Ham Radio… A Unique And Interesting Hobby

I have been a licensed Ham or Amateur Radio operator for about 20 years. By some standards, I am still considered a newcomer. Some of my first experiences with the hobby was to “work” Morse code or CW down on the Novice part of the 15 and 40 meter bands. I [...]

NAQCC Newsletter #055

From NAQCC VP John, K3WWP:
Issue #055 of our newsletter is now posted on the NAQCC web site.
In that newsletter you’ll find info about our October challenge which involves working and/or operating our N3A special event call. It’s too late to sign up and operate the call now if you haven’t done so, but you can [...]

Steve Roberts – N4RVE And The Nomadic Research Labs

As a young man in the early 60’s Steve Roberts was a Ham Radio operator known as WN4KSW. Steve talks about himself as a “prisoner of school isolated in the cultural drought of the Midwest”. He was labeled as a kid with high test scores hampered by “attitude problems” and he was told he was [...]

An Honest Review of the HP RX4240 PDA

Somewhere in 2006, HP released it’s RX4000 series PDAs or Mobile Media Companions. This device is a non-PDA-phone which comes in two models. The MMC includes a good selection of wireless and multimedia choices. While this unit is deemed by HP as an “everyday user” product, I have not found it to be all that [...]

What makes an engineer and/or ham radio amateur??

Local Nets

For any of us living in Suffolk County NY, there is a very open and friendly net run every Monday night @ 8PM on the SPARC (Suffolk County Police) repeater system. Topics are varied and discussions include input solicited from the check in roster. In addition, there is a brief swap and shop on [...]

FCC Reduces Vanity Call Fees

From the ARRL Letter, 9/7/07:The FCC will reduce
the regulatory fee to obtain or renew an Amateur
Radio vanity call sign by more than 40 percent starting
September 17. In a Report & Order (R&O)
released August 6, “Assessment and Collection of
Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2007,” in MD
Docket 07-81, the Commission will cut the fee
from its current $20.80 [...]

Amateur Radio – Art Or Science ? (Part Three)

The Art of Amateur Radio by Ron Hashiro, AH6RH and the (Emergency Amateur Radio Club) Wireless Dispatch.
This is the last of three articles on the art of amateur radio. In the first article, we took a look at the essence of radio waves. Last month, we looked at [...]

Amateur Radio Art Or Science ? (Part Two)

The Art of Amateur Radio by Ron Hashiro, AH6RH and the (Emergency Amateur Radio Club) Wireless Dispatch.
Last month, we took a look at the key element of radio waves…that the major component of a radio wave is really a spreading, magnetic wave and while it may diminish over [...]

Amateur Radio – Art Or Science? (Part One)

The Art of Amateur Radio by Ron Hashiro, AH6RH and the (Emergency Amateur Radio Club) Wireless Dispatch.

Amateur radio is a pastime that is based on science. It is also based on art.
Hard science such as physics, meteorology and chemistry gives us [...]