GRETCHEN ERTL FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
TAUNTON — It was late afternoon, and a set of thunderstorms was working its way from Vermont into Western Massachusetts. One particular cell was dropping precipitation from high in the atmosphere, and forecasters feared dangerous hail along the Deerfield River.
The National Weather Service made the call: severe thunderstorm warning. In a corner of the agency’s office, Rob Macedo picked up his amateur radio and began his efforts to roust the agency’s army of weather spotters…..Read More
Recent Posts
Coax Cable Loss – Ham Radio Basics
ON-LINE LOSS & POWER CALCULATOR MOBILE DEVICE VERSION Read more
Army and Air Force MARS, Help needed August 15th
” YOUR HELP IS NEEDED, August 15th, in a national exercise of the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS). Army and Air Force MARS operators will... Read more
Ham Nation 191: K6TD Tells Us About the Visalia Convention
Hosts: Bob Heil (K9EID), Gordon West (WB6NOA), George Thomas (W5JDX), Don Wilbanks (AE5DW), Dale Puckett (K0HYD) and Amanda Alden (K1DDN) Read more
Project E.L.F. – The history of communicating with submarines underwater
“Nestled deep in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Northwest Wisconsin is the small town of Clam Lake. Clam Lake is best known for the... Read more
CY9C St Paul Island
“As 2016 quickly approaches, focus on dxpedition planning details intensifies. All is going very well as we continue to develop the operating plan, s... Read more
Icom IC-705 Unboxing & Operation From A Japanese Retailer
**Turn on English subtitles** Full credit to Nichiei Radio of Japan, thank you! Icom IC-705 Read more
Extend SDR Transmit Range – LimeSDR – HackRF – Adalm Pluto Amplifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOkdg1lGfes Read more
Temporary Rule Waivers Announced for 2020 ARRL Field Day
With one month to go before 2020 ARRL Field Day, June 27 – 28, the ARRL Programs and Services Committee (PSC) has adopted two temporary rule waivers f... Read more
DK2OM receives IARU Diamond Award on retirement from his role as IARUMS coordinator
After many years’ involvement in monitoring intruders on the amateur bands, Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, has decided to retire at the end of 2019. Wolf has work... Read more
Propaganda and insults on 7055 kHz
The latest IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports every day for the past 5 years licensed radio amateurs from Ukraine and Russia have been insul... Read more
KH5 Palmyra Atoll 2016
April 18, 2015 Press Release #1 Craig (K9CT) and Lou (N2TU) are proud to announce a DXpedition to Palmyra Atoll. Palmyra (KH5-P) ranks in the t... Read more
ZL7E – Chatham Islands
John ZL1BYZ, David ZL1DK and John ZL1ALZ will be active from Kaingaroa, Chatam Island OC038 3 April to 15 April 2015. 40-10m CW SSB RTTY. Internet acc... Read more
LA1K5 is a solid-state 1200 watts 1.8 – 54MHz power amplifier
The RFpower LA1K5 is a solid-state 1200 watts 1.8 – 54MHz power amplifier. It uses a ruggedness 1800 watts 65 V LDMOS technology NXP’s MRF... Read more
RPITX TURNS RASBERRY PI INTO VERSATILE RADIO TRANSMITTER
Since the discovery that some USB TV tuner dongles could be used to monitor radio waves across a huge amount of spectrum, the software-defined radio w... Read more
Advanced USB Oscilloscope 50Mhz
What is scopePi50M? scopePi50M is a USB oscilloscope for signal up to 50MHz bandwidth. It is especially useful for circuit analysis, including FFT tra... Read more
Warning: file_get_contents(https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqrznow.com%2Fham-radio-volunteers-behind-weather-warning-system%2F): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found in /home/qrznow/public_html/wp-content/themes/goodnews5/framework/functions/posts_share.php on line 151
