Amateur Radio gives you 2 Million friends

1471 pages of amazing articles to feed your mind and fuel your imagination New CD “Book” – “Amateur Radio gives you 2 Million friends” Released. This is unique HAM Radio stories CD Publication collected and wrote by Stan SM7WT that probably you never seen before.   Author’s comments see below (Stan SM7WT) wrote: … 340…

SWLing: Libya Psyops

Here is latest list of frequencies reported and those monitored from here on the Radio Ranch. All frequencies are in kHz. 4196.0 Naval Military style CWC tracking net USB (American English accents). Sounds like a surface voice coordination net. Passing a track for a Russian AGI (3/21 @ 2150 UTC). Early on in Operation Odyssey…

Japan earthquake – ICOM and Kenwood

Both ICOM and Kenwood have issued statements concerning the affect of the earthquake on their factories. It appears Icom’s facilities at Osaka and Wakayama are in the south of the country and Kenwood’s primary office facilities in Yokohama and Hachioji are to the south and west of the quake’s epicentre. Kenwood’s primary manufacturing facility is…

Yaesu Fukushima factory shutdown

  CQ Newsroom reports that production of Yaesu Amateur Radio equipment at Vertex Standard’s factory in Fukushima, Japan, has been temporarily halted due to earthquake damage In an open letter to the amateur radio community, Vertex Standard CEO and President Jun Hasegawa expressed his gratitude for the many “kind words and thoughts about us during…