Category: Amateur Radio
While surfing the Internet recently for information about the early days of broadcast radio in the Washington, DC, area, we came across this interesting website – United States Early Radio History.
While the website is not amateur radio specific, it provides comprehensive history on, for example, early vacuum tube development (1917-1930), and the expansion of amateur radio after World War One. There’s been an interesting parallel between development of amateur and commercial radio over the years.
Another section of the site provides details about early pioneers in radio.
Early Radio History is a good resource.
The World Genesis Foundation has produced a lengthy video (32 minutes) with a new view toward discovering amateur radio. The production received UN funding.
The 2013 CQ World Wide DX contest was held recently and one DX station decided to combine the audio from his station with QRZ data related to the operators he worked. A pretty neat idea. Check out the YouTube video created by DX station IZ5NFD, Italy:
QSONet is a good online resource for timely ionosphere reports for ham operators.
The Cormac Propadex – Current Ionospheric Conditions:
Learn more at the W4AVA newsletter.
Any ham knows that the radio spectrum is crowded. How crowded? Well, nothing drives home the point better than this PDF wall chart from the Department of Commerce. Click here to access the PDF.
