Foundations of Amateur Radio

The building blocks for Amateur Radio, one concept at a time

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents. Note that this podcast started in 2011 as "What use is an F-call?".

Onno (VK6FLAB)

Episodes

000
Welcome
0m 44s
1.4MB
7 June 2015
001
Different soil types ...
1m 25s
2.7MB
14 June 2015
002
What radio should I purchase?
3m 13s
6.0MB
21 June 2015
003
Amateur Radio FAQ's
28 June 2015
004
Cabrillo and ADIF file formats
2m 56s
5.4MB
5 July 2015
005
7Ps of Amateur Radio - be prepared
12 July 2015
006
Tuning a dipole, bring your friends...
2m 40s
5.0MB
19 July 2015
007
Hunting for the perfect SWR.
1m 18s
2.5MB
26 July 2015
008
Delta Loop for Portable Operation
2m 33s
4.8MB
2 August 2015
009
Radio Amateur - the local lunatic
2m 21s
4.4MB
9 August 2015
010
Do your thing and find friends to play with
1m 59s
3.7MB
16 August 2015
011
Names in Amateur Radio
2m 29s
4.6MB
23 August 2015
012
1000 hobbies under one roof
1m 30s
2.8MB
30 August 2015
013
What to say in a contest...
5m 20s
9.9MB
6 September 2015
014
Phonetic Alphabets
2m 24s
4.5MB
13 September 2015
015
Every Antenna is a Compromise!
2m 38s
4.9MB
20 September 2015
016
Propagation predictions and operating your radio
2m 57s
5.5MB
27 September 2015
017
Use it or Lose it ... make a contact today!
4 October 2015
018
Antenna Calculators
3m 15s
6.1MB
11 October 2015
019
Getting started with portable operation
2m 32s
4.7MB
18 October 2015
020
Propagation and reality
25 October 2015
021
Wet string and 10 Watts
2m 42s
5.0MB
1 November 2015
022
Tools in my shack
2m 35s
4.8MB
8 November 2015
023
How to get started in a contest
2m 27s
4.6MB
15 November 2015
024
Change one thing at a time ...
2m 27s
4.6MB
22 November 2015
025
Fieldstrength and Chickens
2m 56s
5.4MB
29 November 2015
026
Radios are not quite appliances ...
2m 34s
4.8MB
6 December 2015
027
Picking better language to talk about our hobby ...
3m 21s
6.2MB
13 December 2015
028
We should stop requiring electronics to be amateurs.
20 December 2015
029
SDR diversity and Ah-Ha!
3m 42s
6.9MB
27 December 2015
030
Contesting, something for everyone ...
3m 38s
6.7MB
3 January 2016
031
Have a look or search online at the previous editions of this podcast.
2m 12s
4.1MB
10 January 2016
032
How to manage your first pile-up.
4m 47s
8.8MB
17 January 2016
033
Reviewing the introduction of the Foundation License.
24 January 2016
034
Where did all the amateurs go?
3m 51s
7.1MB
31 January 2016
035
Sizing your battery.
3m 38s
6.7MB
7 February 2016
036
The humble dipole ... contraption.
14 February 2016
037
What is the best antenna?
4m 26s
8.2MB
21 February 2016
038
Experimentation is about failure ...
3m 13s
6.0MB
28 February 2016
039
What's in a Repeater?
3m 10s
5.9MB
6 March 2016
040
Bandplans and Edges
2m 36s
4.8MB
13 March 2016
041
The CAT interface
4m 27s
8.2MB
20 March 2016
042
Lucky Lightning Escape
2m 52s
5.3MB
27 March 2016
043
Operating Procedures
3m 46s
7.0MB
3 April 2016
044
Q-codes in voice
3m 52s
7.2MB
10 April 2016
045
Coax impedence, 50 Ohm and 75 Ohm, why is it so?
4m 30s
8.3MB
17 April 2016
046
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
3m 42s
6.9MB
24 April 2016
047
What can you say on-air?
4m 33s
8.4MB
1 May 2016
048
Logging software ... what to choose?
4m 56s
9.1MB
8 May 2016
049
Lower and Upper Side Band, why is it so?
3m 24s
6.3MB
15 May 2016
050
Harmonics and calling CQ
22 May 2016
051
A surprise might be just around the corner...
3m 22s
6.2MB
29 May 2016
052
How to get started ...
