2015-02-24

Ham Radio Now

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HRN 190: CQ 'Comes Clean' (a click-bait title!)

Posted: 22 Feb 2015 05:58 AM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

CQ editor Rich Moseson W2VU is fairly candid about the state of the

magazine in this in-depth interview with Gary KN4AQ. Pay attention to what

Rich says is the biggest problem. It's not the number of subscribers – it's

the lack of advertising. And that's also the biggest obstacle to the extra

digital-only content in CQ-Plus. Advertisers don't value digital media as

much as they do print.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0190_Audio_CQclean.mp3

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HRN 189: 3 Years Ago in Orlando

Posted: 22 Feb 2015 05:52 AM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

The HamRadioNow program began three years ago with a bunch of shows

recorded at the Orlando HamCation. We went back this year and did a few

more. In this episode, Gary takes an abbreviated tour, with a quick look at

the ELAD FDM-Duo, a full-featured and full-SDR QRP transceiver from Italy,

and the prototype "speaker-mic" coming for FreeDV (it puts the full FreeDV

HF digital voice 'computer' in a speaker-mic size enclosure). And he

assaults some YLs on being at a hamfest on Valentine's Day.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0189_Audio_3Orlando.mp3

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HRN 183: European HAMNET

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 09:05 AM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Jann Traschewsk DG8NGN details the European HAMNET, a wide-coverage,

high-speed digital backbone network using (mostly) Amateur Radio, currently

covering Germany, and branching out into surrounding countries. From the

2014 ARRL/TAPR DCC

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0183_Audio_HAMNET.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode 182: World's Best Hobby

Posted: 22 Dec 2014 11:45 AM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

TV producer Dave Bell W6AQ talks to Gary KN4AQ about his new book, and his

life in and around Television (making it, not watching it). Until the

Internet age and YouTube, Dave was the most prolific source of television

programs about Ham Radio, most of them made for 'real' TV stations and

networks.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0182_Audio_W6AQ.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode 181: SDR Using GNU Radio Companion

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 02:03 PM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

From the ARRL/TAPR DCC. GNU Radio Companion is sort of a toolkit for

designing Software Defined Radio "circuits." This talk from the DCC is an

introduction, using the design of a Digital Signal Processing module as a

teaching aid. It's pretty visual, with lots of Powerpoint slides, so if the

audio is interesting but incomplete, stop by www.HamRadioNow.tv for the

video.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0181_Audio_DSP-GNU.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode 180: Bell 202 Modem in Amateur Radio

Posted: 17 Dec 2014 02:00 PM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

This won't be much of a "radio" show - it's a presentation at the ARRL/TAPR

DCC titled "Clarifying the Amateur Bell 202 Modem," and there are lots of

Powerpoint slides to see on the video (www.HamRadioNow.tv). So if the audio

leaves you interested but a little lost, come to the web site for the video.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0180_A...ll202Modem.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode 179: A Christmas Truce

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 01:12 PM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

WW1USA is a special event station at a Kansas City museum commemorating

significant events throughout the 100th anniversary of World War I. Next up

is their operation on December 27-28 marking The Christmas Truce - an

unofficial but widespread cease-fire on the first Christmas of the war.

Randy Schulze KDØHKD and Herb Fiddick NZØF join Gary to talk about the

operation.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0179_Audio_Truce.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode 178: Radio Games

Posted: 02 Dec 2014 07:20 PM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

If you like Jeff & Gary, you'll like this episode. Just kicking the can

around for an hour and forty minutes

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0178_Audio_RadioGames.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode: 177 Emcomm Vehicle

Posted: 01 Dec 2014 07:23 PM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Hams in the Portland OR ARES group are scratching up a mobile comm unit. It

isn't as easy as it looks!

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0177_Audio_MobileComm.mp3

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HamRadioNow Episode 174: Riley Hollingsworth K4ZDH - "Pep Talk"

Posted: 25 Nov 2014 05:32 AM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Retired FCC Special Council for Amateur Radio Enforcement Riley

Hollingsworth K4ZDH talks enforcement and (much) more at a meeting of the

radio club he joined while attending law school in Winston-Salem, North

Carolina. The video is available via YouTube on the HamRadioNow.tv web site

or YouTube channel.

This posting includes a media file:
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN0174_A...iley_at_WS.mp3

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Episode 170: Off the Shelf SDR

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 01:15 AM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

From the DCC: WA2DFI installs and launches three SDR receivers LIVE in one

45-minute talk. And they said it couldn't be done.

