Еженедельный радиолюбительский Бюллетень. Выпуск № 124

Еженедельный радиолюбительский Бюллетень

Выпуск № 124

Amateur Radio Weekly Newsletter

Saturday, September 10, 2016

  • A great day for portable op’s.
    View from the portable op's position. It was another amazing day weather wise up this way and with winter soon coming I wanted to hit the trail again with the KX3. I was up and out around 10 am local time and off to search out on my bike a nice sp...

  • ICQ Podcast Episode 219 – Trouble with Mobile Antennas

    In this episode, Martin M1MRB / W9ICQ is joined by Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Matthew Nassau M0NJX  to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episodes feature is Trouble with Mobile Antennas

    • FO-29 20th Birthday
    • NIST’s Rolling Wireless Net Helps Improve First-Responder Communications
    • 18th World ARDF Championship
    • Illegal GPS Sea Buoys on 10m
    • UK Amateur Radio Club 50 Years on the Air
    • Latvia Gains Two New Amateur Radio Bands
    • Ham Radio Around the World Balloon
  • September Prop Awakens
    As our sunsets start to come earlier and dawn arrives later and later, the sun's accelerated southerly excursion has brought sudden changes to 630m propagation.This past weekend's CLE activity saw universally poor propagation as well as weather rela...

 

  • Weekly Propagation Summary – 2016 Sep 05 16:10 UTC
    Here is this week’s space weather and geophysical report, issued 2016 Sep 05 0405 UTC. Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 29 August – 04 September 2016 Solar activity was at low levels from 29-31 Aug. Regions 2583 (N13, L=025, class/area Dao/130 on 29 Aug) and 2585 (N08, L=222, class/area Ekc/590 on 03 Sep) were […]

 

  • How I Became a DXer
    I took my Class B amateur radio exam on November 25th, 1949 which was the day after Thanksgiving. In early 1950 my W2DEC license arrived in the mail, I was the happiest kid in the state of New Jersey. My pathway into operational ham radio was a home built transmitter and a purchased receiver. A […]

 

  • Haven’t said this in a while
    but "Thank You" to all of you who read this blog.  It would be foolish and time wasting for me to do this if you weren't out there. From the e-mails, photos and comments I receive, I know that you all are, indeed, out there. Again, thank you so ve...

 

  • Getting Ready For The ’29 QSO Party
    Although the Bruce Kelly 1929 QSO Party is not until December, now is really the time to be putting something together if you've been thinking about getting in on the fun this year!Like almost all of the operating in 1929, this is a CW only affair a...

 

  • Late Summer Hike on Shute Hill
    I hiked on Shute Hill this afternoon. It’s definitely late summer. The sounds of crickets say so. The loud buzzing of bees on the goldenrod tell me fall is around the corner. I made a wonderful 2-way QRP QSO with Georgia. The trail goes south and east from the old cemetery off the Rufus Colby […]
 
  • AREDN Mesh Weather Camera
    PTZ HD weather cam on the mesh!Last week Randy (KD9FGO) and I mounted a pan-tilt-zoom (ptz) camera up on a grain elevator. At 250 feet, the view is great. The purpose of the camera is to be able to watch the weather roll into the area. We do send out w...

 

  • Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 124
    Air Force to ‘bomb the sky’ to improve radio reception CubeSats could carry massive amounts of ionized gas to the ionosphere to create radio-reflecting plasma. Prepared Ham Smaller solar cycles ahead? Data suggest that Cycle 24, the current solar cycle, will bottom out in 2020. ARRL Michigan State Parks on the Air It looks like […]

 

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