3m 56s
7.3MB
5 June 2016
053
Training, Traumatic or Fun, you decide...
3m 30s
6.5MB
12 June 2016
054
The logistics of being in a contest while mobile
3m 23s
6.3MB
19 June 2016
055
How to make contacts during a contest?
4m 40s
8.6MB
26 June 2016
056
After the contest ... the debrief.
3m 34s
6.6MB
3 July 2016
057
Alternating Current and Direct Current are the same thing ...
4m 53s
9.0MB
10 July 2016
058
How old is the mode you're using?
3m 18s
6.1MB
17 July 2016
059
The band is dead and there are no contacts to be made...
3m 23s
6.3MB
24 July 2016
060
Don't ever yell into a microphone and other neat things ...
4m 44s
8.7MB
31 July 2016
061
The FM Capture Effect and other Amateur Radio magic...
3m 40s
6.8MB
7 August 2016
062
Paper Logging tips and tricks ...
14 August 2016
063
Learning from your mistakes ...
2m 35s
4.8MB
21 August 2016
064
Unpredictable radio waves ...
2m 33s
4.7MB
28 August 2016
065
What is station security?
2m 56s
5.4MB
4 September 2016
066
What is SWR?
11 September 2016
067
How to melt coax ...
18 September 2016
068
Make your own propagation map!
2m 56s
5.5MB
25 September 2016
069
The birth and legacy of IRLP.
4m 19s
8.0MB
2 October 2016
070
Propagation is everywhere!
3m 25s
6.3MB
9 October 2016
071
DX, common ground on a common term?
4m 13s
7.8MB
16 October 2016
072
What happens if you move the feed point in a dipole?
4m 16s
7.9MB
23 October 2016
073
Where do you start with this Amateur thing?
5m 16s
9.7MB
30 October 2016
074
The joy of Amateur Radio
3m 18s
6.1MB
6 November 2016
075
DTMF is something we use regularly ...
3m 35s
6.6MB
13 November 2016
076
Amateur Radio Satellites ... more than two in the sky.
3m 38s
6.7MB
20 November 2016
077
Messy shacks are the way we do things around here.
4m 34s
8.4MB
27 November 2016
078
Manufacturer drivel and antennas ...
4 December 2016
079
Coax vertical dipole and other musings ...
4m 54s
9.0MB
11 December 2016
080
Passion and Politics
18 December 2016
081
SOTA goat adventures ...
25 December 2016
082
Do we really understand our hobby?
2m 58s
5.5MB
1 January 2017
083
Tuning up strange antennas ...
3m 10s
5.9MB
8 January 2017
084
More strange antennas!
3m 54s
7.2MB
15 January 2017
085
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ...
22 January 2017
086
A nifty idea looking for a purpose in 1947 changes the world as we know it...
5m 10s
9.5MB
29 January 2017
087
What does MARS have to do with Amateur Radio?
5 February 2017
088
Sun-Spots and Amateur Radio
12 February 2017
089
This hobby is dead ... NOT!
4m 35s
8.5MB
19 February 2017
090
The spirit of our hobby ...
4m 52s
9.0MB
26 February 2017
091
If they're shooting at you - you know you're doing something right!
5 March 2017
092
Checking your On-Air signal...
4m 36s
8.5MB
12 March 2017
093
What is a resistor?
3m 23s
6.3MB
19 March 2017
094
Life's too short for QRP...
2m 40s
4.9MB
26 March 2017
095
Adding a stroke to your callsign ...
2m 47s
5.2MB
2 April 2017
096
What is SOTA?
3m 26s
6.4MB
9 April 2017
097
An Amateur Radio Code of Conduct
4m 29s
8.3MB
16 April 2017
098
Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder
2m 30s
4.6MB
23 April 2017
099
Amateur Radio Community Standards
30 April 2017
100
What to say on-air?
2m 32s
4.7MB
7 May 2017
101
Things you can learn from a new operating environment ...
3m 30s
6.5MB
14 May 2017
102
The evolution of our hobby is now ...
2m 29s
4.6MB
21 May 2017
103
What if the Radio Spectrum was a data souce?
2m 37s
4.9MB
28 May 2017
104
Getting an elusive contact ... fly-fishing style.
2m 51s
5.3MB
4 June 2017
105
Using an Alex-Loop, very satisfying ...
2m 28s
4.6MB
11 June 2017
106
Magic and Curiosity in Amateur Radio
3m 17s
6.1MB
18 June 2017
107
Mobile experiments with high power.