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HamRadioNow: DVB-T Digital TV for Amateur Radio

Posted: 21 Oct 2014 02:41 PM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Mel Whitten K0PFX shows how easy it was to get on digital ATV using the

European standard DVB-T and off-the-shelf components.

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Episode 167: AMBE Exposed - K6BP at the 2014 DCC

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:15 AM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Bruce Perens K6BP has learned a thing or two about the vocoder that

everybody uses. And he doesn't like it!

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Episode 166: TAPR and the Beach

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:14 AM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

We wrap the DCC Introduction session into our beach vacation (hey! You got

sand in my SDR!)

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Episode 161: Yaesu System (con)Fusion

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 04:45 AM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Four (five if you count NXDN... six if you count FreeDV) digital voice

modes for VHF/UHF. Confused yet?

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HamRadioNow: Symbol Rate

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 07:46 PM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

Gary talks with Open Source evangelist Bruce Perens K6BP about the ARRL's

Symbol Rate petition and request for digital band plan comments, FreeDV,

and the HT of the Future.

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HamRadioNow: MotoTRBOStar

Posted: 22 Mar 2014 01:53 PM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

D-STAR, MOTOTRBO (DMR) and analog in one handheld? Connect System's Jerry

Wanger tells Gary what he's got in the works.

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HamRadioNow: K9W and FT5ZM DXpeditions

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 08:13 AM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

These are hamfest talks with powerpoint slides, narrated by some famous

DXers who were on those DXpetions: Lou Dietrich N2TU at K9W Wake Atoll, and

Bob Allphin K4UEE at FT5ZM Amsterdam Island. Recorded at the 2014 Charlotte

Hamfest

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HamRadioNow: CQ Magazine - What the Heck?

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 11:25 AM PDT
http://HamRadioNow.tv

CQ's been MIA since the December issue (in print, anyway). Editor Rich

Moseson W2VU tells us what happened, and what happens next.

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HamRadioNow: WW8N Tower Case

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 08:21 PM PST
http://HamRadioNow.tv

We talk to Fred Hopengarten K1VR, antenna law expert and lead attorney in

the WW8N tower case in Ohio.

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HamRadioNow at the Movies

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 08:50 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Jeff and Gary review the recent "ARRL at 100" Centennial video from the

league, and the first episode of the new British ham radio series "TX

Factor."

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HamRadioNow: My Stupid Idea for 60 Meters

Posted: 12 Feb 2014 04:20 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

In episode 131, we learn about how next year's WRC might create a real (if

small) 60 Meter BAND. In 132, Gary and Jeff talk about what we might do

with it. Gary's stupid idea, playing off of the current scheme for most of

the countries that have their own versio of 60 Meters: "channelize" it.

Hey, we said it was stupid.

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Episodes 129 (Android Programming); 130 (Time Nut)

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:42 PM PST
http://YouTube.com/HamRadioNow

New episodes of HamRadioNow are on-line!

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Ham Networks Wide and Narrow, and a KICK that didn't start

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:35 PM PST
http://blip.tv/HamRadioNow/episode-1...-radio-6719176

The new episodes are #126 (KICKSTARTER FAIL!), #127 (the narrow network

ideas) and #128 (the really WIDE network that's on the air).

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Episodes 112-125 from the DCC

Posted: 13 Jan 2014 01:35 PM PST
http://YouTube.com/HamRadioNow

These episodes cover improvements for PSK31; FreeDV-CODEC2 (and other Bruce

Perens K6BP rants); HackRF's Michael Ossmann; GNURadio for the Hermes and

Metis. Get details in the episodes on either our YouTube or Blip.tv

channels.

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5 more from the DCC on the HRN YouTube Channel

Posted: 08 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST
http://YouTube.com/HamRadioNow

Episodes 117 thru 121 are on-line now from the DCC. I haven't listed them

on the HamRadioNow web site yet - I'm concentrating on editing and not PR!

Take a quick look at the YouTube channel and see if these are topics you

want to watch...

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Episode 116: "Do It Yourself" SDR

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 07:20 PM PST
http://YouTube.com/HamRadioNow

Want to try SDR, but not ready to tackle the big TAPR stuff, or the more

expensive Flex series? This talk will show you how to turn your existing HF

SSB rig into a software defined radio - at least most of one - using mostly

what you have already (the radio, a computer) and an inexpensive interface

kit.

We're pointing you to YouTube because the HamRadioNow web page hasn't been

updated yet... an RSS sneak-peek!

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Episode 114 and 115: An APRS mobile using Raspberry Pi; Flex 6000 Update

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 04:53 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

From the ARRL and TAPR DCC...

In Episode 114, John Hansen W2FS builds an APRS mobile using a Raspberry

Pi, programmed with Xastir - complete with mapping display.

