Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 426
The Remarkable, but Relatively Unsung Achievement of Integrating FreeDV RADE Into FlexRadio
FreeDV RADE is a voice mode that is more spectrally efficient than Single Sideband (SSB) and it’s more reliable than SSB.
Zero Retries
ITU corporation acquires Ameritron and Mirage RF amplifier
ITU acquires two additional premier Amateur Radio and communications brands from MFJ Enterprises.
Linton News
OscarWatch
OscarWatch shows where AMSAT spacecraft are, predicts passes over your station, works out Doppler-corrected uplink and downlink frequencies, and can drive your rotator and radio during a pass, all from one map-centred window.
MM9SQL
Amateur Radio’s role in my exchange year
I discovered how much I enjoyed traveling for Amateur Radio, learning about other cultures, and forming friendships with other young Hams from around the world.
OnAllBands
M9OMS VLDO V2
a discrete very low dropout (VLDO) linear voltage regulator for QRP radios. It delivers clean, RF-quiet power — selectable 9.0 V / 12.0 V / 13.8 V at up to 2 A — with strict voltage control and no switching noise.
M9OMS
What’s new at Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications
We’ve added 26 issues of FM Bulletin, which was a magazine chronicling early amateur FM on VHF/UHF, was published from 1967 to 1969.
Zero Retries
Recapping the 72 hours of E-skip palooza
It was a three-day symphony in the ionosphere over North America.
RadioWorld
Into The Mesh: Part 1
Like many things in Ham Radio, you can try to make a case that anything that doesn’t involve the internet would be good in an emergency.
KC8JC
The card that beat the sun
There are rare DXCC entities. And then there is Peter I Island.
KA3DRR
Meshyface
Meshyface is a chat-first Meshtastic dashboard that runs as a single Python service and serves a single-page web UI over HTTP.
jaronmcd
The most expensive piece of plastic… in the world
Repairing my Elecraft KX2 with the most expensive perspex on Earth.
EI3LH
Video
What is 44Net Connect?
Why you want to access this free system.
Ham Radio Crash Course
First Winlink email sent over Mercury on RF
The guys at Rhizomatica just made a better VARA than VARA. Unlike VARA, it’s free, open-source, and runs on Linux & Raspberry Pi.
KM6LYW
Low band HF DX: How it’s done
Discover the secrets behind low band HF antenna systems and how they can be used for DX operations.
TheSmokinApe Ham Radio














