Recently, Ron WB3AAL met Diana Morse, who as it turns out, is a distant relative of Samuel B. Morse. Ron introduced her to ham radio, and now she is KB3NNP and an avid CW operator.
Dave Bushone of 99 Hobbies interviewed her in his latest podcast.

This spring, I volunteered to help Colin KD8CCQ get on the air. He had an Icom IC-706 and an SG-239 antenna tuner, and was trying to figure out the best type of antenna to use with this combination. My solution was a doublet fed with ladder line, so one cool spring day, we strung one [...]

The following is from the July 28, 2006 issue of the ARRL Letter:
HAMS, MONITORING ENTHUSIASTS INVITED TO AID WILDLIFE RESEARCHERS
Wildlife researchers are asking radio amateurs and VHF monitoring enthusiasts to help listen for radio tag signals from migrating birds. A non-profit organization in New Mexico wants to find the wintering grounds of the burrowing owl, [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I try to make three QSOs every day. Well, yesterday I made four contacts and all of them DX (well, sort of, anyway)!
I started out on 30m where I first worked. When I first switch over to 30m, I tune into 10.1008. On this frequency, you’ll find DDK9, a commercial [...]

Yesterday, ARROW members met for the monthly AMPTeam meeting. I had intended to play around with the crossband repeat function of my IC-207 VHF/UHF transceiver, figuring that crossband repeating could be useful in an emergency. After some manual searching, however, I determined that it doesn’t have that capability! I don’t know how I got the [...]

The June 21, 2006 ARRL Letter had two items that seemed worthy of comment. The first, “FCC SUSPENDS HAM LICENSES FOR FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MAILING ADDRESS” reported on the suspension of five licenses for failing to maintain a valid mailing address in the FCC database.
Part 97.23 of the Amateur Radio Service regulations require licensees [...]

Here are yet more websites that I’ve had occasion to visit recently:

Fox Tango International—The Yaesu Users Group. If you own a Yaesu, you should know about this website. They run a BBS and several mailing lists that discuss Yaesu gear. Also available, are manuals for discontinued Yaesu gear. I just came into possession of an [...]

I did not have an illustrious Boy Scout career. I think I lasted three weeks, a month tops. The reason? I couldn’t quite fathom why I should learn all those knots that seemed to be the basis of Boy Scouting.
Now I know. Knots are extremely useful, even if you’re not going to be going camping [...]

Although I’ve never been big on emergency communications, public service, is one of the main reasons amateur radio exists. With that in mind, ARROW recently participated in two public service events. I chronicled these in an earlier post. Now, we’re getting involved with the local chapter of the American Red Cross.
Over the last couple [...]

The latest in some cool stuff I’ve come across while surfing or digging through my e-mail inbox:

Zerobeat.Net’s QRP Links. Zerobeat.Net is the work of Thom K3HRN. This page has lots of links to interesting places, including a tutorial on winding toroids and the searchable archives of the QRP-L mailing list.
Make Magazine. The coolest hams are [...]