Author Archive
ICQ Podcast S05 E04 – DVAP – Digital Voice Access Point (12 February 2012)
Series Five Episode Four of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- SumbandilaSat beyond repair
- Sweden loses 13cm amateur radio band
- FCC sets date for medical devices on 70 cm
- RSGB PLA/PLT Devices Announcement
- BATC Convention 2012
- FISTS marks a milestone
- New rules for 5 MHz (60 meters)
- VOA anniversary spurs museum effort
- Morse code not on the way out
- UK Propagation charts for February 2012
- Record set at Winter Hill
Your feedback, Ed Durrant provides his latest Australian report and Martin reviews a DVAP (Digital Voice Access Point).
ICQ Podcast S05 E03 – G-QRP Limerick Sudden 40m Receiver (29 January 2012)
Series Five Episode Two of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Earth Station For Sale
- New 60m web site
- ARRL achieves fund raising goal
- KG4, Guantanamo Bay
- UK amateurs experience echo phenomenon
- Danish presidency of EU callsign
- Student D-STAR satellite to launch in 2012
- The new VHF-UHF band plan - 4m in Ireland
- QRP to the ISS
- Special callsigns for UK radio amateurs during 2012
- New Clubs and Training section for RSGB website
- Cuban Amateur Radio regulations modified
- Call of Titanic will go out again
Your feedback and Colin (M6BOY) reviews the G-QRP Limerick Sudden 40m Receiver.
ICQ Podcast S05 E02 – Wolfgang Philipps – W8DA Android Apps (15 January 2012)
Series Five Episode Two of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Yaesu supports 4-FSK digital radios
- Yaesu Musen
- Go back to school - DX University
- US feedback for 60m band plan
- GB80PW for the Practical Wireless 80th year
- New DV-RPTR modem board
- RSGB Commonwealth Century Club Jubilee Award 2012
- UK Propagation charts for January 2012
- New data mode crosses Atlantic on 136Khz at the first attempt
- USA HF Spread Spectrum Experiment
- 43 years of 73 Magazine online
Your feedback and Ed Durrant (VK2ARE) interviews android app author Wolfgang Philipps (W8DA).
ICQ Podcast S05 E01 – Powered SWR Meter Kit (01 January 2012)
Series Five Episode One of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Amateur Radio Balloon crosses the Atlantic
- Radio Ham's invention seeing wide use
- EU threat to Amateur Radio kits
- 137kHz German signal received in Alaska
- Hams do their bit after disaster
- Australia to trial limited higher power
- Ofcom - 3400 MHz licence exemption
- Amateur radio operators to host kids day
- Beacon Maps and Beacon Spots
- Raspberry Pi moves towards production
Your feedback, Martin reviews a Power SWR Meter Kit.
ICQ Podcast S04 E27 – Science Museum for Amateurs (18 December 2011)
Series Four Episode Twenty-Seven of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- SwissCube update
- Experimental D-Star repeater
- Miracle Antenna suspends order-taking
- Digital pictures sent from balloon
- Vietnam operation
- UZ7HO Soundmodem software
- Russian Military OFDM in 40m
- ARRL to inspire Hackers and Innovators
- German CBer's get 12 watts SSB
- 70cm to help paralyzed patients?
Your feedback, Ed Durrant (VK2ARE) provides a Christmas Australian report and Chris Howard (2E0CTH) reports from the London Science Museum for Amateur Radio Operators.
ICQ Podcast S04 E26 – Books (Review) for Christmas (04 December 2011)
Series Four Episode Twenty-Six of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- New spectrum challenge
- Unlicensed radio communicators in Australia
- 30 Years of UK CB
- Android to FT817 App
- Planners ground ‘flying bedstead’
- Record numbers at Radio Club licensing session Mars Rover launch live on web
- AO-51 Lost
- ARRL to inspire Hackers and Innovators
- Hackers take Amateur Radio course
Your feedback and Martin (M1MRB) reviews Books for Christmas.
ICQ Podcast S04 E26 – Books (Review) for Christmas (04 December 2011)
Series Four Episode Twenty-Six of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- New spectrum challenge
- Unlicensed radio communicators in Australia
- 30 Years of UK CB
- Android to FT817 App
- Planners ground ‘flying bedstead’
- Record numbers at Radio Club licensing session Mars Rover launch live on web
- AO-51 Lost
- ARRL to inspire Hackers and Innovators
- Hackers take Amateur Radio course
Your feedback and Martin (M1MRB) reviews Books for Christmas.