3m 23s
6.3MB
25 June 2017
108
What's in a name?
3m 36s
6.7MB
2 July 2017
109
Quick Fixes and Maintenance
2m 43s
5.0MB
9 July 2017
110
Our Amateur License System is Obsolete
4m 15s
7.9MB
16 July 2017
111
Contesting Protests
3m 49s
7.1MB
23 July 2017
112
Mechanical Filters
30 July 2017
113
Qualifications for using a Digital Mode
2m 19s
4.3MB
6 August 2017
114
How does RTTY work?
2m 32s
4.7MB
13 August 2017
115
How does PSK or Phase Shift Keying actually work?
3m 19s
6.2MB
20 August 2017
116
Amateur Radio is about Experimenting and Trying!
3m 20s
6.2MB
27 August 2017
117
Which antenna should I get first?
3m 13s
5.9MB
3 September 2017
118
Amateur Radio Regulation and Enforcement in Australia is Broken
2m 29s
4.6MB
10 September 2017
119
Storing your Amateur stuff ... everywhere.
2m 54s
5.4MB
17 September 2017
120
Tropospheric Ducting explained
3m 38s
6.7MB
24 September 2017
121
A transistor radio curve-ball ...
3m 43s
6.9MB
1 October 2017
122
Organisation around your shack
3m 29s
6.4MB
8 October 2017
123
Ladder Line is not Evil
15 October 2017
124
What to pack for a Contest?
3m 19s
6.2MB
22 October 2017
125
Radio signals don't travel in straight lines
2m 35s
4.8MB
29 October 2017
126
Hearing very weak signals
3m 50s
7.1MB
5 November 2017
127
What did you hear last week?
12 November 2017
128
How does a Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator work?
3m 37s
6.7MB
19 November 2017
129
How can you measure what frequency your radio is on?
5m 15s
9.7MB
26 November 2017
130
Leave judgement outside the shack ...
4m 19s
8.0MB
3 December 2017
131
60 years of amateur radio
3m 29s
6.4MB
10 December 2017
1
eBook Volume 1
0m 47s
1.5MB
13 December 2017
132
How does Single Side Band work?
17 December 2017
2
eBook Volume 2
0m 47s
1.5MB
20 December 2017
133
Amateur Motto: Do No Harm
4m 17s
7.9MB
24 December 2017
3
eBook Volume 3
0m 45s
1.4MB
27 December 2017
134
No Onno, it's not slippery and other lessons ...
31 December 2017
4
eBook Volume 4
0m 49s
1.6MB
3 January 2018
135
What is amateur radio?
3m 26s
6.4MB
7 January 2018
5
eBook Volume 5
0m 47s
1.5MB
10 January 2018
136
Building a better community?
3m 18s
6.1MB
14 January 2018
6
eBook Volume 6
0m 45s
1.4MB
17 January 2018
137
Virtual Radio
3m 41s
6.8MB
21 January 2018
7
eBook Volume 1 - short
0m 29s
917KB
24 January 2018
138
Just enough radio ...
3m 19s
6.1MB
28 January 2018
139
Antenna gain and polar chart magic
5m 20s
9.8MB
4 February 2018
8
eBook Volume 2 - short
0m 29s
915KB
7 February 2018
140
How should I promote my contest?
11 February 2018
141
What do you know now that you would have liked to have known when you started in amateur radio?
3m 53s
7.2MB
18 February 2018
9
eBook Volume 3 - short
0m 26s
837KB
21 February 2018
142
What criteria do you have for your ideal shack?
25 February 2018
143
What improbable antenna solution works?
4m 17s
7.9MB
4 March 2018
10
eBook Volume 4 - short
0m 30s
973KB
7 March 2018
144
Amateur Radio Minimalism
2m 35s
4.8MB
11 March 2018
145
Coax Loss vs Connector Loss
18 March 2018
11
eBook Volume 5 - short
0m 28s
902KB
21 March 2018
146
Coax Loss vs Connector Loss - now with more coax
25 March 2018
147
You and the IARU
3m 52s
7.1MB
1 April 2018
12
eBook Volume 6 - short
0m 26s
842KB
4 April 2018
148
Experience comes from doing ...
3m 29s
6.4MB
8 April 2018
149
Shakespeare and Coax Stub Filters
4m 44s
8.8MB
15 April 2018
150
Learning on 2m FM
3m 52s
7.2MB
22 April 2018
151
SWR assumptions
3m 36s
6.7MB
29 April 2018
152
Preparation for an outing ...
