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.
Be a part of Skywarn Recognition Day
Join in recognizing all of the Skywarn™ spotters serving our nation by participating in 2024 Skywarn™ Recognition Day (SRD 2024) from 0000Z to 2400Z on Saturday, December 7th.
December Contest Corral
The December 2024 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.
