasa banda en rx de la emisora ICOM ic-735

Le he cambiado los diodos que se emplean para conmutar o seleccionar los filtros pasabandas de Rx , y he tenido un incremento de la RX.
Lógicamente no es lo mismo un diodo de hace 20 años que uno moderno.

ICOM IC-735 PASSBAND FILTER MOD
ICOM
Image by usblsb
Modificación de los diodos del filtro pasa banda en rx de la emisora ICOM ic-735

Le he cambiado los diodos que se emplean para conmutar o seleccionar los filtros pasabandas de Rx , y he tenido un incremento de la RX.
Lógicamente no es lo mismo un diodo de hace 20 años que uno moderno.

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Bagram Gets Personnel Scanner

Bagram Gets Personnel Scanner
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — It took the combined resources of Army, Air Force, contractors and civilian air assets to move a personnel scanner into place at an entry control point here Dec. 31. The scanner is a Product Manager Force Protection …
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Scanner Reports 1-02-12
By Roger the Scanner Guy Welcome to 2012. It seemed to come into Santa Barbara quietly. A train traveled through town blowin' its horn. Occasional fireworks and shots dotted the East Side. A few moments after a series of more fireworks and shots off in …
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Card Scanning Solutions Announces 64-Bit Support By CSSN OCR SDK
CSSN Inc. dba Card Scanning Solutions recently announced the much awaited OCR SDK 64-bit support. With this new development, CSSN's SDK tools are now compatible with 64-bit applications running on Windows 7, Vista and XP. …
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Scanner Teardown 02

Some cool scanner images:

Scanner Teardown 02
scanner
Image by sparr0
The lid lifted right off, like most flatbed scanners.

Scanner Self Portrait
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Image by patrickorielly
Scanners can be fun.

"What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can’t any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone’s sake the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I do, then I’m cursed and cursed again. I’ll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too. "
– Fred, A Scanner Darkly

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HF Mobile QSO with a station on 80M using IC-7000

QSO with G3ZPD whilst I was at Woldingham Ridge Dec 08. Antenna was a CA-UHV vertical.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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p3150024

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p3150024
Skywarn
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N3AO explains the importance of reporting severe weather and some of the amateur radio and internet options available for reporting.

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Latest Ham Tower News

Choose My Adventure: Post-Christmas update
by Jeremy Stratton on Dec 28th 2011 8:00PM A turkey and ham coma, family soiree, and the biggest calendar holiday of the year have left my Lineage II escapades a wee bit smaller this week, but not without some fun happenings. …
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HVS EMEA Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 22 December 2011
In particular, the deal will help finance the development of a 92-room hotel at Ham Yard in London's Soho district; this project is expected to be completed in 2013. It was also announced that Barclays, which has worked with Firmdale for the past 14 …
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wx4rnk-station-2

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wx4rnk-station-2
Skywarn
Image by n3pb
The WX4RNK SKYWARN amateur radio station in the Blacksburg NWS office.

Photo by W4PAJ.

Dime Sized Hail
Skywarn
Image by michaelstyne
Finally got to put my SKYWARN privileges to use and reported some dime-sized hail to NWS Albany! Thanks to Weather Girl Erin for the assistance.

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Yaesu FT-901DM

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Yaesu FT-901DM
QSO
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Listening to a QSO on 20m SSB.

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Canon CanoScan LiDE110 Color Image Scanner (4507B002) Reviews

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  • Advanced Z Lid

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Trailer – CQ by Roman Coppola

The trailer for Roman Coppola’s movie.
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Portable setup for HF digital modes in Juan Les Pins, France

This is my first antenna for HF bands and also my first attempt at PSK31 mode. Antenna is a delta loop of almost 20m perimeter. Antenna wire is not yet cut at its right length yet during this session I made 2 QSOs with South Africa on 15m and one with the US on 17m. All with my wee FT817 (5Watts)! EeePc runs on Linux Debian and decoding software is Fldigi.

THIS IS AN HIGH QUALITY VOICE TRANSMISSION, USING HF NARROW BAND SINGLE SSB CHANNEL. THIS WAS MADE USING AN AOR VOICE MODEM ADR9000MKII
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Skywarn Presentation

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Skywarn Presentation
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Advanced Skywarn training at the CESTM building in Albany.

wx4rnk-station-1
Skywarn
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The WX4RNK SKYWARN amateur radio station in the Blacksburg NWS office

Photo by W4PAJ.

