One of the decisions that has to be made by individual hams upon moving to a different Amateur Radio Region is whether or not to update their call signs to reflect their new region. Heidi and I both had “Vanity Call Signs” in California, W6HPY and W6TUX respectively. After thinking it through, we elected to go ahead and request new […]
Here is a *very* easy little DIY ham project for Radio Direction Finding (RDF). Credit should be given to the Tri-City Amateur Radio Club P.O. BOX 552 Groton, CT 06340 – for their “Simple Loop Antenna for RDF“, in particular the idea to cut away a section of a 1/2” PVC “T” connector to make it easier to mount the […]
I actually did this project back in July of 2018, but our Granddaughter was very close to giving birth to our first Great Grandchild, (who actually came to us on 2 August of that year). While the narrative is written in “current” form, I am merely copying/pasting from my old notes taken on a computer while the project was still […]
In a time long, long ago, in a world long forgotten, I was introduced to something called “Unix” and a command line interface via a Unix “shell” called “bash” via an on-line company known as “NetCom.com”. It’s been many years, but I still remember the fascinating power of those commands available to my fingers – all I had to do […]
One of the things I learned early on in playing with Raspberry Pi’s is the sheer convenience of operating them remotely using a program called “VNC” (for Virtual Network Computing/Computer), server edition on the Pi and a “VNC Viewer” on my laptop computer. My existing “Pis” are in a room in the back of the house we call our “Ham […]
I have a bit of experience, not at a very deep level, with previous iterations of the Raspberry Pi, (2, 3B, 3B+, 0, W), and they have *all* been fun to mess around with. After a couple years, my interest waned, and I kind of moved on to other things, but just the same ordered one of the Raspberry Pi […]
Update: Before you get started with this post – want to warn you that it is long and probably somewhat boring – the areas outlined below have been covered many times elsewhere on the Internet and, I’m sure, in a lot clearer fashion and with tons of pictures/illustrations. You might want to consider having a look at the CHIRP beginner’s […]
Last month, (March, 2019), we bought a 2015 Forrest River Salem Cruise Lite Travel Trailer, Model T231RKXL to replace our old 1996 5th Wheel. (We still have the old one, slowly transferring all of our “gear” into the new one that will fit). The old one is just over 30′ long, all of which is livable space, and the new […]
I am rebuilding a post from 2017 that was lost after the old blog was hacked/infected. In early 2017, I kept seeing YouTube videos and post from other Amateur Radio Operators about using relatively inexpensive boom microphones and foot switches of more than just reasonable quality – they were all very pleased with the results. I am always alert for […]
OK, so last September I decided to see what I could learn about Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) as my first incursion into the digital voice part of the Amateur Radio Hobby. This was primarily a financially driven decision and there were several relatively inexpensive DMR handhelds that were on the market. Other digital voice radios include DStar, (primarily ICOM), System […]