Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 254

Amateur Radio Weekly

Amateur Radio is still a thing. Heres why
Once dismissed as an “old mans hobby,” amateur radio has grown in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Electronics360

ARRL to grant $500,000 to clubs
ARRL will enable clubs to more easily provide and expand their important services.
ARRL

Chasing weather balloons with Software-Defined Radio
How to hunt for downed radiosonde beacons with a cheap SDR receiver
IEEE Spectrum

BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts: Treetop Antennas
From the forests of North Carolina, USA to the city of Kyiv, Ukraine – two Ham Radio enthusiasts seek each other out.
BBC

9/11 special event
Station WA2NYC will operate as a remembrance of the 21st anniversary on the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.
Southgate

Amateur Radio Operator to honor broadcast engineers lost on 9/11
New England Ham Radio Repeater to be dedicated to their memory.
RadioWorld

DIY solder fume extractor
A 3D printed enclosure, a motor salvaged from a cheap toy quadcopter, and a custom PCB which uses the ATtiny13 and an AO4406 MOSFET to implement a PWM speed control.
Hack A Day

Boats on the Air
Boats on the Air was created to combine two passions: boating and ham radio!
Boats on the Air

Why dosSome VFOs tune more linearly than others?
For a given amount of VFO frequency dial turn you can get vastly different changes in frequency.
SolderSmoke

Video

DEF CON 30: Ham Radio Village interview
The lowdown on the Ham Radio Village at DEF CON 30.
DEF CON

KYET AM stereo radio station transmitter tour
Tour of AM stereo broadcast radio station.
YouTube

openSPOT 4: Did the best get better?
We take a look at the new cross-mode openSPOT4 from SharkRF.
Tech Minds

Digging to create an efficient under house workshop
This video takes you through the journey, the problems faced and the solutions I came up with to get the most out of the space.
Teaching Tech

Classic Mac running APRS
Macintosh SE/30 receiving APRS packets via a vintage TNC.
YouTube

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