The ARRL board recently recognized and congratulated the Oregon Tualatin Valley Amateur Radio Club, W7OTV (OTVARC), for 40 years of “excellent service to the hobby.” I just spoke to them last month -

A friend just sent me this pic ... some site has captioned that it is ME. If that's how good their fact-checking is, go ahead and delete 'em from your bookmarks ... PROOF: Didn't develop that "second

When the FRS docket was approved, it added yet another form of "communications" for the general public way back when. So how does a lay person choose what is the best radio type for their needs? Bob L

Wow ... just came across this piece of So CA history. I was TrafficWatch chair and a trainer back in the day ... very early 1990s, if I remember correctly. The organization I chaired at the time (and

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Interesting project in the works ... https://hackaday.com/2018/07/29/vampire-charger-is-a-rugged-anything-to-5vdc-converter/

What a year 2017 was for amateur radio - with natural disasters hitting all parts of the continent, greater presence in schools ... A great read - the 2017 ARRL Annual Report. Download a .pdf copy her

Turner Classic Movies has been running this "time filler" - a 1939 10-minute "documentary" on amateur radio - FROM 1939! https://youtu.be/1BPcpQMbUPE

NASA: This is what the sun sounds like - https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/07/27/sun-has-sound-nasa-space-orig-video-trnd.cnn

Thank you fellow hams here - and other friends on Facebook - for MEETING the $300 donation amount for Queen of Hearts Therapeutic Riding Center! The monies are buying a replacement Epson projector for

I thought using multi-colored pipe cleaners to hold the antenna leads to the Arrow's mast was cool ... but look at this project - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2838880

There has been an interest in how to properly handle a distress or emergency call you may receive ... I have such a presentation that we can do via Skype to anyone interested. Formal slideshow lasts r

European Space Agency (ESA) Astronaut Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO, jammed with German pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk - introducing the segment with, " “Here in the European Columbus ( http://www.

Hi all, I have sorted out this issue and I am reporting back with the "fix". I found and downloaded the latest version of Gpredict for loading on my laptop. AO-85 was present! I then realised that Gpr

The kind of behavior that really is spiritual practice consists of refraining from falsehood and abiding by the truth, neither humiliating nor mocking others, being humble, and having a good heart and

Hi, I am just about to start trying to work satellites with a handie. I downloaded a list of suitable amateur satellites from work-sat.com, but none of the orbital programs I have list AO-85 which is

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Moscow Aviation Institute is scheduled to have an SSTV experiment run starting at 16:00 UTC on July 30 and powered down at 19:30 UTC. The next day (July 31), the system will be active from 13:25-19:15

I just got my 10,000th FT8 contact. So when our social director has another get together, I will buy a round of drinks for all to celebrate. KC9UQR Sent from Brad’s iPad