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Series Two Episode Eighteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.

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.

Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

I’ve been a fan of Logbook of The World (LoTW) since it was announced by the ARRL, and have written about it in previous posts. I’ve gotten a lot of stations confirmed by the use of this electronic QSL method, but today was, I think, the first time that I’ve gotten a confirmation for an all-time new entity via LoTW prior to receiving a physical card. By way of explanation, for new entities, I always send out a card to the station that I worked. At this point that’s a relatively rare occurrence, so I normally mail my QSL card to the other station pretty quickly. Under the best of circumstances, I’m thrilled to hear back from the other station in 2 or 3 weeks. It’s not unusual to wait 3 months or even longer (sometimes a lot longer; I’m still getting cards back from stations that I contacted in 2000), but in this case, I got confirmation via LoTW today for a contact made just 3 days ago. In fact, the total elapsed time between me “sending” my QSL record to LoTW and the confirmation being made was a grand total of 36 hours. (This information is available within the system.) You can’t beat that kind of turnaround time.

It’s not that unusual to get a confirmation from a domestic US station within minutes of a contact (especially at the end of a contest, where many stations all upload their log information at once), but this is a confirmation of a contact that I made with a station located in the Solomon Islands. Wow.

And yes, I will send for a physical card for this contact as well, just because it’s fun to have the cards.

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David Kozinn, K2DBK, is a regular contributor to AmateurRadio.com and writes from New Jersey, USA. Contact him at [email protected].

Welcome to Episode #021 of Linux in the HAM Shack. As always, feedback for the program has been abundant and entertaining. We address several listener questions and comments. We also have new features on the web site. Please check them out after listening to the show. Russ will be at the Ohio Linux Fest and Richard and Jerry from The Practical Amateur Radio Podcast will be in Denton at a hamfest there. Check out the podcast for more information on times and locations.

For the main segment of our program we talk with Paul Shirey of Teen Radio Journey, a podcast chronicling the pursuits of a young man from Illinois on a quest to get his ham radio license. It was a lot of fun to talk with Paul and we’re glad to have him on the show. As always, send us feedback on the program and leave us voice comments at (888) 455-0305. And if you have a few extra dollars kicking around and you find the podcast useful, why not make a charitable donation to the program? All funds go directly toward improving our show. Thanks for listening!

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].

Series Two Episode Eighteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast.

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.

Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

In this episode we tackle user questions and comments and then talk with Beth Lynn Eicher of the Ohio Linux Fest. Linux in the HAM Shack will be there. Will you? Hope to see everyone who can make it to Columbus from Friday, September 25 through Sunday, September 27.

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].

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

Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

Here is the second and final installment of the special OSCON update for Linux in the HAM Shack. In this episode I examine the second half of my trip to San Jose, California, and the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. I talk about sessions I attended dealing with subjects as diverse as patents and legal issues, processor speed, cloud computing, users as Open Source advocates and, yes, evening programming in Klingon. I also take a trip through The Tech Museum of Innovation, an institution run entirely using Open Source. So sit back and enjoy this special report from OSCON and as always, thanks for being a loyal listener to the program.

Don’t forget to leave us voice feedback or questions. We’d love to put you on the air. And we know how ham radio operators often have the gift for gab. So let it out. Don’t be shy. Linux in the HAM shack wants YOU.

73 de Russ, K5TUX

Russ Woodman, K5TUX, co-hosts the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast which is available for download in both MP3 and OGG audio format. Contact him at [email protected].