Amateur Radio Weekly 06JAN2024

[Richard VE3OZW]

Issue 314 January 6th, 2024

Top links

The ARRL Board is at it again
A newly proposed Code of Conduct, which I believe is the equivalent of a loyalty, confidentiality and obedience pledge to the League itself and not to the members that elect us.
KB6NU
Going on a social media diet
Leaving Twitter, investing in Mastodon.
QRPer
MeshCom 4.0
A project to exchange text messages via LoRa radio modules. MeshCom modules can be combined to form a mesh network, but can also be connected to a message network via MeshCom gateways, which are ideally connected via HAMNET.
ICSSW
2023: The Year in Radio
Ham Radio in 2023 was a continual source of rejuvenation and energy.
KC8JC
Introducing QSOMate
A Ham Radio logging application for iPhone, iPad, and macOS Desktop.
MacHamRadio.com
Mini-whips: Junk, right?
The results were very surprising.
Real-World Amateur Radio
Everything you wanted to know about Zulu Time
Zulu Time is the military name for Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).
OnAllBands
AM or SSB are there 'windows?'
A new voice mode appeared in 1947, when Wes Schum, W9DYV introduced the first Amateur Radio SSB transmitter.
K9EID via AmateurRadio.com
Somaiya students' Amateur Radio Satellite takes to the skies
Equipped with a voice repeater and digipeater, the satellite extends its services to the global Amateur Radio community,
HindustanTimes

Video

Demo of 3 Ham study sites
Demo of 3 Amateur Radio study sites in under 3 minutes.
Branvini Films
Salmon Run 2023
WA State QSO Contest from Samish Overlook.
WA7JNJ
Working the ISS Ham Radio Repeater with a Baofeng
My first attempt working the International Space Station Ham Radio Repeater.
W6IWN
The best Ham Radio videos of 2023
Top 10 list.
KB9VBR