Episodes
001
Different soil types ...
002
What radio should I purchase?
004
Cabrillo and ADIF file formats
005
7Ps of Amateur Radio - be prepared
006
Tuning a dipole, bring your friends...
007
Hunting for the perfect SWR.
008
Delta Loop for Portable Operation
009
Radio Amateur - the local lunatic
010
Do your thing and find friends to play with
011
Names in Amateur Radio
012
1000 hobbies under one roof
013
What to say in a contest...
015
Every Antenna is a Compromise!
016
Propagation predictions and operating your radio
017
Use it or Lose it ... make a contact today!
019
Getting started with portable operation
020
Propagation and reality
021
Wet string and 10 Watts
023
How to get started in a contest
024
Change one thing at a time ...
025
Fieldstrength and Chickens
026
Radios are not quite appliances ...
027
Picking better language to talk about our hobby ...
028
We should stop requiring electronics to be amateurs.
029
SDR diversity and Ah-Ha!
030
Contesting, something for everyone ...
031
Have a look or search online at the previous editions of this podcast.
032
How to manage your first pile-up.
033
Reviewing the introduction of the Foundation License.
034
Where did all the amateurs go?
036
The humble dipole ... contraption.
037
What is the best antenna?
038
Experimentation is about failure ...
039
What's in a Repeater?
042
Lucky Lightning Escape
045
Coax impedence, 50 Ohm and 75 Ohm, why is it so?
046
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
047
What can you say on-air?
048
Logging software ... what to choose?
049
Lower and Upper Side Band, why is it so?
050
Harmonics and calling CQ
051
A surprise might be just around the corner...
052
How to get started ...
053
Training, Traumatic or Fun, you decide...
054
The logistics of being in a contest while mobile
055
How to make contacts during a contest?
056
After the contest ... the debrief.
057
Alternating Current and Direct Current are the same thing ...
058
How old is the mode you're using?
059
The band is dead and there are no contacts to be made...
060
Don't ever yell into a microphone and other neat things ...
061
The FM Capture Effect and other Amateur Radio magic...
062
Paper Logging tips and tricks ...
063
Learning from your mistakes ...
064
Unpredictable radio waves ...
065
What is station security?
068
Make your own propagation map!
069
The birth and legacy of IRLP.
070
Propagation is everywhere!
071
DX, common ground on a common term?
072
What happens if you move the feed point in a dipole?
073
Where do you start with this Amateur thing?
074
The joy of Amateur Radio
075
DTMF is something we use regularly ...
076
Amateur Radio Satellites ... more than two in the sky.
077
Messy shacks are the way we do things around here.
078
Manufacturer drivel and antennas ...
079
Coax vertical dipole and other musings ...
081
SOTA goat adventures ...
082
Do we really understand our hobby?
083
Tuning up strange antennas ...
084
More strange antennas!
085
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ...
086
A nifty idea looking for a purpose in 1947 changes the world as we know it...
087
What does MARS have to do with Amateur Radio?
088
Sun-Spots and Amateur Radio
089
This hobby is dead ... NOT!
090
The spirit of our hobby ...
091
If they're shooting at you - you know you're doing something right!
092
Checking your On-Air signal...
094
Life's too short for QRP...
095
Adding a stroke to your callsign ...
097
An Amateur Radio Code of Conduct
098
Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder
099
Amateur Radio Community Standards
101
Things you can learn from a new operating environment ...
102
The evolution of our hobby is now ...
103
What if the Radio Spectrum was a data souce?
104
Getting an elusive contact ... fly-fishing style.
105
Using an Alex-Loop, very satisfying ...
106
Magic and Curiosity in Amateur Radio
107
Mobile experiments with high power.
109
Quick Fixes and Maintenance
110
Our Amateur License System is Obsolete
113
Qualifications for using a Digital Mode
115
How does PSK or Phase Shift Keying actually work?
116
Amateur Radio is about Experimenting and Trying!
117
Which antenna should I get first?
118
Amateur Radio Regulation and Enforcement in Australia is Broken
119
Storing your Amateur stuff ... everywhere.
120
Tropospheric Ducting explained
121
A transistor radio curve-ball ...
122
Organisation around your shack
123
Ladder Line is not Evil
124
What to pack for a Contest?
125
Radio signals don't travel in straight lines
126
Hearing very weak signals
127
What did you hear last week?
128
How does a Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator work?
129
How can you measure what frequency your radio is on?
130
Leave judgement outside the shack ...
131
60 years of amateur radio
132
How does Single Side Band work?
133
Amateur Motto: Do No Harm
134
No Onno, it's not slippery and other lessons ...
135
What is amateur radio?
136
Building a better community?
138
Just enough radio ...
139
Antenna gain and polar chart magic
140
How should I promote my contest?
141
What do you know now that you would have liked to have known when you started in amateur radio?
142
What criteria do you have for your ideal shack?
143
What improbable antenna solution works?
10
eBook Volume 4 - short
144
Amateur Radio Minimalism
145
Coax Loss vs Connector Loss
11
eBook Volume 5 - short
146
Coax Loss vs Connector Loss - now with more coax
12
eBook Volume 6 - short
148
Experience comes from doing ...
149
Shakespeare and Coax Stub Filters
152
Preparation for an outing ...
154
How does a waterfall display work?
155
How to find other Amateurs on Air
156
The Internet of Digital Radio
157
Logging of a Different Kind
158
Get a Contesting Buddy
159
The Power for your Radio
160
How to get the best Amateur Radio gear?
161
Which repeaters should I put into my hand held radio?
162
Programming Repeaters ... Revisited.
163
The Contesting Coin Toss for the rest of us
164
Heated Elements and Circuit Boards
165
Water and Electronics a match made in hell ...
166
The mysterious three phase power ...
168
How to start your own net ...
169
Nothing like the standard of Morse Code ...
170
How can I talk to my friend?
171
Cloud Warming in style or what is NVIS?
172
Antenna Polarisation and you
173
Is man-made noise really vertical?
174
Random bits of wire ...
175
Everything you know about dipole (calculators) is wrong ...
176
Celebrate accomplishments
177
Get on air and make some noise ...
178
Everything you wanted to know about amateur radio but were afraid to ask!
179
The Golden Age of Amateur Radio is Now
180
When failure doesn't matter ...
182
When does knowing more make it harder?
183
How do I get a better antenna?
184
Contest Headphones and glorious HF SSB
185
What are you proud of?
186
QRP EME project update #1
187
Empirical evidence and the scientific method
189
The reported death of Amateur Radio due to FT8 is an exaggeration
191
How to select a mobile operating location
192
How effective is your station?
193
Modern Tools for a Modern Hobby
195
All the power in the world and not enough battery!
196
Creativity comes with practice
199
Overcoming Microphone Anxiety
200
When you hear a distress call ...
201
Fragility of Communication
202
Antennas out of sight and out of mind ...
203
How does a Software Defined Radio or SDR work?
204
Software Defined Radio is fundamentally a different way of looking at radio spectrum
205
SDR Sample Rates: How fast is fast enough?
206
SDR: How many colours inside a Software Defined Radio?
207
Digital Origami in Software Defined Radio
208
Software Defined Radio offers another path to the same information.
209
When digging gives you more understanding, the magic of software.
210
Milking Software Defined Radio
