http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/arrl-hampromo.html Get involved with your local amateur radio club. That is a great way to lean more about amateur radio. If you are in Canada, find a club near you. If you are in the USA, find a club near you. If you are in Finland, find...
Today marks 50 years of ham radio for me. I was first licensed as WN3YSV on this date in 1974, after finishing a four-year hitch as a Navy Radioman. Over those years, I’ve made a lot of great memories. I also made a lot of great friends, both in-person and on the air. WN...
Download my free Windows software programs for amateur radio "New Improved" WinGrid Ver5.2 (wingrid.exe)This program calculates grid squares from latitudes and longitudes, the reverse, and calculates distances and headings from two sets of lat/long or grid squares. The program saves your home ...
EB5AGV Amateur Radio, Test Equipment and Music. Useful data on TV-testers, Collins, Drake, Hammarlund, Hallicrafters, National, Heathkit, EF Johnson, ...
1206 Genghis Khan is denied importing of radio gear, so develops a "pony express" to keep tabs on his empire -- pony stations at about 25 miles apart. 1500 -1800's Early discoveries of Electricty and Magnetism can be found in the annals of history, names such as Gilbert, Von Guericke...
Finally, most people engaged in QRP seem, to me, to be more "in tune" with the experimenting and a sense of inquiry that was the foundation of amateur radio in its beginning (remember, back when radio was getting "off the ground," in the early 20th century, prefabricated store-bought ...
Most of the time, while online, I have the same emotional attachment as I do with TV, or Radio, or a magazine, or even theatre or a book - I know, at all times, that there's a person (or many) behind what I'm reading, behind the content that entertains me. I know also that...
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"Rule Numbers 404 & 505 of Ham Radio: Anything that can be used as a station "accessory" can and will be. Anything that can be used to prop up, hold up, or otherwise support an antenna will be." -- Clinton Herbert, AB7RG They never call me -- they always think we are just tu...
Especially when they contain stuff for playing radio! I have been on a search for some winders to store my antenna wire when I go portable. I love the design of the SotaBeams winders, however the cost when postage was included didn’t make them so attractive especially when I usually pay...