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Latest Kenwood Radio News

When to catch Chris Mack's radio show
28 at 7 pm live from TGI Friday's in Kenwood on 55KRC-AM. Joe Sunderman and Byron Larkin will join Mack for analysis of the Musketeers' games in Hawaii and preview the Dec. 31 home game against Gonzaga. The rest of the 2011-12 Chris Mack show schedule …
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Press Release: W4PC Software Releases ROC 3.98:
With ROC and the PK-232SC, only three cables connect and control the computer, radio and TNC. ROC 3.98 supports additional radios for both AEA/Timewave and Kantronics TNCs. ROC now includes controls for all Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood and Alinco radios plus …
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Kenwood upgrade its compact K-Series compact Hi-Fi with USB and PC Support
The cute yet powerful K-Series compact Hi-Fi from Kenwood has been introduced this morning in Japan in yet another version the R-K731. This compact all in one wonder comes with the usual CD, Radio and Digital Output and Input audio but comes today with …
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Ham Tower

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Ham Tower

Image by Paul L McCord Jr
Picture of the tower with the Decibel Products DB-420 70 cm antenna, and 6 meter J Pole, G5RV multiband dipole and UHF ground plane antenna taken 8-20-2005

Ham Tower

Image by Paul L McCord Jr
Picture of the tower with the Decibel Products DB-420 70 cm antenna, and 6 meter J Pole, G5RV multiband dipole and UHF ground plane antenna taken 8-20-2005

Ham tower

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Gareth’s neighbour’s tower – with grapevine.

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Skywarn Promo Video

Skywarn Promo Video
Video Rating: 4 / 5

skywarn activation on west metro of minnesota including hennepin county. june 17th 2010 radioshack pro2050 base scanner with J pole. maple plain repeater was used for weather purposes at the frequency of 147.000 mhz. this communication is based using 2 meter FM radios and the use of a repeater.

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Homebrew HF Vertical Antenna

This is the Cabela 16.5 Classic Crappie fishing pole. I used 1/4″ copper tape as the conductor in each section.
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Nice Scanner photos

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Scanner
scanner
Image by Kevin Walter

Scanner Thinks It’s Rothko
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My scanner flipped out when I stuck a negative in it, and spat out this, which is just a screen capture, as it thereupon crashed. I thought it was interesting, as a composition.

Scanner Light(ly)
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Had a couple of dead scanners. What else could I do but take it apart? (Anybody know the reference of the title?) [Home, Mesa, Arizona]

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My simple ‘ham’ shack

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My simple ‘ham’ shack

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My amateur radio shack.

GM7PBB ham shack on “Butt of Lewis” – north end of island

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My dad’s ham shack

Image by Paul L McCord Jr

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Setting up & using your own ham shack

Setting up & using your own ham shack

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Personal Computers in the Ham Shack

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Latest Ham Tower News

Call of the dial
… trained professional dispatch operators. "We have our own little space here, but we think it provides a valuable service," Montgomery said. Emergency services officials agreed and added amateur radio antennas to the county major 9-1-1 service tower.
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Feast of films out today
It is the day we are recovering from consuming far too much ham, turkey, pudding and lollies. So as a remedy to overindulging at the family feast, I always make an effort to see something released on Boxing Day. Last year we had a great deal to pick …
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AR Newsline Report 1793 — Dec 22 2011:
We will have more ham radio space related news later on in this weeks Amateur Radio Newsline report. (ANS) For years, broadcast engineers generally have said there's no proof that towers kill migratory birds, noting that they haven't seen piles of dead …
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SkyWARN training to be held

SkyWARN training to be held
The Bradford County Office of Emergency Management will be hosting a 2-hour Winter SkyWARN training seminar for municipal emergency management personnel, elected official and Community Emergency Response Team members at 7 pm on Dec. 19. …
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Weather spotting draws interest
BY ERIC HRIN (Staff Writer) Review Photo/ERIC HRIN Erik Heden, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, NY, talks to people Monday in Towanda about SKYWARN. Review Photo/ERIC HRIN Erik Heden, a meteorologist with the National …
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Mercer County Takes Part in National SKYWARN Day
SKYWARN is a nationwide program run by the National Weather Service through which trained residents gather real-time, “ground truth” information about severe weather, such as a tornado, flood or snowstorm. Editor's Note: The following is a news release …
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SkyWarn 13: Snow will taper off overnight, roads still slick
Snow will dwindle in intensity overnight. Roads will remain slick overnight as well. Visibilities will improve by Sunday morning. Likely the winter weather advisory will be canceled before the 6AM deadline. Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for …
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icom ic 7800

