Foundations of Amateur Radio
By Onno (VK6FLAB)
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Description
Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents. Note that this podcast started in 2011 as "
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The origins of the International Amateur Radio Union
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Weaving radio into your life.
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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RF is all around us ... starting your own station frequency survey
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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It's all just text!
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Are you up for a global party?
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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What's with all that lack of noise?
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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The skyhook dilemma ...
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Technology at its finest ...
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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The Art of finding an operating location
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Getting things done .. or not.
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Writing to the regulator about amateur beacon and repeater licenses.
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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What is amateur radio as an emergency response?
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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What is the right mode for emergency communications?
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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What is a repeater or a beacon ... really?
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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New arrangements for Australian Amateur Radio
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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How to see 56 MHz of bandwidth...
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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The Art of operating QRP
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Finding the right frequency.
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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It's the little things ...
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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The visibility of our radio community.
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Report on Radio Harmonic Power
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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What about promoting the hobby?
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Spontaneously getting out and about ...
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Failure to simulate ...
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Let's compare the same antenna in different locations...
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Let's talk about reciprosity...
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Let's talk about gain ...
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Let's talk about noise ...
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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How much does your coax and antenna matter?
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Gadgets on Demand
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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All the power in the observable universe expressed in milliwatts ...
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Between decibels and milliwatts ...
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Wet and Blue adventures with coax ...
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Checking attenuation numbers ...
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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How much attenuation is enough?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Starting to measure spurious emissions ...
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Gathering Data rather than Opinions ...
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Jumping into the unknown ...
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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How fast is Morse code?
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Will the real inventor of Morse code please stand?
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Is Morse really built around the most popular letters in English?
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Adventures with Morse Code
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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The nature and ownership of information
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Asking a professional in the community...
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Planning and making lemonade
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Where is your community and how resilient is it?
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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What is our legacy?
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Accolades in Amateur Radio?
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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A Linux contest logger ...
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May 27, 2023 |
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Considering the language of our community ...
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May 20, 2023 |
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Measuring the Solar Flux Index at home ...
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May 13, 2023 |
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Propagation during the 2023 Solar Eclipse
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May 06, 2023 |
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Doing the same thing over and over again ...
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Why is radio regulated?
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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The antenna system
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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How much antenna is enough?
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Lost in space ...
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The Contester In Me...
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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What's with a negative SNR?
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Acronym not found ...
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Antenna Testing Day ...
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Are all spiky antennas the same?
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Some Amateur Radio ABCs ...
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Do you really know when the best time is to go on air?
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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The evolution of software in radio ...
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Path loss and very small numbers ...
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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What is the difference between handheld, mobile and a base radio?
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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What should we be learning?
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Where does propagation data come from?
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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What's the weakest signal that WSPR can decode?
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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One Volt ...
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Which way did it go?
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Morse is dead ... long live Morse!
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Attenuators, the missing link...
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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How low can you go?
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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The nature of learning things...
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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What's in a VFO?
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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My Virtual Workbench
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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A plan for distributed SDR decoding
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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The sedentary myth of radio.
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Setting a little personal challenge ...
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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This space left intentionally blank
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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The Amateur's Code for future generations...
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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The Patriot in Amateur Radio
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Finding balance in Amateur Radio
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Being friendly in Amateur Radio
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Progressiveness in Amateur Radio
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Loyalty in Amateur Radio
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Consideration in Amateur Radio
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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A code for amateurs
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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The microphone gain game ...
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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What's with the repeater offset again?
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Take a long hard look at our community ...
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Much Ado About ...
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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The power supply connector dance contest...
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Defining a standard on Contest Scoring
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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If you had money, what would your amateur adventure look like?
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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How to isolate and by how much?
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Smith, the chart to end all charts ...
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Can you build an all HF band concurrent WSPR transmitter?
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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What are the rules for calling CQ on a repeater?
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May 28, 2022 |
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The Thunder and Lightning that destroyed my station ...
