Smallest Possible All-Mode POTA Kit?
Minimalist radio fun in the form of a challenge? Yes please.
Santa Net starts November 29th
The Santa Net will return to the airwaves beginning November 29th and remain active through Christmas Eve. The net will take place each evening at 7:00 PM Central Time on 3.916 MHz.
Repeaters - the Sounds of Silence
Get on the Air and Make Some Noise—Advice on Increasing Local Repeater Activity
Why are VHF and UHF repeaters so quiet much of the time? Where is everybody? When you tune in on the local 2-meter repeater, more often than not it’s nothing but cricketsand they’re not chirping PL tones.
Oldtimers would tell you someone on the repeater was always willing to talk during the day. Many were retirees with time on their hands or hams operating mobile while running errands or traveling to and from work.
Ham Radio for Hackers at HOPE XV
Some people consider ham radio operators to be the original hackers. In this talk, Dan Romanchik, KB6NU, will discuss some of the cool development projects that ham radio hackers are working on and talk about how you can get your own hacker, errrrr ham radio license.1
This talk was presented at HOPE XV at St. John’s University in New York City on July 12, 2024.
Explaining the Use Case for Data Over Repeater - Part 1
In Zero Retries 0175 — MMDVM-TNC is (Kind of) Real, I wrote:
I plan to do a future article in Zero Retries — Explaining the Use Case for Data Over Repeater, about why such a data capability is important.
