amateur_radio

Updated 6/4/2024...

You may have seen them calling “CQ LCT” on FT8, but its a multi mode event hosted by clubs along the historical Lewis and Clark Trail.

Today I want to talk about something that might feel only tangentially related to our hobby, but it likely affects you....

This appeared on Facebook regarding the IT situation over at the ARRL:...

Updated 5/29/2024...

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/16261310...

It’s hard to imagine today, but there was a time when there was no such thing as either the 80m or the 20m amateur band, let alone 2m or 70cm....

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/12513834...

Over the years you’ve heard me utter the phrase: “Get on air and make some noise!”. It’s not an idle thought. The intent behind it is to start, to do something, anything, and find yourself a place within the hobby of amateur radio and the community surrounding it....

Much is made in our hobby about working DX, that is sending and receiving distant radio signals. How distant is up for debate. Depending on where you are, DX might be outside the continent, outside the country, or in my case you could easily say, anything outside of my state, since the nearest border is about 1,240 km away from...

Some life lessons require additional reinforcement from time to time. This week I was strongly encouraged to remember a lesson that can be summarised as: “A place for everything and everything in its place.” It was first uttered like that to me a quarter of a century ago by a client who used it frequently around their staff....

In the early 1920’s long distance communication using radio was a growing interest. At the time it was thought that communication that we take for granted today, over long-distance HF, was limited to long wave or extremely low frequencies, the lower the better. With that restriction came massive antennas and high power...

Production line stops on May 17th. This also means its other brands will be gone soon too:...

After pulling my hair out for a bit and some wonderful support from jeffpc@mastodon.radio, I have now compiled hlog and hlog-contest, a console based logger that supports contests defined in #lua and published the result on GitHub for your enjoyment.

A great deal of energy is expended on the notion of operating portable. I’ve talked about this plenty of times. Issues like power, antennas, suitable radios, logging, transport and time of day all come to mind. Some activities are framed specifically as portable operations. Things like Summits On The Air, or SOTA, Parks On The...

By Onno VK6FLAB...

As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as “hams,” is gearing up for an exciting project

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Hello This is VU2TUM. I am inviting you to a Google Meet session on 03/12/23 at 11 am IST ( 0530 UTC) where I will show how to setup Gpredict, Hamlib (and FLrig) to interface your CAT enabled radio. The three software mentioned above are cross platform open source software and available free of cost, i.e. available for Linux,...

Bands with a 300 baud rate limitation eliminated by this order are the 160 meter band; 80 meter band; 40 meter band segments 7.000–7.100 MHz and 7.100–7.125 MHz; 30 meter band; 20 meter band segment 14.00–14.15 MHz; 17 meter band segment 18.068–18.110 MHz; 15 meter band segment 21.0–21.2 MHz; and 12 meter band segment...