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Ham College episode 3 is now available for download.

Ham College, the new show for those new to the hobby and those wishing to get into Amateur Radio.

In episode 3 we talk about voltage, demonstrate using voltmeters and cover 14 more questions and answers from the Technical class question pool.

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We are just finishing up the details and it looks like a live episode of AmateurLogic.TV will be broadcast from the Icom booth at Dayton Hamvention, 2 – 4 PM EDT, May 16th.

A special set is being built for the event. It’s going to be a lot of fun!

If you attend Hamvention this year please come by and show your support for ALTV.

AmateurLogic.TV Episode 76 is now available for download.

A simple shutdown switch avoids trashing your Raspberry Pi’s operating system. SSTV from the ISS with Peter. George visits the Orange Texas Hamfest. Modulation on a Scope, viewer emails and more.

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Most people know John K3NXU well as the busy bee who maintains Miklor.com. Starting today, John will be an author here too.

We have a long history of exchanging information behind the scenes, but in an informal way. No surprise here; our websites have a lot in common. We started to exchange more and more e-mails lately, talked to each other on the phone and concluded that a more official cooperation would be the next logical step.

So, there we are: Miklor.com and hamgear.wordpress.com are ‘tying the knot’. We hope (and expect) that this will benefit our readers. John’s first article, his take on the Anytone TERMN-8R, will be published later today.

We will be producing episode 76 of AmateurLogic This Friday night, March 6th at 7:00 CST, 0100 UTC.

You can watch us shoot it live at www.live.amateurlogic.tv, or download the edited version a couple of days later.

Courtesy hamnieuws.nl

Privacy and freedom are constantly traded in for a (often false) sense of security. This has nothing to do with ham radio, you’d probably think, but even our hobby isn’t immune.

Repeaters
Repeaters are only useful if the antennas can be placed high above ground. In the Netherlands we use a number of existing locations, most of which were once used for analog TV and radio. The owners of the towers decided that safety and security will prevail over (safe, terrorist-free) ham radio.

The following systems will be affected:

• ATV repeater PI6ATV, both analog and digital,
• 2 meter repeater PI3UTR,
• D-star repeater PI1UTR,
• DMR repeater PI1UTR,
• RX co-location for the 70cm repeater PI2NOS,
• RX co-location for the 10 meter repeater PI6TEN,
• Four Hamnet access points and links.

There is a chance that the equipment can be relocated to a lower section of the tower while keeping the antennas on the original altitude. Even in the best case scenario the costs of relocating will exceed the minimal financial reserves – good coax cable is expensive, and we would need a lot of it.

I’ll end with this quote: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin)