Have you ever been invited to visit with a group of radio amateurs and just felt like you’d dropped in at home? I’ve had the pleasure of that a few times. One of those groups is the Denby Dale Amateur Radio Society in England. Their Chairperson is Nick Bradley G4IWO. He’s invited me to natter […]
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Kicking-Off the HamSCI Year of Seminars
It was an honor to be asked by Nathaniel N2AF to kick-off this year’s series of online talks last week. We are kicking-off another football season so I actually got to play in this one! There were 60 or more in online attendance and several who sent in notes that they couldn’t make it but […]
A Good Use of an Old Baofeng HT
The old Baofeng HT (UV5R) is the butt of many jokes these days in amateur radio. But right after their introduction, they were the “Xiegu HF rig” of the moment: they mostly worked, were cheaper than many similar products, and hams just had to explore them! I bought a few, kept one, but gave them […]
Part 2 of the “Revolution” Article on the Sunspot Cycle in August Issue of RadCom
RadCom’s August issue contains Part 2 of my article with Dr. Scott McIntosh on the potential scientific revolution in understanding the cycle of Sunspots. This part contains more insight into the McIntosh team’s path-breaking theory of the Terminator Event and the factors that shape Cycle 25. The comparison of competing paradigms—here from the NASA/NOAA Panel’s […]