Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 329
A heavy sad heart
MFJ is ceasing its on-site production.
MFJ Enterprises
A QSL card revival for the 21st century
No printing involved. No mailing involved. No cost involved.
Ham Radio Outside the Box
Making an AllStarLink node with the URC
The following guide covers the steps to modify the Universal Radio Controller (URC) to use in an AllStarLink node.
G1LRO
QRadioLink
A GNU/Linux multimode (analog and digital) SDR (software defined radio) transceiver application using the Internet for radio to VOIP bridging (radio over IP), built on top of GNU radio.
QRadioLink
Radio frequency burns, flying a kite, and you
At half the signal’s wavelength, an antenna that long would capture plenty of energy from the nearby broadcast antenna.
Hackaday
DX-peditions collection
The California Historical Radio Society contributed this collection of DX-pedition material to the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications.
DLARC
Trying a $15 70cm transceiver
Browsing Amazon I noticed a pair of 446MHz transceivers for $30 and I wondered what you get.
Marxy’s Musing on Technology
How to make emoijis in VarAC
Modify the VarAC.ini file.
PE4BAS
Excellent video series on RF amplifier design
A six part video series on how to design an HF 50 watt RF linear amplifier.
SolderSmoke
Video
Introduction to the Remote Radio Unit
Open source full duplex transceiver with RF isolators.
M17 Project
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
Measuring a wave of electricity traveling down a wire, and answer the question – how does electricity know where to go?
AlphaPhoenix
Hello, ARW!
Recently i created two powerful allstar platforms for our amateur radio friends and family.
i would love to get this info out to as many amateur radio operators as soon as I’m able.
First and most important is alrotanets.com. The website is self-explanatory, but in a nutshell, ALROTANETS is designed to be a one-stop go-to allstar platform for all groups/clubs and repeater owners to schedule automatic connections to other allstar linkable groups/systems for general chats and nets such as morning/evening drive nets.
ALROTA 1-6 is used for general everyday connections whereas ALROTA 7-9 is set aside for emergency connections such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or any realtime natural/national emergencies, including desktop training.
The other platform is WestCoastReflector.com. Of course, we can’t have an East Coast or a SouthCoast reflector without a legit WestCoast Reflector, Right?
if you folks there at ARW can spread this great info it would be greatly.
Thank you,
Ken Varnell
N6KNE
[email protected]
WestCoastReflector.com
Alrotanets,com
Got ALROTANETS scheduled for the next issue. Thanks for surfacing this, Ken! 73 K4HCK