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ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Six (14 March 2010) – Growing your Amateur Radio Club
Series Three Episode Six of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:-
- Memorandum on PLT
- Reverse Beacon Network
- ROS outside US license
- Special short contest callsigns
- NoV's for operation below 9 kHz
- Automotive Electromagnetic Compatibility
- New Zealand's Amateurs get 600m band
- Delayed QSL Card
- 20m ROS frequencies moved
- Tripod test with Miracle Antenna & FT-817
- Amateur Radio World Prefix Maps
- Tape Measure Satellite Antenna
- Trapping sunlight with silicon nanowires
Your feedback, Upcoming Events and Martin (M1MRB) gives some tips for growing your Amateur Radio Club.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Five (28 February 2010) – Building TenTec1330 Part2
Series Three Episode Fiver of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:-
- Ham killed in Connecticut explosion
- Cuban HF Number Stations
- Sat-nav's face big errors
- Ham radio's roll expanding in Haiti
- Mod to transmission mode GB3TM
- Windermere Triangle
- Police search for missing ham
- Move of GB3VHF beacon
- Unlicensed Police drone grounded
- NAQCC - Lifetime membership FREE!
- New mode - ROS
- VK2BWI slow morse broadcast
- Iceland's access 70 MHz & 500 KHz
Your feedback, Hints, Tips and Tricks and Martin (M1MRB) discusses completing the building of the TenTec 1330.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Four (14 February 2010) – Building TenTec1330 Part1
Series Three Episode Four of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:-
- Canadian PLT Report
- 'Hams' communicate in Haiti
- New Icom Receiver
- Lightship houses radio exhibits
- Chesterfield Rally cancellation
- 70 MHz in USA?
- Annobon Island DXpedition
- WARC Century Club Formed
- Rockets powered by RF
- Sunspot Chart on the up
- NI's first D-STAR 'hot spot'
- 2M yagi performance table
Your feedback, upcoming events and Martin (M1MRB) describes the first stages of building the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast Construction project - TenTec1330.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Three (31 January 2010) – Talking Antennas
Series Three Episode Three of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:-
- Buddies in the Caribbean
- Special event goes Maritime Mobile
- 1965 Field Day
- Indian Student Satellites
- D-STAR with Worthing Borough Council
- NASA listen for Mars lander
- Spain to shut down illegal radio stations
- Amateur Radio regulatory changes in Denmark
- Save Our AM/FM Stations
- How to check for band openings
- GB3IN goes dual-mode
- Digital ATV for Bournemouth
- 1229kms on 500kHz with 1mW QRP!!
- ARRL sends Ham Aid equipment to Haiti
Your feedback, Hints, Tips & Tricks and Martin (M1MRB), Colin (M6BOY), Alun Cross (G4WGE) discuss Antennas with Ian Hoe (M3GPZ)
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Two (17 January 2010) – Learning Morse Code
Series Three Episode Two of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:-
- UK Space Exploration Review
- Scatterpoint 2008 issues now online
- UK CW Table
- Police sue over 'radio injuries'
- Essex packet network closes
- Tangled aerials solution
- New 10m beacon in Indiana
- BACAR to launch in Western Cape
- New club for Morse enthusiasts
- Swedes withdraw Powerline
- New Indian Amateur Radio Satellite
- SOTA Winter Bonus
- New Mountain Goat - M0RCP
- 960kms with 1mW ERP 500kHz WSPR
Your feedback, upcoming events and Martin discusses learning morse code.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode One (03 January 2010) – Choosing 2010 Construction Project
- World-wide XW-1 Beacon Reports
- VE3CT appointed to Hall of Fame
- New wireless mic licensing arrangements
- Satellite contact via VO-52
- Warning truckers away from 10m
- BBC Paper on PLT
- BT Home Networking questionnaire
- 500kHz NoVs extended to 2012
- Space Weather Research - lifetime chance
- $25k Ham Radio Mobile
- Oz bushfire destroys radio clubhouse
- Young Ham Successes
- Police silence ‘voice of God’
Your feedback, and Martin explains our choice for the 2010 ICQ Podcast Construction Project.












