Spread the love It is a great day here at Resonant Frequency: The Amateur Radio Podcast. We would like to thank evilroots over on Reddit for reminding us that tiny minded people permeate the The Amateur Radio Service especially when they can hide behind a CB handle. I prefer to make my opinions known out in…
Spread the love Adapted from an original article by D. W. Thorne, K6SOJ From the earliest days of radiotelephone communications, several different “official” phonetic alphabets have been used. During WW II the British used one version, while the U.S. had another. Other forces had yet even different phonetic alphabets. The use of ITU phonetics in both…
Spread the love HOW TO BREAK THE 10-WORDS-PER-MINUTE CODE BARRIERBy Richard Humphrey When this article was first published in 1974, the best Morse-Code-learning aids available to hams were the Instructograph paper-tape-based machine, phonograph records, and magnetic tapes (open-reel and cassette – I’m not aware of anything on 8-Track). Nowadays, we have software-based and standalone electronic aids,…
Spread the love Not too long ago after an extended hiatus from Amateur Radio I found myself with plenty of time on my hands. The wife seeing that I was going stir crazy after several months of being cooped up in our apartment suggested that I get back on the Radio. I went on hiatus from…
Spread the love Return of the Vanishing HAM’s I recently found a short blog post from years back when I had a Blogspot / Blogger account. We were just starting Resonant Frequency at that time so it has been a few years. I read an article written by Tom Barlow N8NLO “Top 25 Things Vanishing From…