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HF DIGITAL VOICE ON 80M

This is a sample of a 80m band QSO, in digital voice, using an ADR9000MKII voice modem. the propagation was unstable as you can see. Thanks to CT1BWI and CT1PT to help me on this test.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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QSO365 enters the final month

QSO365 enters the final month
Keith's QSO365 project has a simple premise – To have a QSO every day over the course of the year. This sounds simple but in practice, it's not quite so straightforward. He did allow a couple of provisos in that if he were working away, or on holiday …
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DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #29:
The QRP CW Fox Hunt, CWops Mini-CWT Test and SKCC CW Sprint are scheduled for December 28. The Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party runs until January 1. Please see December QST, page 71 and the ARRL and WA7BNM Contest Web Sites for details.
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Governor-General becomes first Quitline patron
The Quit Group, which runs the national stop smoking service Quitline, is pleased to announce that His Excellency Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand has become the organisation's …
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444.350/146.970 Skywarn Linked Repeater System

Illiana SKYWARN Severe Weather Net on 4/5/2009. De-linking W9SKI/R, 444.350MHz from Indianapolis. Linked repeaters in system during SKYWARN nets, state-wide: 444.350MHz W9SKI/R – No PL – Terre Haute, IN 146.970MHz W9ICE/R PL 77.0Hz – Indianapolis, IN 442.650MHz W9ICE/R PL 77.0Hz – Indianapolis, IN 443.775MHz KA9VXS/R -PL 88.5Hz – Lafayette, IN 147.435MHz W9ICE/L – PL 77.0Hz – Freetown/Seymour, IN

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HF Antenna Mast and Support

Many have used a painter’s pole for a mast support for a dipole antenna. Here’s is an idea that I use to support the mast using a steel green fence post. AI4QT
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Skywarn Program

Webisode 09: Meteorologist Steve Sipple of the National Weather Service (NWS) – Phoenix previews the SKYWARN program, and NWS collaboration with volunteer storm spotters to issue more timely and accurate watches and warnings to the public. Photos Courtesy: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Skywarn® and the Skywarn® logo are registered trademarks of NOAA Find a transcript of this AzEIN webisode at bit.ly
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Cool Arrow Antenna images

Some cool arrow antenna images:

J-Pole

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Dual band J-pole from Arrow Antennas.

MARC – Canada Day – 2011-07-01 006

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The table. Right front is George’s Arrow antenna set up on a camera tripod.

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Scanners (1981) – trailer

Scanners (1981) – trailer
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Here is a basic introduction on how to use a handheld police scanner and the Canadian Trackside Guide to listen in on railway traffic and communications. The Canadian Trackside guide can be ordered from the publisher’s website… www.bytownrailwaysociety.ca Rail transport passengers…
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New York QSO Party

New York QSO Party contest 2009 – KG2RG working the pile-up. Are you one of the contacts?
Video Rating: 4 / 5

After many times, I have obtained a beautiful QSO with IZ6FHZ on 40 meters with my Mizuho MX-7S, 1 Watt and telescopic antenna. QRB is about 450 KM !!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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CQ

CQ

Captivating and sexy, CQ takes you behind the scenes of a sci-fi thriller being filmed in 1969 Paris but set in ‘futuristic’ 2001! Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan), newcomer Angela Lindvall, Gerard Depardieu (Green Card) and Billy Zane (Titanic) shine in this “unpredictable, stylish and original” (Boxoffice) movie where past meets future, reality blurs with fantasy, and tight leather catsuits are the perfect accessory for a ray gun that can stop time! Novice filmmaker Paul (Davies) has just

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MFJ-969 Amateur Radio Deluxe HF Antenna Tuner w/ Built-in 4:1 Balun 300W ; 6-160M

MFJ-969 Amateur Radio Deluxe HF Antenna Tuner w/ Built-in 4:1 Balun 300W ; 6-160M

  • HF Band Antenna Tuner, Covers 6 thru 160 Meter HF Bands (1.7Mhz To 55Mhz), Handles up to 300 Watts!
  • Full Size lighted Cross-Needle SWR/Wattmeter Reads True Peak Forward Power & SWR!
  • 8 Position antenna switch, features a built in 50 Ohm dummy load, heavy duty 4:1 balun — all in a tough, attractive cabinet!
  • Superb AirCore Roller Inductor, gear driven turns counter and spinner knob gives you exact inductance control for absolute minimum SWR!
  • Match Optional dipoles, verticals, inverted vees, random wires, beams, mobile whips, SWL receiving antennas — nearly any antenna. You can use coax cable, random wire or balanced lines. Has built-in heavy duty 4:1 balun!

