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AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE™ REPORT 1695
News for the week in Amateur Radio for the week ending 5 February, 2010. Visit Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at http://www.arnewsline.org...
AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE™ REPORT 1694`
News for the week in Amateur Radio for the week ending 29 January, 2010. Visit Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at http://www.arnewsline.org...
AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE™ REPORT 1693
News for the week in Amateur Radio for the week ending 22 January, 2010. Visit Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at http://www.arnewsline.org...
AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE™ REPORT 1692
News for the week in Amateur Radio for the week ending 15 January, 2010. Visit Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at http://www.arnewsline.org...
AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE™ REPORT 1691
News for the week in Amateur Radio for the week ending 8 January, 2010. Visit Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at http://www.arnewsline.org...
AMATEUR RADIO NEWSLINE™ REPORT 1690
News for the week in Amateur Radio for the week ending 1 January, 2010. Visit Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at http://www.arnewsline.org...
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Dear friends, We?d like to announce "*Black Sea Cup International*" Contest - 2010 (Contest rules are in http://bscc.ucoz.ru/index/0-21) ......
Need a vintage CT7001 clock chip
If anyone has one for sale or trade or knows where I can get one, please reply to ruteng1 @ att . net Thanks, Rudy...
Hello folks: Recently being pondering a 4 slinky dipole sloper array for 80 meters, before I rushout and start buying slinkys I'm just wondering......
http://www.soldersmoke.com 5 February 2010 Into the Apennine snow! Technical troubles Roadkill computers Luddite Curmudgeonism Mars and Andromeda from Sabina Telescopes and Olive Oil Math and Electronics Crashing R/C planes 5X5JD and the Uganda Tuna Tin AA1TJ's diode amplifiers Rotating parts boxes MOVIE REVIEW: Avatar (2.5 Soldering Irons) MAILBAG...
WTB: RADIO SHACK PRO-2096 SCANNER
LOOKING FOR THIS MODEL ONLY,THEY HAVE A WHOLE NEW LINE OUT,SO THE PRICE SHOULD BE REASONABLE,FROM NON SMOKER,WITH ADAPTER,MANUAL,ANTENNA,PLESASE......
*28MHz to 144MHz transverter Hello I am looking for a 10m to 2m all mode transverter. It could be in the form of a kit, or complete. I would......
The DXZone.com Amateur Radio Internet Guide
Radio programming cables homebrew projects. Build CAT cables or interface rig cables ...
Ham Radio/Blogs/Asia/IndiaTT’s Jottings-Blog of VU2SWX, Travails of an Indian Geek ...
Technical Reference/Power MeterA few modifications greatly increase the utility of a popular QST projec ...
Technical Reference/Vector Network AnalyzerThis project is an attempt to build a portable standalone VNA (Vector Network Analyzer). ...
What Does Your S-Meter Reading Mean
Technical Reference/ReceiversTwo receivers compared, Drake R8A and Palstar R30 ...
Technical Reference/Power MeterMeter capable of accurately measuring low levels of RF power ...
Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed
AMSAT-UK Colloquium - Call for Speakers
This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2010 which will be held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK on Saturday and Sunday, 31 July and 1 August 2010...
The ISES solar cycle number sunspot progression chart was updated on February 2 and it shows a long awaited upturn...
The Iowa Great Lakes Amateur Radio Club's repeater tower used by the WB0WOE/R repeater on 146.610 MHz was damaged by ice build up and a video of its dismantling is now on YouTube...
The RAL Microwave Roundtable takes place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire on Sunday, April 18...
The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity...
The Plymouth newspaper The Herald reports that Radio Amateurs will be taking part in the 3rd Geopark festival, May 22-23...
Advancing Ham Radio.. different ideas
Developing Wireless Networking using OLSR
I've written before that mesh network topology on-top of standard 802.11 can make a powerful system. There is a group of hams in North Texas pioneering the way. They have been developing firmware using the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) Protocol. This is an IP routing protocol which...
Anybody remember 2 meter RTTY? There is still some on HF, but it was pretty popular from 1950 to 1980 even on two meters.RTTY declined in popularity, as faster, computerized transmission modes were developed, using less-expensive equipment.That equipment was the TNC. And now roughly 30 years later, (just...
