Amateur Radio · VHF/UHF · Summits On The Air · Colorado Mountains · Adventure
Over one year ago, I decided to buy a new notebook computer for use with ham radio and other personal projects. In the past, I’ve been a typical user of Microsoft products, including Windows, MS Office, Internet Explorer, etc. The Open Source movement has been interesting to me and I often wondered about using some … Read more
Back in April, I wrote about how various sources of audio are Competing for Ears. John Dvorak in his PC Magazine blog recently wrote about The Death of Radio. Interesting, he did put a slight plug in for the “underappreciated amateur/ham radio community.” (Thanks, John.) But his main point is that broadcast radio sucks. I … Read more
One of the really well-done and useful technologies available today is the Universal Serial Bus (USB). If you don’t know what this is, you have been living under a rock or simply refuse to own a computer. The first revision of the USB spec (USB 1.0) was released in January of 1996. The standard has … Read more
Humboldt Peak – 2006 14er Event Bob KØNR and Joyce KØJJW The Colorado 14er Event is a fun mountaintop ham radio event. See my previous posting of the event announcement. Joyce and I decided to hike up Humboldt Peak in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. Humboldt is the 37th highest peak in Colorado with … Read more
Amateur Radio operators from around Colorado will be climbing many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains to set up amateur radio stations in an effort to communicate with other radio amateurs across the state and around the world. Join in on the fun Sunday, August 13th 2006 and see how many of the mountaintop stations you can … Read more
The Summer 2006 issue of QRP Quarterly showed up in my mail box today with my VHF QRP column on page 36. It looks like a few Internet references got edited out of the article, so I will list those here. Colorado 14er Event web site: http://www.14er.org QST article on the Colorado 14er Event: http://www.14er.org/OCTQST.pdf … Read more