Katrina – Ham Radio’s Untold Story

Amateur Radio – often called “ham radio” continues to be the most reliable, fail-safe means of communications in disasters. Even with the complexity of new communications systems, or perhaps because of their complexity, Amateur Radio works when other systems are down or overloaded. These are the comments of people who saw Amateur Radio in action during and after Katrina.

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SunSDR2 PRO

May 17, 2015 No comments

  The brand new SunSDR2 PRO transceiver is a modern SDR transceiver developed with contesting and DXing in mind. It covers all HF bands plus 50 M... Read more

‘The VHF/UHF DX Book’, 2017 Replica Edition, is now available for free download

February 07, 2017 No comments

2017 Digital Replica Edition The VHF/UHF DX Book was written in the early to mid-1990s by a team of experienced VHF/UHF DXers and equipment developers... Read more

Major Rove by Satellite Ops Could Make Rare Grids Squares Available

April 10, 2018 No comments

2018 ARRL International Grid Chase (IGC) participants take note: satellite operators Doug Tabor, N6UA, and Ken Alexander, VE3HLS, will travel to the J... Read more

ARRL Field Day Deemed a Hit; Entries Due by July 23!

June 26, 2019 No comments

ARRL Field Day isn’t over until participants take that final step of submitting their logs. By Tuesday, June 25, more than 1,300 had done so. The pref... Read more

JTAlert 2.13.4 – for FT4

May 01, 2019 No comments

Provides several audio and visual alert types based on decoded Callsigns within JT65-HF and WSJT-X. Audio and visual alerts for several alert conditio... Read more

Improved EU1KY Antenna Analyzer CEC V0.3

May 24, 2019 No comments

In this video, not include have a voice, but I placed subtitles on important parts. Please turn on subtitles.  Read more

ARRL 160-METER CONTEST

December 04, 2015 No comments

Objective: For Amateurs worldwide to exchange information with W/VE amateurs on 160-meter CW. DX-to-DX QSOs do not count for contest credit. Stations... Read more

Receiving a Gmail email over HF radio with Winlink system

March 24, 2017 No comments

Short video showing how I receive an email sent from gmail over my Ham radio.   Read more

RUMlogNG2Go for iOS version 3.5.2 now available

August 19, 2018 No comments

Thomas Lindner, DL2RUM, is happy to announce the availability of version 3.5.2 of his RUMlogNG2Go logger for the iPhone and iPad.  RUMlogNG2Go can be ... Read more

The K7RA Solar Update – 06/12/2015

June 12, 2015 No comments

Solar activity strengthened during the past week. Average daily sunspot numbers increased from 34.3 to 112.4, and average daily solar flux rose from 9... Read more