Professor Joe Taylor, amateur radio operator K1JT and 1993 Nobel laureate in physics, briefly addresses a plenary session of the 2012 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 3, 2012. Afterward, he is awarded the ITU’s Gold Medal by Dr. Hamadoun Tour?, HB9EHT, Secretary-General of the ITU. On Friday, February 3, delegates and…
Description The best in Amateur Radio is now even better with the addition of the new TEN-TEC RX366 Sub-Receiver. This new user installable receiver board can be inserted easily within the 565 Orion or 566 Orion II main chassis in place of the existing sub-receiver board. (RX366 manual instructions) What does the new RX366 Receiver…
The Tworse Key is a standalone device that connects through a standard LAN cable, the Morse signals are decoded by the built-in Arduino Ethernet board, which delivers the final message though the Twitter API. software requirements: Arduino 1.0 (or later) Twitter library by @NeoCat the latest TworseKey sketch for Arduino provided here. hardware requirements: Morse…
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr Pool, this homemade fractal antenna for digital television signals by Roy Jacobsen of Fargo, ND. Instructions for, and discussions of, similar designs are available in this Instructable from William Ruckman. Judging from the comments over there, folks who have built their own fractal antennae are quite pleased with how they…
Current version: 0.3.0 – December 18th 2011 QRQ is an open source Morse telegraphy trainer which runs on several operating systems (Linux, Unix, OS X and Windows), similar to the classic DOS version of Rufz by DL4MM. It’s not intended for learning telegraphy (check out LCWO or have a look at radio.linux.org.au for CW learning…