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Saturday, September 17, 2022

• ICQ Podcast Episode 385 – Is 10 Watts Enough?
  In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feat…

• Ham Radio School Does Video!
  I’ve been teaching ham radio license classes with our local radio club for many years now using the Ham Radio School books, written by my friend Stu Turner (W0STU). We use a fast-paced two-day format that strives for efficient learning…go fast but have the students actually learn something. Towards that end, we were frustrated with the existing license books and Continue reading Ham Radio School Does Video!→

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• LHS Episode #481: The Weekender XCVI
  It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 255
  A four-year program to tackle a fundamental antenna challenge IARPA hopes to break past an 80-year-old limit on making small radio antennas more effective IEEE Spectrum Ham Radio transponder on the Moon Japan Ham Radio club to implement beacon with ULS launch. JAXA Ham Radio Club QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo this weekend A fully […]

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Saturday, September 10, 2022

• Rito Alto Peak SOTA W0C/SC-004
  Rito Alto Peak is an easy 13er about 15 miles west of Westcliffe, CO in the Sangre De Cristo mountain range. This summit caught my attention because it was near Hermit Pass, one of the highest passes in Colorado at 13047 feet. We’ve been taking the Jeep up the highest roads in Colorado, and Hermit Pass was on The List. Continue reading Rito Alto Peak SOTA W0C/SC-004→

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• Kicking-Off the HamSCI Year of Seminars
  It was an honor to be asked by Nathaniel N2AF to kick-off this year’s series of online talks last week. We are kicking-off another football season so I actually got to play in this one! There were 60 or more in online attendance and several who sent in notes that they couldn’t make it but […]

• A little resistance goes a long way!
  This past weekend I was rolling along in the CWop open CW contest when all of a sudden when I sent CW my Icom 7610 shut down and then cycled back on all on its own. My output power was 100 watts and each time I transmitted the rig would cyc…

• LHS Episode #480: The Great Baofeng Caper
  Hello and welcome to Episode #480 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, smuggling handy talkies into New …

• Why is a 14,000 Foot Summit Not Valid for SOTA?
  There are over 50 summits in Colorado with an elevation of 14,000 feet or higher. These are commonly called fourteeners (or 14ers) and get a lot of attention from outdoor enthusiasts. Some folks have climbed all of them, which quickly leads to the question of What Is A Fourteener? This question is really about what is a distinct fourteener versus when Continue reading Why is a 14,000 Foot Summit Not Valid for SOTA?→

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• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 254
  Amateur Radio is still a thing. Heres why Once dismissed as an “old mans hobby,” amateur radio has grown in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronics360 ARRL to grant $500,000 to clubs ARRL will enable clubs to more easily provide and expand their important services. ARRL Chasing weather balloons with Software-Defined Radio How to hunt […]

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

• Ham College 92
  Ham College episode 92 is now available for download. Extra Class Exam Questions – Part 30. E7A Digital circuits: digital circuit principles and logic circuits, classes of logic elements, positive and negative logic, frequency dividers, truth ta…

• AmateurLogic.TV 17th Anniversary Contest
  AmateurLogic celebrates 17 years on October 15, 2022 and you could be a winner. Check out the details at amateurlogic.tv/contest .

• ICQ Podcast Episode 384 – FT8 as a Messaging Network?
  In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Frank (K4FMH), Chris (M0TCH) and Martin (M0SGL) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode’s feature FT8 as a Messaging Network. We wo…

• LHS Episode #479: Pop!_OS Deep Dive
  Hello and welcome to the 479th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. After the discussion in the last episode where the hosts settled on Pop!_OS as the "best" Linux …

• Continue the adventure.
  Now that fall is just around the corner and summer vacations, lazy days in the sun and let’s not forget the yard work comes to an end it makes more time for radio. Over the summer I have found the bands are a bit more on the quiet side, blog post…

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 253
  LoRa APRS Tracker A LoRa based APRS tracker for ESP32 boards. GitHub How healthy is your club? A reminder of some of the things that your club can do to make it a more vibrant and engaging organization. KB6NU Club satisfaction in 2022 Weve pulled together data describing the current perception of Ham Radio clubs, […]

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Saturday, August 27, 2022

• SOTA 23 cm QSO with N0OY
  While planning for the 2022 Colorado 14er Event, I decided to focus on making some long-distance contacts on 1.2 GHz (23 cm). Last year, Dave/W0ADV and I worked summit-to-summit (S2S) at a distance of 244 km (152.6 miles), which is my best result so far. See my previous post here… Using 1.2 GHz in the Colorado 14er Event For this Continue reading SOTA 23 cm QSO with N0OY→