2m 49s
5.2MB
6 May 2018
153
Why do you contest?
3m 26s
6.4MB
13 May 2018
154
How does a waterfall display work?
3m 20s
6.2MB
20 May 2018
155
How to find other Amateurs on Air
4m 33s
8.4MB
27 May 2018
156
The Internet of Digital Radio
3 June 2018
157
Logging of a Different Kind
3m 47s
7.0MB
10 June 2018
158
Get a Contesting Buddy
3m 59s
7.4MB
17 June 2018
159
The Power for your Radio
4m 49s
8.9MB
24 June 2018
160
How to get the best Amateur Radio gear?
3m 55s
7.2MB
1 July 2018
161
Which repeaters should I put into my hand held radio?
3m 52s
7.2MB
8 July 2018
162
Programming Repeaters ... Revisited.
4m 33s
8.4MB
15 July 2018
163
The Contesting Coin Toss for the rest of us
3m 52s
7.2MB
22 July 2018
164
Heated Elements and Circuit Boards
3m 37s
6.7MB
29 July 2018
165
Water and Electronics a match made in hell ...
5 August 2018
166
The mysterious three phase power ...
3m 35s
6.6MB
12 August 2018
167
Getting Started ...
3m 18s
6.1MB
19 August 2018
168
How to start your own net ...
2m 58s
5.5MB
26 August 2018
169
Nothing like the standard of Morse Code ...
2 September 2018
170
How can I talk to my friend?
3m 33s
6.6MB
9 September 2018
171
Cloud Warming in style or what is NVIS?
3m 43s
6.9MB
16 September 2018
172
Antenna Polarisation and you
4m 13s
7.8MB
23 September 2018
173
Is man-made noise really vertical?
30 September 2018
174
Random bits of wire ...
3m 47s
7.0MB
7 October 2018
175
Everything you know about dipole (calculators) is wrong ...
3m 44s
6.9MB
14 October 2018
176
Celebrate accomplishments
3m 41s
6.8MB
21 October 2018
177
Get on air and make some noise ...
5m 13s
9.6MB
28 October 2018
178
Everything you wanted to know about amateur radio but were afraid to ask!
3m 46s
7.0MB
4 November 2018
179
The Golden Age of Amateur Radio is Now
3m 30s
6.5MB
11 November 2018
180
When failure doesn't matter ...
3m 40s
6.8MB
18 November 2018
181
Are you an Elmer?
3m 36s
6.7MB
25 November 2018
182
When does knowing more make it harder?
2m 57s
5.5MB
2 December 2018
183
How do I get a better antenna?
3m 30s
6.5MB
9 December 2018
184
Contest Headphones and glorious HF SSB
3m 56s
7.3MB
16 December 2018
185
What are you proud of?
4m 22s
8.1MB
23 December 2018
186
QRP EME project update #1
30 December 2018
187
Empirical evidence and the scientific method
4m 18s
8.0MB
6 January 2019
188
Fan Vertical Antenna
4m 25s
8.2MB
13 January 2019
189
The reported death of Amateur Radio due to FT8 is an exaggeration
20 January 2019
190
Brand New Callsign
4m 17s
7.9MB
27 January 2019
191
How to select a mobile operating location
3 February 2019
192
How effective is your station?
5m 13s
9.6MB
10 February 2019
193
Modern Tools for a Modern Hobby
3m 59s
7.4MB
17 February 2019
194
More WSPR adventures
4m 46s
8.8MB
24 February 2019
195
All the power in the world and not enough battery!
4m 56s
9.1MB
3 March 2019
196
Creativity comes with practice
10 March 2019
197
What's in a Chirp?
3m 31s
6.5MB
17 March 2019
198
The Station Log
24 March 2019
199
Overcoming Microphone Anxiety
31 March 2019
200
When you hear a distress call ...
7 April 2019
201
Fragility of Communication
4m 35s
8.5MB
14 April 2019
202
Antennas out of sight and out of mind ...
4m 14s
7.8MB
21 April 2019
203
How does a Software Defined Radio or SDR work?
28 April 2019
204
Software Defined Radio is fundamentally a different way of looking at radio spectrum
5m 12s
9.6MB
5 May 2019
205
SDR Sample Rates: How fast is fast enough?
