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Baofeng Tech assured me their radios meet spectral requirements for Part 97. The one I picked up tested good on VHF and spot-on for UHF. I feel very comfortable transmitting with this radio knowing it is compliant. The CHIRP free programming software will program the UV-5X3. If you’re ...
Here’s a quick audio clip from 2002 recorded during a 40 meter QSO with Chris AI8W in Michigan while testing my radio’s compression setting. His call was AB8LR at the time. This was near the peak of solar cycle 23 and the entire eastern half of the United States would often sound...
SIMPLEX OPERATION:Simplex is the simplest mode of operation. Simplex does not involve a repeater and is used to communicate with a “near by” ham who is approximately in your line of sight. During a recent ARES/RACES simplex test, Pete Heins N6ZE used a low power handheld radio to talk...
Charlie was active and vibrant until his last days. Even into his 90s, he would walk several miles a day, take the train to downtown Los Angeles and work CW and phone on several local nets. He told me many times “I don’t know what I’ll do when I get old and can’t do thin...
A special thank you to Stanley Holliday (WB9ISY), who exposed me to the world of Amateur Radio. Stanley put a 2M HT in my in my hand, after a a few weeks of listening to the local Nets and the rag chewing, I was hooked. He took me to a Hamfest where we found a the No-Cod...
June 2013 Volume 06-2013 Nacogdoches Amateur Radio Club 2013 CLUB OFFICERS Pres: Mike Brown – KF5KEY VP: John Cechin – W5FWR Sec/Treas: Army Curtis - AE5P Everything went very well in this annual event and everyone who wanted one got hamburgers. MISSION STATEMENT The Mission of the ...
This is an excellent opportunity to get to know the radio amateurs in your area. Whether you are interested in the hobby or not making contact with the people near you that will be communicating in disasters is a good idea. It doesn’t matter whether the disaster is a naturally occurring ...
I turn to my smartphone for shortwave schedules, to conveniently decode Pirate Radio SSTV QSL cards, to listen to scanner feeds, and even connect to local repeaters and check in on nets. Indeed, the rapid pace of innovation on the app front is both encouraging and energizing, but also...
My beanie had slipped over my eyes and kept things dark and the lack of light had allowed me to sleep more than expected. It was after 7am and weather was still nice, though overcast and a little crisp. I was back on the radio at 7:45am for a short stint until 8:30am. I was...