The art of DXing or making contact with distant stations is one of the core areas of attraction for the amateur radio hobby. No where is this attraction more evident than in these great videos about teams of ham radio operators that went to some of the most remote areas of the world, in order…
WRTC 2014 Documentary from James Brooks, 9V1YC on Vimeo. Video by 9V1YC The World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) is a competition between two-person teams of amateur radio operators testing their skills to make contacts with other Amateur Radio operators around the world over a 24 hour period. All teams use identical antennas from the same…
A package of two satellites carrying Amateur Radio payloads has been deployed into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a collaborative Texas A&M and University of Texas at Austin research effort. Built by Texas A&M students, AggieSat4 (AGS4) will release UT’s Bevo-2 CubeSat in about a month, once it is…
It seems TenTec has been sold. Yes. Again. This time to a single individual. I’m not sure that’s bad news as the previous owners obviously had no interest in running the business in any direction, other than into the ground. This news comes from ex-TenTec employee, John Henry, KI4JPL in a letter to a TenTec…
Радиосвязь с любительской радиостанцией Организации Объединённых Наций с самого моего детства была одной из удивительных, захватывающих дух, мечтой. Наверное такая же, как и связь с U5ARTEK или RK3KP. Но если “Артек” и “Комсомольская Правда” были значимыми в основном только для российских пионеров, то 4U1UN была уникальной для всего Мира. Помимо того, что ООН – место…