12 May 2019
206
SDR: How many colours inside a Software Defined Radio?
19 May 2019
207
Digital Origami in Software Defined Radio
4m 31s
8.4MB
26 May 2019
208
Software Defined Radio offers another path to the same information.
2 June 2019
209
When digging gives you more understanding, the magic of software.
5m 20s
9.8MB
9 June 2019
210
Milking Software Defined Radio
3m 16s
6.1MB
16 June 2019
211
From Milk to Direct Conversion in a Software Defined Radio
4m 48s
8.9MB
23 June 2019
212
The Regulator
4m 32s
8.4MB
30 June 2019
213
The Software Defined Radio vs. Traditional Radio choice
3m 47s
7.0MB
7 July 2019
214
Your Software Defined Radio around the home
4m 57s
9.1MB
14 July 2019
215
What's allowed on our bands?
5m 20s
9.8MB
21 July 2019
216
How far can I talk on radio?
4m 33s
8.4MB
28 July 2019
217
What's in a word?
4 August 2019
218
It broke and now what?
11 August 2019
219
What's in a Watt?
18 August 2019
220
New Entrants are Everywhere
4m 28s
8.2MB
25 August 2019
221
Gate-keeping, special people and bullies.
1 September 2019
222
Boating adventures
3m 37s
6.7MB
8 September 2019
223
Planning for an outing
3m 19s
6.2MB
15 September 2019
224
Going on an outing
22 September 2019
225
Lessons Learnt
29 September 2019
226
Leave some bread crumbs behind
5m 13s
9.6MB
6 October 2019
227
How to make contesting interesting to an audience?
4m 42s
8.7MB
13 October 2019
228
World Wide Radio Operators Foundation
4m 21s
8.0MB
20 October 2019
229
First Solo
3m 33s
6.6MB
27 October 2019
230
In pursuit of a challenge
3m 48s
7.0MB
3 November 2019
231
Where is North?
4m 40s
8.6MB
10 November 2019
232
Putting a radio in a car.
17 November 2019
233
What's in a Whisper?
5m 22s
9.9MB
24 November 2019
234
Morse Code and You
4m 46s
8.8MB
1 December 2019
235
The SDR earthquake will change our hobby forever
8 December 2019
236
How did you get here?
15 December 2019
237
Lamenting the decline of the hobby.
4m 30s
8.3MB
22 December 2019
238
What does Amateur Radio mean to you?
3m 17s
6.1MB
29 December 2019
239
Where do you start?
5 January 2020
240
What's in a plan?
4m 36s
8.5MB
12 January 2020
241
The lessons we teach.
4m 53s
9.0MB
19 January 2020
242
Is this frequency in use and other lies we tell ourselves.
26 January 2020
243
How I host a weekly amateur radio net for new and returning amateurs
4m 20s
8.0MB
2 February 2020
244
How I care for my connectors
9 February 2020
245
Exploring an understanding of filters and circuits.
16 February 2020
246
The chicken and the egg, which comes first, the antenna or the radio?
4m 29s
8.3MB
23 February 2020
247
The impersonal nature of digital and other myths
5m 19s
9.8MB
1 March 2020
248
All bands + All modes + All countries
8 March 2020
249
On the shoulders of giants we stand.
4m 13s
7.8MB
15 March 2020
250
What level of preparedness are you at?
22 March 2020
251
Listening from the ground up
4m 53s
9.0MB
29 March 2020
252
Breaking the isolation one QSO at a time.
5 April 2020
253
When was the last time you played?
12 April 2020
254
First ever digital contact!
19 April 2020
255
Permission to be curious
26 April 2020
256
So, you want to be an amateur?
3 May 2020
257
How much is a bit worth?
10 May 2020
258
Buying and using pre-loved equipment
4m 32s
8.4MB
17 May 2020
259
The antenna and coax you use matter.
3m 58s
7.3MB
24 May 2020
260
The humble coaxial cable
4m 32s
8.4MB
31 May 2020
261
How to pick a field operating position?
7 June 2020
262
Using something for an unexpected purpose can give you many great rewards.
4m 37s
8.5MB
14 June 2020
263
If you WSPR and nobody hears you ...
4m 44s
8.7MB
21 June 2020
264
Your antenna is a filter (of sorts).
4m 50s
8.9MB
28 June 2020
265
What is a repeater offset and how does it work?