In 115, FlexRadio's Stephen Hicks N5AC reviews the 6000 series.

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Episode 112 and 113: Web Sites and Apps (Make'em work, be secure)

Posted: 21 Dec 2013 08:38 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

From the 2013 DCC, a pair of talks on making apps and web sites do what you

need, and how to make sure users are who they say they are (so you can let

them key a transmitter)

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Episode 111: Christmas Card

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:29 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

This is just a half-hour Selfie by KN4AQ. Happy Holidays!

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Episode 110: Welcome to the 2013 DCC

Posted: 15 Dec 2013 05:53 PM PST
www.YouTube.com/hamradionow

So, I was reminded that I've been remiss in updating the RSS announcement

for... about 9 episodes. So I'm making an exclusive early announcement of

Episode 110 here on the RSS (and YouTube subscribers will learn about it,

too). This is the first of the videos from the ARRL and TAPR DCC in

Seattle. This one's just the welcoming talk from Friday morning. Nothing

technical yet, but that's coming very soon.

And if you haven't watched anything since the last RSS, stop by
www.HamRadioNow,tv and catch up on what you've missed. Sorry!

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Episode 101: A Tale of Two Emcomm... Vehicles

Posted: 12 Oct 2013 08:23 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Slog thru Jeff & Gary's banter for a half hour and you'll be rewarded with

details on two big emcomm vehicles (too big to call them vans - they're bit

RVs or maybe busses). One's from Brevard County, FL, and the other is from

the Dayton ARA (sponsor of the Hamvention).l

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Episode 100: Big Whoop!

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:00 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 100 is supposed to be a milestone event in the life of a podcast.

So we celebrate, but not too hard.

Looks like we missed promoting Episode 99 (Yaesu announces it's new Digital

Repeater), and 98 (our drive to Seattle for the DCC... in three parts). Get

watching...

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Episode 97: Ward Silver N0AX... for Dummies?

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 06:49 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Ward just finished the 2nd edition of "Ham Radio for Dummies." He's a

prolific writer, and he can hold up his end of a conversation, too! Get to

know Ward a little better in this in-depth conversation.

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Episodes 92, 93, 94, 95, 96

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 06:17 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Really? No RSS since Episode 91? My bad. 92's an update on the DCC,

announcing a KICKSTARTER that is over and done (and WORKED!). 93 is all

QRP. 94 announces the KICKSTART success, and I ramble with a fan about a

bunch of stuff. 95 is a FlexRadio update (the 6's are here!), and 96

introduces the new Young Ham of the Year. Good thing the weekend is coming.

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Episode 91: AmateurLogicTV (The George & Tommy Show)

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:51 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

George and Tommy, founders of that long-running Amateur Radio podcast, join

Gary at the HamRadioNow booth at the (noisy) Huntsville Hamfest to talk

about their show.

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Episode 89: Goodbye, Monitoring Times

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:09 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Bob Grove W8JHD, founder-editor-publisher of Monitoring Times, has

announced his... and the magazine's... retirement. We find out why Bob's

retirement also means an end to the magazine (don't bother making an

offer!), and then we talk HF Shortwave Listening for a bit. The

VHF/UHF/Scanning conversation will have to wait for a future show.

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Episodes 87-88

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 06:50 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Two more interviews from the Dayton Hamvention. First, "Hamming in Guam" -

KH2JU tells us what it's like. Then "Hamvention's Michael Kalter W8CI" -

Michael is the former General Chairman, and is now the Official

Spokesperson. He peels back the curtain on the world's largest hamfest.

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HamRadioNow: (not a) Podcaster Randy Hall K7AGE

Posted: 20 Jul 2013 06:55 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

If you don't know Randy, you probably don't know us. He's one of the most

popular "new media" producers in ham radio, making a variety of programs

that he puts up on YouTube. So that's what we talk about.... all "inside

baseball" shop talk on ham radio and media.

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HamRadioNow: Dipole; Boy Scout Jamboree (... on the air)

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:24 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 82 is just called "Dipole." Jeff, Gary, Cyndi, and (introducing)

Bobbie spend an hour building and hanging a dipole. Yawn? Well, it's on the

way to being our most popular episode ever. Go figure.

Episode 83 is a conversation with Boy Scout Communications Director Jim

Wilson K5ND, about the upcoming Jamboree, the ICOM Station Loan equipment,

merit badges and patches, etc.

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HamRadioNow: Why The Heck Would Anyone Want To Operate Digital Voice?

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:51 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

The question has been debated to death. This moves the conversation forward

a square or two. Episode 81 is in two parts, each about an hour.

