In the private sector, business owners agonize over every penny they spend. Although it happens in the public sector as well, government doesn’t have a reputation for watching how closely they spend public money....
Up until last month, I’ve used my original Novice-class call sign since it came in the mail in 1988. When I upgraded to Technician, I didn’t change it because the FCC had run out...
Mark Krotz, N7MK, has petitioned the FCC to changes its rules and make Amateur Radio licenses valid for the holder’s lifetime, instead of the current 10 year term. Krotz cites the lifetime status of...
Growth in amateur radio licenses remains strong since the elimination of the Morse code requirement.
In honor of the first day of Winter, I give you a drone flight over a frozen Lake Michigan.
Certainly, there are law enforcement applications to this research. There are also humanitarian and disaster recovery opportunities as well.
Let me be clear; this is not a call to bring Morse code back to Ham Radio.
I ran across a Wikipedia entry about Rufus Turner recently. Rufus was an engineer who developed the 1N34A germanium diode in the 1946. This particular diode is an old standby in electronics, widely used...
As an experiment, I added a half-wave counterpoise to my radio during a recent Boy Scout camping trip. Here’s what happened.
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