December 14, 2013
SNOWY DAY/10 METER CONTEST
November 26, 2013
Intermod
November 22, 2013
Deeply Saddened
August 12, 2013
PILE UP ON 2 METER'S !!!!!
June 20, 2013
MISSING CHILD!!!
U. K. AMATUER RADIO
Back to the U.K. I have always been a fan and on my bucket list to visit London. In my earlier years of operating I had a mini-quad and a TS-430S and was quite excited to be able to carry out a QSO on phone with a gentleman from the U.K. Back then band conditions were not the greatest and I was very lucky to make a QSO out of the U.S.
FIELD DAY WEEKEND STARTS TOMORROW ! I WILL BE OPERATING ON 20 METERS PHONE UNDER THE CALL W8HHF THE RADIO CLUB CALL SIGN WHERE I BELONG. I WILL BE OPERATING THE NIGHT STARTING ABOUT 11 P.M. EST.
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE AND BE SAFE !
73'S
June 17, 2013
FIRST CONTACT !
June 10, 2013
ARROW Communication Association
I recently came across this website while looking for additional frequencies to program into my H.T. as I have been frequently traveling the Ann Arbor Michigan area. This site has lots of good reading and Helpful links!
73’s
June 05, 2013
Amateur Radio Repeaters
I wanted to share this webpage I found. It is from AC6V and is loaded with all kinds of information. I needed repeater offsets for the different bands. My Yaesu VX7R is a 4 band radio and recently decided to program it. I have never used repeaters on 220, 440 and 6 meters. Needless to say the offsets are very different and also a lot of the repeaters are on PL.
73’s
June 01, 2013
UNSETTLED WEATHER!
May 15, 2013
BBC News - 'Screaming' traffic cones unveiled in Birmingham
BBC News - 'Screaming' traffic cones unveiled in Birmingham
Follow the above link ! It seems in the U.K. they have came up with these new traffic cones to alert workers when some one has broken through their barrier. It also transmits on 433 Mhz to let workers further down the construction site the barrier has been broken. Will we see these in the USA? Time will tell?
73,s
May 11, 2013
SPECIAL EVENT STATION
March 23, 2013
Learning
I took a different approach to HRD, I looked at it as a software suite instead of one big program. The log files stay put and I like how they are displayed. One really awesome feature, when running the satellite pert of the program it interfaces with Google Earth. Pick a satellite of interest watch its track on the programs map then click over to the Google Earth Icon. You are then sent on a journey with that satellite and have a view of earth as that satellite would see it. I do this often with the International Space Station basically seeing what they would see. Its a virtual ride along, a high five for the developer of this!
73's
Mike/N8GBU
March 02, 2013
Busy Busy
One of my frustrating projects has been trying to get my rigblaster pro to work. As of right now it still will not work with my Kenwood TS-2000X. I have tried customer service and the Yahoo help groups. Each time I post several new ideas come from the groups. Odds are one of them is going to work eventually. I have confidence in one suggestion in particular and that will be the next one I try!
73's
Mike
February 09, 2013
RTTY BEGININGS
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Mike/N8GBU
February 03, 2013
MY MOST WANTED QSL'S
73's
Mike/N8GBU
January 31, 2013
HAM RADIO IN SPACE
I became a bit upset today after reading a posting from the AMSAT BB. The ham was angry or upset because an astronaut from Canada did not have his ham radio license but instead chose to text and tweet from the International Space Station. This upset me because so many hams seem forget that Amateur radio is a " guest " on the I.S.S. and is not a priority. Myself I'm grateful that we (ham radio operators) have a working radio station aboard the I.S.S. It took a lot of work and planning to get the equipment up there and install it. Imagine taking a space walk to install a ham radio antenna ! Then installing the coax from a vacuum environment to a pressurized environment, no problem I do it every day right? NOT!
My first exposure to Amateur radio in space was hearing W5LFL Owen Garriot aboard the "Space Lab or Sky Lab" I can't remember which. Then another instance happened in the 1990's when I received the "DOVE" satellite beacon transmission before it went silent. In 2010 I went to the Dayton HamVention and saw an AMSAT demonstration and I was bit by the bug. All though I have not made a contact via satellite but have the equipment to do so. I guess I'm a bit "gun shy" of attempting to make my first contact, hopefully I'll do it this Summer!
73's
Mike
January 26, 2013
Putting Shack back Together
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Mike/N8GBU
January 20, 2013
On the Border
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Mike/ N8GBU
January 19, 2013
Updating The Blog
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THE ANGLE OF THE DANGLE
73's N8GBU / MIKE