Author Archive
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.
ICQ Podcast S04 E25 – US v UK Licensing (20 November 2011)
Series Four Episode Twenty-Five of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Plano Amateur Radio Klub honored
- 12 Mbps RF modems
- Radio Security Service Reunion
- Society donates radio to new group
- Mercer County needs amateur radio operators
- Record numbers at Radio Club licensing session
- Maritime Mobile Net in crew rescue
Your feedback, Propagation Report from Steve Nicholls (G0KYA) and Martin is joined by Chris Howard (2E0CTH) to discuss differences between UK and US Licensing System
ICQ Podcast S04 E24 – National Ham Convention (06 November 2011)
Series Four Episode Twenty-Four of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Radar sees through concrete walls
- Prospero to be reactivated
- RSGB Intruder Watch activity on 28MHz
- International digi-modes 10m net
- Rotuma High School Amateur Radio Station
- Radio/TV Martí 'anachronistic'
- Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
- Global Simulated Emergency Test – November 2011
- VK100ARV roster begins
- Radio in Mayo
- Sydney radio hams help search for lost aircraft VH-MDX
Your feedback, North American Hambrief from Chris Matthieu (N7ICE) and Martin is joined by Chris Howard (2E0CTH) to discuss the National Radio Convention