Vellman K8055 & Activity Graphs
I recently picked up a Vellman K8055 interface board. My original application was in conjunction with Jonathan, G4KLX's D-Star project. He has since added other methods of support for transmitter control, such as legacy serial port keying.The Vellman board has 5 digital input channels and 8 digital output...
VOIP / Asterisk / Phone Interfacing
For nearly a decade I tinkered to my hearts content with various applications and packet radio. I learned an immense amount about TCP/IP. From DOS based NOS packages, which lead to ethernet networking the shack, later to Linux.Well, I have been tinkering with Asterisk for about 6 years...
EmComm & AMSAT's Geostationary Satellite
A very interesting overview of AMSAT's phase IV Geostationary Satellite and the possible emergency communications implementations is in the Fall issue of CQ-VHF.As you can tell I don't have a lot of love for Emcomm, but here is something that actually makes sense. A high speed multi-media capable, geostationary...
Is amateur ARES / emcomm ‘a waste’?
This is a quick cheesy remake of a speech I have at a local club meeting. I didn't expect so many other bloggers to pick up on it.Emergency communications has been part of ham radio from it’s inception. Yet we need separate entities (ARES/RACES) to help promote it? Why...
HFRadio.org Propagation Center
Solar Flux: 74 | Ap: 1 | Kp 0 (04 nT) at 1200 05 Feb...
Observed Space Weather 1415 05 Feb 2010
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours....
Forecast Space Weather 1415 05 Feb 2010
No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours....
6h hi (none) 24h hi (none)...
SSN: 11 (02/04/2010)...
Solar Wind: 354 km/s @ 2.0 protons/cm3 Bz: -0.6 nT at 2010 Feb 05 1413Z...
KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog
I’ve been living in Uganda since October 14, 2009, just over three months. I have visited Uganda on four previous occasions for three to six weeks each time. I remember well my first visit in the summer of 1999. That was the year we were preparing for Y2K, and there...
Weather and ham radio have a lot in common, most notably SkyWarn. This week, episode 210 of WeatherBrains, “a weekly audio show delivered by the Internet that unites weather geeks worldwide” has a pretty long segment on amateur radio. Starting at about 7:45 of this episode and lasting past...
Help Say No to This Proposed Rule
Usually, I don’t pay much attention to Notices of Proposed Rule Making (NPRMs) by the FCC. But this one—WT Docket 09-209—has got my attenion. The proposed rules would clarify certain rules regarding vanity callsigns and revise the rules applicable to club stations. It’s the latter that I’m concerned about. The revision...
Operating Notes: 1/25/10 – 1/31/10
This week, I made some notable QSOs: Monday night, I contacted K0HL, operating CW mobile from his truck in ND (see right). On his QRZ.Com page, he lists his occupation as clockmaker. I need to e-mail and ask him how he became a clockmaker. I’ve always had an interest in clockmaking. Tuesday...
Soldering Difficult Connections
Almost three years ago, I blogged about splicing my 40m dipole back together. The problem was that the wire had corroded, and I just couldn’t solder it properly. This episode came to mind when I read the following e-mail by Chuck, W5USJ, to the qrp-l.org mailing list: Not a new thing...
These two photos were e-mailed to me with the subject line, “The Ham That Has Everything.” My comment is that I bet this ham doesn’t have a wife or girlfriend!...
ARRL Amateur Radio News
Surfin': Viewing the New Star of Ham Radio
This week, Surfin' explores D-STAR via the telescope known as “the Internet.”...
Minutes of 2010 Annual Meeting Posted
The minutes of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors have now been posted to the ARRL Web site. The meeting -- which took place January 15-16 in Windsor, Connecticut -- saw the election of the League’s 15th President, Kay Craigie, N3KN, of Blacksburg, Virginia....
MARS Unifies Operation in Support of Haiti Relief Effort
To assist the MARS communications support effort in Haiti, the heads of the Army, Air Force, and Navy-Marine Corps MARS programs have agreed to divvy up responsibilities among the three Service MARS programs. According to Air Force MARS Public Information Officer David Trachtenberg, N4WWL/AFA3TR, this delegation of responsibility will facilitate...
ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, February 21, 2010, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, March 5, 2010: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Modeling; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Design and Construction; Ham Radio (Technician) License Course; Propagation; Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics....
A positive approach earns Georgia hams some state owned tower space....
NCVEC Releases Second Technician Question Pool
In January, the Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) released the 2010 Technician (Element 2) Question Pool. Upon further review of the pool, members of the QPC found and corrected more than 50 minor typographical errors and clarified the questions and answers, making them...
W2LJ's Blog - QRP - Do More With Less.
Getting ready for another round .....
..... of snow. The weather prognosticators are all over the place on this one. I'm hearing anything from 1 -2 inches to over a foot of snow. It seems that the snow amount predicting business is about as easy and on target as predicting sunspot cycles!Weather map...
who is going to visit your Website or blog. I receive nice comments about both from time to time; and it really makes the effort worthwhile. And in receiving comments, I even learn a thing or two from time to time.I received a nice e-mail from a Kristi...
A new phenomena was witnessed by yours truly during the 80 Meter Foxhunt tonight. For once, 40 Meters was the quieter band of the two. I had fierce S9 noise on 80 Meters; but it wasn't the same band QRN that I get on 40. But it...
Ft. Tuthill 80 Meter Transceiver is now available
From the QRP mailing lists:At last! We're ready to go and you can now order an FT80 transceiver from our new website at http://www.azscqrpions.com. The old website URL will direct you to the proper place as well.For those who do not wish to use PayPal, please drop me...
SR-71A guy, please meet this B-29 guy......
This was pointed out to me via Bob W3BBO.Obviously, the German modeler with the SR-71A Blackbird; and this American modeler with the B-29 need to get together, hoist a few cold ones and compare notes.73 de Larry W2LJ...
I finally took the opportunity to sit down behind the radio to do some operating today, which is something I haven't been doing as much as I should. In the late afternoon, I got some free time and did some listening on 20, 30 and 40 Meters.There seemed to...
eHam.net News
Amateur Radio Operators Play Important Role:
Those of you who are amateur radio operators may laugh a bit as you read this column. I am attempting to write about a highly technical operation without having a good understanding of the process. However, it is an extremely interesting field with operators more in demand than I realized...
Ham Radio: A Fading Hobby ... Until Emergencies Hit:
At the National Weather Service, meteorologists are surrounded by some of the most up-to-date technology, which they use to track weather systems and dangerous storms. But when the computers go down, forecasters may have to depend on hundreds of Central Florida hobbyists who use a method widely perceived to be...
Solar Activity Intensifies After Long Period of Calm:
New photographs taken by space telescopes show activity on the surface of the sun has intensified in recent weeks. Scientists say solar flares and regions of powerful magnetic fields known as sun-spots have increased markedly after a period of the lowest activity for almost a century. Intense solar activity can...
DX News -- ARRL DX Bulletin #5:
This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all....
Amateur Radio Enthusiast Spins Old Time Country:
In Noggin Cove, Cyril Gillingham said there are many older folks who love to hear old time country music - the sort of sounds they used to hear growing up in the community. It's a style largely ignored by most commercial stations, who now have playlists dominated...
Chair Clarifies Tower Proposal:
Richmond County Board of Commissioners Chairman Kenneth Robinette tried to set the record straight Monday on the proposed tower code amendments. The tower code wasn't actually up for discussion Monday night, the board was simply to set a public hearing for it's next meeting March 1, which it did,...
The KØNR Weblog
Part 97.113 has been the topic of much discussion lately, ever since the FCC communicated a rather narrow interpretation of the rules. See my previous post on this topic for more background information. From the ARRL web site, we find that the ARRL Board of Directors has chimed in: The Board...
This Spewed Out of the Internet #12
Things have been busy around the K0NR household with Christmas, New Years, a general strategy of goofing off but having to go back to work in January. Here’s a few things that have gotten my attention lately. It seems that some of our pirate radio friends down in Texas think the FCC...
