“Ferrite Beads can be magical in what they do at a ham radio station. One website that has lots of information and even tutorials is Palomar-Engineers.com. Not all ferrite beads are the same quality or have the same effectiveness at a given frequency. When you buy ferrite beads buy only from a reputable dealer with a known history of selling to amateur radio operators; like Palomar-Engineers.com”
VHF
Amazing opening on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands to Poland
On Friday the 29th of May 2020, there was an extensive Sporadic-E opening across Europe which reached as high as 144 MHz allowing stations across the... Read more
Retevis RT95 Budget Dual Band Mobile Transceiver
Specifications GENERAL Frequency Range VHF:144-148MHz UHF: 430~440MHz Number of Channels 200 channels Channel Spacing 25K (Wide Band) 20K(Middle Band)... Read more
APRS, Baofeng , and Buying Used – Ham Radio Q&A
FCC Enforcement Advisory – Baofeng Update APRS Digipeaters and Wide1-1 path: 01:03 Buying Used Ham Radio Gear: 05:04 Update to the Illeg... Read more
Building An Autonomous Satellite Tracker For Ham Radio, Part 1
“This is part 1 in this mini series of my progress on building the WB0OEW Autonomous satellite tracker. In this video I went shopping for the pa... Read more
News
Local amateur radio operators reach out to world
” By ADAM POULISSE – Local amateur radio operators reach out to world Mike Heiderscheidt was sitting in the basement of his Waterma... Read more
New Zealand Adds Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) as Unlicensed Systems
New Zealand is putting wireless power transfer (WPT) systems using 148.5 kHz to 30 MHz into the General User Radio Licence for Short Range Device... Read more
FCC Staff Recommends Designating 988 as National Suicide, Mental Health Crisis Hotline
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and its Office of Economics and Analytics have sent a report to Congress that recommends that the Commission con... Read more
Happy National Girl Scouts Day!
Today we would like to recognize and congratulate all the girl scouts who have earned their Radio and Wireless Technology Patch. The patch supports th... Read more
Equipment
OFF-GRID HAM RADIO: Simple Emergency Communication When the Grid Goes Down
Check great article about Emergency Communication from Robert Richardson : Read more
BOXA-SWR High Performance VSWR Bridge
Product Description High Performance VSWR Bridge ***FIRST BATCH SHIPS TUESDAY 26th*** The BOXA-SWR is a high performance VSWR bridge. It has be... Read more
Nooelec Ham It Up NANO – HF Upconverter
Ham It Up Nano – Tiny HF Upconverter w/ Black Enclosure, TCXO, & Bias-Tee Power Support A highly-portable RF (LF/MF/HF) converter for softwa... Read more
New Videos! ICOM IC 7300
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Software
New Raspberry Pi SD card image for RSPdx
SDRplay has released a new downloadable Raspberry Pi SD card image which adds support for the RSPdx and simultaneous use of both the tuners in the RSP... Read more
SdrDx –OS X and Windows SDR Software
“I’ve been working on developing OSX/Mac and Windows versions of SdrDx. At this time, SdrDx for OSX and Windows supports RFSPACE, FunCube... Read more
SmartSDR v1.9.9 Now Available for Download
FlexRadio Systems announces the immediate availability of SmartSDR v1.9.9 for the FLEX-6000 Signature Series SDRs. SmartSDR v1.9.9 is a maintenance r... Read more
