“Many in the prepper community believe that the inexpensive Chinese radios like the Baofeng UV5R handhelds are sufficient for emergency or disaster communications. But in reality these radios are poorly suited for the task and they really fall down when it comes to three main reasons. Here is what I believe are three reasons why a Baofeng doesn’t make a good SHTF radio “
The winning article for the July 2020 QST Cover Plaque award is “A Vertical End-Fed Dipole with a Folded Stub” by Jacek Pawlowski, SP3L. The QST Cover... Read more
The Maritime Mobile Service Net (MMSN) on 14.300 MHz came to the assistance of a sailing vessel on June 25. MMSN control operator Steven Carpenter, K9... Read more
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) has been made aware of public comments alleging financial mismanagement in the form of “unauthorized”... Read more
On Thursday the 2nd of July 2020, there was another remarkable opening on 144 MHz between Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa and Italy, S... Read more
No sunspots this week. The pattern persists, and this surprises me. But Spaceweather.com reported a couple of weak, barely emerging spots, never numbe... Read more
News
SP3L Wins the July QST Cover Plaque Award
Maritime Mobile Service Network Comes to the Aid of Vessel in Distress
AMSAT Responds to Allegations of Unauthorized Legal Expenses
5000km plus opening on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands to Italy, Slovenia & Croatia – 2nd July 2020
The K7RA Solar Update
FlexRadio Systems announces the immediate availability of SmartSDR v2.4.10 SmartSDR v2.4.10 is a special “interim” release. This release... Read more
The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) release of WSJT-X Version 2.2.2. A brief summary of new features is pr... Read more
We just experienced a nearly two-week period of sunspots appearing every day. It’s been quite some time since we’ve witnessed a continuous string of s... Read more
There is a new release of Win4IcomSuite. This release now supports the SDRPlay RSPDX and has an IQ Output with the SDRPlay for feeding into CWSkimmer.... Read more
This year’s Software Defined Radio Academy is taking place as an online conference. Because of the great number of contributions, we are spanning the... Read more
Logic updated, should work with any AD sample rate. Gain menu corrected, extraneous entries removed. Works with 822x which must be in single channel m... Read more
WSJT-X version 2.2.0 is now in general availability release, after a short stint in beta (or release candidate) status. WSJT-X version 2.2 offers 10 d... Read more
Software
SmartSDR v2.4.10 is Now Available
WSJT-X 2.2.2 released
THe K7RA Solar Update
There is a new release of Win4IcomSuite
The 2020 Software Defined Radio Academy will be held online
SDR-Radio v3.0.23 Release
WSJT-X Version 2.2.0 is Now in General Release
HF Portable & Flexible Receive Loop Antenna Covers HF frequencies (10 kHz to 30 MHz) Usable on VHF up to 300 MHz as a folded Dipole Maximum power... Read more
Key Features/Specifications: Type: Aluminium Vertical with Unun matched base Frequency RX: 2.0-90MHz Impedance: 50 Ohms Base connection: SO239 Length:... Read more
EFHW-8010™ Multiband End Fed Half Wave Antenna 130 Feet (39.6m) long NO TUNER needed! Perfect for ALE HFLink, ARES, EMCOM … Resonant on 80/40/30/20/17... Read more
AnTune software assists in designing antennas and RF impedance networks. Their software runs on PC/Windows and can communicate with a Vector Network A... Read more
Antenna
$35 Airspy YouLoop Passive Antenna Review
Moonraker GPA-RX HF Antenna 2 – 90 Mhz
Erecting the EFHW-8010 End-fed Half Wave Antenna and Initial Testing
Antenna Design and Measurement Software
Sneak peek at the Andromeda 100W Transceiver…… 10th GEN Intel 6 Core i7, 7 inch built in touch screen and an option to add up to two Exter... Read more
Making your field operation more fun and convenient with the LC-192, the IC-705’s utility backpack. The IC-705 fits perfectly in the optional LC-192 m... Read more
Description Buy from EladUSA with Factory Support from Microtelcom PERSEUS is a software defined VLF-LF-MF-HF receiver based on an outstanding direct... Read more
Assembled a prototype of Geckokapula V2 a dualband 70cm/13cm handheld FM/CW radio. It also does AM and SSB reception in addition to FM and CW. An awes... Read more
Equipment
Andromeda 100W Transceiver -Apache Labs
ICOM LC-192 for IC-705
Perseus SDR – EladUSA
Assembled a prototype of Geckokapula V2 a dualband 70cm/13cm handheld FM/CW radio
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