ARRL dues hike, receiving Apollo 11, first SOTA activation, more...
Issue 70 July 25th, 2015
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ARRL Board approves dues hike
The ARRL Board of Directors has approved a $10 increase in the League's annual dues rate. ARRL
My first SOTA Activation
It's OK to screw up. After all, I'm sitting on a slab of granite, with a 5-watt radio, tapping out code on a straight key, on a fricking mountain! KK4DSD
Working DL8DJM aeronautical mobile
Aeronautical Mobile contacts are pretty rare and the team in the gazebo fell silent as Johannes DL8DJM/AM told us that he was flying from Edinburgh to South Italy, about 100km from Amsterdam at 43,000ft. Essex Ham
[PDF] The RF telecommunications system for New Horizons
This paper describes the design and development of the RF telecommunications system for the New Horizons mission, NASA's mission to Pluto. The Johns Hopkins University
USA Ham Radio License offered in UK
A group of ARRL certified Volunteer Examiners (VEs) will be hosting a USA ham radio exam night. Southgate
Lunar Eavedropping
In 1969 Larry Baysinger independently detected signals from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface. Jefferson Community & Technical College
NVIS
Near Vertical Incidence Skywave is an ionospheric skip operating technique that directs the strongest signals from a station vertically, or upward, rather than toward the horizon. Ham Radio School
How to
EME on a budget
Moonbounce for the rest of us introduces EME and highlights operational basics and propagation. hamradio.me
Getting started with the HackRF SDR
Shannon starts up the HackRF to show some of it's capabilities. Follow along and learn about this new software defined radio peripheral capable of transmission or reception of radio signals. Hak5
