Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 347
NASA to develop Lunar Time Standard
NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
NASA
Build the Frankentenna
The ultimate portable Ham Radio vertical antenna.
KB9VBR
Exploring international analog TV from leaky cable TV networks via the Airspy Server Network
Use SDR# and the Airspy Server Network to explore cable TV stations across the globe via cable TV signal interference.
RTL-SDR
How well does 17 meters work?
The higher the bands get the further they tend to reach more distant stations for me.
WK4DS
War of the Worlds in CW
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells in Morse Code starting at 20 WPM.
AA7FO
Rise and stall of GPS
The average age of GPS satellites hits 13 years.
Payload
Improving the antennas on Heltec ESP32 v3 devices
A neat little quarter wave 868Mhz vertical antenna for this device.
M0AWS
HF in small spaces
Loop antennas like these are typically used only for receiving, but in a pinch they can be used to transmit as well.
Hackaday
The great shack QRM hunt
Now that I’ve taken up POTA and know how nice S0-1 background noise is, I wanted to have another go at the home situation.
Ian Renton
Video
Comparing desoldering tools
Is the Hakko FR301 desoldering tool worth 4X the ZD915 clone?
More Fun Making It
Making a hot dog talk with RF
We devised a test to see just how dangerous the RF energy can be on an AM tower.
Geerling Engineering