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May 21, 2022 |
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When should I go on air?
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May 14, 2022 |
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Zeppelins and a picket fence ...
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May 07, 2022 |
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The Science of Amateur Radio
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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The art of troubleshooting the digital world.
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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How far can you go?
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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After the chaos ... building the ideal shack
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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In the beginning there was chaos...
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Planning for an emergency...
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Why do we communicate?
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Introduction to the terms of contesting
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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It beeps!
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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What happens when you plug it in?
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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How to compare radios
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Pictures can say more than words
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Testing your radio's audio frequency response
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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What's in a Dream?
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Bringing an upconverter into your life
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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When I said Parrot Repeater ... I likely had a different picture in mind.
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Products made from unobtainium
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Leaving the hobby ...
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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What testing equipment is essential?
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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How does your gear measure up?
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Getting Amateur Radio propagation data at home
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Amateur Radio and the art of getting started ...
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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One Timezone To Rule Them All
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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The Rebirth of Homebrew
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Defeating the Pitfalls of Predicting HF Propagation
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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What have you been up to in Amateur Radio lately ... Gary VK2OVA
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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The Ripple Effects of making change ...
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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How to run an SSB contest without using your voice ...
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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The inherent redundancy of a compromise antenna
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Standard Information Exchange in Amateur Radio
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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You in the community ...
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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The sun shines on our hobby in unexpected ways.
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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We need more glue in our hobby ...
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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The Fox Mike Hotel Portable Operations Challenge
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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What's in a sound?
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Taking your shack mobile
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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What's in a unit?
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Being an equipment custodian
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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All the things that aren't amateur radio...
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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The diversity of our hobby is breathtaking.
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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How are contests scored?
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Share if you care...
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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What Open Source means to our hobby and why it's important.
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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What mode is that?
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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When you share the hobby grows ...
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Here be Dragons, venturing into uncharted territory ...
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Removing technology for a change
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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What radio should I buy as my first one?
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Bringing chaos into order
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May 29, 2021 |
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Streaming a dozen repeaters with an RTL-SDR dongle
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May 22, 2021 |
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Soldering Irons and Software
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May 15, 2021 |
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Getting started on WSPR with a PlutoSDR
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May 08, 2021 |
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Ergonomics in your shack
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May 01, 2021 |
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How much bandwidth is there?
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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The massive physics phenomenon just over eight minutes away ...
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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The dynamic nature of your shack
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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When you just have to try things ...
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Portable experiences ...
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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The remote edge...
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Making observations
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Word of the day: software
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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How many hops in a jump?
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Running out of things to do ...
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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What's in a prediction?
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Changing of the guard ...
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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The Vagabond HAM
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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The APRS of it all ...
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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The other radios in the world ...
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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The impossible task
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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Testing a link, on a band, at a time.
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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When will it ever end?
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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If you want to do HF in an apartment, where do you start?
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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2m reciprocity and other assumptions
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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When one WSPR receiver just isn't enough
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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For that one special event ...
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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It lives ... crystal radio with three components
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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The excitement is palpable ...
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Antenna testing in the field.
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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The making of a Crystal Radio
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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An ionospheric monitoring service at home
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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csdr will rock your world ...
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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New day, new mode ... SSTV
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Simplicity among the complexity ...
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Yak Shaving ...
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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What is so different about using software for signal processing?
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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When you run into a pounce ...
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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After channelling your RTTY ...
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Channelling RTTY
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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How much do you really know about your radio?
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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First Digital DX contact!
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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What do you talk about?
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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What's the point of this hobby?
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Homebrew radio for the 21st Century
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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What is a repeater offset and how does it work?
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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Your antenna is a filter (of sorts).
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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If you WSPR and nobody hears you ...
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Using something for an unexpected purpose can give you many great rewards.
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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How to pick a field operating position?
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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The humble coaxial cable
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May 30, 2020 |
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The antenna and coax you use matter.
