Author Archive
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Nineteen (13 September 2009) – Introduction to Echolink
News Stories include:-
- Ingenious Circuits of Sir Douglas Hall
- Guide to Digital PMR
- Wireless Power Consortium
- 'Invisibility cloak' antennas
- Amateur's planning victory
- First non-Icom D-Star repeater joins G2 network
- UK Amateur numbers rise
- Australian 137 kHz beacon on-the-air
- Worked All Europe DX Contest
- Active Whip Antenna for LF Bands
- Lancaster Bomber on the air
- SDR-Radio
Colin provides an introduction to Echolink, your feedback and upcoming events.
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Eighteen (30 August 2009) – Icom IC-E92D Review
News Stories include:-
- Stolen equipment database
- 70cm band Medical Device Response
- It's on wheels.. so it's mobile?
- CHIRP D-STAR software
- PowerLine Adaptors - RSGB Complains to OFCOM
- New satellite location maps
- Emley Moor TV Talk
- Gateway for VK3RMM D-STAR repeaters
- BIG boys on-the-air
- New Icom radio covers HF to 1300 MHz
- Mid Cornwall Beacon and Repeater Group transferring
- Thai radio stations register to go legal
- 31 North 62 East
- SuitSat-2 gets a new name
- 3DA0SS DXpedition a big success
Martin reviews an Icom IC-E92D D-Star radio, your feedback and upcoming events.
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Seventeen (16 August 2009) – Buying Military Radio
Series Two Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.
News Stories include:-
- New D-Star South Yorkshire
- AMSAT-UK announce new project
- 2nd World War Radio at POW exhibition
- Norfolk Island DXpedition
- Ham helps avoid railway accident
- 2300 to 2400 MHz band ComReg consultation
- Avoid 7.1 to 7.2MHz in France
- Morecambe Cross Bay Walk
- Chatham Island DXpedition
- CTCSS standardisation
- Sandford Mill Radio Museum on-the-air
- DX ClusterClient
- Nevada County thanks radio hams
Martin and Colin discuss buying Military Radio and your feedback
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Sixteen (02 August 2009) – Introduction to D-Star
News Stories include:-
- W1AW adds new digital modes
- GB50ATG
- Oceania DX Contest - best-ever turnout
- Bath Buildathon DVD
- Silent Key Walter Kronkite, KB2GSD
- Kent Scouts International Jamboree
- New Broadband over Powerline Reg
- Swaziland DXpedition Update
- Ray Oliver’s 'Sail Round the UK' charity
- HamTests goes International
- St Wilfrid Special Event Station
- Wireless power system demonstrated
M1MRB interviews James, M0BOV about D-Star, upcoming events and your feedback.
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Fifteen (19 July 2009) – Ian Poole, G3YWX
News Stories include:-
- GeoParks special award available
- US Special Ops Command plans more airborne FM broadcasts
- Sky Sheppey 2009 - GB100SS
- 2009 Club Grant Scheme targets new projects
- More access to 7MHz frequencies
- Fred Johnson ZL2AMJ awarded Rutherford Trophy
- South African grey imports
- Affordable PR-20 UT microphone from K9EID
- Apollo 11 Moon Landing - 40th Anniversary
- Easier D-Star contacts in Japan
Martin interviews Amateur Radio author Ian Poole, G3YWX, upcoming events and your feedback.
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Fourteen (5 July 2009) – SSB KIT (MKARS80) Revisited
News Stories include:-
- WE5I on 6-meter AM
- OSCAR-7 YouTube video
- UK Amateur licences on the rise
- UK Government overlooks RAYNET
- RAYNET part of 2 Signal Brigade exercise
- Benin DXpedition
- Trans-Atlantic beacon
- Regulator considers 434 MHz camera control
- FM radio used in propaganda war
- The Secret Life of the Radio
- See the ISS in daylight!
- Ham radio's to meet emissions standards
Martin, M1MRB discuses the SSB MKARS80 kit with creator Steve Drury G6ALU
ICQ Podcast Series Two Episode Thirteen (21 June 2009) – Oscilloscopes
News Stories include:-
- New 2m Antenna at St Austell
- Amateur Radio Week in Texas
- 70 Years of Operating
- Mobile HF NVIS Magnetic Loop Antenna
- Icom Support International Year of Astronomy Special Event Station
- IC-7800 Firmware Update Rev. 2.20 Now Available
- New radio chip mimics human ear
- Confusing 4-letter suffix
- D-STAR growing in Melbourne
- Alleged spies, Morse code and shortwave radio
- Frank De Winne talks with Terbank School
- CARS make available new Intermediate slides
- D-STAR repeaters in Japan
Martin discusses Oscilloscopes, upcoming events and your feedback.












