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TBT: Talking HSMM in Albuquerque
From KE5DDZ‘s Flickr Library. Talking about amateur radio high speed multimedia applications with the Upper-Rio FM Society in January of 2008. It’s great to see the New Mexico HSMM network taking shape!
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When weather is threatening, radio operators are talking
Some great press from The Grand Island Independent that gives a good feel for how radio amateurs can be lifesavers when the skies turn dark.
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Ham Radio 101 – How a Crystal Radio Works
For many of us older guys, our first experience with home brew was building a crystal radio. Incredibly simple, yet also incredibly magical, some wire a paper tube and a piece of rock suddenly sent Tiger Baseball into our headphones.From our friends at CrystalRadio.net, some accessible and fun radio theory in practice.
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Jean Shepherd on Amateur Radio
Broadcaster and raconteur Jean Shepherd, K2ORS was an avid amateur radio enthusiast. He spoke often of the hobby on his WOR broadcasts. With thanks to Joe Levine, W8JRK, here is a link to an archive. Included in the collection is his 1985 Dayton HamVention speech where a number of MSUARC members were in attendance. It’s still…
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Echolink Connectivity Returns to W8MSU
Good News ! Andrew Temme and I finished installing the new windows 7 computer up in the repeater cabinet this afternoon. After a bit of reconfiguring we were able to bring up Echolink and connect to both W8UM and another repeater in Dayton. We may not have EVERYTHING configured properly, but it looks as though all of…
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The Voice of Victory – 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jps0_2adUvoA film about radio use at the end of the Second World War. There is an interesting simulation of an AM ham radio contact at 3:08.