Ramblings by K6RJ

ARMAD is an annual NON-POLITICAL Amateur Radio Public Service project that stands for Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day.  We work with National Military Appreciation Month during the Month of May.  We also provide other events, and work with other groups as requested during the year.  We ask Amateur Radio Operators from around the world to [...]

As promised, here is an update on my remote operations experiment from San Francisco.  From the lobby of my hotel I was able to get free Wi-Fi and was able to connect to my Yaesu FT-450 remotely using Ham Radio Deluxe software.  I was able to make a couple of CW contacts but the noise [...]

In a previous post I mentioned that this week I would be on a business trip to northern California and that I was looking forward to remotely operating my SDR-1000 and my FT-450 from San Francisco.  While it is a distance of just over 400 miles, as the crow flies, previously I had only operated [...]

If you haven’t yet noticed, the thing that strikes ham shack envy most for me is not necessarily the gear but the furniture and organization of the shack.  Now, I envy those with top end gear just as much as the next guy but when you have a shack like VK6IA, Andrew Albinson of Ballajura, [...]

National Public Radio (NPR) had an interesting item a couple of days ago about the growth of amateur radio in spite of the current age of such social networking technologies like Facebook, Myspace,Twitter,cell phones and more. In fact, it states that the number of ham licensees in the US has increased to nearly 700,000, [...]

Newington, CT. April 7, 2010 – The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), and its member societies representing over 150 countries around the world, will celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on April 18, 2010. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Amateur Radio: combining communication experience with modern digital techniques.”
Amateur Radio operators, called “Hams,” have been [...]