— Ham radio operators are a big part of emergency communications in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Now, local operators are taking part in the largest ever amateur radio severe weather drill. It simulates what would happen if a massive weather disaster happened here.
Just steps away from the WHIO-TV newsroom, ham radio experts come in whenever there’s the potential for severe weather to the SKYWARN office. There, Mike Carter and Don Parker today were communicating with the outside world using ham radios in a drill called Black Swan….
VHF
145 MHz Low Loss Bandpass Helical Filter
Low Loss Bandpass by Mile Kokotov Basic design of the filter is from RSGB VHF-UHF Manual, but I made some modifications. Both Inductors... Read more
Overview of 50 MHz status in ITU Region 1 (2016)
IARU Region 1 has issued a new version of their Overview of 50 MHz Status document dated Feb 13, 2016 It shows which Region 1 countries currently have... Read more
Over 50 km on 481 THz! Great news from SP
On May 8, 2021, the group of Polish radio amateurs: Marek SP4ELF, Jurek SP2GUB, Adam SQ2DOL, Piotr SQ4MIK, and Jarek SQ4IOB realized optical communica... Read more
YAESU announces new Dual Band (2m/70cm) FM Mobile Transceiver! FTM-6000E
FTM-6000E – 50W transmitting power – Reception range from 108 to 999.995 MHz – New “E2O-III” user interface – Remo... Read more
Yaesu REVEALS the FTM-6000R Dual Band Mobile Ham Radio
Brand new from YAesu, dropping in October of 2021, is a new dual band Ham Radio, the FTM-6000r. This was announced today, so I wanted to get some rese... Read more
Antenna
VHF/UHF/HF HEXTENNA ™ DELUXE VERTICAL / DIPOLE
The NEW DELUXE version of the HexTenna™ by Alpha Antenna® is a legal limit and full size portable VHF/UHF/HF system for 2 to 40 meters, 220MHz, &... Read more
Small Garden Vertical HF Antenna Installation
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Ham Radio Xmas Story – ALEXLOOP !
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The Alternative Multi-band Solution – Cobra UltraLite Antennas
Covers More Bands than a G5RV (Shorty). Goes up Fast, Easy on Trees. All Stainless Hardware Black Marine ABS Insulator Blocks Handles a Full kW... Read more
Long Range Wi-Fi Dish Antenna by AB9IL
Long Range Wi-fi Dish Antenna THIS INEXPENSIVE WI-FI DISH ANTENNA OUTPERFORMS ALL OTHERS! Presented here is a project showing how to convert common sa... Read more
Review
Astron SS-30M-AP Power Supply First Look!
New from Astron is a 30-amp Power Supply with PowerPoles and 2 USB ports on the front panel. Let’s take a First Look at this! Connectors: [... Read more
Yaesu FT-70DR ” Full Review “
FT-70DR is a compact and very attractively priced YAESU System Fusion transceiver providing both conventional analog FM operation and the advanc... Read more
CQ SERENADE! Music
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YouKits HB-1B Transceiver – ARRL Review
HB-1B MK3 2015 is the upgrade version of our HB-1B QRP transceiver. It is a small in size, light weight, lithium battery pack , particularly suitable... Read more
Sending CW With a Straight Key–Morse Code
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Equipment
XPA125 Tuner – Any good?
Today I take the XPA125 Tuner and put it through its paces with a 9:1 EFRW Random Wire Antenna Read more
Kenwood TS-480HX / 480SAT
Kenwood TS-480HX / 480SAT Tailor-made for DX’ing, the new TS-480HX HF transceiver raises the bar on portable performance. Despite its com... Read more
Micom 3F – 1.8 to 30MHz
The Micom-3F is a desktop, front panel, HF-SSB, DSP controlled radio, with embedded ALE. ALE JITC certified. It is fully compliant with FED-STD 1045 a... Read more
Ham Radio Go Box
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Hermes Lite 2.0 SDR Transceiver
In this video, we take a look at the very cool Hermes Lite 2.0 SDR Transceiver HF Ham Radio. The Hermes-Lite is a low-cost direct down/up conversion s... Read more
App - Mobile
RFinder – The World Wide Repeater Directory now free trial on Android!
In order to support the proliferation of third party app stores worldwide, we have now released RFinder on Android as trialware! Just go download it f... Read more
DroidRTTY – RTTY for Ham Radio App Android
Ham Radio App DroidRTTY is an application to decode and encode Ham Radio RTTY with the build in microphone/speaker or wired to your radio. A wa... Read more
New ARRL Repeater Directory Will Leverage Crowdsourcing Technology
ARRL partner RFinder, the creator of a web and app-based directory of Amateur Radio repeaters worldwide, will supply all data for the 2017-2018 ARRL R... Read more
MagicSDR – A NEW ANDROID AND IOS RTL_TCP CLIENT
MagicSDR makes it possible to interactively explore RF spectrum using panadapter and waterfall visualization, demodulate and play AM, SSB, CW, NFM, WF... Read more
Rfinder for Visually Impaired on Android
Rfinder Tom W3ZX, a visually impaired ham gives a great demo on Android using TalkBack for the visually impaired. See More: http://www.rfinder.net/blo... Read more
