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Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I went for a walk around the block for the first time in a while. It's something I did for a time...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I came across a post on mastodon.radio by Keith W6KME announcing the resumption of the Micro Fiel...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day fellow amateur Randall VK6WR raised an interesting question. Using his HP 8920A RF Communications...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The thing I love most about this amazing hobby of amateur radio is the sheer size of the community and the dept...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I was playing around with RDS, or Radio Data System, it's a digital signal that's often embedded...
Foundations of Amateur Radio While spending some quality time discovering what I don't know about GNU Radio, I explored the notion of attemp...
Foundations of Amateur Radio How do you make a hole? That's a pretty straightforward kind of question, and by the time this sentence is fini...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Still excited from my minor victory in discovering a missing puzzle piece associated with the project I'm worki...
Foundations of Amateur Radio A little while ago I discussed a lovely article by programmer, artist, and game designer "blinry" called "Fifty...
Foundations of Amateur Radio How to go about documenting your setup? Possibly the single most important thing that separates science from "f...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Just under a year ago I started an experiment. I set-up a beacon for WSPR, or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter,...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day a fellow amateur revealed that they qualified for membership of the QWCA, the Quarter Century Wir...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Building a shack makes a number of assumptions about your situation and to make it abundantly clear, it's not t...
Foundations of Amateur Radio On your amateur radio journey, you'll likely discover that many transceivers run on 13.8 volt DC, give or take....
Foundations of Amateur Radio Noise la la la la la hinders if I were a rich man effective a noise annoys an oyster communication but a noisy...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Putting your station together is best described as a juggling act, since you'll discover that everything depend...
Foundations of Amateur Radio When you start the process of getting your hobby off the ground, either for the first time, or after a hiatus,...
Foundations of Amateur Radio One of the potentially trickier aspects of putting together your shack is connecting the radio to the antenna....
Foundations of Amateur Radio When you start on the journey of putting together a shack, in whatever form that eventually takes, you'll need...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently it occurred to me that I haven't been using HF in my shack for much longer than I'd care to admit. Ove...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Let's start with an observation, I'm a geek, have been all my life. Since my early teenage years that evolved a...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The first step in solving any problem is recognising that there is one. In my case the name of that problem is...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I was stuck in traffic behind a vehicle proudly proclaiming that it was "electric". I'd seen the...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I spent some quality time digging into the origins of a word in common use. In doing so, I contacted t...
Foundations of Amateur Radio If you use a word often enough it starts to lose its meaning. The other day, during breakfast, well, coffee, wh...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I explored the use of a radio device aptly described by a fellow Aussie Electronics Engineer, "ozeng",...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I saw a post by fellow amateur Gary N8DMT who mentioned an "RF circulator" and a PlutoSDR in the...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I received an email from Frank K4FMH asking me about an idea I'd worked on some time ago, namely...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I went on my first POTA or Parks On The Air adventure, this time I was on my own. If you recall,...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently my local power company notified me of a planned network outage, that's code for, we're turning off the...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The pursuit of amateur radio is a glorious thing. On the face of it you're forgiven if you think of it as a pur...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I came across an article written by programmer, artist, and game designer "blinry" with the intri...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I went for a walk, I know, shock-horror, outside, daylight, nature, the whole thing, in a local n...
Foundations of Amateur Radio I've owned a Yaesu FT-857d radio since becoming an amateur and at the time I was absolutely blown away by how m...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Over the past nine months or so I've been working on a project that I've called Bald Yak. If you're unfamiliar,...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I stumbled on a random post by Gary N8DMT which caused me to view the world in a different way. T...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I discussed the idea of listening to the radio spectrum across the internet for the purposes of gettin...
Foundations of Amateur Radio One of the many challenges associated with being a radio amateur is actually being able to listen to weak signa...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Every single radio amateur has come to this hobby with an itch to scratch. Time and again I've seen amateurs ar...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I came across a series of strident posts about the injustice associated with a non-amateur service usi...
Foundations of Amateur Radio In the community of radio amateurs scattered around the planet we have a habit of getting together with others...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I was given some radio data captured on the 40m band. Using a piece of software called "Universal Radi...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I was helping a friend erect their newly refurbished multi-band antenna and during the process we disc...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Just over a year ago, the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, the peak body for amateur radio in the United...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day Randall, VK6WR, encouraged me to get on-air. He described it like this: "There is a mystery signa...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I was discussing with a fellow amateur the increased frustration my mobile phone provider was inf...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day a fellow amateur asked me to help them with lowering their radio mast so they could do some maint...
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day a report in "Amateur Radio Daily" caught my eye. Under the heading "IARU Considers Consolidation"...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Right off the bat, let me start with a question. "What do you think you're doing?" To give you some context, it...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Around the world are thousands of associations, groups of people, clubs if you like, that represent radio amate...