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• Hunting For NDBs In CLE283
  Time marches on and once again, it’s CLE time. This is an opportunity for you to discover the KIWI SDR online network and to put it to use for hunting NDBs … either close to you or on the other side of the world!’CLE’s are ‘Co-ordinated &nb…

• LHS Episode #478: The Weekender XCV
  It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 252
  New Icom IC-905 VHF/UHF/SHF SDR transceiver – 144MHz to 10GHz Originally dubbed Project SHF, the new IC-905 sports a control unit based on the portable IC-705. QRPblog Hunstville Hamfest in photos The Huntsville Hamfest was alive and well this year with a strong showing from major companies. WK4DS QRZ New Ham Jumpstart Program The program […]

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Saturday, August 20, 2022

• AmateurLogic 172: Cheap Hacks for Your Shack
  AmateurLogic.TV Episode 172 is now available for download. A super cheap Hotspot. Thrifty Old Digital Update Roundup. Modding Pi-Star to include M-17. DVMega Globetrotter opens up your digital possibilities. Download YouTube

• Technician License Class – Black Forest, Colorado
  The Technician license is your gateway to the worldwide excitement of Amateur Radio, and the very best emergency communications capability available! We are once again offering our highly-successful Technician License Class in Black Forest, Colorado. Earn your ham radio Technician class radio privileges Pass your FCC amateur radio license exam right in class on the last day Multiple-choice exam, No Continue reading Technician License Class – Black Forest, Colorado→

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• ICQ Podcast Episode 383 – International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend 2022
  In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Ed Durrant DD5LP and Chris Howard M0TCH to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode’s fea…

• Contesting and Murphy what a mix!
  Just taking a break from the WAE CW contest this morning (Sunday) and this contest has been an adventure! Issues with S.T.E.V.E (more about this after the contest in another post) and then Murphy showed up. A few days before any contest I get the…

• LHS Episode #477: Old Sol
  Hello and welcome to the 477th episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts cover the latest solar cycle, the upcoming next instance of the …

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 251
  APRS and voice repeater on ISS now operating simultaneously Simultaneous operations of the ARISS voice repeater and digital APRS communications on the Space Station is now a reality. ARRL Inaugural Young Amateurs Radio Club Event The inaugural Worked All YARC Zones event from September 1st to September 15th. YARC Tape measure antenna efficiency Scrape the […]

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Saturday, August 13, 2022

• Four Days of SOTA Fun
  This year, the Colorado 14er Event had the normal two-day (Saturday and Sunday) schedule plus two bonus days (Friday and Monday) for four activation days. Of course, Joyce/K0JJW and I decided to activate all four days using VHF/UHF frequencies. Frankly, we have not been doing that much hiking this year, so we were careful to lay out a plan that Continue reading Four Days of SOTA Fun→

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• A Good Use of an Old Baofeng HT
  The old Baofeng HT (UV5R) is the butt of many jokes these days in amateur radio. But right after their introduction, they were the “Xiegu HF rig” of the moment: they mostly worked, were cheaper than many similar products, and hams just had to explore them! I bought a few, kept one, but gave them […]

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Saturday, August 6, 2022

• VE9KK the world of CW 2022-06-30 19:02:00
  Welcome everyone to the new site as you can see I successfully migrated all the posts and the links I wanted to include in this blog.So why did I move the blog…when I lived in Ontario my call was VE3WDM and the blog also hosted the same call. Now tha…

• Ham College 91
  Ham College episode 91 is now available for download. Extra Class Exam Questions – Part 29. E6F Electro-optical technology: photoconductivity, photovoltaic devices, optical sensors and encoders, optical isolation. Download YouTube

• ICQ Podcast Episode 382 – SOTA Mountain Adventure
  In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB)is joined by Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH), and Leslie Butterfield (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the…

• IOTA contest
  The Islands on the air contest is sponsored by the Radio Society of Great Britain or RSGB for short. This contest is only 24 hours long and hosts some very nice DX from sometimes remote and DXpedition Islands. If memory serves me correctly …

• K7K expedition how did it work out for you?
  It’s Tuesday early morning and I am greeting my first cup of java along with some radio time. I found myself drifting off to the weekend of radio operating. I very much enjoyed the Islands on the air contest (IOTA). It was also my plan to get K7K…

• Calling on all U.S. hams…
  In my last blog post, I had a comment from Tom a future ham and he asked me the question posted below. Since I am in Canada and my expertise is not the U.S. band plan for a technician class licence (or any other U.S. licence class for that matter…

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Saturday, July 30, 2022

• The G3XBM legacy now in print
  Roger "G3XBM" has now published a book titled "G3XBM Project Scrapbook".It takes you through his historic years of homebrew construction and operating to present day. To include portable operating, Antennas, LF, HF, VHF, Fredbox and Sixbox design…

