Grid Down EMCOMM Winter Edition
Hello Operators. Extreme weather and grid failures in various degrees, are a fact of life in many parts of the world. More often than not […]
Field Comms
The Lead Acid Battery Deception
Hello Operators. Today I’m going to put forth a very simple question, about Lead Acid Batteries. Here’s the scenario: We’re building a solar generator, battery […]
How to build a Portable Solar Power Generator 12v LiFePO4
Hello Operators From December 2018 through February 2019, I researched, designed, documented, and built a 12 volt, 576wh DC Solar Generator, using LiFePO4 batteries. In […]
Solar Storm Forecast 11-18-2018
Hello Operators. Every now and then I mention Tamitha in a post or on the channel. If you haven’t subscribed to her YouTube channel yet, […]
Digi Mode Ham Radio Hat for Raspberry Pi
Hello Operators For you Raspberry Pi users, It looks like we finally have an audio codec, GPS, real time clock, and native data ports on […]
Too few Operators or station problems?
I recently posted the image at the top of this post to a user group in Facebook, in response to the complaints about low activity […]
JS8Call 0.9 Release notes
Hi Folks, Thanks for staying patient with me on this one. Build servers were being weird today! Happy to bring you release with simple features, […]
Ham Radio NVIS for Regional Communications
Hello Operators. My buddy Gil F4WBY the Radio Prepper, just published amazing video on Regional Communications using NVIS or near vertical incidence skywave. Like myself, […]
Ham Radio Off Grid with OH8STN
Hello Operators There are often misconceptions about Communications off grid or what off grid actually means. That’s what we’re talking about today. There’s a lot […]
The best ham radio antenna?
Hello operators. Every now and then I receive a questions like; What’s the best antenna? Which one do you prefer? Is this antenna better than […]