[ATTACH] Six years in the making, after much prodding from fellow amateurs, the transcripts of the weekly podcast "Foundations of Amateur Radio"...
[ATTACH] Foundations of Amateur Radio #123 The way we connect our antenna to our radio depends on a number of different factors. If you've come...
[ATTACH] Which antenna should I get first? Building an antenna can be very rewarding but also very frustrating. Similarly, buying an antenna is...
[ATTACH] How does RTTY work? The continued discussion in our community about Digital Modes got me thinking about what a Digital Mode actually...
[ATTACH] Maintenance in your Shack If every fix is a "quick fix" does this mean that you're actually doing maintenance in your shack, or just...
[ATTACH] Our license naming convention is Elitist and Unproductive For a long time I've struggled with the way we differentiate between the...
[ATTACH] Learning is where you find it. A little while ago I had the chance to use a mobile radio with high power. I used it to learn about the...
[ATTACH] Magic and Curiosity in Amateur Radio For me Amateur Radio is about the constant quest of learning, the ongoing pursuit of explanation...
[ATTACH] "Get on air and make some noise!" In terms of Amateur Radio that makes people think that I mean that they should turn on their radio,...
[ATTACH] Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder Have you ever looked at an ugly radio and blurted it out loud to the proud owner? This week I look...
[ATTACH] Checking your On-Air signal... One of the things many Amateurs appear to take for granted is that their signal sounds just the way...
[ATTACH] "If they're shooting at you - you know you're doing something right!" - keyboard warriors are happy to attack, but rarely provide any...
[ATTACH] The Spirit of Amateur Radio A recurring theme is that in the "yea good ol' days of yore" Amateurs got real licenses and today anyone...
[ATTACH] MARS is our next door planet or it relates to "Pumping up the Volume", but what does it have to do with Amateur Radio? This week in...
[ATTACH] A nifty idea looking for a purpose in 1947 changes the world as we know it... You use this thing every day, in fact to read this,...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but sometimes something particularly hideous might actually be a thing of beauty. The best dipole I ever...
[ATTACH] What is the strangest thing you've ever used as an antenna? What about a wire fence, or a flag-pole, perhaps a train-track, a bridge or...
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." So, do we really understand our hobby to the point where...
Episode 80, the Passion and Politics of Amateur Radio Passion has been explained to me once as a "big elephant". You sit on its back and it takes...
[ATTACH] What do push button telephones have to do with Amateur Radio and how we use this technology every day and more importantly, how does it...