Ham Culture
While I occasionally get a bit worried about ham radio having to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, there are encouraging signs that some hams get it. The two areas in ham radio where this seems most pronounced is in Radiosport and DXing/DXpeditions. Outside of the United States, these aspects of the [...]
This evening I was browsing one of my favorite QRP homebrewing sites, QRP Homebuilder by VE7BPO, when I stumbed upon something that really struck a nerve. Todd does a really great job in documenting his projects and experiments, as well as walking you through his thought process in many of the design decisions that he [...]
I used to really like Make Magazine when it first launched, but lately they have been drifting off into areas that seem a bit thinly stretched to be labeled "Maker" activity. However, I'm happy to report that I got a pleasant surprise from Make in my feed reader this morning: a blog post about Dayton [...]
I want to apologize to all of my regular readers for the complete and utter lack of content here recently. I know that there aren't a ton of you, but I do appreciate those who have gone through the trouble to subscribe to my blog. If you have been paying attention to my Twitter stream, [...]
Last week, I was informed that everyone in our company would be receiving a temporary (but indefinite) 10% reduction in pay. To make matters worse, it looks like we will be taking more mandatory shutdown days in the current quarter; we've got five coming up over the next few months. This is also another open-ended [...]
I'm going to veer off my normal blog fare a bit and get into a topic which might be slightly controversial, but has been buzzing around the ham blogosphere lately. I make it a personal goal to not delve into political topics in my ham radio activities, but I've been finding this increasingly hard given [...]
I just saw (via the Southgate Amateur Radio Club feed) that the first edition of WorldRadio Online has been released. I've made a quick scan of it, and my initial thoughts are that I'm impressed. Right off the bat, you notice that it looks better. The same general format is carried over, but it's in [...]
