The HamLinks Ham Radio Toolbar has received a bit of unexpected publicity lately. Two hams (within a day or two of one another) posted recommendations for the HamLinks toolbar in two substantial user forums. Within each group almost the same conversation erupted… there were many downloads/installations, followed by many other comments along the lines of [...]
As many of us are loading the car and shuttling kids to grandma’s house for Christmas festivities, we’re preparing ourselves for that infamous question… “Are we there yet?” HF ham radio enthusiasts are undoubtedly asking something similar of Sol. Hitting the bottom of the sunspot cycle trough between cycle 23 and cycle 24 has tested [...]
Saint Barts became an official ARRL DXCC entity today (being decoupled from FS). Actually, it’s been an entity since Dec 14th but the ARRL made their announcement today. OH2AM is operating /FJ causing some massive pileups. Famous DXer Martti Laine, OH2BH is at the key managing a chaotic pileup. As I type this, I’m an [...]
Talk about jumping into ham radio with both feet! A newly licensed South African ham (ZS6GCM) is traveling with a Norwegian research team to the world’s most remote island, Bouvet. Petrus Kritzinger should be on the island from now until mid Februrary and he has brought and Icom and HF vertical for the trip. This [...]
For some strange reason (still unknown to me), the DXpedition Map and PropagationStats had stopped updating. There’s a lot of php code behind the scenes that I’ve used to create some of these tools and I guess I needed to convert to the new PHP version (5.X) to restore order. My ISP has warned that [...]
I’ve created a new section of the website to document the ham radio tower project. By no means is this meant to be a “How-to Build a Ham Radio Tower” website. I do not claim to be an expert and strongly urge anyone attempting to build a ham radio tower to follow manufacturer’s guidelines. However, [...]
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