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Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 374
March 22nd, 2025 | 
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Bandplan Generator
Allows completely customizable frequency ranges and segments generating a well-designed plan for screen or print.
LY1JA
HamCam FrontDoor
Video chat rooms for licensed Ham Radio operators.
KE8LCM
What’s new at Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications
The library has grown to 149,500 items. 19.5 terabytes of information. We scanned 1.1 million pages in 2024 alone.
Zero Retries
“Bloody Saturday” at Voice of America
All full-time staffers at the Voice of America are on indefinite suspension.
NPR
The electrolytic capacitor plague
What happened to capacitors in 2002?
SolderSmoke Daily News
HamSCI Workshop 2025: A little bit of citizen science-ing
WSPR transmissions from my location were received at longer distances at the maximum obscuration of the sun.
KM1NDY
Work at club repeater site results in Ham’s termination
Club accused of pulling free electricity.
Lewiston Tribune
Mount Juliet Simplex Society
A unique approach to Amateur Radio.
TalkpodOnline
What can we do to get youth into Ham Radio?
Showing kids that there are other young people in Amateur Radio is by far the most effective way to get them interested.
OnAllBands
Video
DIY antenna from scrap material
Building a 2 meter antenna from scrap material found around the house.
KM4ACK
ZeenKo log periodic antenna 400MHz to 8GHz
A fiberglass antenna with a wide frequency range of 400 MHz to 8 GHz.
IMSAI Guy
sdrberry UI for SDR on Raspberry Pi
This user interface is just gorgeous!
Tech Minds
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LHS Episode #574: WINE Good It Is
Hello and welcome to the 574th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss the upcoming YOTA summer camp in France, the new Signals Museum in Alabama, 100 years of IARU, the latest edition of WINE, a terminal app for Android and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.
73 de The LHS Crew
AmateurLogic 203: Meshtastic
AmateurLogic.TV Episode 203 is now available for download.
Meshtastic, an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. An update on the latest scanner technology. More…
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 373
FCC opens comment period on deregulating everything
A new docket “In re: Delete, Delete, Delete,” seeks comment on “every rule, regulation, or guidance document that the FCC should eliminate…”
RadioInsight
From FCC – IN RE: DELETE, DELETE, DELETE
This might be the only “seize the moment” chance for large scale reform in US Amateur Radio regulations in the 2020s.
Zero Retries
The 2025 Hamvention Award Winners
The selection process was highly competitive, given the outstanding quality of nominations submitted this year.
Hamvention
Radio Connects is 2025 ARRL Field Day theme
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio has released the logo and theme for this year’s ARRL Field Day, June 28 – 29, 2025.
ARRL
POTA activation for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day and the “YL POTA Party” advertised by the Young Ladies Radio League (aka: YLRL).
K8VSY
What is AmateurWire?
AmateurWire VOIP Service is a PBX phone system much like the HamShack Hotline or HamsOverIP.
The Random Wire
Snooping on the SatGus selfie satellite
The satellite is designed to take selfies of customers’ own photos in space, using a screen and a selfie camera mounted on the satellite.
RTL-SDR.com
Ground planes and automobiles—insights on mounting antennas on your vehicle
The best mobile antenna money can buy isn’t any better than the ground plane it is mounted over.
OnAllBands
Nomad Network
Off-grid, resilient mesh communication with strong encryption, forward secrecy and extreme privacy.
unsigned.io
Only the shadow (board) knows
I was briefed on this by multiple sitting Board members over the past few years.
K4FMH
KA1MUQ turns frying pan DC receiver into a double sideband transceiver
Works Idaho from California.
SolderSmoke Daily News
Video
Tapesponding
The long lost communication you’ve never heard of.
Ringway Manchester
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Approaching a milestone.
Since this is a special birthday year I thought I would buy myself something nice ham radio related. Now I am retired and on a fixed income so there is no Elecraft K4 in the picture for me. I have a great Icom 7610 and I very much enjoy CW contesting. I have been toying with the idea of operating single operator 2 vfo or SO2V as it is called. The Icom 7610 allows me to operate its VFO A and B on the same band or on separate bands. This is very handy for contesting and I have tried it and became frustrated as you only have one VFO knob on the 7610 and if you forget to select VFO B and spin the dial you lose your VFO A spot. The idea with SO2V is that VFO A is your run VFO and VFO B is your search and pounce VFO. What I needed was a separate VFO physical knob that operated VFO B.
Icom has the RC-28 and it always seemed a bit pricey to me but heck it's my big 65th so I took the plunge and purchased it. All Canadian dealers had the RC-28 on back order and the U.S. dealer had the Canadian dollar (and a few other reasons) and the shipping cost was just too much to spend. I did read on some of the IO Groups I follow of operators purchasing them on eBay from sellers in Japan. I looked into it and they were in stock also with shipping, and tax and the cost of the RC-28 it was basically the same cost as the Canadian dealers who were out of stock.
I ordered it and in less than a week it was at my door, brand new in a sealed Icom box. Happy Birthday to me! In my next post, I will be revealing my adventure connecting it to the Icom 7610!
