“This Is Ham Radio” is a vintage ARRL ham radio movie. It was converted from 16mm film to video tape many years ago, and now from that ancient VHS to digital. Enjoy the flickering screen, and especially the funky organ music backgrounds! heavy focus on morse code, which of course is no longer a requirement.
TRYON Amateur Radio Club – K2JJI
RACES Drill – Tuesday at 7pm EST | On air: -146.70Mhz No-PL | EchoLink: 510372 | Fulton County NY| Johnstown, NY |
 68.9°F |
| Today: 79°F / 55°F |  |
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | ||
 |  |  | |  | |  | |
| 88° | 77° | 75° | 72° | 81° | 79° | ||
| 52° | 59° | 54° | 52° | 55° | 61° | ||
Social Networks:
SKYWARN:
Browsing Posts in Articles
FCC regulations (Part 97.119) require callsign identification at the end of a contact and at least once every ten (10) minutes during a contact. Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of this requirements putting us in risk of violating this FCC regulation.
So, I decided to do something about it..
continue reading…
Don’t have $1500 to drop on a USRP? A Linux kernel developer has discovered that a Realtek digital TV tuner chip has an undocumented mode that turns it into a software-defined radio, with a frequency range of 64-1700MHz. The going rate for one of these USB devices can be as low as US$11. If you’re unfamiliar with software-defined radio and have 20 minutes to spare, Balint Seeber has a great video introduction.
Source: SlashDot.org
continue reading…
2012 Spring CQ WW SSB WPX Contest
This past weekend the HF bands were very busy. It was due to the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. It took me a while to figure out what was the contest and the exchange.
Looking around about this contest information I came across a very useful website I am sure it will be useful for others. It list the ongoing contest and important information about them.
To visit the website click here: http://hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.php
A contributor with user name Hudson over at NYCresistor.com has posted an interesting project where he uses his CW keyer as his computer keyboard.
It looks like an interesting way to practice CW and clear up some desk space. The project seems simple enough for us to cover during one of our workshop meetings if enough hams are interested.
The original Vail key is on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institute USA
Over at “This Day in History,” the lead story for Jan 6, 2012 was “Morse demonstrates telegraph.” This is a controversial topic since it is said that Vail was the real force behind the system and it is the creator of key parts such as the straight key.
On the Elmering Blog there is a great article that covers the controversial topic.
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 believe SDR is the future of HAM radio and I think the article will help you understand why. If anything, it does for a good read.
Receiving weather satellite image using SDR’s
October 23, 2011
KC2UEZ
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 visit the following link:
http://alternet.us.com/?p=1398
