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Saturday, January 13, 2024

• Ham College 108
  Ham College episode 108 is now available for download. Extra Class Exam Questions – Part 46 E9D Yagi antennas, parabolic reflectors, circular polarization, loading coils, top loading, feed point impedance of electrically short antennas, antenna …

• Reverse Beacon Network strange event
  During the 2023 Canada Winter contest I had an odd thing happen twice with the Reverse Beacon Network website. But before I go into that let’s talk about what I use the Reverse Beacon Network for in contests. This site has a huge amount of stations th…

• LHS Episode #528: JTDX Deep Dive
  Hello and welcome to the 528th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack, the first for the year 2024. In this episode, the hosts take a deep dive into the …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 315
  ARRL responds to FCC proposals ARRL concluded that the FCC should also remove the bandwidth limits that apply uniquely to the data modes on the subject bands. ARRL In praise of old meters There were two obviously burned resistors and a leaking battery—an easy repair to put this meter back into service. Hackaday SDU-X: Software […]

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Saturday, January 6, 2024

• Canada Winter contest results
  Final score I am a bit behind with my posting about the Canada Winter contest that happened last weekend. I have been occupied with looking back on 2023 and my New Year’s post. As said last weekend was the Canada Winter Contest I took part …

• All New Technician License Class – Monument, CO
  The Technician license is your gateway to the worldwide excitement of Amateur Radio, and the very best emergency communications capability available! This is the entry-level class for people who do not currently have an amateur (ham) radio license. The Tri-Lakes Monument Radio Association (Monument, CO) is introducing a new approach to teaching the Technician Level ham radio license class. We Continue reading All New Technician License Class – Monument, CO→

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• AM or SSB are there ‘windows’?
  Amplitude Modulation has been used for voice transmission between Radio Amateurs for more than a century. A new voice mode appeared in 1947, when Wes Schum, W9DYV introduced the first Amateur Radio SSB transmitter, the Central Electronics 10A. By the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, competition for dial space began to “heat up” between the […]

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 314
  The ARRL Board is at it again A newly proposed Code of Conduct, which I believe is the equivalent of a loyalty, confidentiality and obedience pledge to the League itself and not to the members that elect us. KB6NU Going on a social media diet Leaving Twitter, investing in Mastodon. QRPer MeshCom 4.0 A project […]

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

• 24 December to 31 December: 1st Ever Winter Olivia Digital Mode QSO Party
  Special Event Week: Dec 24-Dec 31, 2023 The 1st annual Olivia Digital Mode on HF Winter QSO Party, celebrating 20 years of Olivia. The Olivia Digital DXers Club (we’re on ClubLog!) is holding the first annual Winter Olivia Digital Mode on HF QSO Party, starting at 00:00 UTC, 24 December 2023, and ending at 23:59 […]

• Switch Electronics
  It is always good to see someone having a go. Especially an electronic parts distribution company, something that can benefit our hobby. Read the story below: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teen-turns-500-ebay-side-31700456?utm_source...

• QST the end!
  All ARRL fees are up from the 1st January 2024.An international 3 year ARRL membership, including QST, rises from $217 to $282 a rise of 30% from the 1st January. That’s another one I won’t be renewing. Something that is supposed to represent Ama…

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 313
  Another year of Ham Radio is in the books! Before turning our sights toward 2024, let’s take one last look back at 2023 through the lens of everyone’s favorite metric: Email engagement. The following are the top ten most clicked links measured across every issue of Amateur Radio Weekly in 2023. Happy New Year! 73 […]

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

• Some time spent on the radio.
  The weather here for the weekend was not too great so why not spend some time on the radio? I found the Croatian 9A DX contest to take part in. The solar forecast was not promising but I thought why not spend a few hours on the radio on Saturday …

• Better Than FT8? Olivia Digital Chat Mode – Raleigh Amateur Radio Society Video
  Olivia is the digital communications mode on shortwave (high frequency sub band, or, HF) for amateur radio operators who want more than the “Check Propagation” FT8 mode. This video is an introduction that was presented to the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society ( https://www.rars.org/ ) on December 12, 2023, presented by Tomas Hood, NW7US Olivia information […]

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 312
  NASA streams first video from deep space via laser The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away. NASA QRP Cluster A QRP self spotting cluster. QRP Cluster Visualizing FT8 FT8 operators coming and going over a 24 hour period, animated on a map. K9OX The lifeline of […]

• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all who have stopped by and visited the blog.

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Saturday, December 16, 2023

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 310
  NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away The laser can send data at 10 to 100 times the speed of traditional radio wave systems. CNN ARDC and ARRL announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio Includes funding to support scholarships for Radio Amateurs, radio technology for classroom teachers, and Amateur […]

• ARRL 10m contest has come and gone.
  This past weekend was the running of the ARRL 10m contest for both CW and SSB. We are in a very nice time in the solar cycle which makes the 10m contest a popular one. The weekend solar conditions were great with the Kp index floating between Kp0 and K…

• Top Five K0NR Blog Posts for 2023
  Closing out 2023, here are the top five blog posts at k0nr.com during the year. Some people may see this as a lazy way of creating one more blog post for the year without much effort and they would be right. These posts are the top five viewed during the year but may have been written earlier than that. Top Continue reading Top Five K0NR Blog Posts for 2023→

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• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 311
  ISS SSTV this weekend Event celebrates 40th Anniversary of Ham Radio in Human Spaceflight. AMSAT UK 12 Days of Christmas on-air special event 12 stations plus 2 bonus stations will make up the event. Amateur Radio Daily CATS Communication And Tracking System CATS is a packet radio standard primarily designed for autonomous position reports. CATS […]

