Red River Radio Amateurs

Change has pulls and tugs toward the past and forward into the future

We hear the word culture bandied about all the time. It means different things to different people. Social scientists define it as follows:

Culture includes the shared belief systems, rituals, and conversational styles of small groups, as well as societally pervasive ways of seeing that are passed from generation to generation. Culture is anything created by the mind, hand, or mouth of humans. ¹

[On] December 7 we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces that killed more than 2,000 servicemembers and 68 civilians in 1941. It was a devastating act of aggression on U.S. soil, thrusting an entire country into a war and calling on everyone to contribute to the cause overseas and back home—including operators in the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL).

1912

The introduction of licensing. 5 wpm code required

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,

An important component used in our radios is 75 years old today!

On December 16, 1947, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen—two physicists who were members of Mervin Kelly’s Solid State Physics Group and Semiconductor Sub-Group at Bell Labs—managed to make the first working transistor, now known as the point-contact transistor.