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...
A key point is not to overdo the radio operating, or the friends and family will veto any radio activity on future trips. This was not a super-gonzo turbo-charged DXpedition. I just worked in some radio action in between snorkeling and exploring the island. This is referred to as a “...
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 ...
When I fired up the radio on 40M, the band was wall-to-wall with CW signals. It was hard to tell there was some geomagnetic wackiness going on. It didn’t take long for the hunters to find me. My first QSO of 2025 was with WN1E in Massachusetts. It took about 14 minutes to l...
EB5AGV Amateur Radio, Test Equipment and Music. Useful data on TV-testers, Collins, Drake, Hammarlund, Hallicrafters, National, Heathkit, EF Johnson, ...
All my furniture and electronics stuff remained in storage in Florida, so no radio activity to report on for that period. Sometime after moving back to Florida, Charles (Chuck), my father-in-law donated his Hallicrafters SX-100 Mk 1A shortwave receiver (538-1580 kHz, 1.72-34 MHz) to me...
I hope everybody else is doing well and I hope to hear you on the air. I have a couple of camping trips coming up which should be me and the key trips. The IC-7300? It has gone back to being a field radio. Which is one arena it really shines. 73 – de Scott ...
To my surprise, they even squeezed in the 220 MHz (1.25m) band into the radio making it a tri-band radio! 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 ...
The portable radio could be oriented in any plane, with no effect on the amount of interference received. Tests with a calibrated field strength meter showed that the field strength levels near the ground were very low from the horizontal antenna, and very high from the vertical antenna! The ...
Radio-Related Apps and Tools Following are a couple of handy apps that, while not necessarily intended for ham radio, SWLing, or scanning, are nonetheless indispensable to me as a radio hobbyist; you may find them just as useful as I do: ...