Michigan Section Manager Larry Camp WB8R and I recently had the opportunity to attend The Auto State Young Ladies (TASYLs) 50th Anniversary luncheon in Holt, MI. We were able to present congratulatory letters from the Section Managers from Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan as well as a Congratulatory Certificate from the Michigan Section and…
Just launched on Kickstarter, NextThing’s CHIP is a $9 Linux PC with a 1-GHz R8 processor, 512 MB of RAM and 4GB of flash storage. It goes a step beyond the $35 Raspberry Pi with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in. NextThing also touts $49 Pocket CHIP, a handheld device for the CHIP with a470 x 272…
(Via KX9X/ARRL) Hams in Nepal, already in limited supply, continue to turn out to aid in the ongoing recovery from the April 25 earthquake that struck the Himalayan nation. Radio amateurs in neighboring India are also pitching in, and at least two groups of hams from Gujarat, India, are planning…
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.
An early reminder for the Michigan QSO Party coming up April 18th. The contest starts at Noon local time and runs through Midnight. We recently changed out all of our shack computers, so I’m working on installing computer logging programs right now. Hoping to have them all talking to each other and…
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…
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…
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…