Online review sessions and class Here is the signup for the review sessions. https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAANAAZf_m-hUMzdYQTdWV01LTjg1RFNPTTMwNDYzQkJFNy4u&origin=Invitation&channel=0 The classes are at https://www.hamradioschool.com/ Classes are being coordinated by Nick Abel, KG7EES I think.
How We Won WWII 1939 was an interesting time to be a ham, more interesting “uh-oh” than interesting “how fun.” Heinrich Hertz’s experiment demonstrating the existence of electromagnetic radio waves was only about 55 years in the past, still within living memory. Yet spark had come and gone, and CW was king, with AM communication
So a frog hops up to a bank, times it perfectly, and hops through the revolving door. . . Inside, he looks around until he finds an office marked Patricia Black, Loan Officer. He hops through her office door, and right up onto one of the guest chairs. The loan officer is a little startled,
Technician License Exam Prep Craig, W0VRM, will be hosting weekly classes at the new EOC building, 861 W Clark Lane, Farmington UT. This is a four week course, meeting Wednesday evenings, October 14 through Nov 4, 6:00 p.m. There is no charge for the class, but you may want to purchase the Stu Turner Ham
KH8WW just wrapped up operations in American Samoa. FW1P is active from Wallis and Futuna Islands, mostly on FT-8. Watch for ZC4OL from UK Sovereign Bases in Cyprus until Oct 2. Micronesia, V61GSE, will be active with 100 watts from Oct 1 to 7. Juan Fernandez Island will be on the air all of October,
Notes On Portable Operation Equipment It’s a good idea to have portable equipment that can be quickly pressed into service in case of an emergency, and it’s fun to have it ready for field day, vacations, and POTA. Herewith a couple of notes from my much less than universal and admittedly biased experience. Many of
A DXer, Freda McBates, Set sail from United States. To a rock, quite obscure, Where the pile-ups were sure, And logged thousands with warm “88s!”
Whimsy appears at the end of the article. The POTA Saga Continues You meet the nicest people at ham club. And sometimes you pick up useful and interesting information. For example, Ted pointed out that national historic trails count as parks, and that the Parks On The Air (POTA) map marker pins are often not
At the club meeting, I ran out of those little tubes of blue connector dressing. Since we are not meeting for a while, I don’t have an easy way to distribute more of them quickly. But my call, W7DB, is good on QRZ.com, and if you are in Layton and want to pick one up
Joe Giraudo – N7JEH I enjoy puttering in my shop. I am also a cheapskate. With the onset of the 2026 wildland fire season, Rock Mountain Power announced that planned preventative power outages could be anticipated during high wind conditions to reduce power line induced wildland fires. This got me to think about what are
