Category: Propagation
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Wet Noodle Antenna – Peak Solar Cycle. Fact!
My friend Chris, known in the ham radio community as W6AH, decided to put the classic saying “you can transmit on a wet noodle” to the test during a period of peak solar activity. He prepared some pasta, connected the cooked noodle to his HF radio, and initiated a call for communication, or CQ, to…
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Amateur Radio Operators Needed for Help with Solar Eclipse Project
Cross-posted from ARRL The Case Amateur Radio Club, W8EDU, the club station at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, is asking for amateur radio operators to help with a research project centered around the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse. W8EDU club member Adam Goodman, W7OKE, said the project centers around studying the effects of…
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Space Weather Mini Course
Analyses of Space Weather Events in the 20th Century and BeyondSpace Weather Presented by Heliophysicist and Radio Amateur [WX6SWW] Dr Tamitha Skov, this is a 3 hour 20 minute mini course entitled Analyses of Space Weather Events in the 20th Century and Beyond, including a discussion of the 1859 Carrington Event. The Carrington Event was…
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IARU R1 Records on 134 and 241 GHz DK5NJ & DB6NT
New IARU R1 Records on 134 and 241 GHz Amateur Radio Bands Tuesday, March 1st 2022 DK5NJ at the Leipzigerturm (797 m ASL) near Schmiedefeld JO50ON60BJ DB6NT at the Aschberg (913 m ASL) near Klingenthal JO60GJ03RO distance 92,8 km Air temperature 6°C at Aschberg Relative humidity 29% on the Aschberg DK5NJ and DB6NT worked in…
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Got Chirps? Whistles? and WWV
Take a moment to tune in at every 8 after the hour on WWV and 48 after the hour on WWVH transmitters. WWV, WWVH stations, HamSCI and NIST and investigating HF propagation. The Characterization Signal will consist of a 45 second WAV file on minute 8 for WWV and minute 48 for WWVH. Right now…
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Learn About Space Weather
At our club meeting on April 15, 2021, Rich K3VAT showed two short YouTube videos: Tim Duffy, K3LR Interview with Dr. Tamitha Skov, the Space Weather Woman 05/2017. Tim introduces Dr. Skov, who tells us how she got started in the physics of the sun and what she does for her day job. CLICK HERE…