Wow, the interest in the Ham Radio Technician License class has been intense! I was thinking we’d get 8 to 10 students. So far I’ve had over 30 people ask to be registered for the class but we had to cap it at 24. And some of our publicity efforts...
I was trying to provide some semblance of order in our basement, which is the storage area for my extensive collection of great radio and computer treasures (sometimes referred to as “junk”). I ended up wading through piles of stuff that I didn’t even know I had. It was like...
Amateur Radio: Not an Emergency Radio Service
Well, that’s what the FCC says: the Amateur Radio Service is not an emergency radio service. K1ZZ’s QST editorial quotes the FCC and points out that the mission of the Amateur Radio Service is indeed broader than emergency communications. (The FCC does recognize the role that amateur plays in emergencies...
Ham Radio Two-Day License Class Monument, Colorado Saturday Jan 30 and Saturday Feb 6 (8 AM to 5 PM) Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Station 1 Sponsored by the Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Radio Association The Technician license is your gateway to the world-wide excitement of Amateur Radio … Earn your ham radio Technician class radio privileges Pass your FCC...
QRZ Forums
Historic Events Newspapers-Moon Landing.others
I have available not just the front page of the newspaper but the ENTIRE paper for each date. Carefully stored away from heat and light for all......
ZS8M: Marion Island Dxpedition
Hi All, Marion Island will be operation as ZS8M from end April 2010 for a year. Times, frequencies and QSL info to follow later. 73 Pierre ZS1HF......
18 April 2010: BARA Hamfest sponsored by the Binghamton Amateur Radio Association, located at the Port Crane Fire Company, 844 Route 369 in Port......
Buyer back out , relist I have for sale a "new" FNB-83 Yaesu battery. It fits many Yaesu walkie talkies. This one I pulled off of a new FT-250R. I......
I have a Yaesu FT-920 in great condition. Everything works perfect with the radio, I just don't have as much time for ham radio anymore. I can email......
I need to occasionally transfer some files from one computer to another computer here in my shack. I'm not a Network/IT guy so am unfamiliar with the......
Chennai HAM/VHF Enthusiasts Forum
Chennai HAM's import 30 nos Dual Band Wouxun HT's!!!
WOUXUN KG-UVD1P fits into one's hand quite well and has an ergonomic design.Few Chennai HAM's came together and did a bulk import of 30 nos dual band VHF/UHF WOUXUN KG-UVD1P HT's from China. This is expected to give a big boost to UHF activity in Chennai as there is already...
Chennai region's highest point VHF repeater at Swamimalai/Yelagiri Hills re-activated
The dedicated team of HAM's who made this happen, inspite of several odds. (L to R) VU2DPN(Deepan), VU2ABS(Aravind) , VU2DRK(Ramki), VU2PCP(Paneer) , VU2AKW(Ashok), Vu3DSN (Saro) , (not in this photo) Vu3VWR(Raghav), Vu2DH(Das), Vu3MOA (Mohan) & SWL(Manikandan-who brought the spectrum analyser).Due to the untiring efforts & committment of a team of...
Tools and Test Equipment For The New Ham Radio Operator
A state-of-the-art HAM Repair Shack, offcourse under Indian conditions this might be little too much for households.This article is tailored for the new ham radio operator so if you have been a ham for many years, you already know that there are a few required tools and test equipment you...
Choosing HAM/Amateur Radios : An Insight
Need Help in Choosing Your First Amateur Radio?RADIOS: There are so many to choose from. For the new Ham, it would be best to stick with a reliable, time proven, name brand: (Alphabetical Order) Alinco, Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu. Offcourse now there are few Chinese brands which are coming out with...
Choosing The Right Antennae for your HAM Rigs
ANTENNAS: Choosing the right antenna is one of the most important parts of good Amateur Radio operation. As with the selection of a radio, it is suggested that a well respected brand of antenna be your choice to get you started. After you learn more about how they perform, under...
Kind Attention : Chennia HAMS Call Signs list for Post Cards Returned
As per info received from Mr.Vittal vu2vit@gmail.com , below is the list of call signs of Chennai based HAMS for which the postcards sent were returned . We are posting this info here with a view to obtain their correct address, pls inform all concerned and pass on this message...
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