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Series Six Episode Eighteen – M1MRB Q and A
Series
Six Episode Eighteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has been
released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, Propogation Report from Steve Nicholls (G0KYA) and Martin (M1MRB) answers questions.
- Ham Radio: Helping to Build a Fast and Free Internet
- US Vanity Call Sign fee goes up
- SDR Zone
- APRS destination address for ham radio satellites
- Noise Floor Study
- Radio museum loses premises
- SOTA now active in VK2
- Ham video transmitter onboard Columbus
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ICQ Podcast S06 E17 – QSLing (25 August 2013)
Series Six Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has been released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, Ed Durrant (VK2JI) discusses Full Wave Horizontal Loop Antenna, Frank Howell (K4FMH) reports from North America and Chris Howard (2E0CTH) discusses QSLing.
- Ham Radio software is made Open Source
- MacLoggerDX Version 5.48 released
- Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF) Standard 3.0.4 released
- MultiScan 3B SSTV made for Mac
- Thailand's first ham radio satellite
- Youngsters try ham radio
- Teacher helps students earn amateur radio licenses
- 80m ham radio band used for wideband video/data
Series Six Episode Seventeen – QSLing
Series
Six Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has been
released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, Ed Durrant (VK2JI)
discusses Full Wave horizontal Loop Antenna, Frank Howell (K4FMH)
reports from North America and Chris Howard (2E0CTH) discusses QSLing.
- Ham Radio software is made Open Source
- MacLoggerDX Version 5.48 released
- Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF) Standard 3.0.4 released
- MultiScan 3B SSTV made for Mac
- Thailand’s first ham radio satellite
- Youngsters try ham radio
- Teacher helps students earn amateur radio licenses
- 80m ham radio band used for wideband video/data
Ed Durrant (VK2JI) The Full Wave horizontal Loop antenna (pdf)
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Series Six Episode Sixteen – Off Centre Fed Dipole
Series Six Episode Sixteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has been released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, Leslie Buttersfield, G0CIB reports in from the Essex Amateur Radio Camping event and Martin discusses Off Centre Fed Dipoles.
- Ham Radio Operators prepare to host ham radio 'Olympics'
- UHF and VHF spectrum planning - Call for inputs
- No more KW for VK LicenceMidland Amateur Radio Club Inc. Changes name
- Netherlands Special Event
- The 3rd World ATV QSO Party
- New 6 metre beacon
- One hundred years of licensed Amateur Radio in Queensland, Australia
- The sun's magnetic field is about to flip

ICQ Podcast S06 E15 – Improving your Handy Talkie (28 July 2013)
Series Six Episode Fifteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has been released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, North American report from Frank Howell, K4FMH and Martin Butler (M1MRB & W9ICQ) improves your handy talkie.
- Radio hams get access to 18m EME dish
- The dangers of lithium batteries
- Special event station - PA1813A
- 70-year-old Radio Ham's epic voyage
- EMCOMMWEST 2013 cancelled
- HAARP facility shuts down
- Australian Remembrance Day Contest 2013
- Ham radio couple in Ghana
- Ham Radio satellite operation from Guernsey
- Radio Communication Exam Syllabuses
ICQ Podcast S06 E15 – Improving your Handy Talkie (28 July 2013)
Series Six Episode Fifteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has been released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, North American report from Frank Howell, K4FMH and Martin Butler (M1MRB & W9ICQ) improves your handy talkie.
- Radio hams get access to 18m EME dish
- The dangers of lithium batteries
- Special event station - PA1813A
- 70-year-old Radio Ham's epic voyage
- EMCOMMWEST 2013 cancelled
- HAARP facility shuts down
- Australian Remembrance Day Contest 2013
- Ham radio couple in Ghana
- Ham Radio satellite operation from Guernsey
- Radio Communication Exam Syllabuses
Series Six Episode Fifteen – Improving your Handy Talkie
Series Six Episode Fifteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast has
been
released. The latest news, Listener Mailbag, North American report from Frank Howell, K4FMH and Martin Butler (M1MRB & W9ICQ) improves your handy talkie.
- Radio hams get access to 18m EME dish
- The dangers of lithium batteries
- Special event station - PA1813A
- 70-year-old Radio Ham's epic voyage
- EMCOMMWEST 2013 cancelled
- HAARP facility shuts down
- Australian Remembrance Day Contest 2013
- Ham radio couple in Ghana
- Ham Radio satellite operation from Guernsey
- Radio Communication Exam Syllabuses













