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Surfin’: Combining Software Defined Radios and Smart Phones

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ checks out a ham who is developing a handheld radio that’s a cross between a smart phone and an SDR.

The Dayton Hamvention® was last weekend and I drove 735 miles to attend the event for the 25th time. Kudos go out to my smart phone and its map apps for getting me to Hamvention and back without error, as well as getting me around those…

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Florida Hams Prove that Ham Radio Works When Cell Phones Don’t

After a day of exploring the Green Swamp Wildlife Management Area — which covers 50,692 protected acres in Florida’s Lake, Polk and Sumter Counties — with his grandson, Joe Cody, KE4WDP, of Winter Haven, Florida, saw that the roads were flooding and becoming hazardous. As he tried to drive out of the area, Cody’s small pick-up truck got bogged down in the mud. Since he was out of cell phone r…

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