Ham radio

Welcome to the 'Ham radio' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Ham radio'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Ham radio”

• FTM-350R

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  If you’ve been wondering what the price would be on the new Yaesu FTM-350R dual-band transceiver then wonder no more. $630 US give or take. Lots of cool features and a very slick looking package… But ouch!
  3 days ago

• Uniden BC72XLT Handheld Scanner

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 175
  Handheld scanner for monitoring police and fire signals, weather transmissions, ham radio bands, and more 100 channels and 10 banks; Close Call RF technology identifies nearby signals 6 preprogrammed service searches, including public safety, railroad, and marine Compact design fits comfortably in hand; ...
  5 days ago

• Ham Cramwich: $25,000 Of Communications Gear In A $500 Car [Car Tech]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 753
  Ham radio appears to be more of an addiction than a hobby to the seller of this $500 Dodge. Every surface is covered with $25K in communications equipment for every conceivable band (FM/UHF/HF/VHF/SPACEMAN). A gallery of technological affliction below. The equipment seems to cover an amazing array of technologies, ...
  6 days ago

• Massachusetts QRP Convention

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  Low power enthusiasts living in the eastern half of the United States need to sit up and take notice… The first ever Massachusetts QRP Convention will be held March 12-13, 2010 in the Westford Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Westford, Massachusetts. The Saturday conference has ten leaders in the QRP ...
  1 week ago

• Students and teachers invited to fly a file on ARISSat-1

  
  The Squid Zone — Authority: 118
  The ARISSat-1 Team wishes to include on our new satellite a memory stick of files prepared by students. This should be a jpg or pdf of things the student has prepared such as a paper or a study done on a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) topic, a drawing of space craft or a schematic, a journal kept on a ...
  1 week ago

• Students and teachers invited to fly a file on ARISSat-1

  
  Darin's Log — Authority: 99
  This was originally posted to other forums by VE3VIG, but I want to give it space here... 3 February 2006, cosmonaut Valery IvanovichTokarev hand launched the Amateur Radio satellite SuitSat-1 from the ISS during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity = Spacewalk). SuitSat-1 was a very special Amateur Radio satellite. ...
  1 week ago

• Yaesu FTdx5000

  
  Big Dutch Blog — Authority: 91
  Another monster from Yaesu, the FTdx5000.More pictures here (outside) and here (inside). Manual here (part 1) and here (part 2).More information can be found at the folks from Universal Radio.FCC id: K6620361X60
  1 week ago

• Ham Radio Information

  
  HowToFindItOnline.com — Authority: 140
  For radio hobbyists and people who spend a lot of time broadcasting independently for local communities, amateur radio means ham radio . The participants to the communication media enjoy the activity in itself while also doing services to the community, but it is also true that it is on their skills that emergency ...
  1 week ago

• Thrifty Talkie

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  There’s a new handheld transceiver coming from Icom; the IC-V80 . It is said to offer “rugged, basic 2 meter performance in a rock solid package”. Of course there’s nothing at all wrong with an economical, entry-level, two-meter only transceiver. But I’m a blogger and it’s my job to ponder why things ...
  1 week ago

• JD1BMM’s very clear QSL instructions

  
  Ham Radio Blog — Authority: 91
  As seen on JD1BMM’s QRZ.COM profile: I stay in Minami-Torishima (IOTA OC-073) only until February, 2010. I do not reply to rude SAE.Send the QSL card after QSO within one week. Write your call sign at lower left corner of the back of the SAE. Do not write plural QSO data. Do not enclose the [...]
  1 week ago

• Up in smoke

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  5am and not a soul stirring in the house except for me. And now the dog who has moved from his bed to the shack to see what I’m doing up at such an hour. He’s just a puppy who gets bored easily and will no doubt be snoring again in a few minutes. It’s cold and pitch black outside, the thermometer tells the tale: ...
  1 week ago

• New Remote Rig Interface

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  The Remoterig RRC-1258MkII is developed specifically for remote control of amateur radio stations via the Internet: RRC-1258 is a product developed for remote control of amateur radio stations. From the beginning it was intended to be used with Icom IC-706 and later Kenwood TS-480 and TS-2000 where the control ...
  1 week ago

• Icom discontinues several popular transceivers

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  I noted a few months ago that the price of the ICOM IC-746PRO had fallen dramtically and wondered if it was soon to be discontinued. Yep. ICOM has put both the 746PRO and the 756PRO-III out to pasture. The yet to be released IC-9100 is the intended replacement for the 746PRO while the 756PRO has been replaced by ...
  1 week ago

• W4PA to Purchase Vibroplex

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  Scott Robbins, W4PA has purchased the Vibroplex company. Scott will be leaving Ten-Tec as he pursues this new adventure. More to come as information becomes available. Here’s the current release from the ARRL.
  2 weeks ago

• Going Rogue

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  I’ve been reviewing my 2009 amateur radio activities – which isn’t tough considering I’ve spent over 200 nights on the road this year. That doesn’t leave much time for ham radio but I’ve made my mind up about one thing; I’m done logging contacts . I have handwritten logbooks stacked on logbooks from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ham Radio & SkyWarn Appreciation Day 2009

  
  AB9NN's HamRadioResources.com Blog — Authority: 91
  Your email:   My wife and I attended Green Bay National Weather Service’s (NOAA) SkyWarn Appreciation Day on Friday December 4, 2009.  This day is a “thank you” to trained severe storm spotters that also use their ham radio training to form a many-to-many communications network of trained spotters that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Linux Journal Insider January 2010

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 162
  This is the maiden voyage of the Linux Journal Insider podcast, and we start the new year of Linux Journal off with a bang. Or more precisely with a HAM. HAM radio that is. If youre not a subscriber to the magazine, pick up this latest issue on newsstands mid-December, or buy a single copy in our on-line store. ...
  3 weeks ago

• I wish there was an app for that

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  Another Thursday evening with the kids working on their homework and the wife doing a little knitting while she watches some crappy Lifetime movie where a husband is being mean to his wife (it doesn’t matter which one, they’re all like that) you grab a hot cup of tea and head down to the basement shack to catch an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do you believe in magic?

  
  Signal and Noise — Authority: 131
  Old Sol hasn’t been cooperating enough to make the 10-meter band the magic place that we all know it can be. Still, it pays to be ready just in case the unimaginable happens… From the Universal-Radio Web site: The Alinco DR-03T is a capable, compact 10 meter, 10 watt FM transceiver with an alphanumeric ...
  3 weeks ago

• RFI issues- My Radio RFIs itself

  
  VA3QV's Weblog — Authority: 130
  Once you read the the title of  this post and stop laughing ….  Let me explain!   The Radio is my FT847 and it seems  to be having some minor problems on the higher part of the 20m band when the CAT cable is attached to the  back of the radio. I recently was brought into the 21st century(kicking and ...
  3 weeks ago

Comments about Ham radio