Author Archive
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Twenty-Two – RSGB Convention & JOTA (24 October 2010)
Series Three Episode Twenty-Two of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Dundalk ARS morse and 4m nets
- £10m SSTL Space Lab in Guildford
- New Nevada radio station includes ham radio
- K3LR to receive Barry Goldwater Amateur Radio Award
- Comms support for Chilean mine rescue
- Radio listener arrested
- Ham sentenced for jamming police
- AMSAT-UK FUNcube SDR USB Dongle
- Experimental Web Radio from New Zealand and Europe
- New slow Morse transmission near Dartford
- BT to replace Comtrend PLT units
- Happy Birthday Ippy
- Amateur bands to be used for London 2012 Games
Your feedback and Martin (M1MRB) reports on the RSGB Convention and JOTA.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Twenty-Two – RSGB Convention & JOTA (24 October 2010)
Series Three Episode Twenty-Two of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Dundalk ARS morse and 4m nets
- £10m SSTL Space Lab in Guildford
- New Nevada radio station includes ham radio
- K3LR to receive Barry Goldwater Amateur Radio Award
- Comms support for Chilean mine rescue
- Radio listener arrested
- Ham sentenced for jamming police
- AMSAT-UK FUNcube SDR USB Dongle
- Experimental Web Radio from New Zealand and Europe
- New slow Morse transmission near Dartford
- BT to replace Comtrend PLT units
- Happy Birthday Ippy
- Amateur bands to be used for London 2012 Games
Your feedback and Martin (M1MRB) reports on the RSGB Convention and JOTA.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Twenty-One – Operating in Australia (10 October 2010)
Series Three Episode Twenty-One of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Chinese Antarctic base on-air
- Amateur Radio can prevent age-related dementia
- Isle of Man ARS on-air for JOTA
- Ham radio repeater at risk
- GB7DE D-Star gateway offline
- RSGB launch amateur radio survey
- Power Line Adapters interfere with ambulance frequencies
- Austrian Military Radio Society 50th anniversary
- Green Comet approaches Earth
- EU Radio Spectrum Policy
- New web-based HF SDR receiver
- Irish radio amateur achieves 10-band DXCC
Your feedback, upcoming events, and Martin (M1MRB) discusses operating in Australia with Adrian (M0GLJ).
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Twenty – Microwaving (26 September 2010)
Series Three Episode Twenty of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Earth dodges another sun bullet
- Goodbye to Sunspots?
- Historic Chain Home Tower back on the air
- Take your hand-held to work day
- WSJT 9.0 released
- Frequency change for Scotland Morse Enthusiasts Group
- Digital radio switchover 'far too early'
- New type of antenna - Sea Water Antenna
- Ham Radio high-altitude balloon launch team opportunity
- Online radio course from DoC
- GB7MM back on the air
- Home electricity wiring antenna
Your feedback, upcoming events, and Martin (M1MRB) visits a Microwave Group.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Nineteen – Rediscover Listening (12 September 2010)
Series Three Episode Nineteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Return of SumbandilaSat SO-67
- Amateur station seeks new home
- EAP Multi-band 2010
- New Lancashire RAYNET group
- Try amateur radio direction finding
- Bicycle tour needs more radio hams
- A very bright weekend for lighthouses
- RSGB Convention deep space lecture
- Open Source Digital Voice Codec
- Morse and Music
- Vuvuzela Morse Code
- Milestone for WIA Centenary Award
- New D-STAR repeater installed in ARRL lab
Your feedback, upcoming events, Hints, Tips and Tricks and Martin (M1MRB)discusses rediscovering listening.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Eighteen – RSGB President (29 August 2010)
Series Three Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Hams exempt from RFI ordinance
- Donated spy radio
- Intern builds amateur radio station
- LED technology interference
- Aviation fears over powerline
- Interference investigation
- Radio hams support Pakistan floods
- YL team for Sumburgh Head lighthouse
- Nature Conservation Association needs Hams
- New version of MMSSTV released
- Changes at BARTG 2010
- National Hamfest Award 2010
- Amateur Radio Gets People Talking
- NZ ATV forced digital
- India's hams get 6 metres
Your feedback, upcoming events and David Wilson (M0OBW) joins us to discuss the hobby and his involvement with the RSGB
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Seventeen – Low Frequency (15 August 2010)
Series Three Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Illegal FM stations is 'terrorism' in Pakistan
- New 10GHz world record
- Wireless Telegraphy devices exemption changes
- RCE Standards Committee report
- Spanish fishery pirates
- 433MHz and 3.6MHz in New Zealand
- IARUMS to clean-up 40 metres
- National radio frequency plan gazetted
- Free 'QSL Gateway' from USA to Europe
- ROS development definitely continues
- VK8NSB SSTV Repeater
- German Radio Amateur arrested in Lebanon
- More geomagnetic storms?
- High efficiency solar cells
- Plasma TV interference complaints
- Irish church intruders
Your feedback, upcoming events and Roger Lapthorn (G3XBM) joins Martin (M1MRB) to discuss low frequency.