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Saturday, December 9, 2023

• Yaesu FTDX101 price drop!
  There has been a sudden upping of the UK cashback offer on the Yaesu FTDX101D. Infact it has been doubled from the original cashback offer of £170 to £340!! Taking the price after cashback down to £2659.95. This makes this quite an exceptional sav…

• A couple of ATNO for me
  This past Sunday I was cruzing the bands for some POTA stations and on 10m I came across a pileup and stuck around to see what it was all about. It was 7Q6M in Malawi Africa calling "CQ UP". I flipped the Icom 7610 into split and Dual Watch…

• LHS Episode #525: Linux Show Player Deep Dive
  Hello and welcome to Episode 525 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take an in-depth look at the Linux Show Player application. The application is …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 310
  NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away The laser can send data at 10 to 100 times the speed of traditional radio wave systems. CNN ARDC and ARRL announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio Includes funding to support scholarships for Radio Amateurs, radio technology for classroom teachers, and Amateur […]

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Saturday, December 2, 2023

• LHS Episode #523: Computing in the Clouds
  Hello and welcome to the 523rd installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss the FCC removing symbol rate limitations, the ongoing WRC-23, …

• Parks on the air
  I had the opportunity to get on the radio this afternoon and at the same time, I had called up the DX Heat cluster on my PC to see what was happening on the bands. I noticed a few POTA (Parks on the Air) stations being spotted and I know of…

• Space weather Kp6-Kp5 bring it on……….
  Due to an active sun which brings us both good and bad conditions today was one of the bad days…or was it. Today I flipped the switch and listened to the bands and what did I find you ask? WI5D (once on 20m and once on40m) as a POTA in a …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 309
  European Space Agency GEO satellite opportunity Footprint could cover portions of Canada and USA. AMSAT-DL AllScan: Web based AllStarLink management console Provides favorites management features, AllStarLink stats integration, and connection monitoring and control functions. AllScan NASA highlights Ham Radio on ISS NASA promotes the efforts of ARISS and STEM. NASA Promising news for the Amateur […]

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Saturday, November 25, 2023

• Taking the side road……
  This weekend the LZ dx contest was up and running, I have never taken part in this contest and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of activity. It’s a 24-hour contest that started at 8 am out my way and it gave me a nice workout for the upcoming w…

• The morning MST mini contest
  Each Monday morning at 1300Z and 1900z I take part in the 1-hour medium-speed CW contest or MST as it is called. Medium speed is 25wpm or less and the exchange is your name and progressive contact number or serial number as they call it in contes…

• Chances like this only come now and then……….
  The bands will come alive This weekend is the running of the CQ World Wide DX CW contest that runs for the entire weekend. Now those of you who are not into contesting then it’s off the SSB portion, digi portion or the WARC band. But you don’t hav…

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 308
  Scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot These sunspot aurora emissions occur at frequencies ranging from hundreds of thousands of kHz to roughly 1 million kHz. New Jersey Institute of Technology SKYWARN Recognition Day is ready to go The 2023 SKYWARN Recognition Day is December 2 from 0000z to 2400z. ARRL Will AI help […]

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 306
  First worked all states certificate awarded for the 33-cm band W5LUA’s 38-year quest to contact all 50 states on the 33-centimeter band has ended. ARRL email.radio Dedicated to providing free email hosting for all licensed Ham Radio operators globally. email.radio An upside down antenna? A Zepp is basically a quarter-wave length of window line. Ham […]

• Sometimes you just have to come full circle.
  As one of my regular readers of the blog, you would know I am a CW buff and the main part of CW is the CW key. For some time now I have been at odds to get the one that works for me. The first key I ever had was the Bencher BY-1 key. It is a very…

• LHS Episode #522: Fedora 39 Deep Dive
  Hello and welcome to Episode 522 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take a look at some of the variations of the newly released Fedora …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 307
  FCC drops symbol rate for HF Instead, the Commission establishes a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limitation in the applicable Amateur Radio bands. Amateur Radio Daily SOTAMĀT Self-spotting SOTA and POTA over HF. SOTAMĀT DITs and DAHs from Alcatraz I will activate with Morse code in the shadows of Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. QRPer […]

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Saturday, November 11, 2023

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 305
  Hams crowdsource ionospheric science during eclipse Probing the ionosphere’s response to the 2023 annular solar eclipse. Eos A few photos of the new Elecraft KH1 The KH1 is even smaller than I imagined. QRPer NASA tech breathes life into potentially game-changing antenna design An inflatable device that creates wide collection apertures. NASA Get publicity for […]

• ICQ Podcast Episode 416 – Amateur Radio Someone Else’s Problem
  In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode’s…

• Check Wx Using FAA Webcams
  While investigating some potential Summits On The Air (SOTA) peaks, someone sent me a link for the FAA weather cam that was on a particular peak. I was able to get a real-time look at the snow on the summit and see the terrain. Of course, the world is full of many different webcams providing real-time video but somehow I Continue reading Check Wx Using FAA Webcams→

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• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 306
  First worked all states certificate awarded for the 33-cm band W5LUA’s 38-year quest to contact all 50 states on the 33-centimeter band has ended. ARRL email.radio Dedicated to providing free email hosting for all licensed Ham Radio operators globally. email.radio An upside down antenna? A Zepp is basically a quarter-wave length of window line. Ham […]

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