hamvention

Michael Kalter, W8CI, became infatuated with radio as a young boy growing up in rural Ohio in the days of Sputnik and President Kennedy’s race to the moon. It wasn’t until many years later that Michael joined the amateur radio ranks, becoming a leader in the Dayton Amateur Radio Association sponsors of the Dayton Hamvention. W8CI tells his ham radio story in this QSO Today.

In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Chris Howard (M0TCH), Frank Howell (K4FMH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfield (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode's feature Handy Talkies, New or Secondhand.

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• ARRL Youth Licensing Grant Program
• 40 MHz - Belgium Regulator Considering New Band
• German Radio Hams Celebrate Morse Code Day
• Female Students to visit DARC Amateur Radio Center
• Radio Hams to Commemorate Amelia Earhart's Transatlantic Flight
• New Zealand 60m Sub License Continued by Regulator
• Mobile App Available to Navigate 2022 Dayton Hamvention

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Ed Durrant (DD5LP), Frank Howell (K4FMH) and Bill Barnes (WC3B) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and in this episode’s features How to improve your Handy Talkie.

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- New WSJT mode Q65
- Digital Modes on any Android Device
- Radio Ham Raises Money for 'NHS Charities Together'
- 2021 Carole Perry Educator of the Year Announced
- AMSAT/Vanderbilt RadFXSat-2/Fox 1E Set to Launch
- Hamvention 2021 Cancelled
- QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo March 2021
- Winter 2021 AM QSO Party
- Available/Reserved UK Amateur Radio Callsigns

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Dan Romanchik KB6NU to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Rob Sherwood, NC0B on Transmitter Performance.

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We would like to thank Gary Bridges (WA0VMV) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

• Credit Card Chip used to make Crystal Radio
• IARU Submitted Paper Raises Rising RF Noise Levels
• AO-73 Now in Fulltime Transponder Mode
• Raspberry Pi FUNcube Satellite Telemetry Decoder Now Available
• PRESENTER OPINION: Collins Driving Another Nail into the Amateur Radio Emcomm Coffin?
• G-QRP Convention 2020 Will be a Virtual Event
• Hamvention 2021 Chair Appointed
• Russian-Ukrainian Radio War Spreads

In this episode, Colin M6BOY is joined by Dan Romanick (KB6NU), Edmund Spicer (M0MNG) and Leslie Butterfield (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is the Maintenance Time.

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We would like to thank Kelly Breed and Nestor Jacovides (5B4AHZ) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

- RAYNET Helps Elderly Man
- Blind Amateur Radio Operator Promotes Hobby with New Aerial and Morse Code
- ARRL Seeks Clarification of Amended Amateur Service RF Safety Rules
- Wireless Power Transfer: CIS/B/737/CDV rejected
- 2020 State of the Hobby Survey
- Director, Vice Director Nominations Invited in Five ARRL Divisions
- Judge Approves Retrieval of Titanic Marconi Wireless Equipment

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Ruth Willet KM4LAO to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is - Why Coax Fails

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We would like to thank Dean Sproull (VE5SPR) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

• Scientists Create Quantum Sensor that Covers Entire Radio Frequency Spectrum
• It’s Time for Remote Amateur Radio License Exams
• WIA Board Comment
• Need a new hobby? Try amateur radio!
• Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club Begins Daily Health & Welfare Broadcasts
• Errata to 2020-2024 Amateur Extra-Class Question Pool Released
• Hamvention Names 2020 Award Winners
• EU to Impose VAT on Low Value Parcels
• Ofcom Awards Six New Community Radio Licences

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Ed Durrant DD5LP and Frank Howell K4FMH to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is - Kit Building Tips.

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We would like to thank David Strachan (2M0WHX) and Terry Bradford and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

- Clubs as Hubs?
- New Ham Radio Syllabus: Exam Pass Rate Figures Released
- Motorola wins Copyright Infringement Case against Hytera
- RSGB Exam Papers
- Attracting youth to ham radio: Get out of their way!
- A Working Scale Model of a HF Curtain
- Ofcom Stops Issuing Short Full Calls
- New QO-100 Band Plan Announced
- Hamvention Officials Keeping an Eye on Coronavirus

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Ruth Willet KM4LAO to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is - CW Invaders Game / Training Aid

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We would like to thank Peter Caffery, Daniel Sullivan (KC3NKF) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

- New Ham Radio Antenna Bill being Drafted
- Happy Birthday FUNcube-1 (AO73)
- Halfords Make Radio Signals Travel 'Super-Fast'
- Proposed FCC Auction of C-Band Increases Competition for Allocation
- Clearing Radio Amateurs out of 3.4 GHz
- UK Beginners licence - KB6NU
- M17 DMR - KB6NU
- SARL Novice Award
- Ham Radio Day Aboard the RMS Queen Mary
- Hamvention Admission, Fees to Increase

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Ruth Willet KM4LAO to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Rob Sherwood from Sherwood Engineering.