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May 23, 2020 |
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Buying and using pre-loved equipment
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May 16, 2020 |
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How much is a bit worth?
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May 09, 2020 |
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So, you want to be an amateur?
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May 02, 2020 |
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Permission to be curious
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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First ever digital contact!
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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When was the last time you played?
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Apr 11, 2020 |
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Breaking the isolation one QSO at a time.
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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Listening from the ground up
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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What level of preparedness are you at?
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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On the shoulders of giants we stand.
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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All bands + All modes + All countries
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Mar 07, 2020 |
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The impersonal nature of digital and other myths
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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The chicken and the egg, which comes first, the antenna or the radio?
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Feb 22, 2020 |
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Exploring an understanding of filters and circuits.
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Feb 15, 2020 |
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How I care for my connectors
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Feb 08, 2020 |
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How I host a weekly amateur radio net for new and returning amateurs
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Is this frequency in use and other lies we tell ourselves.
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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The lessons we teach.
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Jan 18, 2020 |
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What's in a plan?
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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Where do you start?
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Jan 04, 2020 |
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What does Amateur Radio mean to you?
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Dec 28, 2019 |
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Lamenting the decline of the hobby.
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Dec 21, 2019 |
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How did you get here?
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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The SDR earthquake will change our hobby forever
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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Morse Code and You
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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What's in a Whisper?
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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Putting a radio in a car.
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Nov 16, 2019 |
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Where is North?
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Nov 09, 2019 |
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In pursuit of a challenge
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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First Solo
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Oct 26, 2019 |
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World Wide Radio Operators Foundation
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Oct 19, 2019 |
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How to make contesting interesting to an audience?
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Oct 12, 2019 |
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Leave some bread crumbs behind
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Oct 05, 2019 |
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Lessons Learnt
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Sep 28, 2019 |
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Going on an outing
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Sep 21, 2019 |
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Planning for an outing
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Sep 14, 2019 |
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Boating adventures
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Sep 07, 2019 |
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Gate-keeping, special people and bullies.
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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New Entrants are Everywhere
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Aug 24, 2019 |
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What's in a Watt?
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Aug 17, 2019 |
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It broke and now what?
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Aug 10, 2019 |
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What's in a word?
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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How far can I talk on radio?
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Jul 27, 2019 |
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What's allowed on our bands?
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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Your Software Defined Radio around the home
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Jul 13, 2019 |
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The Software Defined Radio vs. Traditional Radio choice
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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The Regulator
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Jun 29, 2019 |
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From Milk to Direct Conversion in a Software Defined Radio
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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Milking Software Defined Radio
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Jun 15, 2019 |
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When digging gives you more understanding, the magic of software.
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Jun 08, 2019 |
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Software Defined Radio offers another path to the same information.
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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Digital Origami in Software Defined Radio
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May 25, 2019 |
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SDR: How many colours inside a Software Defined Radio?
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May 18, 2019 |
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SDR Sample Rates: How fast is fast enough?
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May 11, 2019 |
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Software Defined Radio is fundamentally a different way of looking at radio spectrum
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May 04, 2019 |
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How does a Software Defined Radio or SDR work?
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Antennas out of sight and out of mind ...
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Apr 20, 2019 |
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Fragility of Communication
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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When you hear a distress call ...
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Overcoming Microphone Anxiety
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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The Station Log
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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What's in a Chirp?
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Creativity comes with practice
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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All the power in the world and not enough battery!
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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More WSPR adventures
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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Modern Tools for a Modern Hobby
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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How effective is your station?
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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How to select a mobile operating location
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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Brand New Callsign
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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The reported death of Amateur Radio due to FT8 is an exaggeration
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Fan Vertical Antenna
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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Empirical evidence and the scientific method
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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QRP EME project update #1
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Dec 29, 2018 |
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What are you proud of?
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Contest Headphones and glorious HF SSB
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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How do I get a better antenna?