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HamRadioNow's Hamvention Coverage Begins

Posted: 27 May 2013 12:03 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 78 finds Jeff & Gary out in the flea market, early Friday morning.

We yak, meet some fans, yak some more, and look at some unusual stuff. Jeff

looks at some keys and paddles that bookend Morse operation from the

olderst to the newest. Then we yak some more.

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HamRadioNow: hamShack Switch - Birth of a Product

Posted: 14 May 2013 09:16 AM PDT
www.HamRadioNow.tv

HamRadioNow – Episode 77: hamShack Switch–Birth of a Product

If your ham shack is a little more elaborate than ours, you probably have a

rat's nest of cables. Maybe you've graduated from unplugging and

re-plugging to manual switchboxes or maybe a patch panel to change

configuration of your audio, keying, antennas and other station

input/output. hamShack Switch (they drop the leading capital.... not a

typo) is a new product, frrom a new company, that aims to help you clean

that up. Your shack computer will control their switchbox and let you

easily reroute all those peripherals, either locally or remotely.

Jack Ritter WØUCE started the new company after a lifetime in the telcom

industry, and in addition to pitching the product, tells us about launching

a new product in the Amateur Radio market.

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HamRadioNow: Amateur Radio at the Boston Marathon

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 11:14 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Episodes 74 and 75 cover Amateur Radio operation at this year's Boston

Marathon. We all know what happened at the finish line, and many of us know

that Ham Radio has had a huge operation in support of the event.

HamRadioNow talked to three hams involved. We learned how the hams

responded, and we go deeper to understand what it takes to participate in

this major public service operation.

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HamRadioNow: 10-10 International; Digital for Alabama ARES

Posted: 05 Apr 2013 04:59 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

HAMRADIONOW EPISODES 71 and 72: Online Now

71: Ten-Ten International Net

10 meters is supposed to be hopping these days, but instead, it's limping.

And when the sunspot cycle is near minimum, 10 stays dead for months on

end. 10-10 International was formed to encourage 10 meter use all the time,

initially to stave off a potential CB expansion back in the 60's. Now it's

just to have fun on this quirky band. Jeff and Gary talk to Gerry Gross

WA6POV, former 10-10 president, at the Orlando HamCation, to see what the

group is all about.

72: Digital Modes for Alabama ARES

Alabama hams were early D-STAR adopters, led by the ARRL Section and ARES

officials. And it's not just D-STAR. ARES hams are encouraged to experiment

and adopt a variety of digital modes, and they're in use routinely. Gary

talks to Section Manager Dave Drummond W4MD, and Assistant Section Manager

Tommy Howell KG4MPU about how it's working.

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HamRadioNow: West Palm Beach ARC's Science Museum Station

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 05:13 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

This Hamvention® Club of the Year launched a ham station at the South

Florida Science Museum. We talk to club president Tom AJ4XM at the Orlando

HamCation

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HamRadioNow Reviews "Last Man Standing's" 'Ham Radio' episode

Posted: 21 Mar 2013 12:01 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Last Friday, ABC's sitcom "Last Man Standing" took ham radio from a

background element to full-frontal, with multiple cast members talking on

the radio (if maybe not exactly the way we'd do it for real). Most hams

were thrilled, but some have objected. Gary reviews the episode, and then

talks to ARRL's Media guy Allen Pitts W1AGP about the impact of putting

this much ham radio before the public.

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HamRadioNow: EME gets 'easy', Ham Radio Deluxe Gets Out There

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 05:39 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 67 is all about EME, and how WSJT software has lowered the bar for

making a contact off the moon.

Episode 68 is a talk with Ham Radio Deluxe partner Rick Ruhl W4PC on the

first weekend of the Version 6.0 release.

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HamRadioNow: Meet 5 Year Old Ham Ethan Kemp KK4ORG

Posted: 15 Mar 2013 08:30 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Bringing the average age of hams way down all by himself! Meet Ethan and

his folks, Kevin and Mitzi, and see how they nurtured his interest all the

way through getting his Tech (and now on to General!).

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HamRadioNow: QCWA Update

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 06:14 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 65 - QCWA, ham radio's group for those of us who were first

licensed at least 25 years ago, has made some big changes. Executive

Administrator Ken Simpson W8EK tells Jeff & Gary all about it. Gary tries

to Cap&Trade some of his excess years to get Jeff in early, but it doesn't

work.

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HamRadioNow: CQ's W2VU - Will the REAL Ham Radio Please Stand Up

Posted: 04 Mar 2013 06:33 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 64 - All Talk.... not much tech. CQ's editor Rich Moseson W2VU,

HamRadioNow's Gary KN4AQ and Jeff AC4ZO bat around a bunch of current

stuff, from Internet-linked radio (not REAL) radio, to HF digital voice, to

the Chinese radio revolution.

