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Hello !!!! Buy a good Radio and then homebrew better one than that..... Dinesh Patel VU2DCI

Product Reviews

N4ATS Radio & Amplifier Repair
Winter Field Day emergency repair
W6LVP Magnetic Receive Loop
Amazing antenna, phenomenal customer service
Yaesu FTM-400DR
Good radio
Icom ID-5100A
Good radio
Elecraft K1
What a rig
W8FGU Services, LLC - Servicing Elecraft Products
Solid service
Vibroplex Lightning Bug
Lightnings aren't the prettiest, but highly practical!
Radioditty GD-168
Not ready for prime time
Icom Service Center Michigan (SAR Technical Services, Inc.)
Super Fast Service - Very Reasonable Rates! Highly Recommend
ICOM IC-718
350 Good Reviews
9A5N Solid State CW Paddles
Just the best paddle I've ever used.

News

Vanishing Culture: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications:
Amateur Radio has been a hobby for well over 100 years. For as long as there has been an understanding of electricity and radio waves, people have bee...
Amateur Radio Operators Seek the Right Frequency During Emergency:
Watching the images of charred devastation around Los Angeles, as well as recalling the chaos that enveloped the area amidst local wildfires a couple ...
Peoria-Area Radio Operators Participating in Nationwide Winter Field Day:
TREMONT -- (25News Now) -- Amateur radio operators around Central Illinois will be setting up radios and antennas during a nationwide winter exercise ...
'It's All About Goodwill,' Columbus Radio Club Builds Global Bridges:
COLUMBUS -- On Saturday, The Columbus Radio Club met for its weekly gathering at the local firehouse. "The radio bands we have access to (are) a preci...

Propagation

Issued 2025 Jan 15 1505 UTC
Flux: 166 A-Index:12.
K-Index:3
Actv: No space wx storms observed.
Fcst: No space wx storms expected.

NOAA Solar Activity
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Articles

Dead Electrical Dudes No. 9
KA4KOE's look back at Dr. Lee DeForest
10 Meter Hex Beam
A detailed look at this antenna
Tensioning Guy Wires
An "eHam Classic" by Bill Fisher, W4AN (SK) and Mark Lowell, N1LO
Vertical Antenna ALMOST as Tall as the Empire State Building!
A brief history of the Hawes Radio Tower

Surveys

Q: What makes you get on the air?

Responses: 113
Comments: 13
Answers:
1: A new DX Country, Zone, Grid etc.
2:Contests or Awards
3:Rag Chewing or Schedule with an old friend
4:SOTA, POTA or Special Event Stations
5:Portable, Mobile or QRP ops
6:Nets, Clubs, Demonstrations, Public Service, Emergency
7:other
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