3m 37s
6.7MB
5 July 2020
266
Homebrew radio for the 21st Century
12 July 2020
267
What's the point of this hobby?
19 July 2020
268
What do you talk about?
3m 40s
6.8MB
26 July 2020
269
First Digital DX contact!
5m 10s
9.5MB
2 August 2020
270
How much do you really know about your radio?
4m 15s
7.9MB
9 August 2020
271
Channelling RTTY
4m 52s
9.0MB
16 August 2020
272
After channelling your RTTY ...
5m 22s
9.9MB
23 August 2020
273
When you run into a pounce ...
30 August 2020
274
What is so different about using software for signal processing?
4m 26s
8.2MB
6 September 2020
275
Yak Shaving ...
4m 21s
8.1MB
13 September 2020
276
Simplicity among the complexity ...
3m 29s
6.5MB
20 September 2020
277
New day, new mode ... SSTV
4m 51s
8.9MB
27 September 2020
278
csdr will rock your world ...
5m 13s
9.6MB
4 October 2020
279
An ionospheric monitoring service at home
3m 26s
6.4MB
11 October 2020
280
The making of a Crystal Radio
18 October 2020
281
Antenna testing in the field.
25 October 2020
282
The excitement is palpable ...
3m 51s
7.1MB
1 November 2020
283
It lives ... crystal radio with three components
4m 31s
8.3MB
8 November 2020
284
For that one special event ...
15 November 2020
285
When one WSPR receiver just isn't enough
3m 48s
7.0MB
22 November 2020
286
Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance
3m 41s
6.8MB
29 November 2020
287
2m reciprocity and other assumptions
4m 50s
8.9MB
6 December 2020
288
If you want to do HF in an apartment, where do you start?
4m 33s
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13 December 2020
289
When will it ever end?
2m 58s
5.5MB
20 December 2020
290
Testing a link, on a band, at a time.
4m 20s
8.0MB
27 December 2020
291
The impossible task
4m 37s
8.5MB
3 January 2021
292
The other radios in the world ...
10 January 2021
293
The APRS of it all ...
5m 15s
9.7MB
17 January 2021
294
The Vagabond HAM
5m 23s
9.9MB
24 January 2021
295
Changing of the guard ...
31 January 2021
296
What's in a prediction?
7 February 2021
297
Running out of things to do ...
14 February 2021
298
You Can't Always Get What You Want
4m 29s
8.3MB
21 February 2021
299
How many hops in a jump?
28 February 2021
300
Word of the day: software
3m 50s
7.1MB
7 March 2021
301
Making observations
4m 33s
8.4MB
14 March 2021
302
The remote edge...
21 March 2021
303
Portable experiences ...
4m 49s
8.9MB
28 March 2021
304
When you just have to try things ...
3m 50s
7.1MB
4 April 2021
305
The dynamic nature of your shack
4m 14s
7.8MB
11 April 2021
306
The massive physics phenomenon just over eight minutes away ...
18 April 2021
307
How much bandwidth is there?
5m 14s
9.6MB
25 April 2021
308
Ergonomics in your shack
2 May 2021
309
Getting started on WSPR with a PlutoSDR
9 May 2021
310
Soldering Irons and Software
4m 17s
7.9MB
16 May 2021
311
Streaming a dozen repeaters with an RTL-SDR dongle
4m 33s
8.4MB
23 May 2021
312
Bringing chaos into order
30 May 2021
313
What radio should I buy as my first one?
4m 53s
9.0MB
6 June 2021
314
Removing technology for a change
4m 31s
8.3MB
13 June 2021
315
Here be Dragons, venturing into uncharted territory ...
4m 55s
9.1MB
20 June 2021
316
When you share the hobby grows ...
4m 58s
9.2MB
27 June 2021
317
What mode is that?
4m 11s
7.7MB
4 July 2021
318
What Open Source means to our hobby and why it's important.
11 July 2021
319
Share if you care...
5m 10s
9.5MB
18 July 2021
320
How are contests scored?
25 July 2021
321
The diversity of our hobby is breathtaking.
1 August 2021
322
All the things that aren't amateur radio...
3m 58s
7.3MB
8 August 2021
323
Being an equipment custodian
15 August 2021
324
What's in a unit?
4m 45s
8.8MB
22 August 2021
325
Taking your shack mobile
4m 37s
8.5MB
29 August 2021
326
What's in a sound?