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HamRadioNow: Too Much SDR; ARRL@100; On-line Repeater Directory

Posted: 24 Feb 2013 02:43 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

HAMRADIONOW EPISODES 59 thru 63: Online Now

59 covers RFinder, a new online repeater directory with apps for iOS and

Android, and integration to RP's programming software. My quick tests

worked well, but beware the outdated info that plagues all directories.

60 is a talk with ARRL COO Harold Kramer WJ1B on plans for the upcoming

Centennial, particularly the National Convention to be held in Hartford in

July, 2014.

61 starts the SDR Marathon. We talk to FlexRadio's Greg Jurrens K5GJ. Sure,

lots of Flex product info, but also a lot of basic info about what Software

Defined Radio is (and isn't).

62 and 63 are from the ARVN Archives, programs previously available only on

DVD. Each episode comes in 3 parts of about an hour each.

62 is Phil Harman VK6APH's talk about designing the HPSDR Mercury receiver,

the first direct-conversion SDR in Amateur Radio. It was the Sunday Seminar

at the 2008 ARRL & TAPR DCC in Chicago. The second one? The Flex 6000

series. They go from antenna to A/D converter with no active components in

between (maybe just a bandpass filter).

63 is the SDR Forum from the 2009 Dayton Hamvention®. Six SDR heavyweights

cover the future, contesting, Flex, Elecraft, HPSDR, and operating the

stuff.

We've got several more interviews to edit from the Orlando HamCation...

coming soon, so stay tuned!

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HamRadioNow: ICOM 7100 Hand's On... and more from Orlando

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 06:05 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

The '7100 Episode (#56) is the bait. Jeff & Gary poke and prod the

touch-screen of this new mobile to see how it feels.

If you have a few minutes to spare after that, Episode 55 is the INTRO to

all the Orlando stuff. In 57, we talk about how Yaesu and Kenwood don't

have anything new quite yet (but it's coming). N3ZN shows of some of his

fancy keys, and we talk CW, in #58. And finally in #59 we look at a new

on-line Repeater Directory complete with iOS and Android apps... AND an RT

Systems interface.

Pop some popcorn. You've got some Ham TV to watch.

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HamRadioNow: Bdale Garbee KB0G Banquet Talk at the DCC

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:54 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Bdale Garbee KB0G is one of those highly accomplished hams with a broad and

deep background - RF design, computers and digital, rocketry,

fabrication... and being a devoted dad. The kind of ham you tend to find in

a group like TAPR. You'll meet him 'up close and personal' as he gives the

talk at the Saturday night banquet at the 2012 ARRL/TAPR DCC. The banquet

talk is more personal and less technical than the rest of the TAPR

presentations, so if some of the technology is over your head, this one's

lots more accessible, though Bdale does manage to drop a technical phrase

or concept in now and then to keep you on your toes. Bdale's talk runs

about an hour.

Then KN4AQ adds some comments about the audience that's developed for the

TAPR conference videos and HamRadioNow in general... more naval gazing for

those of you interested in tracking the development of podcasting for

Amateur Radio.

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HamRadioNow: Ski Break

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 05:04 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

HamRadioNow Episode 53: Ski Break

Or "Ski & Scan" might be a more radio-oriented title. Gary and XYL Cyndi

KD4ACW took a week off to go skiing. It wasn't a big ham radio event, but

Gary did scan the resort's communications as he slid down the mountain, and

he and Cyndi used FRS to talk to each other. Cyndi plopped a Go-Pro-ish

camera on her helmet, and Gary took advantage of that to do an impromptu

HamRadioNow episode.

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HamRadioNow: GNU Radio Intro (from the DCC); Tale of Two Hamfests

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:55 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 51: Introduction to GNU Radio

The four-hour "deep dive" from the DCC

The GNU Radio Project is a development and experimentation platform for the

software behind Software Defined Radio.Tom Rondeau KB3UKZ is the project

leader, and he presents this four-hour talk as the Sunday Seminar from the

2012 ARRL & TAPR Digital Communications Conference, held last September in

Atlanta.

Episode 52: A Tale of Two... Three Hamfests

Sunday Is Dead. Long Live Friday! As more hamfests abandon Sunday in favor

of Friday, Gary talks to the chairmen of two of them – the newly reborn

Miami Hamfest (aka Tropical Hamboree), and Charlotte. Then he dissects the

Shelby NC hamfests's move back to the county fairgrounds they abandoned

five years ago. Let the Hamfest Season begin!

