This eclipse will favor mostly the southern hemisphere. At greatest eclipse, the Moon will cover 99.2% of the Sun; thus, the “ring of fire” will be seen in the path of annularity. The disappearing Suns in Africa represent sunset. A few locations will see the eclipsed Sun setting while in progress
VHF
Your Favorite HT Radio Antennas Transmit Tested & QuirkQRP ZipTenna!
HT Radio Antennas Transmit Tested Read more
ICOM IC-80AD
Switchable VHF/UHF dual bander The IC-80AD provides VHF/UHF dual band capabilities (one band at a time) via a simple band switching system. Wideband r... Read more
Wouxun KG-D901 DMR realese 2016
WOUXUN have recently announced a new radio coming to market in Q1 2016 and this will be a DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) and also come complete with analo... Read more
ISS SSTV – 12/26
The ARISS team will be supporting Slow Scan TV (SSTV) operations from the International Space Station during the period of Dec 26-31 The images will b... Read more
Review
Custom Coax Cables for Your Station
Custom Coax Cables “Mark, W8BBQ shows how easy it is to use the DX Engineering Custom Cable Builder. Just four easy steps! The builder lets you... Read more
Power Line Noise On Your Ham Radio? How To Find AND Get it Fixed
Power Line Noise On Your Ham Radio? How To Find AND Get it Fixed Read more
Unboxing and Testing the Kenwood TH-D74A Triband DSTAR HT : Ham Radio 2.0
Kenwood has upgraded their game and jumped onto the DSTAR bandwagon. This Triband HT includes the 220MHz band, and is capable of DSTAR on all 3 bands.... Read more
Unboxing the TYT MD-UV380/390 Dual Band DMR HT
TYT has released a new Dual Band DMR Radio in the form of their classic MD-380, which they have deemed the MD-UV380. It looks the same, feels the same... Read more
News
AMSAT’s Fox-1Cliff CubeSat Launch Delayed
Fox-1Cliff CubeSat AMSAT has announced that the SpaceX Spaceflight SSO-A SmallSat Express launch carrying the Fox-1Cliff Amateur Radio CubeSat and sev... Read more
German regulator acts against solar unit causing RF pollution
The German Federal Network Agency has taken action against a make of solar panel optimizer that has been causing radio interference A translation of t... Read more
Amateur Radio – Hurricane Katrina interview and audio
“When all else fails, this is the system that doesn’t.” That’s what the WRAL-TV reporter says in this interview with ham opera... Read more
Is this the BEST Portable Multiband HF Antenna?
Here we take a look at a lightweight, multiband, portable HF Antenna that weighs 160 grams! Read more
Digital Modes
A New FT8 with Rag Chew Abilities ( FT8CALL )
FT8 has taken over the airwaves as the digital communication mode for making QSOs over HF/VHF/UHF. The mode has been widely popular as the latest offe... Read more
Work the World with WSJT-X – Dr. Joe Taylor
“Dr. Joe Taylor, K1JT, author of many of the weak signal digital modes and co-author of the very popular FT-8 mode presented: “Work the Wo... Read more
Video Demonstrates Digital Voice Plus Video “Teleconferencing” Scheme for HF
Rick Peterson, WA6NUT, in Colorado, is promoting FreeDV plus Video, a digital voice-plus-video application for HF. According to Peterson’s QRZ.com pro... Read more
Everybody’s Trying the New FT8!
“FT8 is the newest weak-signal mode from Joe Taylor, K1JT, and friends. It operates very much like JT65 but is four times faster and more automa... Read more