5 September 2021
327
The Fox Mike Hotel Portable Operations Challenge
12 September 2021
328
We need more glue in our hobby ...
3m 38s
6.7MB
19 September 2021
329
The sun shines on our hobby in unexpected ways.
4m 35s
8.5MB
26 September 2021
330
You in the community ...
2m 49s
5.2MB
3 October 2021
331
Standard Information Exchange in Amateur Radio
10 October 2021
332
The inherent redundancy of a compromise antenna
17 October 2021
333
How to run an SSB contest without using your voice ...
24 October 2021
334
The Ripple Effects of making change ...
31 October 2021
335
What have you been up to in Amateur Radio lately ... Gary VK2OVA
7 November 2021
336
Defeating the Pitfalls of Predicting HF Propagation
4m 40s
8.6MB
14 November 2021
337
The Rebirth of Homebrew
4m 31s
8.3MB
21 November 2021
338
One Timezone To Rule Them All
28 November 2021
339
Amateur Radio and the art of getting started ...
4m 51s
8.9MB
5 December 2021
340
Getting Amateur Radio propagation data at home
12 December 2021
341
How does your gear measure up?
4m 58s
9.2MB
19 December 2021
342
What testing equipment is essential?
4m 46s
8.8MB
26 December 2021
343
Leaving the hobby ...
3m 38s
6.7MB
2 January 2022
344
Products made from unobtainium
9 January 2022
345
When I said Parrot Repeater ... I likely had a different picture in mind.
5m 19s
9.8MB
16 January 2022
346
Bringing an upconverter into your life
23 January 2022
347
What's in a Dream?
30 January 2022
348
Testing your radio's audio frequency response
4m 31s
8.3MB
6 February 2022
349
Pictures can say more than words
4m 32s
8.4MB
13 February 2022
350
How to compare radios
4m 59s
9.2MB
20 February 2022
351
What happens when you plug it in?
4m 11s
7.7MB
27 February 2022
352
It beeps!
4m 39s
8.6MB
6 March 2022
353
Introduction to the terms of contesting
13 March 2022
354
Why do we communicate?
4m 11s
7.7MB
20 March 2022
355
Planning for an emergency...
3m 31s
6.5MB
27 March 2022
356
In the beginning there was chaos...
3m 13s
6.0MB
3 April 2022
357
After the chaos ... building the ideal shack
4m 51s
8.9MB
10 April 2022
358
How far can you go?
17 April 2022
359
The art of troubleshooting the digital world.
24 April 2022
360
The Science of Amateur Radio
1 May 2022
361
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Zeppelins and a picket fence ...
8 May 2022
362
When should I go on air?
4m 20s
8.0MB
15 May 2022
363
The Thunder and Lightning that destroyed my station ...
4m 46s
8.8MB
22 May 2022
364
What are the rules for calling CQ on a repeater?
4m 49s
8.9MB
29 May 2022
365
Can you build an all HF band concurrent WSPR transmitter?
5 June 2022
366
Smith, the chart to end all charts ...
12 June 2022
367
How to isolate and by how much?
4m 29s
8.3MB
19 June 2022
368
If you had money, what would your amateur adventure look like?
4m 46s
8.8MB
26 June 2022
369
Defining a standard on Contest Scoring
3 July 2022
370
The power supply connector dance contest...
10 July 2022
371
Much Ado About ...
17 July 2022
372
Take a long hard look at our community ...
24 July 2022
373
What's with the repeater offset again?
31 July 2022
374
The microphone gain game ...
7 August 2022
375
A code for amateurs
14 August 2022
376
Consideration in Amateur Radio
4m 18s
7.9MB
21 August 2022
377
Loyalty in Amateur Radio
3m 58s
7.3MB
28 August 2022
378
Progressiveness in Amateur Radio
4m 44s
8.7MB
4 September 2022
379
Being friendly in Amateur Radio
3m 28s
6.4MB
11 September 2022
380
Finding balance in Amateur Radio
3m 49s
7.0MB
18 September 2022
380
The Patriot in Amateur Radio
3m 26s
6.4MB
25 September 2022
381
The Amateur's Code for future generations...
4m 34s
8.4MB
2 October 2022
382
This space left intentionally blank
0m 18s
581KB
9 October 2022
383
Setting a little personal challenge ...
5m 23s
9.9MB
16 October 2022
384
The sedentary myth of radio.
