A “Custom” Phonetic Alphabet
Stumbled across this the other day on Reddit I think, it’s someone’s phonetic alphabet. I’m very tempted to use this next week during my local repeater’s ragchew net and see what kind of responses...
Stumbled across this the other day on Reddit I think, it’s someone’s phonetic alphabet. I’m very tempted to use this next week during my local repeater’s ragchew net and see what kind of responses...
Recently BaofengTech released a new tri-band radio, the UV2501+220, which is a VHF/UHF mobile also covering the 222MHz band. The radio sounded great upon first glance considering it’s small size, 25 watt output (20...
I stumbled upon these two calculators while browsing Reddit last night. One is for horizontal separation and the other for vertical separation. Pretty handy if you have limited space in both of those axis...
Thanks to KB4RMA ordering a 2-pack of these I have a new radio to test, a TYT TH-UV8000D. The radio is a 10w/5w VHF/UHF with all of the normal features you see on the...
Let’s look at a program used to track the hundreds of satellites in Low Earth Orbit, Gpredict. While this software can be used to track any satellite we’ll focus primarily on satellites with transceivers or...
This week begins a weekly series of posts related to the RaspberryPi and useful programs for Amateur Radio. If you aren’t familiar with the RaspberryPi this will be an introduction to what it is...
My local radio club and ARES/RACES group (http://jcar.us) are operating a booth at our county Fair this week. So far it’s been a blast and we’ve gotten quite a few interested people stop by....
Reddit user Fohdeesha posted earlier in the AmateurRadio subreddit about the issue of Windows adding unnecessary digital gain to audio levels when using a USB sound device like a Signalink interface. He posted a workaround for...
Last week I posted a few pictures of my completed VHF/UHF Go-Box so now I’d like to explain more about it and the reasoning behind my choices. My design requirements for the go-box have developed...