I had quite a few people asking me about my journey to getting the Ham Tech License. So here’s where I’m at. Not exciting or sexy..but it’s the truth. www.youtube.com

Working F6HRO & DG1EA via AMSAT OSCAR – 7 Satellite. My new assistant is showing good radio com skills especially rotating & elevating my SAT Antennas.

This video shows my portable ham radio station “go kit”. It is contained in a backpack from PowerPort (www.powerportstore.com My lovely wife had the pack embroidered with my callsign before she gave it to me. She also bought me the ZM-2 tuner kit, as well as the AstroFlight Whattmeter (thanks to Jerry N2GJ for the suggestion!). It’s wonderful having a supportive spouse! The antennas are the Par Electronics tri-band end-fed antenna, and the Super Antennas MP-1 multiband vertical antenna. The tuner is a z-match style tuner from Emtech. I use 7aH gel-cell batteries, and charge them with a Battery Tender float charger from Deltran.

In this series we’ll cover consumer and amateur radio, antenna setup and design. This is just a fun intro into the world of short wave and HAM radio. Equipment used / mentioned in this video: * K-Po WR2100 PLL Synthesized World Band Receiver. * Yaesu FT-897 HF/VHF All Mode Transceiver * Yaesu FT-950 HF / 50MHz band All Mode Transceiver * Yaesu VX-6 Submersible Dual-Band FM Transceiver * Yaesu FT-817ND solar powered portable go-pack * Yaesu FRG-7000 Receiver * RigExpert AA-200 Antenna analyzer * Simple wire antenna * Par electronics Par End-Fedz EF-10-20-40 full length half wave dipole * Buddipole™- hf/vhf portable dipole antenna system * MFJ Deluxe Travel Antenna Tuner – MFJ-904H * Amateur Extra HAM radio license – KD8LON

What makes an engineer and/or ham radio amateur?? There is the special people on the world that contributes directly or indirectly to the technology progress… keep in mind also all the sciencist. “…the part that worries me is he used to the components to build the ham radio set.”

Tyler, N7TFP, explains how radio waves travel around the world via radio “skip” or sky-wave propagation. Part 1 of a 2-part series. Part 2 to follow soon.

Every Friday a group of us radio guys meet at the Flour Garden Bakery and coffee shop in Grass Valley to talk radio. This morning Grover, K7TP, passes out some modified computer mice to accept a key for Morsemail operation. After the mice are passed out, we start on our AO-51 satellite pass. What follows was not part of the plan. N1ASA tells us how to correctly do this! www.wku.edu Satellite Predictions, set up an account at www.heavens-above.com Morsemail brasspounder.com AO-51 www.amsat.org Arrow Antennas www.arrowantennas.com Pocketsat www.bigfattail.com 73 – Randy

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Learn what equipment you need to set up your own ham radio shack in this free radio enthusiast video. Expert: sledge Bio: Kurt Glaser, callsign of N7QJM, has been an active ham since the early 90′s. He built his first ham radio in 1970. N7QJM operates out of his ‘ham shack’ on the All Emergencies channel. Filmmaker: kurt glaser

Preliminary test of 15W Sunforce solar panel powering QRP amateur radio transceiver.