The Mike and Key Club is a big Amateur Radio club here in the Pacific Northwest. They are having their 27th annual electronics show and fleamarket 8 march 2008. The whole thing kicks off at 0900. Just like the Marine gear equivalents I'm sure all the good used stuff goes early so get there at the...

I run this little app on my home PC and I have the timezones for where all my friends are hangin’ out. Its pretty nice. Its especially handy for sailing and HAM radio because you always need to know when ZULU or GMT is. Anyway, you can download a fully functional demo for a few days. Dear Patrick, As...

I’ve been dying to get more info on the FCC dropping the Morse code requirement, so I checked out the ARRL web site today. (The FCC site sucks and you can’t find anything). Lucky me, they had an article on the home page from today . The gist of the story is the FCC has still given no timeline on when...

I’m going to throw down some links and some basics here. I’m not an expert at this stuff, by any means, but I’ll try to point you in the right direction. WiFi works line of site, your antenna needs to ‘see’ their antenna. Unlike SSB where you can bounce the signal off of clouds, the atmosphere and all...

Ok, I was just checking out an article on Panbo about a different solution for an HF antenna other the traditional insulated antenna within the backstay. Anyway, I’m studying for my General license and the GAM solution didn’t make sense to me, but I’m not an expert so don’t listen...

ACR has a very functional and reliable MOB system. The directional antenna is used to alert of a MOB situation by monitoring for 121.5 for EPiRB signals. You then use the handheld antenna to sweep the seas to find your lost crew and navigate back them. This reminded me a a HAM Radio fox hunt, and I thin...

This is a great review of Icom's IC-802 Marine HF Transceiver from our friends at Marine Electronics Journal. I read this article and dream of getting my first HF rig. I received my tech no-code license about 10 years ago and I've not really been active on the air. One of my plans is to get into HF and...