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Dec 08, 2018 |
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When does knowing more make it harder?
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Are you an Elmer?
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Nov 24, 2018 |
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When failure doesn't matter ...
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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The Golden Age of Amateur Radio is Now
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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Everything you wanted to know about amateur radio but were afraid to ask!
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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Get on air and make some noise ...
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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Celebrate accomplishments
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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Everything you know about dipole (calculators) is wrong ...
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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Random bits of wire ...
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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Is man-made noise really vertical?
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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Antenna Polarisation and you
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Cloud Warming in style or what is NVIS?
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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How can I talk to my friend?
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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Nothing like the standard of Morse Code ...
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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How to start your own net ...
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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Getting Started ...
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Aug 18, 2018 |
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The mysterious three phase power ...
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Aug 11, 2018 |
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Water and Electronics a match made in hell ...
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Aug 04, 2018 |
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Heated Elements and Circuit Boards
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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The Contesting Coin Toss for the rest of us
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Jul 21, 2018 |
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Programming Repeaters ... Revisited.
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Jul 14, 2018 |
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Which repeaters should I put into my hand held radio?
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Jul 07, 2018 |
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How to get the best Amateur Radio gear?
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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The Power for your Radio
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Jun 23, 2018 |
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Get a Contesting Buddy
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Jun 16, 2018 |
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Logging of a Different Kind
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Jun 09, 2018 |
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The Internet of Digital Radio
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Jun 02, 2018 |
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How to find other Amateurs on Air
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May 26, 2018 |
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How does a waterfall display work?
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May 19, 2018 |
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Why do you contest?
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May 12, 2018 |
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Preparation for an outing ...
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May 05, 2018 |
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SWR assumptions
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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Learning on 2m FM
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Apr 21, 2018 |
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Shakespeare and Coax Stub Filters
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Apr 14, 2018 |
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Experience comes from doing ...
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Apr 07, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 6 - short
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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You and the IARU
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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Coax Loss vs Connector Loss - now with more coax
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 5 - short
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Coax Loss vs Connector Loss
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Mar 17, 2018 |
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Amateur Radio Minimalism
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Mar 10, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 4 - short
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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What improbable antenna solution works?
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Mar 03, 2018 |
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What criteria do you have for your ideal shack?
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 3 - short
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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What do you know now that you would have liked to have known when you started in amateur radio?
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Feb 17, 2018 |
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How should I promote my contest?
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Feb 10, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 2 - short
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Antenna gain and polar chart magic
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Feb 03, 2018 |
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Just enough radio ...
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Jan 27, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 1 - short
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Virtual Radio
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 6
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Building a better community?
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Jan 13, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 5
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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What is amateur radio?
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Jan 06, 2018 |
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eBook Volume 4
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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No Onno, it's not slippery and other lessons ...
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Dec 30, 2017 |
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eBook Volume 3
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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Amateur Motto: Do No Harm
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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eBook Volume 2
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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How does Single Side Band work?
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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eBook Volume 1
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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60 years of amateur radio
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Dec 09, 2017 |
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Leave judgement outside the shack ...
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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How can you measure what frequency your radio is on?
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Nov 25, 2017 |
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How does a Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator work?
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Nov 18, 2017 |
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What did you hear last week?
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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Hearing very weak signals
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Nov 04, 2017 |
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Radio signals don't travel in straight lines
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Oct 28, 2017 |
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What to pack for a Contest?
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Oct 21, 2017 |
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Ladder Line is not Evil
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Oct 14, 2017 |
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Organisation around your shack
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Oct 07, 2017 |
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A transistor radio curve-ball ...
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Sep 30, 2017 |
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Tropospheric Ducting explained
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Sep 23, 2017 |
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Storing your Amateur stuff ... everywhere.
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Sep 16, 2017 |
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Amateur Radio Regulation and Enforcement in Australia is Broken
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Sep 09, 2017 |
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Which antenna should I get first?
