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LHS Episode #570: RepeaterSTART Deep Dive
12 February 2025 | by 
Hello and welcome to the 570th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, we interview guest Luke Bryan, KJ7BKH, about his RepeaterSTART project. The computer and mobile app is for locating and getting information and topo data about VHF and UHF repeaters around the globe. Topics include the code base, installation, usage, contributing to the project and 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].
ICQPodcast Episode 449 – A Simple Way to Receive QO-100
In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is A Simple Way to Receive QO-100
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- AMSAT-Switzerland Honours Historic Ham Satellite QSO
- Mesh Network for 70cm A Project in Canada
- Great Falls Library Adds Ham Radio Instruction Books
- How Are You Celebrating World Radio Day 2025?
- Austria’s Historic Moosbrunn Shortwave Site Dismantled
- Lonar Meteor Lake Special Event AU6LON
- Ham Radio Outlet Employee Honoured for 60 Years in Amateur Radio
- New RSGB Emerging Technology Web Page
Colin Butler, M6BOY, is the host of the ICQ Podcast, a weekly radio show about Amateur Radio. Contact him at [email protected].
Ham College 121
Ham College episode 121 is now available for download.
Technician Exam Questions Part 8.
T2B – VHF/UHF operating practices: FM repeater, simplex, reverse splits, Access tones: CTCSS, DTMF, DMR operation, Resolving operational problems, Q signals.
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 368
US Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act re-introduced
Legislation would require HOAs to accommodate Amateur Radio operators by allowing use of outdoor antennas.
ARRL
ISS Fram2Ham SSTV simulation
International Space Station Fram2Ham Slow Scan TV simulation will take place February 13-17 on 437.550 MHz FM.
AMSAT-UK
Communicating with satellites like it’s 1957
Like the ’50s, it doesn’t take too much specialized equipment to communicate with satellites.
Hackaday
‘Unprecedented’ Starlink reentries
In January alone, more than 120 Starlinks deorbited, creating a shower of fireballs.
Spaceweather.com
OSU Amateur Radio Club embraces tradition while in new era of communication
The club received $9,700 from the American Radio Relay League Foundation to help it reform for the future.
Oklahoma State University
NRSC releases details of AM band RF noise study
Contrary to expectations, AM noise levels, even in the city of Baltimore, were moderately low on the roadways.
RadioWorld
Super portable POTA: One Watt, one tiny key, big fun
To maximize my limited operating time, I went with my go-to minimalist setup: The Elecraft KX2 and AX1 antenna—a truly dynamic duo.
QRPer
Why QRP? Isn’t life short?
QRP operating tips.
VE3IPS
dxclustermap
A configurable color-coded DX cluster map and table.
DO1ZL
Video
Make your new QSL card with Inkscape
Inkscape is a very powerful Open Source graphics program.
KB9RLW
Checking out the Discovery Dish
A simple & easy-to-use satellite antenna for everyone.
Saveitforparts
Introduction to single side band
Vintage Air Force film introduction to single side band.
YouTube
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Special Event Station PA80OV
Radio Club Limburg
announces
Special Event Station
PA80OV
Next week, members of Radio Club Limburg (https://rclb.nl) in the North Limburg region of The Netherlands, will activate:
PA80OV is a special event station to commemorate Operation Veritable, celebrating 80 years of freedom. Operation Veritable, namesake of the station, and the successor of Operation Market Garden, was the northern part of an Allied pincer movement in the Second World War.
We are back in 2025 for the third consecutive time with this special event station; having added another 5 years to our callsign.
Members of Radio Club Limburg will activate the callsign PA80OV from February 13 to 28, 2025, to work as many amateur radio operators across the world as possible. If you're in the area, you can visit our station in the old town hall in the city of Gennep, The Netherlands between February14 and 16.
Whether you are an amateur radio operator, hoping to contact a new country, a new callsign, or you're a casual visitor, you're welcome to our website:
https://rclb.nl/pa80ov
We hope to hear and work you.
On behalf of the PA80OV team.
Jan, PA2P
https://rclb.nl/pa80ov
Operation Manna 80
A very special, special event station
SARC has been asked to participate in a large-scale special event late in April commemorating the relief efforts of the winter of 1944-45 to drop tons of food to the starving population of NW Holland. It is well described at: Operation Manna @ 80 and in the video https://youtu.be/0PwhYFdzY_Q. Amateur stations from the drop zones in Holland, air force bases in Britain, plus the Allied forces that provided aircraft and pilots, including the UK, Canada, The US, Poland and Australia will be represented by special event stations in those countries.
Three UK Teams, one at the International Bomber Command Centre, another at former RAF Binbrook (an Operation Manna Airfield in the UK) and another at the 100th Bomb Group Museum Thorpe Abbots representing the US operation Chowhound from a former Chowhound airfield.
The national Radio Scouting team (Plusscouts PA3EFR/J) will be operating from an Operation Manna drop zone near The Hague, The Netherlands. Read on for further details on this team and their radio station location at The Team in the Netherlands – Operation Manna @ 80
The stations will be active April 25-27 (Friday through Sunday) using variations of the xx80MAN callsign. Here in Canada, we will be applying for VE80MAN.
Children and youth activities will also be included and there will be activity on HF, DMR and VHF
https://manna80.radio/w p-content/uploads/2024/12/Award_new.jpg
There will be a full article in the next Communicator (March 1st)
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 367
IP400 Network Project
The long term goal of the project is to implement a network that is capable of carrying digital voice and video, as well as catering to other services such as telemetry, messaging and more. At the home station a simple node based on a Raspberry Pi will get you onto the network, and at repeater sites a more complex controller will not only control analog and C4FM radios, but also include an IP400 transceiver for networking.
ADRCS
New FreeDV RADE heard in the wild
You can see quite dramatic selective fading but the speech is perfectly readable.
marxy’s musing on technology
Getting started with AREDN
ARDEN provides high-speed Mesh Networking and related services using Amateur Radio links in the 900 MHz UHF and several microwave bands.
Our Ham Station
Is Amateur Radio in the United States dying?
The short answer is NO. But it is CHANGING. Here is why and how.
K4FMH
A personal record: Winter Field Day 2025
Winter Field Day in a tiny RV on our land in upstate New York.
KM1NDY
Austria’s 500-kilowatt short-wave transmitter to be blown up
The system runs on rails so that it can be rotated 180 degrees.
heise online
Are we spoiled for choice?
Why there’s no better time to be a QRP field operator.
QRPer
How can a lossy wire on the ground work better than a quarter wave vertical antenna?
We can use a trick of geometry to support our claim.
Ham Radio Outside the Box
Video
Inside the Dayton Hamvention
Why it’s the heart of Amateur Radio (and the world’s largest).
W1DED
How does a radome affect radio signals?
People frequently ask how my geodesic radar dome affects radio reception or radio telescope imaging.
saveitforparts
10 Ghz FM propagation
120 miles across 6000′ Mt. Mitchell.
N4OFA
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