In his Power Tool Batteries for Portable or Emergency Operations article (a free preview from the July 2024 issue of QST Magazine), Gordon S. Novak, AF5KA, demonstrates how inexpensive DC–DC convertors can turn easily accessible lithium power tool batteries into a good backup or portable source for powering a radio.
This is a very timely and topical discussion in light of RRRA’s July Portable Operations July Activity.
Take a walk down memory lane with ARRL’s collection of holiday themed QST covers from the 1950s to 1980s.
ARRL has built an infrastructure for EmComm within our public service organization that we call the Amateur Radio Emergency Service®, or ARES®. This is both an organization and a framework for people to volunteer, take needed training, join a local group, and then practice or drill to ensure readiness when required. It is the responsibility of your Section Manager to ensure that the position of Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC) is staffed and managing emergency communications.
For a limited time a free downloadable reissue of the December 1915 QST (in PDF format) is available to ARRL members who visit http://www.arrl.org/qst-reissue.
This special reissue has been released on the occasion of the membership journal’s 100th anniversary.
More information about this download—including a contact address—is available from ARRL News
In his A Sensitive Field Strength Meter for Foxhunting article (a free preview from the July 2021 issue of QST Magazine), Woody White, KZ4AK, presents the Field Strength Meter (FSM) for Foxhunting he built based on a design featured in the June 2001 QST article Simple RF-Power Measurement by Les Hayward, W7ZOI, and Bob Larking, W7PUA.
