W8CMK – Webinar: Hams, Emergencies and the News ARES and emergency groups have had their hands full in the past months. Time and again Amateur Radio was called upon to provide emergency communications. In some places the hams made the news and were highly praised. In other places the community never knew they were there…
NG Photo (c) Operators are requested to QSY away from 7.060-7.063MHz and the designated IARU Regional CoA emergency frequencies due to use by Thailand hams during the flood emergency. Thai authorities continue to battle the country’s worst floods in decades with the death toll at some 280. The capital of Bangkok is under threat despite…
This note copied from the List.Contesting.com and permitted re-published by author – TF4M Thor. As you may know I have served my Perseus SDR receiver over the internet for almost a year – it never occurred to me that people would use it for cheating purposes. I found the experiment interesting for a variety of …
As the third quarter of 2011 came to a close, ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, began calculating the number of licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US, as well as the number of new licensees. “At the end of September, I saw that the number of hams in the US was high,” she said.…
A new Version V1.01 of the software ICNIRPcalc was uploaded to the IARU R1 Server. For download please click here. With ICNIRPcalc everbody can calculate safety distances for many know amateur radio antennas with respect to ICNIRP limits. A similar programm is in use in Germany for station assesment for many years. The Version 1.0…