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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
Are you getting the impression that we have been spending quite a bit of time on our new motorcycles? And what good is a motorized vehicle if you cannot find a way to get it to schlep all of your stuff up a mountain for you? This was about a 120 mile roundtrip from Boston. …
Since I took delivery of my Yamaha TW200 back in March, I have been riding it as much as I can. Its a little one-cylinder thumper with a (less than) whopping 14 horsepower output. It really can’t go on highways because it is too slow. They call it a tractor. I’ve been calling mine “Chubby”. …
This continues a series of blog posts on David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio”, that I am studying while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the each chapter that aid …
Gosh I love these things… KM1NDY
We all know that fifty-year-olds buy motorcycles. And sure enough, after spending my half-century completion year pedaling 1500 miles on a two-decade-old thrift shop Schwinn Madison Fixie (a bike I literally spotted on my walk-turned-ride to work one day), I got the bright idea to buy a scooter. This was not actually a midlife crisis, …
This continues a series of blog posts on David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio”, that I am studying while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the each chapter that aid …
This continues a series of blog posts on David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio”, that I am studying while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the each chapter that aid …
I say yes. There is a lot of debate amongst amateur radio operators as to whether or not ham radio can be an effective component of an emergency communication plan for a municiple or other governmental jurisdiction. The national organization for ham radio promotes the hobby as a way to “serve” agencies who purportedly need …