Casey Freund of Thermopolis, Wyoming, goes by the call sign KC7E, but that’s not his TikTok handle. He’s one of the few who don’t need Wi-Fi or smartphones to keep in touch with civilization. He’s a ham radio operator.
You have to grow with the times or the times will outgrow you.
That is how my Music Director would sign off from his afternoon radio show back in the early 70’s when I was Program Director at an AM radio station.
I intend no disrespect to all the varied Emergency Communications activities that are performed within Amateur Radio, or those that perform them. The emergence of Starlink as a Broadband Internet Access system with few dependencies other than power has changed the paradigm of emergency communications. But now, but the emergence of the new Starlink Mini has profoundly changed the paradigm of emergency communications.
The September 2024 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.
On July 22, 2024, The MIT Press Reader published an excerpt from Ham Radio’s Technical Culture; a book by Auburn University Assistant Professor of History, Kristen Haring.
This book (an MIT Press publication) provides an inside look at ham radio culture—and its impact on hobbyists’ lives—through personal accounts found in magazines, newsletters, and trade journals,
