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Cutting the cable cord and going back to free TV

Cutting the cable cord and going back to free TV
What they don't realize, is they need an outdoor antenna to get all the clear crystal channels," said Matteson. Most TV's sold in the past five years or so has a built-in digital tuner for these over-the-air broadcasts. You should be able to receive …
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New Product: End Fed Tuner Kit:
Portable radio specialists SOTABEAMS has introduced a kit version of their popular QRP Mountain Tuner. The Mountain Tuner is designed for use with end-fed half-wave antennas from 40 through to 17 metres. The unique design allows the Mountain Tuner …
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Start-Up Promises TV on a Tablet, With No Fees, No Wires
Tablet TV uses a device Motive calls a T-Pod, described in the report as “a palm-size digital TV antenna, tuner and digital recorder. The company hasn't settled on a price, but Fertig said Tablet TV expects to sell T-Pods for between $ 50 to $ 100.”.
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Logbook of The World, Some ARRL Web Services Going Dark Overnight June 20-21

Because of network maintenance, the ARRL Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, the ARRL Store, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down overnight Friday to Saturday, June 20-21 (Saturday, June 21, from 0000 until 1000 UTC). All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for later delivery. E-mail to @arrl.net Forwarding Service addresses will not be af…

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DRC Packet Week 1 Under construction, please be patient while editing is going on!

DRC Packet Week 1 Under construction, please be patient while editing is going on!

Week 1 — Introduction to AX.25 packet. • Agenda for the 9 week course. • What AX.25 packet offers. • Overview of a typical packet network. • Example of an H…

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Ham Radio Next Steps: Extending Range of HTs, Future Preps & Going Portable

In this video I describe two antenna options for extending the range of your handheld ham radio (even further than the 1/4 wave whips I have talked about pre…
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Ham radio use still going strong after 100 years – Great Falls Tribune

Ham radio use still going strong after 100 years
Great Falls Tribune
George Forsyth, Montana section manager for theAmerican Radio Relay League, demonstrates ham radio equipment. The league is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year. / TRIBUNE PHOTO/LARRY BECKNER …
Ham radio introduction and classThe Union Leader

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It’s a Wrap for K9W on Wake; XRØZR on Juan Fernandez Still Going Strong

The Daily DX reports that theK9W DXpedition to Wake Atoll is over. A final log upload to ClubLog is pending. The K9W team logged more than 100,000 contacts with stations in 186 DXCC entities. Meanwhile the XRØZR team on Juan Fernandez reports that it has surpassed 35,000 contacts, and it’s beefing up efforts to put even more contacts into the log. The DXpedition has 6 more days to go.

“With the …

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Surfin’: Going Tropo

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, your Surfin’ conductor considers the reasons why his car radio is acting funny.

My normal Saturday morning mission began as usual: Driving my Subaru with my wife on board to go buy groceries. As we headed north over the top of South Mountain, I tuned the car radio to 102.1 MHz and expected to hear the vintage rock sounds of WAQY.

At that point…

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Surfin’: Going to the Source

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ visits a website that is the host for thousands of free software applications.

SourceForge warehouses free and open source software.

It has competitors, but SourceForge was the first to offer a free centralized location for developers to control and manage open source software development. SourceForge is the host for approximately one-…

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