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HamRadioNow - Gary and the Giz on the Fizz

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 02:02 PM PST
www.HamRadioNow.tv

Fair warning: this is for TWiT Fans, Gary fans, or both. Our KN4AQ wangled

himself a guest appearance as the "Chatroom Celebrity of the Week" on the

Giz Fizz. That's the 'show' hosted by Dick DeBartolo, the Giz Wiz, a

program that follows "The Tech Guy" on Saturday on TWiT. It almost didn't

happen! See all the nail-biting drama, and get some background on Gary's

so-called career in show-biz.

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HamRadioNow - Double Dose of D-STAR from the DCC

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:34 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 48: Moe Wheatley AE4JY reveals how he designed the hardware side of

the D-STAR DV Access Point Dongle (aka DVAP).

Episode 49: do you operate D-STAR? Yes? Have you ever used the low-speed

data that's part of your signal every time you transmit? No? In this talk

from the DCC, John Davis WB4QDX shows you how easy it is.

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HamRadioNow - A Social Mesh?; HF Digital Voice update

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 07:37 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 46 - A Social Mesh - ideas on how to deploy the mobile Internet

without the current cell phone infrastructure

Episode 47 - HF Digital Voice - an update on CODEC2 and a program that will

use it, FDMDV2. HF Digital Voice is back (almost).

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HamRadioNow - FCC Year in Review for Amateur Radio

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:24 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Gary takes a not-so-nostalgic look back at the FCC actions that affected

ham radio this past year. On the plus side, we get some ham bands you'll

probably never use; we get primary status on 160 meters that won't really

change anything; we got off that one bad channel on 60 meters and we get to

use CW and data there... inefficiently. And MotoTRBO is about to become

legal. On the down side of the ledger, the FCC "studied" us and concluded

that we're really good guys who don't have a problem with CC&R's, and the

comments (not) left by hams in that proceeding don't give us much

ammunition to dispute the statement. Gary's got a cold, so maybe that's why

he's coming off more like Scrooge the weekend before Christmas.

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HamRadioNow - High Speed Data on 420MHz; Dynamic Modulation Switching

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:18 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Yep, more from the DCC.

Episode 41 is all about DIY low power, off-the-shelf data radios for

high-speed transmission on UHF. David Bern W2LNX experimented with how far

he could push these little radios, in data and distance.

Episode 42 looks at experiments in automatically switching modulation

schemes to adapt to changing conditions. Shashank Gaur, a grad student from

Paris, and his Masters team used USRP and GNU Radio to make this work.

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HamRadioNow - Lots more APRS from the DCC

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:22 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 37 covered the ideas for a Packet Radio Hailing Channel, and some

new possibilities for using "Net44," our own Ham Radio Internet domain.

Episode 38 is "aprsc - High Performance Open Source APRS-IS Server." Hessu

Hannikainen OH7LZB, developer of the web site APRS.FI, describes

development of an open-source server for the APRS-IS network that

distributes APRS data worldwide. And he has one running on a Raspberry Pi.

Episode 39 is "Yet Another APRS Client" by Andrew Pavlin KA2DDO. Yeah, but

this is a GOOD one. It even makes Bob Bruninga smile! Bob's in the

audience, and has a "guest shot" at the end of the talk.

Episode 40 brings Hessu back to give us a peek at "APRS.FI Behind the

Curtains." If you use APRS, you use APRS.fi. Bet you don't use ALL of it!

Hessu gives us a lot of both user and technical information about the site.

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HamRadioNow - TAPR DCC Videos, and a Christmas Poem

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:32 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

We're beginning to release videos from the 2012 ARRL & TAPR Digital

Communications Conference, held in September in Atlanta. We're editing them

in the order they were presented, and we'll post them as they come off the

editing system.

So far:

"What's TAPR" - an interview with TAPR President Steve Bible N7HPR,

reviewing TAPR history and it's current status, and the mechanics of the DCC

ARISStat - Steve reviews a survey of how hams, educators and students used

the ARISSat sattelite

HPSDR Update - What's happened in the past year of the HPSDR project.

FlexRadio - SDR Architecture. Flex's Stephen Hicks gets deep into SDR and

the reason for moving the processing for the 6000 system out of your PC and

into the radio.

A Packet Hailing Channel / Network44. What's old is new again in packet

radio.

Open Source APRS-IS Server. Hessu OH7LZB, the guy behind APRS.FI, details

the server system (including one running on a RasberryPi).

And don't miss "A Ham's Night Before Christmas" - KN4AQ's holiday classic,

now in HD Video

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HamRadioNow - California Dreamin'

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 05:01 AM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 32 is so full of stuff it comes in two parts!

