On weblogs.oreilly.com, Brian McConnell proposes that cell phone manufacturers include Morse Code capability into the next generation of cell phones. McConnell notes a lot of advantages to using Morse Code instead of the small keyboards that most cell phones now have:

The telephone would have a fairly large pressure sensitive panel on its back side, [...]

Dave WB4SBE has posted some FD 2005 pics on pbase. Jay WB8TKL has also posted FD 2005 pictures on his website. If you took some pictures of Field Day, e-mail me the pics or a link to the pics, and I’ll post them here.
At right, W8FSA tries to make 20m phone contacts while I supervise. [...]

Don’t wait for the CW test to be eliminated to upgrade. It’s really not that tough, and you can do it. On the SolidCpyCW mailing list, Greg O’Brien, NE1OB, a Volunteer Examiner, offered the following tips:

Things to remember:

The format of the code sent is an exchange in a typical QSO.
After VVV VVV, the test [...]

I got an e-mail this morning from Gordon, VK2DJG:
I went looking for real-honest-to-goodness ham radio blogs some time back. Yours was one of the few that I could find. In the belief that “the more the merrier” is the way to go, I’ve added a radio blog to my blogging corral.
You can [...]

I’ve been so busy with Field Day preparations, that I haven’t had much time to blog. Here’s some of the things I’ve done so far:

installed logging software on my laptop,
installed the logging software on another laptop,
checked out the keying cable with my IC-746PRO,
built a satellite antenna for WB8COX, so that he could devote his time [...]

Jerry Sevick, W2FMI, is the author of the amateur radio classic, Understanding, Building, and Using Baluns and Ununs and the more engineering-oriented, Transmission Line Transformers. He’s done more to take the black magic out of baluns than anyone in ham radio, and I was pleased to hear him speak at this year’s Dayton.
He [...]

Last week, I attended the Michigan Nonprofit Association Super Conference, and now I have lots more crazy ideas. I assume that the ARRL is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation, and that we could do many things under that umbrella. Even so, what’s to stop us here in Michigan from forming another 501c3 nonprofit to serve [...]

Today, I attended the Michigan Nonprofit Association conference. At lunch, I happened to sit with someone from the Washtenaw Red Cross.
We got to talking a little bit about the history of ARROW and the Red Cross, and I gave her the short story about our little disagreement five or six years ago. It was [...]

One of the things that’s kind of a pain about homebrewing is packaging something you’ve built. If you’re like me, you don’t really enjoy the mechanical work that’s involved in choosing an enclosure and designing and building panels.
Well, it turns out that it may not be so bad after all. While reading a recent issue [...]

I’m not sure how many people this music video is going to win over to ham radio, but it’s certainly amusing. Does anyone else think it’s funny that this video was produced by a Danish contest club?