Amateur Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested – Face Death Penalty
According to Ham Radio World.
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1000 Watt Project for 2M
This would be beyond me technically, or at least beyond my patience, but it is a very interesting project.
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TIDRadio 10 Watt Handheld
This looks like an interest HT, but note the new category: Looking At It! I’m interested in this radio as a compromise between my mobile radios (30 and 50 watts), which I only rarely have in my car, and my 5 watt handhelds, which I regularly take with me and hook up to the mobile…
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EchoLink at 445.2
I currently have an EchoLink link at 445.2, located in Cantonment. This is experimental and in a testing stage, but is up most of the time, and appears to be working. The call is KT4B/L. Output power is about 30 watts, and the antenna is just about 20 feet up.
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EchoLink Proxy
I run an EchoLink Proxy at niagararadioclub.com, port 8100, password w2qyv, open to everyone, especially, of course, members of the Niagara Radio Club.
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Georg Ohm and Ohm’s Law
I found this video via the Wire Rascals group on Facebook. Besides the interest for those who work in electronics, I think it provides some important insights both on where science has difficulties, and also how science overcomes those difficulties. Note that the presenter explains in a comment on the video that she mispronounces Ohm’s…
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SSB and Amateur Radio
In a conversation with my brother, N3AU, my sister, WB7OIU, we got into a discussion of when SSB made its way into amateur radio, since our family got started with the hobby in the early 1930s. There’s a PDF article on the ARRL site which gives the history. Very worth reading.
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Field Day in Escambia County Florida
I wasn’t involved, but the news story is nice. I am, however, finally able to operate fully on emergency power from the home shack.
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QYT 8900D from Amazon
I haven’t tried this radio, but I got a notice about it from Amazon.com today and thought I’d post a link. If I didn’t already have more power than this in my car, I’d be very tempted at that price.
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Technical Discussion via Zoom
My brother, Robert Neufeld, amateur radio operator N3AU, who also has pretty much every commercial radio license and is a lifetime electronics hobbyist, is going to host a zoom technical discussion each Thursday night at 8 pm eastern time. He plans to have it run around an hour +/- depending on what questions people have….
