Help save our 70cm ham band
This is from an email from our ARRL Division Director Greg Sarratt – W4OZK… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your prompt help to defend one of our amateur bands is urgently...
View ArticleWhy JNOS ??
Anyone who knows me, or has read much of my blog – recognizes I have a lingering interest in an old-school method of providing basic text-messaging. In today’s world of instant Internet and SMS at our...
View ArticleMadison County Tornadoes – 20110427
Tornado Damage Wal-Triana Hwy Madison, AL It really is as bad as you see on the news. Been doing NWS storm spotting since about 1976. Before we had radar. Trained for SKYWARN in 6 different states....
View ArticleMadison County Tornadoes – 20110430
More photos from yesterday (Saturday I think it was). Anderson Hills Tornado Incident Command Post, Hwy 53 Madison County Alabama. Anderson Hills, our Ground Zero More pics in this DropBox gallery:...
View ArticleMadison County Tornadoes – 20110502
Not a typical Monday, May 2nd was day 5 of the recovery effort in Madison County, Alabama. Preliminary reports from the NWS suggest that all four of the tornadoes that ripped across the county last...
View ArticleTornadoes, radios and chickens
How the world can change so quickly. This time last week we were waking up in a new darkness, preparing to launch a major recovery effort after the largest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The...
View ArticleVHFDX.INFO
This site has crossed my radar a few times recently, and I finally got back to it with some time to look at what all is available there. The first thing I had been looking for was propagation...
View ArticleAntenna Farming Gone Bad
It has been said that the only thing worse than not having antennas, is to have em and not use em… Guess I have been a bad boy…….. Inappropriate use of a UHF log-periodic antenna. This is a cute little...
View ArticleLost+Found
Sometimes what we find, is not what we were looking for. I sometimes look for pictures I can’t find, as they can hide behind other pictures in a frame. Not unusual to find several prints stacked in...
View ArticleHuntsville Hamfest 2012
Come to the Huntsville Hamfest .!.!.!. (Aug 18 & 19, 2012) Come talk to me about “stuff” ….. Thanks /;^)
View ArticleDigital Satellite Ops reference
It has not been recently that I have posted anything particularly relevant to ham radio. I don’t find as much time lately to play with the radios either. I do however, try to follow several...
View ArticleThese might be for sale soon.
I may have too many radios… These two may be for sale soon. Nothing fancy, certainly not new. Not heavily used or abused; these are well-suited to become first rigs for new licensees, or as a backup or...
View ArticleHam Radio Day 2013
A little bit earlier this year (Mar.16), and the weather should be great .!. HR Day at GigaParts in Huntsville AL This is a fun event, and a great opportunity for folks to learn more about this hobby....
View Article2014 June VHF QSO Party
This appears to be shaping up with fairly good conditions on 6 meters, but then I am still kinda new on 6. There have been plenty of times before that I didn’t hear much. For sure I am hearing a lot...
View ArticleAnnual ARRL/ARES SET
That is almost too much alphabet soup. What that means is that every year those of us that do ham radio, like to test our skills with a large scale exercise – most often coordinated at the state level....
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