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02/26/2013 | [email protected]: New Mexico -- Land of HamchantmentIn a typical engineering discipline, one spends four (or more commonly, five) years in classes learning more math, science, circuit analysis and classroom topics than you could ever fathom to understand.
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12/22/2012 | [email protected]: November Sweepstakes For the Win!November plays host to my favorite contest -- the ARRL November Sweepstakes. “Sweeps” is divided into two separate contests, CW and Phone. Ironically, the first contest I ever participated in was the 2007 CW Sweeps, using a decoder and an automatic CW key
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06/13/2012 | [email protected]: From Field Day to Financial Aid -- What Amateur Radio Can Bring (besides On-The-Air Fun)Everyone finds his or her own niche in Amateur Radio. It can be as simple as having an mobile rig in the car that you might turn on every once in a while, doing nothing but listen to numbers stations or regularly working the Amateur Radio satellites, or “
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03/31/2012 | [email protected]: Getting a Niche in Amateur RadioMany have asked and pondered the answers to the question: “What is the best way to draw in new young hams?”
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02/28/2012 | [email protected]: Hamfesting Like CrazyThe last few weekends of January was all about burning gas and traveling across Missouri to visit two of the state’s great hamfests: the NKC Hamfest in Kansas City, and Winterfest in St Louis. Thankfully they were separated by a week, so this allowed me t
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12/27/2011 | [email protected]: Contesting Like CrazyThe last stretch of the year yields cold temperatures, snow and, if you live in Missouri, 60 degrees and rain. But most importantly, there’s a calendar full of contests -- just look at November and December’s ARRL Contest Calendars or Bruce Horn’s Contest
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10/24/2011 | [email protected]: Amateur Radio, Before and AfterAmateur Radio was born in candlelit labs and foggy fields by several renowned inventors and experimenters throughout the close of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The first wireless experimenters of the world -- Heinrich Hertz, Nikola Tesla, Re
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