Friday, July 12, 2024
We do what we do in amateur radio because we can. Simple as that. It’s unhealthy to spend much time wondering why we marvel at a ham radio contact when we could more easily make a phone call. We play with radio because we can. This week I created a radio telegram. Why? Because I can. If the traffic system works properly, that message will be delivered, eventually, and my friend will likely be impressed with the result. You can send messages like this too thanks to the National Traffic System and the Radiogram Web Portal.
Quotable
“An elderly friend once told me there were four ages to life: youth, middle age, old age, and ‘You look great’”
– Robert Reich, (who turned 78 the other day)
Notable
- Watch K7AGE work K8R (American Samoa) using the new SuperFox feature of WSJT-X
- VK2/W7BRS Lord Howe Island DXpedition July 11 - August 1st 2024
- Results 2023 CQ World Wide VHF Contest along with the line scores
- Dates for the Summer North American QSO Party (NAQP) contests: NAQP RTTY on July 20, NAQP CW on August 3, NAQP SSB on August 17
- RIP: Developer of the Curtis Morse keyer chip, John G. “Jack” Curtis, K6KU, died on June 4 after a long illness. He was 87.
Potable
- Short wave – long term - “Before there was social media there was amateur, or ham radio, and it’s going to exist long after social media is just a memory.”
- Going Ham Mobile on a Bicycle
- Super long-range Wi-Fi works at a range of 1.8 miles — HaLow standard aces a real-world test despite high interference
- Maiden crew’s First Mate Rachel Burgess: ‘The girls showed how tough they were’
- Tiny $10 Raspberry Pi 5 PCie board brings low-cost, high-speed storage – the end of micro SD is nigh
Long Read
- Interesting article about the the Effects of Aging. It's worth reading not just because the water cooler talk this week has been about the 'debate', or because of the sick fetish of the American voter to lust after only fossilized political candidates. It's worth reading because our hobby is aging so rapidly...
Public Service-able