What attracts a lot of people to amateur radio is that it gives you the ability to make your own gear. Scratch-building hams usually start by making their own antennas, but eventually, the itch to build one’s own radio must be scratched. And building this one-transistor transmitter is just about the simplest way to dive…
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Sweden’s oldest radio ham on TV – Southgate Amateur Radio Club
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Broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) interviewed Sweden’s oldest radio amateur Tage Karlsson SM7ALI Tage is 101 years old, and lives with his cat Hubert near Hässleholm. He became a radio amateur at the end of WWII. “The funny thing is all the friends you get. Amateur radio enthusiasts are all over the world, I have…
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Chemistry Teacher Neil Rapp Named Recipient of 2021 Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award – WBIW – WBIW.com
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(BLOOMINGTON) – Congratulations to Neil Rapp, a chemistry teacher at Bloomington High School South, who was named the recipient of the 2021 Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award. Neil Rapp This award is given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to educating and advancing youth in amateur radio. It was first…
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The $50 Ham: A Cheap Antenna For The HF Bands – Hackaday
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So far in the $50 Ham series, I’ve concentrated mainly on the VHF and UHF bands. The reason for this has to do mainly with FCC rules, which largely restrict Technician-level licensees to those bands. But there’s a financial component to it, too; high-frequency (HF) band privileges come both at the price of learning enough…
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Ham Talk Live! Episode 243 – Hamvention Cancelled Again
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WB9VPG XML Subscriber QRZ Page Michael Kalter, W8CI, the spokesperson for the Dayton Hamvention is back to bring us the bad news about cancelling Hamvention a second year in a row. We’ll talk about the decision making process and the plans for alternate activities that will take place during the now cancelled Hamvention weekend. Tune…
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How I became an amateur radio enthusiast during lockdown – Telegraph.co.uk
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Fast forward to 2020. Not the best year for anyone and certainly not for travel journalism. Back in Northumberland I had time on my hands. Instead of regularly heading to the airport for a heady fix of otherness I was eking out exotica from a weekly shop at Lidl. Looking for diversion, I wrested my…
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Baofeng UV5R > KENWOOD TK-F8 ??
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IW2BSF Ham Member QRZ Page ….. and then we have the famous ( ???? hi ) Kenwood TK-F8 (or rather the BAOFENG UV-5R) for only 43 euro, hi hi! 73 de IW2BSF – Rudy Read the full article at https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/baofeng-uv5r-kenwood-tk-f8.745264/. STRAY SIGNALS does not claim ownership of the article. The original author is responsible for…
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Ham radio emergency comms in Eastern Iowa | Amateur Radio News – Southgate Amateur Radio Club
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A Gazette headline reads “2nd-largest per-capita group of amateur radio operators in the world call Eastern Iowa home” The newspaper article says When a derecho packing winds of 80 to 100 miles per hour — and gusts topping 140 miles per hour — hit Eastern Iowa in August, about 400,000 Iowans were left without power…
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Ahead of Biden inauguration, FCC warns against using personal radios to ‘facilitate criminal acts’ – WDRB
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(FOX BUSINESS) — Ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reminding licensees and operators that using radios to commit or facilitate criminal acts is strictly prohibited. The agency reminded licensees and operators in Personal Radio Services and the Amateur Radio Service that they are specifically prohibited from transmitting “communications intended…
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2nd-largest per-capita group of amateur radio operators in the world call Eastern Iowa home – The Gazette
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When a derecho packing winds of 80 to 100 miles per hour — and gusts topping 140 miles per hour — hit Eastern Iowa in August, about 400,000 Iowans were left without power and many had no cell service. That meant no television news, no cable updates, and for many that rely heavily on cellphones…