Amateur Radio Newsletter

Ham radio news, commentary, giveaways, and more!
Celebrating 22 years of service – 1995-2017
Over 7,000 subscribers!
Too many e-mails? Switch to Weekly Edition
Unsubscribe

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

• The Three Laws of Electronic Measurement
  

  On Saturday, I had the privilege of talking to a group of radio amateurs on the topic of electronic measurements. I opened the session with a short discussion of “why do we even need electronic measurements?” This was captured in three “laws” listed below: Bob’s First Law of Electronic Measurement With electricity, most of the … Continue reading The Three Laws of Electronic Measurement →

  The post The Three Laws of Electronic Measurement appeared first on The KØNR Radio Site.

  

• Pearl Harbor Tribute from the USS Batfish – WW2SUB
  This year, on December 7th for Pearl Harbor Day, I was flattered to be invited to the USS Batfish in Muskogee, OK for their annual “Pearl Harbor Tribute” Event.  The Muskogee War Memorial Park has a permanent Ham Radio Club that meets regularly at the location, and operates HF from their radio room, also from […]

Thank you for being an AmateurRadio.com reader and subscriber to the Amateur Radio Newsletter.

Do you like to write? Please consider submitting an article.

Matt W1MST
Managing Editor
editor@amateurradio.com
Twitter / Facebook

How to set up your own ham radio blog – Get started in less than 15 minutes

AmateurRadio.com
P.O. Box 45
Hampden ME 04444
USA

Too many e-mails? Switch to Weekly Edition

Amateur Radio Newsletter

Ham radio news, commentary, giveaways, and more!
Celebrating 22 years of service – 1995-2017
Over 7,000 subscribers!
Too many e-mails? Switch to Weekly Edition
Unsubscribe

Monday, December 17, 2018

• The MFJ loop finally has a decent SWR match!!
  Homemade vertical mounting…..”thing”After doing some “playing” with the location of my 1788 mag loop on the balcony and getting really nowhere with lowering the SWR. The lowest I could get it was 1.6:1. I decided to go vertical with the loop to see w…

• The Christmas Present That Changed My Life
  No one called me a nerd when I was growing up in Hillside, NJ although I could have been the poster boy for what we know today as a nerd. Maybe it was because it wasn’t until 1950 that Dr. Seuss created the nonsense word “nerd” for an imaginary animal in “If I ran The […]

Thank you for being an AmateurRadio.com reader and subscriber to the Amateur Radio Newsletter.

Do you like to write? Please consider submitting an article.

Matt W1MST
Managing Editor
editor@amateurradio.com
Twitter / Facebook

How to set up your own ham radio blog – Get started in less than 15 minutes

AmateurRadio.com
P.O. Box 45
Hampden ME 04444
USA

Too many e-mails? Switch to Weekly Edition

Amateur Radio Newsletter

Ham radio news, commentary, giveaways, and more!
Celebrating 22 years of service – 1995-2017
Over 7,000 subscribers!
Too many e-mails? Switch to Weekly Edition
Unsubscribe

Saturday, December 15, 2018

• LHS Episode #263: Better Than Brexit
  Testing

• LHS Episode #264: The Weekender XXI
  

  Welcome to the 21st Weekender episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. This time around, we talk about the few contests and special event stations that are around for December. We also touch on Linux distros to try, things to do in the amateur radio and open source world and then we dive straight […]

  

• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 226
  Breaking Changes: WSJT-X 2.0 now available FT8 and MSK144 protocols have been enhanced in a way that is not backward compatible with older versions of the program. ARRL Fox-1Cliff anomaly Fox-1Cliff/AO-95 will not be commissioned as our fourth Fox-1 amateur radio satellite. AMSAT Excel based GridMaster grid map tool [USA] a popular way for amateur […]

• AmateurLogic 124: 2018 Christmas Special
  AmateurLogic.TV Episode 124 is now available for download. Part 2 of George’s enhanced DTMF Radio Control and Monitoring project. Tommy’s quick and easy PiStar hot spot build instructions. Emile celebrates Skywarn Appreciation Day. Mike’s back with his Photoshop collection and a holiday ALTV Retrospect. Plus another unexpected AmateurLogic Foreign Food and Beverage Taste Test featuring … Continue reading AmateurLogic 124: 2018 Christmas Special

• Hunting Foxes With QRP
  For those of us that enjoy CW as well as QRP operating, the Winter QRP Fox Hunt nights make for an exciting combination of both interests.The QRP Fox Hunt is an operating event during which low power (QRP) stations or “Hounds”, attempt to make contac…

Thank you for being an AmateurRadio.com reader and subscriber to the Amateur Radio Newsletter.

Do you like to write? Please consider submitting an article.

Matt W1MST
Managing Editor
editor@amateurradio.com
Twitter / Facebook

How to set up your own ham radio blog – Get started in less than 15 minutes

AmateurRadio.com
P.O. Box 45
Hampden ME 04444
USA

Too many e-mails? Switch to Weekly Edition