Amateur radio operators are still assisting with disaster communications, after last weekend’s snowstorm and massive power blackouts that followed. The storm, which dumped more than a foot of wet snow on many areas, brought down tree limbs and power lines, and left more than 700 thousand Connecticut homes in the dark. For ham radio, the…
You are invited to help spread the word about this wonderful hobby amateur radio to a global radio audience! You are invited to call into a live radio show tomorrow Saturday November 12, 2011 between 4 PM Central and 10 PM Central. This is an International Shortwave Radio broadcast with global coverage. You are invited…
The October issue of the IARU Monitoring System (IARUMS) newsletter reports that the intruder situation on 28 MHz is getting worse. It says “We found much CB-like traffic (AM, FM, SSB) between 28 and 29.7 MHz in September and again in October 2011. Origins: Europe, Brazil, Far East. Besides that we observed, that the band…
The LD-1TR is a NEW 5-Watt (nominal output) HF / MF transceiver for Amatreur Radio operators. It’s based on the LD-1B2 software defined receiver (in fact, there’s an LD-1B2 inside it and it looks just like an LD-1B2) but there’s an LD-1TX 5-Watt transmitter module inside the box. Like the LD-1B2, its low cost and…