Part One: This is the episode to show non-hams what you like about

HamRadioNow. It's mostly not about ham radio. Gary and XYL Cyndi KD4ACW

spent a weekend in Atlanta, visiting the Coke Museum, Aquarium, CNN, and

taking a Segway tour. The California part is a little history lesson on

PCs, a stop at Pacificon, and a tour of the Stanford University ham club

(so there's at least SOME ham radio to it).

Part Two: A tour of the TWiT "Network". TWiT - This Week in Tech - is Leo

Laporte's little TV station in Petaluma, CA. It's the home of Ham Nation

and a bunch of other tech-related shows. Last year, Leo and crew built a

new facility that's a compact version of awesome. Studio manager John

Slanina (JammerB) gave HamRadioNow an extensive tour of the technology

behind (and below) the studios.

Then Gary gets to interview Leo W6TWT himself. And they talk mostly about

ham radio!

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Hurricane Sandy Follow-up

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:15 PM PST
http://hamradionow.tv

With Sandy gone, we talk again to Southern New Jersey SEC John Zaruda K2ZA

to see how it went. Joining John is ARRL's Emergency Preparedness Manager

Mike Corey KI1U for a broader perspective. It's a 90 minute discussion of

what worked, what didn't, and where we need to go in Ham Radio Emcomm.

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NJ ARES Preps for Sandy

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 11:36 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

HamRadioNow Episode 30 - As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the state, Gary

talks to SNJ Section SEC John Zaruba K2ZA about ARES Prep. In this "calm

before the storm," the conversation turns to how important digital is

becoming. Gary presses, and John agrees that not all that many hams have

embraced digital for emcomm, and maybe we need to pick a few modes from the

many we have to choose from. John has his favorites.

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HamRadioNow - The Transformer Guy; The Huntsville Hamfest Guy

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 09:45 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

The Transformer Guy is Peter Eggiman, and if you're building a big amp, you

might want to get to know him. The Huntsville Hamfest guy is Charlie

Emmerson N4OKL, and he talks about how they do this 'fest.

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HamRadioNow - PopComm; Publicity; Balloon Man & Rocket Man; Steve

Mendelsohn W2ML (SK)

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:48 PM PDT
www.HamRadioNow.tv

Looks like we've gotten behind the RSS. If you missed them:

Episode 25: Popular Communications turns 30, and we talk to editor Richard

Fisher KI6SN

Episode 26: Taking Ham Radio Public, with Alabama Public Info Coordinator

Ed Tyler N4EDT

Episode 27: Balloon Man Bill Brown WB8ELK, and Rocket Man David Stephenson

KJ4OKJ

Special Edition: Newsline's Bill Pasternack WA6ITF produced this 'oral

history' of the life of Steve Mendelsohn W2ML

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OMIK; WB2JKJ - HamRadioNow Episodes 23 and 24

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:07 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

OMIK is the biggest association of African

American hams. WB2JKJ is that Junior High School in New York that's been

collecting radios for a few decades. Just more people doing interesting

things in Amateur Radio.

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Meet DVDongle Inventor Robin Cutshaw AA4RC

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

HamRadioNow Episode 20: Robin invented the DVDongle and DVAP, and the

software that lets D-STAR repeaters link to each other and to reflectors.

Get to know Robin in this in-depth interview with HamRadioNow's KN4AQ

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AMSAT Mission to MARS?

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT
www.HamRadioNow.tv

Episode 19: AMSAT Mission to MARS? Well, that's the eye-grabber, but it was

a small part of our conversation with AMSAT President Barry Baines WD4ASW

at the Shelby NC Hamfest last weekend. There are a few more pressing items

on their agenda.

Oh, and we didn't plug Episode 18.... at Huntsville, we talked to ARRL's

Bob Inderbitzen NQ1R about the National Convention at Pacificon. And CQ

Editor Rich Moseson speculated on why hams aren't in a party mood over our

100th anniversary of "licensing" (the Radio Act of 1912). He also revealed

that some hams cheat on CQ Contests (the horror!), so they're going to

speed up contest entry and publication deadlines.

It's all at www.HamRadioNow.tv

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Meet Erin King AK4JG, Young Ham of the Year

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:40 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

HamRadioNow Episode 17: Erin King AK4JG is Newsline's Young Ham of the

Year. She talked to HamRadioNow's KN4AQ about how she got there, and where

she's headed next (it's MIT!) in this in-depth interview.

