{"id":44556,"date":"2017-04-01T08:25:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T06:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/?p=44556"},"modified":"2023-10-05T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:17:00","slug":"arduino-ham-radio-starter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/diy\/arduino-ham-radio-starter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino Ham Radio Starter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 523px;\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arduino-ham-radio-starter-kit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arduino-ham-radio-starter-kit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arduino-ham-radio-starter-kit.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/arduino-ham-radio-starter-kit-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry VE6TL at the University of Calgary Amateur Radio Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welcome to my Arduino Ham Radio Starter Kit, a \u201cvirtual box\u201d of ideas and motivations with one objective: More\u00a0hams and their clubs engaging the local maker community as a gateway to amateur radio.\u00a0<span id=\"more-2238\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First of all, let\u2019s think about\u00a0the three waves of technical hobbies over the past century. In a technical hobby, individuals and groups tinker, learn and make. First of all, they are attracted by personal interest in a new, emerging technology. In addition, technical hobbies provide a gateway to science, technology and engineering careers . Occasionally, hobbies lead to businesses, even industries. Here\u2019s what I mean.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>For sixty years, amateur radio was the leading technical hobby around the world. While\u00a0separated\u00a0from commercial radio, hams made many contributions to radio science and technology development. A benchmark for technical hobby culture resulted.<\/li>\n<li>By the late 1970\u2019s, hobby computing took over.\u00a0As with radio, personal computing quickly became a new\u00a0industry.\u00a0Hobby computing grew quickly, peaked within a decade, and then diffused into a variety of interests including gaming, hacking and Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2005, the third wave of leading technical hobby is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Technology\/2014\/0706\/The-maker-movement-creates-D.I.Y.-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">maker culture<\/a>. Makers apply electronics, software, wireless and digital fabrication to make things of all sorts. Making attracts young and old in most countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With each wave, participation grew\u00a0by a factor of 5.\u00a0Today, the number of kids and adults involved in making surpasses the ranks of radio hams by 25\u00a0times or more. Steve Wozniak participated in all three waves. He got his ham license in grade six, started Apple Computer, and <a class=\"vp-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CHq0o051mHM&amp;t=103s\">recently commented on maker culture<\/a>. Maybe we hams can learn from this progression. Attracting a\u00a0few \u201cmakers\u201d would stimulate our hobby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why an Arduino Ham Radio Starter Kit? Central to the emergence and popularity of making is the Arduino microcontroller. It\u2019s the engine under the hood for most projects, including 3D printers and DIY CNC machines. Most of all, it\u2019s a gateway into the community. For hams, it seems like a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traditional pathways into ham\u00a0radio included\u00a0fascination with radio, citizens band, shortwave listening. Not so relevant any more. Encouragement by friends and family is the remaining gateway. In order for us, as hams, to attract friends and family into the hobby, we must\u00a0offer them something of interest. Most of all, we should reach them where they are already engaged \u2013 the maker community. I believe\u00a0hams and makers have many common interests and synergies. Also, the great obstacle of Morse Code is no more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, watch this video about the <a class=\"vp-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EHwcfI9ONkM\">Not Your Grandpa&#8217;s Ham Radio<\/a> booth at a recent Maker Fair in California. Maybe your club can do similar things\u00a0to engage the maker community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New pathways to ham radio are wide open. Take them. In our next article, we\u2019ll talk about the synergy between ham radio and making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: play.fallows.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry VE6TL at the University of Calgary Amateur Radio Club Welcome to my Arduino Ham Radio Starter Kit, a \u201cvirtual box\u201d of ideas and motivations with one objective: More\u00a0hams and their clubs engaging the local maker community as a gateway to amateur radio.\u00a0 First of all, let\u2019s think about\u00a0the three waves of technical hobbies over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-2","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}