"Oh, out in the countryside has to be great for #radio stuff. #Shortwave and #hamRadio and all that! So little signal noise!"
* Ten farmers start up their electrically noisy machinery *
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Hello fellow #hamradio friends.
Is there a good diy usb tuning knob project out there that can easily be build?
Im planning to get a bit more into the hobby again and this would come in very handy.
Im thinking about something like the rc-28
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#Radio accounts posting videos:
➡️ @pg4i - Amateur radio operator, especially Morse code
➡️ @n3vem - Amateur radio, amateur rocketry, radio rockets
➡️ @kd8bxp - Amateur radio, robotics, retro computing
➡️ @raek - Electronics & radio, building radio equipment
➡️ @flo - Retro tech incl radio transmitters & receivers
➡️ @vwestlife_makertube - All about classic technology including radios
➡️ @jmh59 - Railways, model trains, amateur radio
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What are your favorite books on repairing things? What about books on making things?
As the internet gets filled with AI slop I've been putting together a personal library for friends and neighbors.
I have a book on bike repair, two books related to making, altering, and mending clothes, a book on home repairs, a book about electronics, and the book I used to study for my Ham radio exam.
I'm trying to figure out the information for the Maricopa County New Hams Net. I know I can listen on 440.375 MHz at 7pm on Thursdays, but I don't seem to have any information on transmitting.
Looking for information online seems to bring up old web pages with different recieve frequencies. I got my information from a friend and was able to listen a few weeks ago, but not transmit. I'm pretty sure they stated the transmitting on the air, but I had trouble programming at the time.
Summit to Summit SSTV
https://youtu.be/5uRxZzbGcpk
#HamRadio #SummitsOnTheAir #SOTA #SSTV
Space satellite company is using #hamradio bands without permission, and now is looking to take away the 430 to 440Mhz band for its exclusive use.
AMSAT:
"Despite not being amateur satellites the first five commercial satellites use these amateur frequencies for telemetry links with a 50 kHz bandwidth: 430.5, 432.3, 434.1, 435.9 and 439.5 MHz..... AST SpaceMobile are planning to launch a further 243 satellites .... In February they submitted a request to the FCC Space Bureau for use of the amateur band worldwide"
(Update: "Note that the last day to comment is Monday July 21.")
https://amsat-uk.org/2025/06/26/use-of-430-440-mhz-by-ast-spacemobile-constellation/
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The company that wants to take away parts of 70cm ham radio for its own use ALSO is a problem child in the field of astronomy 😡
"...one of the newest satellites, BlueWalker 3, outshines all
but a handful of the brightest visible stars. It exemplifies how, without stronger regulation,
satellites could substantially change the view of the night sky worldwide (Fig. 1), and severely
jeopardize future use of Earth’s orbit for science, communication and space exploration. .... The BlueWalker 3 satellite, which
has been in orbit since September 2022, was launched by a relatively small operator, telecommunications firm AST SpaceMobile:"
h/t @sundogplanets
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Looking over Black Friday announcements from HRO and DX Engineering yields an interesting takeaway: today’s “super-specials” look a lot like last year’s everyday prices for many items. Anyone else seeing this too? #HamRadio #BlackFriday
Just a reminder that the CQ Santa net is operational for the season.
If you have the ability to operate SSB on 80m and know little ones who are fans of Santa, this is a super fun activity.
We had 24 check-ins to this week's #FediFridayWinlinkNet , all from the USA.
The net webpage has been updated at https://w0rmt.net/ffwn/ and confirmations are being sent via #Winlink
Responses to this week's question "What is your favorite holiday":
-Thanksgiving (4)
-The day I met my wife
-Christmas (5)
-May Day
-Favorite Holiday is always the next one
-None
-Field Day
-St. Brigid's Feast
-Easter
-Labor Day
-Memorial Day (2)
-final day of classes in spring of any year
-4th of July
-Towel Day
-Yule
-Daylight savings in fall
Thanks for participating and see you next week!
N3VEM is an amateur radio enthusiast and model rocket builder making videos about both these hobbies:
➡️ @n3vem
They have already uploaded over 30 videos, if these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/n3vem/videos
You can also follow their general account at @[email protected]
#FeaturedPeerTube #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #Radio #Rockets #Rocketry #ModelRockets #ModelRocketry #PeerTube #PeerTubers
I had dug out my boxes of tech supplies recently to show my kid stuff they could work with on the spare computer. And found the lost #GMRS radios.
That caught their eye, and we were able to charge them. They’ve been listening to it on and off. Today I helped when they’d found a net. I was able to confirm it was a repeater setup, the reported cities were to far away. I then found out which repeater/net it was, and looked up the details to join.
$50-100/year, and they don’t want to spend the money to join.
I gently pushed for them to keep learning the #HamRadio questions, and I’d pay any fees.
How do lightning arrestors (the kind that go on an outdoor antenna feed line, bonded to ground) function? what do they look like internally?
#hamRadio
Question for #HamRadio folx out there who are also #Blind. How did you handle questions on the test that use schematics? I just discovered this is an issue while studying on a site that, so far, has been reasonably accessible. Hoping figuring out how others have handled it might help me figure out how to proceed and/or what suggestions I can make to the site so I can proceed and/or others after me don't face the same problems. Thanks in advance, and please boost for reach.
#parksontheair is looking for development volunteers! #hamradio #pota #developer #volunteer https://docs.pota.app/docs/volunteers/development-opportunities-202512.html
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#hamchallenge week 52 - the final one for 2025! Create an Infographic or Webcomic (about ham radio)! This may be the most challenging one, but why not give it a try between all the Christmas chores? https://hamchallenge.org/2025/52 #hamradio
What's up with the URL arrl.org? All of my browsers say that it has a bad #certificate. #hamradio @arrl
Following LP-sized pancakes at the North Pole in Newport on Saturday, our southeast Twin Cities metro ham radio club will administer tests at the church and then host a hidden-transmitter fox hunt.
Our club secretary thinks it'd be fun to dress up in fox suits. They're very popular.
I think we should get extra points, Field Day-style, for arriving on a horse, blowing a bugle, attracting press attention.
The ringleader of our fox hunt claims his girth affords 60dB attenuation, an important factor in radio direction-finding.
Here's a good introduction, and thorough:
'To the uninitiated, Fox Hunting may appear to be easy. "Take a bearing to the Fox. Plot it on a map. Move to another location. Plot the second bearing. Find the Fox where the bearings cross." In reality, Fox hunting can be difficult. It is a skill that can be learned, and some people have more innate talent for it than others.'
https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Clubs/MARCONI%20Project/MARCONI%20OG%20Prog-2%20FOX%20HUNTING%20Final.pdf
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Experimental musicians with an amateur radio license, I wonder if we can organize a jam or a concert on the radio waves?
Not sure on the technical details, but I'd like to do it all "above board." So we'd have to figure out how to transmit callsigns regularly, not use encryption, stay within allowed parts of the spectrum etc.
Just an idea, so thoughts, help, feedback welcome!
pls boost
I saw a house with many lineal meters of antenna.
I'm curious: what are all of these my
#HamRadio people?
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One of my favourite features of the #fediverse is seeing people *learning things*. There are so many folks here discovering dying arts and trades. People learning how the things we take for granted work, and endeavouring to implement them themselves!
People getting their #HAMradio licenses, #selfhosting, making clothing, blacksmithing, gardening, repairing their own things, backporting modern software to run on windows 3.11...
Y'all are my people. Never stop learning, and never stop sharing what you've learned.