Sunspots?
Always been wondering how these tiny sunspots can have that much impact on our radio waves? Then may I remind you of the size of the sun? These pictures will explain a lot!
Always been wondering how these tiny sunspots can have that much impact on our radio waves? Then may I remind you of the size of the sun? These pictures will explain a lot!
This experiment is put online by Universiteit of Twente to serve several visitors of the site a receive of the 40 and 80 meter band. Incredibly cool because now you can listen on the web to 40 and 80 meters with a very nice interface that gives you a full overview of the activities on [...]
Every radio amateur knows its a risk, so it’s good to check how your protection against lightning strikes! K9JY did a lot of research and came up with this 3 important points. Read his article here.
When you change your callsign, you have to change also a lot of other stuff. – QRZ.com; – your website; – your emailalias; – etc. Some of them are quite simple. But others are very hard to change because they are not used to the process of changing such static information as a callsign. Very [...]
Today when I arrived at home, there it was: the letter with the confirmation of my F-license. I immediately logon the site of Agentschap Telecom (the Dutch Authority who hands out the licenses) and requested my new callsign: PA1JIM ! From now on this website will be also available under the domain: http://www.pa1jim.nl
A pretty cool article about the book ‘Enough’. To quote Jeff, K3OQ: “It delves into how we have become programmed to “Want More, NOW”…and how we seem to be chasing the next best thing and not achieving happiness in life as a result of it. The good news is that this programming can be undone [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got him! I’ve passed for my F-license exam!! Still need to wait for the official answers. Thirteen wrong answers when I was allowed to make 15 wrong. So I think I’m in the save zone. Whow, very big big big relief!
A really kewl balloon fox hunting documentary (Dutch) from 2001 on CQTube. Very professionally made!
When you look online for a Spiderbeam you will find this document. Looks like a nice building project for the summer? Via: W8PRC
A pretty cool article about whispering on 30 meters. Via: ARRL