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Prepare your business for any weather scenario with live weather maps

Severe weather has the potential to disrupt any business. Lightning strikes, even those that occur miles away from your business, have the potential to cause an electrical surge that might fry your electrical equipment, appliances and computers. This not only affects your productivity, but it...

June 1, 2017 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

ARRL 2015 Hurricane Season Webinar Set for July 20

The ARRL will host a 2015 Hurricane Season webinar Monday, July 20, getting under way at 8 PM EDT (July 21, 0000 UTC). The approximately 90-minute session will address the role of Amateur Radio during the 2015 Hurricane Season. Anyone interested in hurricane preparedness...

June 19, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

FCC Eliminates Amateur Radio Vanity Call Sign Regulatory Fee

The FCC has decided to drop all fees for issuing vanity call signs to hams. In a ruling issued on May 21, the Commission explained that the costs of processing the payments and issuing refunds to amateurs whose requests cannot be met exceed the revenue...

June 17, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

3 Element 2 Meter Yagi Antenna

This is my next Antenna Project Typically the reflector is 5% longer and the director 5% shorter than the driven element. By spacing elements about 0.15 to 0.25 wavelengths from each other you end up with a beam antenna with about 7dB of gain....

May 19, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

Visited NOAA Today

Visited NOAA Today http://www.noaa.gov/

May 1, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

Slim Jim Antenna Project

The Slim Jim Antenna The Slim Jim is a vertically polarized omnidirectional end-fed antenna having considerable “gain” and this is concentrated almost parallel to ground toward the horizon rather than skyward making it more efficient than a ground plane type antenna by about 50 percent...

April 7, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

2015 National Hurricane Conference

2015 National Hurricane Conference Amateur Radio Presentations and Workshops Austin Convention Center — Austin, TX Tuesday, May 31, 2015 Today at 1830 UTC the Amateur Radio presentation at Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

March 31, 2015 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

Audio Technica AT2020 Microphone

I bought myself an Audio Technica AT2020 for my ham radio rig. I have the adapters and PTT(push to talk) button coming soon. The only thing weired about this mic is I had to but several adapters and cables to make it work plus a...

December 23, 2014 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off

Elenco Variable Voltage Power Supply Kit

My latest build project. I found the project relatively easy a few day project doing it at night after work. There was a lot of soldering and involved and wire stripping over all it was a very easy project and well worth the time. The...

December 8, 2014 admin Amateur Radio, Hardware Comments Off

Geminid Meteor Shower Gets An Early Start

http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/ EARLY GEMINIDS: Earth is entering a stream of debris from “rock comet” 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. The shower is not expected to peak until Dec. 14th, but NASA meteor cameras are detecting Geminid fireballs over the USA two weeks...

December 3, 2014 admin Amateur Radio Comments Off