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ICQPodcast Episode 452 – ARRL Election Committee Adventures
23 March 2025 | by In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is ARRL EE Committee Adventures.
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- ISS FM Repeater, APRS Digipeater Could Be Sunset in Two Years
- ISS Astronauts Reject Call for Early Retirement of the ISS
- VOA, Other International News Services, Marked for Cuts
- Questions Loom After Cuts at United States Weather Agency
- FCC Seeks Public Suggestions On Possible Deregulation
- Work at Repeater Site Costs Ham His County Job In Washington State
- RSGB web app
- Special Event Stations to Celebrate 200 Years of British Train Travel
- “Radio Connects” is 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme
- Mills on the air (MOTA) 2025
Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 374
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
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].
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…
George Thomas, W5JDX, is co-host of AmateurLogic.TV, an original amateur radio video program hosted by George Thomas (W5JDX), Tommy Martin (N5ZNO), Peter Berrett (VK3PB), and Emile Diodene (KE5QKR). Contact him at [email protected].
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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Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Presentation
At the Surrey Amateur Radio Communications March general meeting, Hitoshi Takahashi VE7LET, the Radio Amateurs of Canada Director for BC & Yukon, presented John Schouten VE7TI with a plaque commemorating his appointment to the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame for 2024.
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[left to right] Hiroshi Takahashi,
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Radio Amateurs of Canada recognizes deserving Amateurs by appointments to the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. The Constitution for the Hall specifies that the appointment as Member of the Hall is made for “outstanding achievement and excellence of the highest degree, for serious and sustained service to Amateur Radio in Canada, or to Amateur Radio at large”. The Trustees of the Hall have interpreted the Constitution to mean that the person has performed significant service over many years to enhance the well-being of Amateur Radio. Radio Amateurs of Canada and the Board of Trustees of CARHOF sincerely congratulates John Schouten VE7TI, on his appointment to the Hall of Fame.
A detailed account of his achievements will be presented in an upcoming edition of The Canadian Amateur magazine.
For more information on the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame please visit: https://wp.rac.ca/carhof/
Frank Davis, VO1HP
Chair, Board of Trustees
Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
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