This radio was top of the line when it came out, because it was one of the first HTs to have built in PL tones, and to run directly off of a 12 volt input. By todays standards it is a pretty large HT, but it is built like a tank. This one is a […]
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Feb
Feb
An Old CW Operator (Morse Code continuous wave) and a New CW Op were out in a fishing boat one day. The New CW Op said, “I wish I could operate CW as well as you.” Not saying a thing, The Old CW Op scratched his chin, set down his fishing pole and grabbed the […]
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Jan
Jan
Ham radio 🐖📻🐷 Amateur radio was the internet of the 1950s… a way to communicate with people instantaneously over great distances. Here we have some equipment that would have been typical for a radio operator in the mid-1950s. There’s a number of stories about this equipment that we could tell here, and maybe we will […]
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Jan
Jan
In 1949, Victor Hoeflich, founder of a novelty manufacturing corporation, invented a radio hat. He called it “Man from Marr, Radio Hat.” During the announcement of his product, he used teenage models that were wearing the radio hats for newspapers and photographers. These photographs were published with articles in newspapers from coast to coast. The […]
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Jun
Jun
What is Amateur Radio? If you were to ask a dozen different amateurs what ham radio meant to them chances are you would get 12 different answers. Radio amateurs have discovered a richly rewarding high-tech hobby that has many different appeals to different people. Whether it is the ability to talk to local friends over […]
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May
May
Amateurs have been using packet radio on the HF bands for as long as packet radio has existed. And we have been less than happy with the results for about the same length of time. The problem is centered on the way packet radio operates. Data is packaged into individual frame, which are then sent […]