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We would like to thank Neil Connor (M6CUE), Frank Westphal ( K6FW) and Charles Riley (G4JQX) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

- ARRL HF Band Planning Committee Reactivated
- VDSL - PTA Imposes Restrictions on Radio Amateur
- Radio Hams Track Interfering Signals
- Good News for Amateur Radio Two Metre Band
- Hamvention to Stay at Xenia for next 5 Years
- AMSAT-LU PicoBalloons Travels around the Globe
- North Korea tests DRM on Amateur Radio Band
- GB100GP Active for Jamboree on the Air

Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, is the 2019 Dayton Ham of the Year because of this contribution to the amateur radio art though his combined professional interest in ionospheric physics and the amateur radio modes, such WSPRnet and FT-8,  that build big data bases of propagation data. HamSCI is an organization founded by Nathaniel on this concept. Nathaniel tells his ham radio story leading through Svalbard and McMurdo Station in Antarctica, to a National Science Foundation grant to HamSCI that arrived during the recording of this QSO Today.

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Bill Barnes N3JIX and Edmund Spicer M0MNG to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Dayton Hamvention 2019.

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We would like to thank John Stevens (AB9JS), Michael Ladd (KD2KOG), Scott MacDonald (KA9P) and his wife Sara, Will Christman WD5I  and Tage Carlson K1SEI and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

• VOA Museum to host 75th-anniversary commemoration of D-Day
• Record Number of South African Candidates for Radio Amateur Exam
• CEPT Annual Radio Interference Statistics
• Arizona Homeowners Association - Outdoor Antenna Guidelines
• British Inland Waterways on the Air 2019
• GCARC Special Event Station
• Proposed 60m Trial in Australia

In this special edition of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast, we interview the breaking hardware announcements from Dayton Hamvention, Yaesu’s FT-3DR Handheld, FlexRadio Multiplex Software and Elecraft K4.

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In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Frank Howell K4FMH and Dan Romanick KB6NU to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is the WOLFWave Audio Processor by Martin Butler M1MRB.

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We would like to thank Chuck Chivers (VE3VSA) and Bill Hester (N0LAJ) and our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

- Amateur Radio Club Lends a Hand to Firefighters
- Arduino and RF from kHz to 1 GHz
- RM-11828 Technician Enhancement - Update
- First on-air test of FreeDV 2020
- Radio Experiments by Colonel Dennis EI2B
- Dayton Hamvention Providing Information Radio Station on 1620 AM

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Ed Durrant DD5LP  to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episode’s feature covers interviews from Ham Radio 2018 with Kenwood, Yaesu, ELAD and the World Radio Team Championship.

• Brown University CubeSat Now in Space

• Ham Kids Build - Learn Tech Skills

• Chinese Equipment Driving Down Prices?

• Hamvention Used AM Information Radio Station

• Young Radio Ham Makes Own Integrated Circuits

• FREEDV v 1.3 - 700D Mode HF Digital Voice

• ARRL Articles Of Association and By Laws

• FIFA Football World Cup Amateur Radio Special Event Stations

• Bulgarian First CubeSat Deployed from ISS

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Bill Barnes N3JIX and Chris Howard M0TCH to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episode’s feature is - Is the online purchasing killing Hamfests?

• Canada Get New 100W 5MHz Allocation
• Beijing Authorises 60m
• 2018 State of Ham Radio Survey
• Radio Ham Operator Achieves Contacts Across All 29 Bands
• Sunday Times Publishes RSGB Response
• Contest Events at Dayton Hamvention 2018
• Kenwood Trophy Award 2018
• First Class CW Operators Club 80th Anniversary

Roy Lewallen, W7EL, approaches ham radio from an engineering and even scientific point of view.  Roy is the creator of EZNEC, the popular antenna modeling software, and the author of many articles on radio and transceiver design, baluns, antennas, and inductors.  His contributions to the amateur radio hobby and advancing the state of art puts Roy at the head of the class in amateur radio.  W7EL is my QSO Today.

In this episode, Martin M1MRB / W9ICQ is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and  Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episode’s feature is ATU’s

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• Marijuana Lamps Impact Radio
• RadioShack Files for Chapter 11
• EuCW QRS ACTIVITY WEEK
• Hamvention Awards Announced
• No Entry Level Swedish Ham Radio License
• NVIS Research Paper
• Motorola Sues Hytera
• New Ham Radio Rules in Uruguay
• 4 metres and WG2XPN
• Hong Kong 5 MHz

Bob Wilson, N6TV, is a bay area contester and CW operator.  Having developed his CW craft on the National Traffic System as a teenage kid, he now enjoys the North American Sprint, a four hour contest and using the latest SDR receivers to see what’s up on the bands during a contest event.  A professor at Contest University in Dayton and a member of the World Radiosport Team Championship, Bob shares what he know about this and more on this QSO Today.

Jim Stafford, W4QO, was recognized at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention for over 50 years of ham radio achievements that include mentoring and elmering, QRP building and operating, and revitalizing the North Fulton Amateur Radio League into one of the premier ham radio clubs in the USA. Jim tells his amateur radio story to Eric, 4Z1UG, in this QSO Today.