Yogi Berra is reputed to have said, “You can observe a lot by just looking.” Well, to paraphrase that wise old man, “You can hear a lot by just listening.”
Let me give you an example. Sometimes, when I’m tuning around, I’ll pick up a copy of QST or World Radio, that’s lying on the desk. [...]

I recently purchased an iPod Touch. One of the cool things I can do is to subscribe to podcasts. There are podcasts on any number of topics, including ham radio. Here are some of the podcasts I found for free in the iTunes store:

SolderSmoke
Practical Amateur Radio
Resonant Frequency
ICQ

And, for the CW-obsessed, theres is QOTD at 20 [...]

From the 10/25/08 issue of the ARRL Letter:
* ARRL’s 500 kHz Station, WD2XSH, Wants to Hear from You: Fritz Raab,
W1FR, coordinator for ARRL’s 500 kHz Experimental Station, WD2XSH, reports that fall has brought lower static and good propagation, making excellent conditions for the 500 kHz experimenters. The experimental license, issued in September 2006, has more [...]

If you think that there are no longer any threats to our shortwave allocations, read this:
ARLB015 FCC Responds to ARRL Petition Against Experimental License using 40 Meter Band
On Monday, October 20, the ARRL filed a “Petition for Modification or Cancellation of Experimental Authorization” (Petition) with the FCC with respect to WE2XRH. According to the FCC, [...]

Here’s my column for October………..Dan
About a week ago, I got an e-mail from a ham down in Texas who had attended the Maker Faire. “Makers” are people who love to tinker and make things. They even have their own magazine, Make.
He was amazed at the lack of any amateur radio content. He wrote,
“The Maker [...]

I just discovered the website instructables.com. This is a very cool site that gives step-by-step instructions on how to build things. When I searched the site for “radio,” I found hundreds of projects including:

Radio Direction Finding Antenna for VHF (shown at right)
Build an antique style crystal radio
RF Probe

Donald Christensen has written an homage to the vacuum tube. He notes that many young engineers aren’t aware of the rich history of the vacuum tube. He writes, “Some [young engineers] may even believe that aside from a few special-purpose tubes (magnetrons, klystrons, photomultipliers, and CRTs for example), tubes are no longer manufactured and are [...]

The DX stations are cranking up for the upcoming DX contests, and now is the time for casual DXers to bag them without having to participate in the contests. As I mentioned in the previous post, I worked 6W/DL4JS on Sunday evening. Yesterday, I worked a bunch more on 40m, including:

CN8IG
CU2AR
9A2N
EA7GOJ
F6CHT

CN8IG is my first [...]

My ham radio weekend started early. Even though we were scheduled to start operating at the museum at 10 am, I thought I’d turn on the rig and see what condition 40m was in. One reason for doing this is that we intended to operate the Jamboree on the Air. I found that the band [...]

The October 2008 issue of High Frequency Electronics contains the article, “A Review of the Major Types of RF and Microwave Coaxial Connectors.” It describes about 20 different types of connectors. To get to it, you have to download the PDF version of the issue.
That’s not so bad, though. It’s only 7 Mbytes, and [...]