Ham Radio Now

HamRadioNow: Why The Heck Would Anyone Want To Operate Digital Voice?

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:51:25 GMT

The question has been debated to death. This moves the conversation forward a square or two. Episode 81 is in two parts, each about an hour.

HamRadioNow's Hamvention Coverage Begins

Mon, 27 May 2013 19:03:38 GMT

Episode 78 finds Jeff & Gary out in the flea market, early Friday morning. We yak, meet some fans, yak some more, and look at some unusual stuff. Jeff looks at some keys and paddles that bookend Morse operation from the olderst to the newest. Then we yak some more.

HamRadioNow: hamShack Switch – Birth of a Product

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:16:51 GMT

HamRadioNow – Episode 77: hamShack Switch–Birth of a Product

If your ham shack is a little more elaborate than ours, you probably have a rat's nest of cables. Maybe you've graduated from unplugging and re-plugging to manual switchboxes or maybe a patch panel to change configuration of your audio, keying, antennas and other station input/output. hamShack Switch (they drop the leading capital.... not a typo) is a new product, frrom a new company, that aims to help you clean that up. Your shack computer will control their switchbox and let you easily reroute all those peripherals, either locally or remotely.

Jack Ritter WØUCE started the new company after a lifetime in the telcom industry, and in addition to pitching the product, tells us about launching a new product in the Amateur Radio market.

HamRadioNow: Amateur Radio at the Boston Marathon

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:14:44 GMT

Episodes 74 and 75 cover Amateur Radio operation at this year's Boston Marathon. We all know what happened at the finish line, and many of us know that Ham Radio has had a huge operation in support of the event. HamRadioNow talked to three hams involved. We learned how the hams responded, and we go deeper to understand what it takes to participate in this major public service operation.