Foundations of Amateur Radio
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Foundations of Amateur Radio
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Episodis Recents
588 episodis
Telling Stories to Strengthen a Community
Foundations of Amateur Radio
When was the last time you told a story? The hobby of amateur radio represents as diverse and disparate a...
Bald Yak 20: More Pi with the Soap
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The thing I think I love most about the hobby of amateur radio is the challenges it represents, not i...
Bald Yak 19: SoapyAudio adventures
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Previously I've talked about a piece of software called SoapyAudio. It's part of the toolkit called S...
Why not use LoTW?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I witnessed a fellow amateur attempting to guilt another into using LoTW with comments...
Some days are like running in place ...
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Recently I discovered that the antenna that I had connected to my WSPR or Weak Signal Propagation Rep...
Keeping track of your adventures
Foundations of Amateur Radio
About a year ago I set upon a new adventure, to determine if the dummy load I own, traditionally seen...
Dealing with Complexity
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Several years ago, I forget exactly when, I was gifted a device called a "Wio Terminal". It's a micro...
What does amateur radio bring to your life?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I went for a walk around the block for the first time in a while. It's something I did...
You don't need an excuse to make noise!
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I came across a post on mastodon.radio by Keith W6KME announcing the resumption of the...
What's in an S-unit?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day fellow amateur Randall VK6WR raised an interesting question. Using his HP 8920A RF Comm...
Where is the spark .. gap?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The thing I love most about this amazing hobby of amateur radio is the sheer size of the community an...
Bald Yak 18: Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I was playing around with RDS, or Radio Data System, it's a digital signal that's often...
Bald Yak 17: Adventures in Radio Data Systems
Foundations of Amateur Radio
While spending some quality time discovering what I don't know about GNU Radio, I explored the notion...
Bald Yak 16: How do you decode FM?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
How do you make a hole? That's a pretty straightforward kind of question, and by the time this senten...
One step forward ... three steps back.
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Still excited from my minor victory in discovering a missing puzzle piece associated with the project...
Bald Yak 15, Playing with Radio .. now with software
Foundations of Amateur Radio
A little while ago I discussed a lovely article by programmer, artist, and game designer "blinry" cal...
How to go about documenting your setup?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
How to go about documenting your setup?
Possibly the single most important thing...
Transmitting into a dummy load .. for a year .. on purpose.
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Just under a year ago I started an experiment. I set-up a beacon for WSPR, or Weak Signal Propagation...
How to become a radio amateur today?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day a fellow amateur revealed that they qualified for membership of the QWCA, the Quarter C...
Building a shack: Part 8 - Will it ever end?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Building a shack makes a number of assumptions about your situation and to make it abundantly clear,...
Building a shack: Part 7 - Powering your shack
Foundations of Amateur Radio
On your amateur radio journey, you'll likely discover that many transceivers run on 13.8 volt DC, giv...
Building a shack: Part 6 - Noise
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Noise la la la la la hinders if I were a rich man effective a noise annoys an oyster communication bu...
Building a shack: Part 5 - Antenna Shenanigans
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Putting your station together is best described as a juggling act, since you'll discover that everyth...
Building a shack: Part 4 - coaxial cable alternatives
Foundations of Amateur Radio
When you start the process of getting your hobby off the ground, either for the first time, or after...
Building a shack: Part 3 - the ingress of coaxial cable
Foundations of Amateur Radio
One of the potentially trickier aspects of putting together your shack is connecting the radio to the...
Building a shack: Part 2 - How much space do you need?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
When you start on the journey of putting together a shack, in whatever form that eventually takes, yo...
Building a shack: Part 1 - Setting the Scene
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Recently it occurred to me that I haven't been using HF in my shack for much longer than I'd care to...
Bald Yak 14, choices and software flexibility
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Let's start with an observation, I'm a geek, have been all my life. Since my early teenage years that...
I have a problem .. with logging.
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The first step in solving any problem is recognising that there is one. In my case the name of that p...
How to make our hobby and community resilient?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I was stuck in traffic behind a vehicle proudly proclaiming that it was "electric". I'd...
A new year with new services to the public .. in 1905
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Recently I spent some quality time digging into the origins of a word in common use. In doing so, I c...
What do you call that .. radio?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
If you use a word often enough it starts to lose its meaning. The other day, during breakfast, well,...
On the origins of the RF circulator
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Recently I explored the use of a radio device aptly described by a fellow Aussie Electronics Engineer...
Going around in circles, one-way.
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I saw a post by fellow amateur Gary N8DMT who mentioned an "RF circulator" and a PlutoS...
Bald Yak 13, Monitoring the Sun .. small steps
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I received an email from Frank K4FMH asking me about an idea I'd worked on some time ag...
When your hobby revolves around electricity ...
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I went on my first POTA or Parks On The Air adventure, this time I was on my own. If yo...
Preparing for an outing
Foundations of Amateur Radio
Recently my local power company notified me of a planned network outage, that's code for, we're turni...
Where is the fun in that?
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The pursuit of amateur radio is a glorious thing. On the face of it you're forgiven if you think of i...
Playing with Radio
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I came across an article written by programmer, artist, and game designer "blinry" with...
Amateur Radio has literally changed my world view
Foundations of Amateur Radio
The other day I went for a walk, I know, shock-horror, outside, daylight, nature, the whole thing, in...