Building a new resource: How do you get into Amateur Radio?
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I was asked a question on social media. Having answered this question several times before, I adm...
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Foundations of Amateur Radio
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...
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20 of 589 episodesTelling Stories to Strengthen a Community
Foundations of Amateur Radio When was the last time you told a story? The hobby of amateur radio represents as diverse and disparate a group...
Bald Yak 20: More Pi with the Soap
Foundations of Amateur Radio The thing I think I love most about the hobby of amateur radio is the challenges it represents, not in terms of...
Bald Yak 19: SoapyAudio adventures
Foundations of Amateur Radio Previously I've talked about a piece of software called SoapyAudio. It's part of the toolkit called SoapySDR wh...
Why not use LoTW?
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I witnessed a fellow amateur attempting to guilt another into using LoTW with comments about how...
Some days are like running in place ...
Foundations of Amateur Radio Recently I discovered that the antenna that I had connected to my WSPR or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter beac...
Keeping track of your adventures
Foundations of Amateur Radio About a year ago I set upon a new adventure, to determine if the dummy load I own, traditionally seen as a devi...
Dealing with Complexity
Foundations of Amateur Radio Several years ago, I forget exactly when, I was gifted a device called a "Wio Terminal". It's a micro-controlle...
What does amateur radio bring to your life?
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...
You don't need an excuse to make noise!
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...
What's in an S-unit?
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day fellow amateur Randall VK6WR raised an interesting question. Using his HP 8920A RF Communications...
Where is the spark .. gap?
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...
Bald Yak 18: Everything Everywhere All at Once?
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...
Bald Yak 17: Adventures in Radio Data Systems
Foundations of Amateur Radio While spending some quality time discovering what I don't know about GNU Radio, I explored the notion of attemp...
Bald Yak 16: How do you decode FM?
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...
One step forward ... three steps back.
Foundations of Amateur Radio Still excited from my minor victory in discovering a missing puzzle piece associated with the project I'm worki...
Bald Yak 15, Playing with Radio .. now with software
Foundations of Amateur Radio A little while ago I discussed a lovely article by programmer, artist, and game designer "blinry" called "Fifty...
How to go about documenting your setup?
Foundations of Amateur Radio How to go about documenting your setup? Possibly the single most important thing that separates science from "f...
Transmitting into a dummy load .. for a year .. on purpose.
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,...
How to become a radio amateur today?
Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day a fellow amateur revealed that they qualified for membership of the QWCA, the Quarter Century Wir...