Since posting that the FlexRadio 3000 has been released to the masses a few days ago, I’ve been wondering if SDR & the Flex Radio platform is ready for contesting/DXing prime time. For example, could the FlexRadio 5000 be used as an SO2R machine in a single box? (SO2R in a box) The literature claims [...]
I’ve been following the development of the latest SDR HF transceiver… the Flex-3000. This radio began shipping last week – so we should start to read real world reviews and hear them on-the-air. FlexRadio Systems is famous for their pc-driven ham radios without knobs and their high marks in the NC0B (Sherwood Engineering) Dynamic Range [...]
About a year after the ARRL’s DX CW contest, my certificate arrived: 2008 ARRL DX CW – First Place SOA Iowa. For the non-hams out there, this is an annual international (DX) Morse Code (CW) contest. Ham Radio Contests are a lot of fun. Awards aren’t the reason I enter but they are the icing [...]
10,000. That’s another number to tuck into your memory and retrieve when you’re trying to explain ham radio to friends and relatives. I was encouraged to read that the 2008 CQ WW contests had a record turnout – during the bottom of the sunspot cycle! What’s more, CW logs surpassed SSB logs. Who would have [...]
Earlier this year, I purchased a new laptop. In transferring some old critical files from my old pc to this laptop, I recognized a need to protect this data. Over the past few years, I’ve been keeping my logbook in DXKeeper (part of the DXLab suite). I’ve also got countless pictures, documents, spreadsheets and just [...]
In their never ending quest to promote amateur radio to the general public, the ARRL announced a new marketing campaign today: “We Don’t Do That�. Over the past few years, the ARRL launched several new websites tied to promoting the many facets of ham radio: Hello-radio.org Celebrates global ham radio communications… all walks of life [...]
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