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Sep 02, 2017 |
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Amateur Radio is about Experimenting and Trying!
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Aug 26, 2017 |
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How does PSK or Phase Shift Keying actually work?
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Aug 19, 2017 |
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How does RTTY work?
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Aug 12, 2017 |
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Qualifications for using a Digital Mode
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Aug 05, 2017 |
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Mechanical Filters
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Jul 29, 2017 |
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Contesting Protests
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Jul 22, 2017 |
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Our Amateur License System is Obsolete
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Jul 15, 2017 |
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Quick Fixes and Maintenance
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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What's in a name?
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Jul 01, 2017 |
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Mobile experiments with high power.
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Jun 24, 2017 |
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Magic and Curiosity in Amateur Radio
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Jun 17, 2017 |
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Using an Alex-Loop, very satisfying ...
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Jun 10, 2017 |
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Getting an elusive contact ... fly-fishing style.
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Jun 03, 2017 |
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What if the Radio Spectrum was a data souce?
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May 27, 2017 |
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The evolution of our hobby is now ...
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May 20, 2017 |
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Things you can learn from a new operating environment ...
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May 13, 2017 |
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What to say on-air?
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May 06, 2017 |
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Amateur Radio Community Standards
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder
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Apr 22, 2017 |
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An Amateur Radio Code of Conduct
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Apr 15, 2017 |
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What is SOTA?
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Apr 08, 2017 |
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Adding a stroke to your callsign ...
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Apr 01, 2017 |
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Life's too short for QRP...
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Mar 25, 2017 |
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What is a resistor?
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Mar 18, 2017 |
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Checking your On-Air signal...
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Mar 11, 2017 |
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If they're shooting at you - you know you're doing something right!
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Mar 04, 2017 |
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The spirit of our hobby ...
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Feb 25, 2017 |
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This hobby is dead ... NOT!
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Feb 18, 2017 |
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Sun-Spots and Amateur Radio
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Feb 11, 2017 |
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What does MARS have to do with Amateur Radio?
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Feb 04, 2017 |
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A nifty idea looking for a purpose in 1947 changes the world as we know it...
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Jan 28, 2017 |
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ...
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Jan 21, 2017 |
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More strange antennas!
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Jan 14, 2017 |
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Tuning up strange antennas ...
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Jan 07, 2017 |
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Do we really understand our hobby?
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Dec 31, 2016 |
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SOTA goat adventures ...
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Dec 24, 2016 |
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Passion and Politics
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Dec 17, 2016 |
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Coax vertical dipole and other musings ...
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Dec 10, 2016 |
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Manufacturer drivel and antennas ...
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Dec 03, 2016 |
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Messy shacks are the way we do things around here.
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Nov 26, 2016 |
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Amateur Radio Satellites ... more than two in the sky.
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Nov 19, 2016 |
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DTMF is something we use regularly ...
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Nov 12, 2016 |
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The joy of Amateur Radio
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Nov 05, 2016 |
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Where do you start with this Amateur thing?
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Oct 29, 2016 |
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What happens if you move the feed point in a dipole?
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Oct 22, 2016 |
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DX, common ground on a common term?
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Oct 15, 2016 |
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Propagation is everywhere!
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Oct 08, 2016 |
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The birth and legacy of IRLP.
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Oct 01, 2016 |
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Make your own propagation map!
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Sep 24, 2016 |
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How to melt coax ...
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Sep 17, 2016 |
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What is SWR?
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Sep 10, 2016 |
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What is station security?
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Sep 03, 2016 |
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Unpredictable radio waves ...
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Aug 27, 2016 |
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Learning from your mistakes ...
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Aug 20, 2016 |
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Paper Logging tips and tricks ...
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Aug 13, 2016 |
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The FM Capture Effect and other Amateur Radio magic...
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Aug 06, 2016 |
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Don't ever yell into a microphone and other neat things ...
