When hams ask me what kind of power supply they should buy for their stations, I always recommend Astron, and I always recommend the linear supplies. I know that modern switching supplies are a lot better than older ones as far as RF noise, but why screw around? Get a linear supply to start with, [...]

A couple of days ago, I received another package of cards from the QSL bureau. Predictably, most of them were from Europe, including seven from Spain, three from the Czech Republic, and one each from Mexico and Great Britain.
The most unusual one was from the special event station, ED5JAC, commemorating the Ten Days of [...]

Thanks to Arthur, N1ORC, for this link….Dan
In August, the town of Marshfield commemorated a big year in the history of broadcasting. The first voice broadcast in radio history happened in 1906 in the Marshfield village of Brant Rock. As Matt Largey reports, the town is trying to give a radio pioneer some long-overdue recognition.

Listen to [...]

Here are more websites that I’ve come across that could be of interest to amateur radio operators:

MIT Open Courseware. Want to get an MIT education without moving to Cambridge or paying high tuition? Take courses online! Of course you won’t get an MIT degree, but I bet you learn a lot. One place you might [...]

About a year ago, I bought a CI-V interface kit from K5LXP. The CI-V interface is the half-duplex serial interface that Icom uses to connects its radios to a computer. Putting the kit together was a real challenge.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work right off, and I put it aside to look at later. Well, later turned [...]

A couple of day ago I worked George W2BPI. He had a pretty good signal–he was peaking at S7, and as I expected, his QTH was in upstate New York. What I didn’t expect is that he was running only 500 mW!
He mentioned that the rig he was using was a “DC-40.” That didn’t ring [...]

The other day I was on 40m and heard a signal with very bad key clicks. It was a very strong station, too, from somewhere near Columbus, OH. I listened to the QSO he was having for a while, and heard him say that his transmitter was homebrew. Unfortunately, the other station didn’t report any [...]

Last February, I gave a talk to our club about the basics of operating CW. I thought I’d already posted the slides I used , but I guess not. At any rate, here are the slides I used for the talk. Feel free to use them to give a talk at your club and to [...]

ARRL Bulletin 20, dated 10/13/06, follows:
The ARRL is requesting member input concerning the FCC’s Amateur
Radio proceeding, WT Docket 04-140, released October 10. The Report
and Order will not take effect until 30 days after publication in
the Federal Register. This publication date is not yet known.
The complete text is available for viewing as a PDF file on [...]

Last week, the ARRL reported that they would “press” the FCC to release the “Omnibus” Amateur Radio Report and Order. Well, yesterday they got their wish. The executive summary of R&O FCC 06-149 states:
In this R&O, we amend the Part 97 Amateur Radio Service rules as follows:

revise the operating privileges of amateur radio operators to [...]