3m 51s
7.1MB
23 October 2022
385
A plan for distributed SDR decoding
4m 29s
8.3MB
30 October 2022
386
My Virtual Workbench
6 November 2022
387
What's in a VFO?
13 November 2022
388
The nature of learning things...
4m 37s
8.5MB
20 November 2022
389
How low can you go?
3m 59s
7.4MB
27 November 2022
390
Attenuators, the missing link...
4 December 2022
391
Morse is dead ... long live Morse!
11 December 2022
392
Which way did it go?
18 December 2022
393
One Volt ...
25 December 2022
394
What's the weakest signal that WSPR can decode?
1 January 2023
395
Where does propagation data come from?
8 January 2023
396
What should we be learning?
15 January 2023
397
What is the difference between handheld, mobile and a base radio?
22 January 2023
398
Path loss and very small numbers ...
29 January 2023
399
The evolution of software in radio ...
5 February 2023
400
Do you really know when the best time is to go on air?
12 February 2023
401
Some Amateur Radio ABCs ...
4m 30s
8.3MB
19 February 2023
402
Are all spiky antennas the same?
26 February 2023
403
Antenna Testing Day ...
5 March 2023
404
Acronym not found ...
12 March 2023
405
What's with a negative SNR?
19 March 2023
406
The Contester In Me...
26 March 2023
407
Lost in space ...
2 April 2023
408
How much antenna is enough?
9 April 2023
409
The antenna system
16 April 2023
410
Why is radio regulated?
23 April 2023
411
Doing the same thing over and over again ...
30 April 2023
412
Propagation during the 2023 Solar Eclipse
7 May 2023
413
Measuring the Solar Flux Index at home ...
14 May 2023
414
Considering the language of our community ...
4m 33s
8.4MB
21 May 2023
415
A Linux contest logger ...
3m 47s
7.0MB
28 May 2023
416
Accolades in Amateur Radio?
3m 49s
7.1MB
4 June 2023
417
What is our legacy?
11 June 2023
418
Where is your community and how resilient is it?
18 June 2023
419
Planning and making lemonade
4m 36s
8.5MB
25 June 2023
420
Asking a professional in the community...
4m 26s
8.2MB
2 July 2023
421
The nature and ownership of information
9 July 2023
422
Adventures with Morse Code
16 July 2023
423
Is Morse really built around the most popular letters in English?
23 July 2023
424
Will the real inventor of Morse code please stand?
30 July 2023
425
How fast is Morse code?
6 August 2023
426
Jumping into the unknown ...
13 August 2023
427
Gathering Data rather than Opinions ...
5m 22s
9.9MB
20 August 2023
428
Starting to measure spurious emissions ...
27 August 2023
429
How much attenuation is enough?
3 September 2023
430
Checking attenuation numbers ...
10 September 2023
431
Wet and Blue adventures with coax ...
17 September 2023
432
Between decibels and milliwatts ...
24 September 2023
433
All the power in the observable universe expressed in milliwatts ...
1 October 2023
434
Gadgets on Demand
8 October 2023
435
How much does your coax and antenna matter?
15 October 2023
436
Let's talk about noise ...
22 October 2023
437
Let's talk about gain ...
29 October 2023
438
Let's talk about reciprosity...
5 November 2023
439
Let's compare the same antenna in different locations...
12 November 2023
440
Failure to simulate ...
19 November 2023
441
Spontaneously getting out and about ...
26 November 2023
442
What about promoting the hobby?
3 December 2023
443
Report on Radio Harmonic Power
4m 50s
8.9MB
10 December 2023
444
The visibility of our radio community.
17 December 2023
445
It's the little things ...
24 December 2023
446
Finding the right frequency.
15m 25s
29MB
31 December 2023
447
The Art of operating QRP
7 January 2024
448
How to see 56 MHz of bandwidth...
14 January 2024
449
New arrangements for Australian Amateur Radio
21 January 2024
450
What is a repeater or a beacon ... really?
28 January 2024
451
What is the right mode for emergency communications?
4 February 2024
452
What is amateur radio as an emergency response?
11 February 2024
453
Writing to the regulator about amateur beacon and repeater licenses.
5m 22s
9.9MB
18 February 2024
454
Getting things done .. or not.
25 February 2024
455
The Art of finding an operating location
3m 31s
6.5MB
3 March 2024
456
Technology at its finest ...
10 March 2024
457
The skyhook dilemma ...
17 March 2024
458
What's with all that lack of noise?
24 March 2024