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Jul 30, 2016 |
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The band is dead and there are no contacts to be made...
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Jul 23, 2016 |
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How old is the mode you're using?
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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Alternating Current and Direct Current are the same thing ...
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Jul 09, 2016 |
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After the contest ... the debrief.
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Jul 02, 2016 |
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How to make contacts during a contest?
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Jun 25, 2016 |
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The logistics of being in a contest while mobile
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Jun 18, 2016 |
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Training, Traumatic or Fun, you decide...
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Jun 11, 2016 |
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How to get started ...
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Jun 04, 2016 |
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A surprise might be just around the corner...
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May 28, 2016 |
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Harmonics and calling CQ
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May 21, 2016 |
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Lower and Upper Side Band, why is it so?
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May 14, 2016 |
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Logging software ... what to choose?
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May 07, 2016 |
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What can you say on-air?
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Apr 30, 2016 |
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QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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Apr 23, 2016 |
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Coax impedence, 50 Ohm and 75 Ohm, why is it so?
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Apr 16, 2016 |
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Q-codes in voice
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Apr 09, 2016 |
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Operating Procedures
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Apr 02, 2016 |
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Lucky Lightning Escape
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Mar 26, 2016 |
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The CAT interface
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Mar 19, 2016 |
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Bandplans and Edges
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Mar 12, 2016 |
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What's in a Repeater?
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Mar 05, 2016 |
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Experimentation is about failure ...
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Feb 27, 2016 |
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What is the best antenna?
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Feb 20, 2016 |
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The humble dipole ... contraption.
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Feb 13, 2016 |
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Sizing your battery.
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Feb 06, 2016 |
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Where did all the amateurs go?
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Jan 30, 2016 |
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Reviewing the introduction of the Foundation License.
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Jan 23, 2016 |
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How to manage your first pile-up.
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Jan 16, 2016 |
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Have a look or search online at the previous editions of this podcast.
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Jan 09, 2016 |
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Contesting, something for everyone ...
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Jan 02, 2016 |
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SDR diversity and Ah-Ha!
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Dec 26, 2015 |
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We should stop requiring electronics to be amateurs.
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Dec 19, 2015 |
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Picking better language to talk about our hobby ...
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Dec 12, 2015 |
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Radios are not quite appliances ...
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Dec 05, 2015 |
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Fieldstrength and Chickens
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Nov 28, 2015 |
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Change one thing at a time ...
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Nov 21, 2015 |
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How to get started in a contest
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Nov 14, 2015 |
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Tools in my shack
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Nov 07, 2015 |
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Wet string and 10 Watts
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Oct 31, 2015 |
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Propagation and reality
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Oct 24, 2015 |
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Getting started with portable operation
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Oct 17, 2015 |
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Antenna Calculators
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Oct 10, 2015 |
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Use it or Lose it ... make a contact today!
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Oct 03, 2015 |
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Propagation predictions and operating your radio
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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Every Antenna is a Compromise!
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Sep 19, 2015 |
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Phonetic Alphabets
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Sep 12, 2015 |
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What to say in a contest...
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Sep 05, 2015 |
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1000 hobbies under one roof
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Aug 29, 2015 |
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Names in Amateur Radio
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Aug 22, 2015 |
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Do your thing and find friends to play with
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Aug 15, 2015 |
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Radio Amateur - the local lunatic
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Aug 08, 2015 |
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Delta Loop for Portable Operation
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Aug 01, 2015 |
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Hunting for the perfect SWR.
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Jul 25, 2015 |
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Tuning a dipole, bring your friends...
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Jul 18, 2015 |
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7Ps of Amateur Radio - be prepared
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Jul 11, 2015 |
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Cabrillo and ADIF file formats
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Jul 04, 2015 |
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Amateur Radio FAQ's
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Jun 27, 2015 |
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What radio should I purchase?
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Different soil types ...
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Jun 13, 2015 |
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Welcome
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Jun 06, 2015 |