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Paul PC4T — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:24:00 +0000

When I first heard this song in 1967 on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of the Beatles, I didn’t realize then that time goes so fast. Now here I am: 64.

70MHz transatlantic beacon WF9XRU

Tim G4VXE — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:20:00 +0000

I spoke with Dave WW2R last night and he tells me that the 70MHz beacon from the US will be active again this year. Callsign will be WF9XRU. I believe that all other details will be as before; frequency 70.005 from FM07. Many thanks as ever, to Brian ...

Godspeed !

Larry W2LJ — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:56:00 +0000

To all my friends headed to Dayton Hamvention and to all my friends headed out to FDIM, I wish you Godspeed - safe journeys there and back home.Enjoy the friendship and camaraderie and please fill up the e-mail reflectors with bits of news, please!72 d...

Handiham World for 16 May 2012

Patrick WA0TDA — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Welcome to Handiham World.You can do it! Today, just as we did last week, we are going to begin with Troubleshooting 101 as part of our initiative to help new ham radio operators (and even some of us older ones) learn how to do some ba...

FT-790R, 1W of Forlorn Hope? Part II

Rob MW0DNK — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:55:53 +0000

I’m treasuring my multimode, single band transceiver of yesteryear. They really ‘don’t make them like that any more’. When the FT-790R was manufactured, the UK still happily built cars that broke down and industrial action was a continuing popular pastime. Thank goodness the Japanese manufacturing success story was at its zenith. In my previous blog, [...]

My Comments on FCC Proceeding 12-91

Bob KØNR — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:49:28 +0000

At the direction of Congress, the FCC opened up Proceeding 12-91: COMMISSION SEEKS COMMENT ON EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS BY AMATEUR RADIO AND IMPEDIMENTS TO AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS. I decided to file my comments with the Commission, which can be read in full here. I’ll also provide the short version here: 1. The contributions of amateur radio operators during disasters and emergencies … Continue reading …

Thank you so much!

Larry W2LJ — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:02:00 +0000

Thanks to all of you out there, who have so kindly shared your thoughts, prayers, kind comments here and elsewhere as well as e-mails that I have received during this difficult time. I am so blessed to have so many friends because of Amateur Radi...

A good 70MHz day

Tim G4VXE — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Some nice 70MHz Es today - mostly to the south east. Around lunchtime I worked IK0SMG (JN61) and IK5YJY (JN53). Later on, just before 1600z I was listening to a weak signal on 70.200 - I think an I4 which I was struggling to copy. Mark, CT1FJC heard me...

Another Birthday for PARP

Jerry KDØBIK — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:44:16 +0000

When I started the practical amateur radio podcast on May 8th 2008, I really had no idea how long it would last or how big it would grow. Four years later (and my 5th season podcasting) I still continue to … Continue reading →

Reading about QSOs at unfeasibly high frequencies

Tim G4VXE — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Having been off work today with a stupid cold, I'd been doing a little reading around. I was enthused reading Roger G3XBM's ever-interesting blog about the experiments that he is making at optical frequencies with 481THz experiments using LEDs. I reme...