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Grounding for Lignthing Protection; Happy Birthday Ham Radio

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:10 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

We've been AWOL for a month, so now two episodes back-to-back:

Episode 15 - Grounding for Lightning Protection. Tom Lewis N4TL's station

suffered damage one too many times (that would be two times), so he set out

to learn what he was doing wrong. Then he told us!

Episode 16 - Happy Birthday, Ham Radio. This month we turn 100, at least

officially. Congress enacted the Radio Act of 1912, the first comprehensive

law covering radio, in August, 1912. One little provision in that act

provided for what became Amateur Radio.

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HamRadioNow: Simple Station / Field Day Antenna Launcher Contest

Posted: 01 Jul 2012 03:05 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Viewers ask to see a simple station they can build. Ham television shows

keep featuring the monster-mega-stations most of us can only dream about.

So this time out, Jeff and Gary show a simple station for Field Day that

can be a template for your home station.

We also document a cool contest for antenna launching devices at our local

Field Day operation.

This episode runs 62 minutes.

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HamRadioNow: Field Day - Get Up and GOTA

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 07:27 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

This is Episode 13 - Field Day: Get Up and GOTA. Gary and Jeff spend 90

minutes in the studio talking about lots of stuff, but mostly about the

unique GOTA (Get On The Air) station they ran last year, along with Dick

Ornander KD4ISC. Lots of video of GOTA operation.... mostly cute kids.

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Episode 12C, Part 3 - Hamvention TOUR SUNDAY

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:06 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Finally, we release the SUNDAY Hamvention® TOUR program. The shortest day,

the longest video. Go figure. You'll get the details on the web site.

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Episode 12C, Part 2 - Hamvention TOUR SATURDAY

Posted: 02 Jun 2012 08:56 AM PDT
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN_Episode_0012C.html

Our video for Saturday of the 2012 Dayton Hamvention is on-line. In this

episode: the Intro loses focus; Jeff checks out the new Yaesu FTdx3000, and

mingles with the HFPack guys for their big net; Gary learns about the new

NWDigitalRadio's UHF data radio, and talks to a MotoTRBO fan. Finally, we

ambush Tom Medlin W5KUB out in the Flea Market.

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Episode 12C, Part 1 - Hamvention TOUR FRIDAY

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:38 PM PDT
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN_Episode_0012C.html

Jeff AC4ZO and Gary KN4AQ take on the Dayton Hamvention! This is what we

saw (and who we talked to) in the short time we had on Friday after

shooting the D-STAR training class in the morning.

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Episode 12B - D-STAR Training Class at Dayton 2012

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:47 PM PDT
http://arvideonews.com/hrn/HRN_Episode_0012B.html

We didn't get to the D-STAR Seminar or Friday Night activity, but we did

record the three-hour D-STAR Training Class at the Drury Inn, presented by

John Davis WB4QDX and Georgia D-STAR on Friday morning.

This class gets you up to speed on D-STAR radio programming and operation.

On the web site are three videos, each about 45 minutes long, covering the

three segments of the class.

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Episode 12A - FCC Forum at Dayton 2012

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:43 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv/HRN_Episode_0012.html

We're back up, and here's the first of 5 videos from the 2012 Hamvention.

This is the FCC Forum, with Bill Cross W3TN and Curt Bartholomew N3GQ (and

no, Laura Smith was not there. Bill explains why). We're editing the

remaining episodes now, and they'll be up one at a time as we complete them

over the next few days.

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Episode 12: Delayed

Posted: 23 May 2012 06:17 AM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv

Episode 12 will be all from the Dayton Hamvention. But it's going to be a

little later. Gary tried updating Premiere Pro (the video editing software)

before starting this big project, and it crashed bad. Still picking up the

pieces.

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Episode 11: FCC Forum at the 2011 Dayton Hamvetion

Posted: 13 May 2012 04:03 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv/HRN_Episode_0011.html

Yes, this is LAST YEAR's FCC Forum, but unless you were there, you haven't

seen it yet. It'll be cool to see if they did that they said they'd do.

It's Bill Cross W3TN and Curt Bartholomew N3GQ, talking ham radio and

EmComm, regulations and stuff. And answering questions from the hams in the

room.

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Episode 9A: Hamfest Fun

Posted: 07 May 2012 05:48 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv/HRN_Episode_0009.html

KN4AQ's local hamfest has some activities he thinks you'll enjoy, and maybe

even want to include in YOUR local hamfest.

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Episode 10: Locating Power Line Noise

Posted: 07 May 2012 05:38 PM PDT
http://hamradionow.tv/HRN_Episode_0010.html

ARRL's Ed Hare W1RFI in a Dayton Hamvention seminar helps you identify

Power Line Noise and deal with the power company to solve problems that

they really are responsible for

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