MFJ-969 300W P.E.P Roller-Inductor All-Mode Tuner
Features Built-in Dummy Load, Antenna Switch, Built in 4:1 Balun, bypass & More!
Meter illumination requires optional 12Vdc.

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Cool Arrow Antenna images

A few nice arrow antenna images I found:

Streetlight Surveillance Camera With Wireless Antenna & Arrow Sign, Pennsylvania Avenue, NW & Fourth Street, NW (Washington, DC)

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671B1400: Arrow Antenna

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Nice Hamfest photos

Some cool Hamfest images:

HRO at Hamfest
Hamfest
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I saw HRO moving a lot of D-STAR gear at this hamfest.

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Hamfest is set for Saturday

Hamfest is set for Saturday
POPLARVILLE — The 2011 Pearl River County Amateur Radio Club Hamfest is Saturday at the old National Guard Armory, US Highway 11 and Mississippi Highway 26. Doors open at 8 am A Hamfest is a gathering of amateur radio enthusiasts, but the festival …
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Tampa Bay Hamfest Dec. 3rd and 4th, 2011
The 36th Annual Tampa Bay Hamfest will be held at the Manatee Convention Center in Palmetto, FL this coming weekend. More information is available at this web site. Amateur radio operators from all over the Tampa Bay area will be able to buy and sell …
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USA Amateur Radio exams at Hamfest India-2011
USA Amateur radio exams are scheduled to be conducted during the Hamfest-2011 on 10th Dec 2011 at 5.30 PM. Any one who is interested please avail this opportunity and get your license before Christmas and New year celebrations! …
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Latest Scanner News

Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Gets Full Body Scanner
That's because, the airport has installed full body scanners for extra security. Soon, everyone will be required to go through a new full body scanner. Daniel York flew in today from Detroit to spend the holidays with his family. …
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nCircle Announces Aggressive Pricing for PureCloud(TM) Security Scanning Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — nCircle, the leader in automated security and compliance auditing solutions, today announced a new, innovative pricing model for PureCloud, nCircle's new network security scanning service for small to …
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Alaska lawmaker Tuck in feud with TSA over body scanners
Chris Tuck is running TV ads telling people they can skip the new body scanners at Alaska airports and should call airport police if the Transportation Security Administration gets too frisky with the resulting pat-downs. But Tuck is wrong in making …
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Antenna Towers for Radio Amateur

Antenna Towers for Radio Amateur

  • Topics include:Tower types, Climbing, Bases & Guy anchors.
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Cool ICOM images

Some cool ICOM images:

ICOM IC-735 PASSBAND FILTER MOD
ICOM
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Modificación de los diodos del filtro pasa banda en rx de la emisora ICOM ic-735

Le he cambiado los diodos que se emplean para conmutar o seleccionar los filtros pasabandas de Rx , y he tenido un incremento de la RX.
Lógicamente no es lo mismo un diodo de hace 20 años que uno moderno.

Estos son los diodos que compre en Farnell

ICOM IC-735 PASSBAND FILTER MOD
ICOM
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Modificación de los diodos del filtro pasa banda en rx de la emisora ICOM ic-735

Le he cambiado los diodos que se emplean para conmutar o seleccionar los filtros pasabandas de Rx , y he tenido un incremento de la RX.
Lógicamente no es lo mismo un diodo de hace 20 años que uno moderno.

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Arrow Antenna

Arrow Antenna

Arrow Antenna pulls in both superior radio reception AND plenty of double takes! Instantly replaces your vehicle’s signal receiver! Attention-getting Arrow Antenna is a real fiberglass, camouflage-patterned arrow, but you don’t want to put this one on your bow. The housing contains a universal AM / FM radio receiver antenna that directly swaps out with the stock antenna on your car or truck! It’s designed to work just as well as the original, but with an outdoor flair you won’t find anywhere els

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