I grilled some chicken for dinner today. Unfortunately, the cheap, store-brand charcoal I bought wasn’t all that hot, so it took longer than usual. Fortunately, though, I used that time to fire up the rig and get on 30m.
At 2130Z, Europe was booming in. I got on 10.118 MHz and started calling CQ. Nearly right [...]

From Leigh WA5ZNU via the fpqrp mailing list:

Don’t forget International Toroid Day, August 29th 0000-2359 Zulu time. That starts tomorrow evening in the US.
Special event station W1T honors the 176th anniversary of the invention of the toroid by Michael Faraday, and will be operated by many toroid luminaries, including W8DIZ, the Toroid King. Please [...]

Since I’ve owned my KX-1, the only two antennas that I’ve ever connected to it are the 40m dipole in my backyard and the 28-ft. wire (with three radials) described in the KX-1 manual. The 28-ft. wire is the only antenna I’ve ever used when operating portable.
While I’ve had good success with the wire, I [...]

Audio DesignLine has been running a series of articles on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Written by two engineers at Analog Devices, the series focuses on their use in digital signal processing (DSP) systems. Good stuff!

Part 1 introduces the concept of sampling and explains Nyquist’s sampling criteria and how to use undersampling and [...]

Earlier today, we activated the WA2HOM callsign for the first time at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. WA2HOM is the vanity callsign that I was issued specifically for operations at the Museum.
The first contact occurred at 1510Z with KA3FNH. Overall, we made 14 contacts, including nine SSB contacts and five CW contacts. Four of our [...]

RF DesignLine is running a series of three articles by David Hall and Matt Anderson of National Instruments explaining RF instrument specifications.

Part 1 covers generic RF instrument specifications, such as: instantaneous bandwidth, frequency range, tuning speed, phase noise, and VSWR.
Part 2 covers five specifications that are particularly important to RF signal generators: frequency tolerance, output [...]

Conditions were pretty good tonight on 30m. Just after I turned the rig on, I heard an OZ1 calling CQ and bagged him.
Then, I tuned up the band, found an open frequency on 10.114 and started calling CQ. I got a little despondent after about five or six tries, but then an F6 called [...]

I just had an interesting QSO, and I was paid a very nice compliment in the process. I called CQ and got a reply from Howard K7JNX. We were operating somewhere between 25 and 30 wpm.
Howard complimented me on my fist, mentioning that he was using MixW software to copy. I must have a pretty [...]

From the 8/10/07 ARRL Letter:
==> 2007 ARRL Teachers Institutes Reach 45 Schools
Forty-eight teachers representing 45 schools from around the country attended the 2007 ARRL Teachers Institutes, held this summer in Rocklin, California, Spokane, Washington and at ARRL Headquarters in Newington. Each class of 12, ranging from pre-school teachers to college professors, got the opportunity to [...]

I’ve gotten two calls in the last week from folks interested in our amateur radio classes. I hate having to tell them that they have to wait until the next class starts, so I tell them that they should give it a try on their own and go on to list the Internet resources that [...]