I just worked John in Belle Glade, FL for the third time. That in itself isn’t so remarkable, but what is different about this series of contacts is that each time I’ve worked him it’s been with a different call.
The first time I worked him with his personal call, WB4MED (FISTS #10516). The second time [...]

I mentioned in a previous post about the horrible conditions on Sunday. On Monday, I got the following special propagation bulletin from the ARRL:

QST de W1AW
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 20 ARLP020
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA May 16, 2005
To all radio amateurs
This is a special edition of the Propagation Forecast Bulletin.
On Friday the Thirteenth [...]

Tom, WA5KUB and crew will once again be webcasting from Dayton. In addition to the camera at their fleamarket booth (spaces 3350-3351), they will have a “helmet cam” (shown below) to broadcast pictures from around the Hamvention.

For more, go to http://tmedlin.com/cam.html

This weekend was the Fists Spring Sprint, but I had to miss it. Silvia, my wife, and I took Friday and Saturday off to drive over to Holland, MI, on the west side of the state to go to the Tulip Festival.
I did get back home in time to work some of the Mid-Atlantic QSO [...]

In Sydney, Australia, the Powerhouse Museum staged a contest that pitted the oldest type of electronic text messages with the newest–Morse Code vs. instant messaging. Winning the race was 93-year-old telegraph operator Gordon Hill, who learned Morse Code in 1927 and worked for the Australian Post Office. He easily beat Brittany Devlin, his 13-year-old rival, [...]

Ed Breneiser, Wa3WSJ, sells antennas for hams that like to take their ham radio to go. I haven’t used them, but they look well-made, and if Ed’s experience with them is any indication, they work well, too. He always seems to be operating while backpacking somewhere or operating portable from a covered bridge.
Now, he’s added [...]

If you need to plan a presentation to your club, but are stuck for a topic, check out the new additions to the ARRL Multi Media Library. They recently added five new presentations:

Well known contester and DXer, ARRL Assistant Technical Editor Dean Straw, N6BV, has two new programs on HF Contesting For The Beginner [...]

One cool thing about having an amateur radio blog is that you get e-mail from people who read your blog. Lately, I’ve gotten e-mail from hams who have blogs of their own. Below, find links to and mini-reviews of these blogs.

Well, for the past 24 hours, I have been masquerading as KN0WCW.

In the late 1800s, if you wanted to chat online, you had to do it with Morse Code. In the novel, Wired Love, a telegraph operator named Ella Cheever Thayer describes not only chatting online via the telegraph, but also a romance that develops between a female operator and a male operator down the line. In this radio essay, writer Paul Collins describes how it was to work as a telegrapher at that time. It also includes a few excerpts from the novel. It’s very interesting.

As a followup, Dean Olscher interviews Mel Schneider K2KEY. Mel, who is vice president of the Kings County Radio Club, talks about ham radio and how hams communicate with Morse Code. The report describes the differences between American Morse Code, which was used by the landline telegraphers here in the U.S. and the International Morse Code, which was used by telegraphers elsewhere around the world and by the maritime operators.