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Fun with the FUNcube Dongle

Late last year a new Software Defined Radio (SDR) project hit the amateur radio market place, the FUNcube dongle from AMSAT UK (FCD). It is a receiver covering the spectrum of …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Wed, Jul 27, 2011

Another tale on my entry to amateur radio

Looking for something unrelated I ran across this post I made to eHam.net back on 8 December 2007. I’ll add more of such posts as I find them scattered about the Web. Here …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Mon, Jul 18, 2011

The Novice license turns 60!

The Novice Historical Society has been created to celebrate 60 years since the creation of the Novice class license in the USA. The Novice became the pathway into amateur radio for …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Thu, Jul 7, 2011

On the road again!

On my KZ650, that is. A couple of weeks ago I finally cleaned it up from its long winter nap, checked everything over, put some fuel in along with its aging battery and it fired on …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Jun 5, 2011

Woo Hoo! 1st place 2010 Sweepstakes phone, low power, KS section

It’s official! Your humble scribe has taken first place in the Kansas ARRL section in the November 2010 Sweepstakes phone contest. While there are a lot of qualifiers to this …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Tue, Apr 12, 2011