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The Amateur Amateur: Mastless in Missouri

By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
ARRL Contributing Editor

It was a nasty night, with heavy rain and howling wind. I was down in my shack, overseeing three Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) nets: our weekly voice net, a short net in which we practice receiving formal traffic and a packet net. I’m the manager for all of them.

After I wrapped up the nets, I went upstairs to start doing the paperwork. My wi…

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Surfin’: Have Radio, Will QSL

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ visits a website dedicated to QSL cards.

The first QSL card I ever received was from shortwave broadcast station Trans World Radio in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. I don’t remember the first ham radio QSL card I received, but I do recall that I never received a QSL card from my first ham radio contact.

I always enjoyed the QSL card asp…

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Youth@HamRadio.Fun: Dayton on Radar

Sterling Coffey, N0SSC, ARRL Youth Editor
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One of the first things you learn in a southwestern state is to touch large metal objects often. If you don’t, you’ll find that your electronics will suffer. The dry air of New Mexico is no objection to this rule. So far I have ruined a keyboard, a USB port on my computer (along with the RTLSDR radio attached) and possibly a few good brain …

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Surfin’: Women in Radio

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ explores the website of the Young Ladies in ham radio.

It’s no secret that men dominate ham radio; women only represent about 15 percent of the US ham population. This demographic is also evident when attending ham radio events, such as the Dayton Hamvention®: The guys are everywhere, whereas the gals are few and far between. But there…

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Surfin’: Getting Parts in the 21st Century

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ finds radio parts on a fascinating website.

Back when I began stinking up my parent’s house with the scent of liquefied solder, there were radio and electronic stores in the area where I could buy all the parts to build my projects. But in the 1970s, those stores went the way of the vacuum tube. I had to go the mail order route to buy …

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The Amateur Amateur: It’s Not Easy Being Green-less

By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
ARRL Contributing Editor

Many years ago, my grandfather used to build radio sets and sell them to his neighbors. Somewhat later, just after World War II, he and my father installed radios in cars for Western Auto. They saved up their earnings and eventually started Hoffman Radio-Television Sales and Service, which was the premiere TV shop in Savannah, Georgia for a number of…

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Noted Contester and DXer Luis Chartarifsky, XE1L (SK)

Noted DXer Luis Chartarifsky, XE1L, of Mexico City, passed away Monday, March 18 after a heart attack. An ARRL Life Member, Chartarifsky held Top of Honor Roll (Phone and Mixed), with all 340 current entities confirmed. He also held DXCC for Mixed, Phone, CW and RTTY, as well as 5-Band DXCC, and had a total of 354 entities, including deleted.

Chartarifsky became interested in radio and listening…

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April Fools’ in QST

Fair warning! In keeping with its time-honored tradition, the newly released April issue of QST magazine contains no less than two items of highly dubious authenticity. Can you find them?

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Radio Before Radio

Early on a steamy Sunday morning in August my eagle-eyed spouse, Paula, N1EOG, spotted a yellow pamphlet titled The Wireless Telephone sitting on a dealer’s dollar table at the Grafton, Massachusetts flea market. I was trying to be good and not spend the buck, but the cover drew me in.

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Field Day 2002 Video Excerpt

This video is slightly under two minutes and demonstrates how a contact is completed on the HF band during a radio contest. This video was shot during the 2002 Field Day event sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). There were two clubs that were involved with this Field Day: the Central Ohio Amateur Radio Emergency Service (COARES), and the Voice of Aladdin Radio Club. The callsign used was W8FEZ.

This video will show you how to connect DV-Dongle and install the software, check your sound.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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