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The Internet Relay Linking Project (IRLP) connects repeaters around the world. It’s different than Echolink in that it’s only used to link repeaters. We have a Reflector in Michigan and yup, it’s hosted by a Spartan. Here’s information on IRLP 9610

News from AMSAT about the next generation Fox satellites. Some cool new opportunities to work the stars. Here’s how you can help AMSAT make this dream a reality.

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!

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.

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…

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…

An appreciation by Jason Feifer in Popular Mechanics.

900MHz quad-core system-on-chip,  1GB of RAM, and still just $35.00. I use the Pi to interface with my D-Star DVAP dongle and it’s been darn near bulletproof. Eager to put this baby through her paces.  Here’s more from Gizmodo.

“The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015” — H.R.1301 — has been introduced in the US House of Representatives. The measure would direct the FCC to extend its rules relating to reasonable accommodation of Amateur Service communications to private land use restrictions. Learn more here.

Baluns. We see em in a variety of amateur radio applications. They help turn a couple of long pieces of wire into a tool that a coaxial cable can feed with radio frequency energy. But what are they? Why do we need them? And how do they work? This 1985 article by W7EL takes the…