Do you want to find out about the set-up at your favorite ham radio contesting station? Well, you can through the voluntary efforts of the contesting station owners and the Contest Stations website. Pete, N4ZR, and Mike, NF4L, have been working hard on updating the site making it easier for contest station owners and users [...]
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Sunspot Saturday, March 28, 2009
by Sorgul©® (Away..) I’m going to Kurdistan
Beirut, Lebanon, OD
Ham Radio Clubs Need After Action Reviews
Ham radio is a hobby, of course. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from others in making ham radio better. In this particular case, ham radio clubs have a series of activities they do with their members. Whether this activity is Field Day, providing public service communications to the community or providing storm spotting [...]
Sunspot Saturday, March 21, 2009
by fearlessRich
Niue, ZK2
Ham radio contesting on your terms
We’re coming to the end of the major contests this spring ham radio contesting season. Did you contest on your terms?
It is an important question because contesting is a diverse activity within the ham radio hobby. For example, this year we have the Triple Play Award offered up by the American Radio Relay League. Contesting [...]
Sunspot Saturday, March 14, 2009
by sjf_apu
Sunset, Guam, KH2
Ham Radio has the UltraDX Web Site
Ultra DX is a web site for ham radio that offers a wide range of services to the DXer or Contester. Set up in 2008 (I think), the site is still evolving.
Here is a review of the major components of the site.
UltraDX Community
UltraDX, like most sites, wants to build a community around the site for [...]
Ham Radio and iPhone – HamSat Satellite Tracking
I’ve been surprised that there have not been better ham radio applications for the iPhone. I’ve had some correspondence with a couple of software developers on how they have been working ham radio applications for the iPhone. This is the first one, called HamSat, is offered up by VosWorx.
From the iPhone application store write-up:
HamSat is [...]
Sunspot Saturday, March 7, 2009
by lassi.kurkijarvi
Main Square of Tirana, Albania, ZA
Suitcase DXpedition to St. Martin and Saba
Can you do a ham radio DXpedition in one 50-pound suitcase? These enterprising hams did exactly that. DXing on the beach, on bikes and from mountaintops.
h/t to N9PUZ and the SMC reflector
Ham Radio and ARRL Legislative Objectives
Ham radio is a small service when it comes to legislative priorities. While we might like to think our legislation is as important as a stimulus package for the economy, the truth of the matter is that we don’t count for much in the legislative priority process in the states and Washington.
In other words, our [...]
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