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Steve K2ALS pointed out that yesterday (01/06/2012) was the controversial 174 anniversary of the first demonstration of the telegraph. The date was Jan 6, 1838 when Morse partner Alfred Vail showed a telegraph system for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. Over at “This Day in History,” the lead [...]

I came across an interesting article on the “Electronic Design” magazine. The TryonARC is not affiliated with this publication, but this article “SDR and CR boost wireless communications” does a great job explaining in a human understandable language what the Software Defined Radios (SDR) are, how they work and how they are used on telecommunications. [...]

I came across William Dillon blog. William has a post describing one of his projects using a SDR receiver to capture audio which he then converts to weather images. This is an interesting project. He uses the “SoftRock RX Ensemble II Receiver Kit” to receive the NOAA satellite weather pictures. For more on the project please [...]

During our last meeting a few members expressed their interest to learn Morse code. I found a small and simple electronic project that would help with the training. I know this project may be a little over some of our members expertise, but how else do you learn new things?. On this article the author [...]

Last week the echolink computer had a hard crash and kept the PTT closed. Luckily the local repeater has a time out timer so the TX lock up did not killed the repeaters finals, but nobody could access the repeater for a couple of hours due to the input being locked. The suggestion was to enable [...]

Long gone are the days when the average citizen had to wait for the government or the press to learn about distant wars. This is an example how in this information age a Dutch ex-military and radio enthusiast make uses of the new ways information is transmitted, tracking attack flights on Libya, and even helping NATO by tweeting [...]