• LHS Episode #476: SO2SDR Deep Dive
  Hello and welcome to the 476th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts interview Torsten Clay, N4OGW, the author of so2sdr, a software …

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Saturday, July 23, 2022

• Its crunch time….checking SWR!
  VERY SORRY CHARTS BELOW SAY KHZ AND SHOULD BE HZ. I WAS SEEING HZ WHEN IN FACT IT WAS KHZ…VERY EMBARRASSING! Once the Hustler 4BTV was up it was time to see if laying the radials, burying the coax and putting the antenna mount in …

• It’s crunch time for the Hustler 4BTV……checking SWR!
  Once the Hustler 4BTV was up it was time to see if laying the radials, burying the coax and putting the antenna mount in concrete was all worth it. The SWR checks are next, kinda the "where the rubber meets the road" In the Hustler manual as …

• AmateurLogic.TV 2022-07-16 20:34:11
  AmateurLogic.TV Episode 171 is now available for download. Field Day up North. Field Day down South. A Rockin Field Day out West. Cheap Old Field Day segment. An Apocalyptic Field day. Download YouTube

• ICQ Podcast Episode 381 – Friedrichshafen 2022 Interviews Part 2
  In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode’s fe…

• Java in the morning with a splash of radio.
  Once again tucked some radio time in early this morning, 40m seemed to be coming to life a bit more than yesterday. Have not checked the space weather yet but sometimes it’s better that way. I have provided a snap shot from the Reverse Beacon Net…

• Part 2 of the “Revolution” Article on the Sunspot Cycle in August Issue of RadCom
  RadCom’s August issue contains Part 2 of my article with Dr. Scott McIntosh on the potential scientific revolution in understanding the cycle of Sunspots. This part contains more insight into the McIntosh team’s path-breaking theory of the Terminator Event and the factors that shape Cycle 25. The comparison of competing paradigms—here from the NASA/NOAA Panel’s […]

• Where’s My WAZ Certificate?
  Guess what! Today, I received (by postal service) this very nice plaque from CQ, for working and confirming all 40 of the worldwide CQ DX Zones. Many of you wonder, “where are my paper certificates for my WAZ efforts?” At least one, if not all of the following, are reasons why there has been such […]

• One hour of action!
  The band jumps to life on Wednesday at 13:00 UTC for one hour! It’s called the CWops CWT mini-contest. As far as CW goes it is a busy 1 hour full of excellent CW operators and the speeds can sometimes get fast. For this very reason at my skill level, I…

• Hunting For NDBs in CLE282
  YLD-335 Chapleau, ON (ve3gop.com)It’s CLE time once again. This is a challenge for all newcomers to NDB listening and the ultimate test of your medium frequency receiving capabilities. Can you meet the challenge?’CLE’s are ‘Co-o…

• LHS Episode #475: The Weekender XCIV
  It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. Thanks for listening and, if you happen …

• What Headphones Do You Use, And Why?
  What headphones do you use for your radio operation, and WHY do you use that particular make and model? I use Audio-Technica ATH M30x professional monitor headphones (cans). https://www.audio-technica.com/en-gb/ath-m30x I use my rig’s filters to shape the audio. 1. I’ve replaced the over-the-ear pads with Gel pads. Wearing these cans is comfortable enough to use […]

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Saturday, July 16, 2022

• 2022 Colorado 14er Event (Summits On The Air)
  August 5 to 8, 2022 Friday to Monday www.ham14er.org Amateur Radio operators from around Colorado will be climbing many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains and Summits On The Air (SOTA) peaks to set up amateur radio stations in an effort to communicate with other radio amateurs across the state and around the world. Join in on the fun during the annual Continue reading 2022 Colorado 14er Event (Summits On The Air)→

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• The Hustler 4BTV is up and running!
  This past weekend the IARU world contest was in action and I planned to enter the CW category. The contest morning started just fine for me BUT in the corner of my radio room, a boxed Hustler 4BTV was calling my name. The weather outside was great, the…

• It’s crunch time…..SWR adventures
  Once the Hustler 4BTV was up it was time to see if laying the radials, burying the coax and putting the antenna mount in concrete was all worth it. The SWR checks are next, kinda the "where the r…

• LHS Episode #474: Shocker
  Hello and welcome to Episode 474 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss the utility of electrostatic discharge protection, the continued relevance of Field …

• The dog days of summer are here…..
  As always I was up early today, the house very quiet only to be interrupted by the coffee bean grinder swirling beans into a brew mixture. The temperature this morning was a nice 14C (57F) and rising to 30C (86) and then the humidity on top o…

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