Well, cross off another thing from the to do list. I passed my General amateur radio exam today at the Mike and Key Club Fleamarket . I got there early and was lucky number 13 in line, but that ominous number didn't stop me from being fist done and passing my general exam! I got 33 out of 36 which...

Sangean ATS-909 Shortwave Radio Receiver This will replace my broken Radio Shack radio that I'm giving to a friend who will probably fix it in 2 hours. :-)

This is straight out of Latitude 38's newsletter . I will be contacting Ron and seeing what he needs and I'll get back to you. I assume he could use some cash and I'll pass along the details. February 25, 2008 – Honolulu, HI Untold numbers of cruisers use the Winlink system for everything...

You may remember back about 3 years ago (wow this blog has been up a long time) I passed my general written test in anticipation of the FCC rule change which would eliminate morse code test requirements. Well the worst case scenario played out and the FCC took more than a year to make the change so now...

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...

XM Radio has a deal on XM WX SatelliteXM Radio has a deal ($0 activation and 1 free month) currently going. I found out about this in the Nobeltec Newsletter and couldn't find anything on the XM Radio site about it. Here are the details for the discount: Use this promo code when you call into XM...

I helped out Judy on the Electronics list at sailnet and thought I would post this to my blog since I could not find it on the web. Here is the procedure to unlock the LSB function in the Furuno FS1503: You need to change system parameter 9914 to "0" to enable LSB capability. SYSTEM PROGRAMMING PROCEDURE...

Thanks to Les on the Pacific NW Sailing List for this one! http://jm.slove.org/gc/

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...