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Massive California Power Outage: Emergency Power

October 10, 2019 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators. I spend an enormous amount of time talking about off grid Communications, and Communications in a grid down scenario. Today many Californias find […]

JS8Call Messaging and NVIS Communications

May 25, 2019 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators In this video we discuss JS8Call Messaging for reliable Communications using NVIS on 40/80 meters. JS8Call has a variety of messaging functionalities built […]

WinLink Emergency Email Server for Raspberry Pi

April 5, 2019 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators Jason KM4ACK has a very interesting Emergency Email Server project for Raspberry Pi. This EES allows you to provide email access to users […]

JS8Call FT8Call for Grid Down Communications?

September 25, 2018 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators Recently my buddy Gil F4WBY the Radio Prepper, sent a text letting me know he could hear my station on 20m. Although it […]

Emergency Portable Power: Powerfilm Inergy Kodiak

June 16, 2018 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators. Being around the channel and blog for a while, one probably understands how much the Canadian Prepper is a trusted member of my […]

Learning the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for Radio Communications

August 3, 2017 Julian OH8STN 0

Learning the NATO Phonetic Alphabet tutorial

All Weather Shelter for Field Communications

July 31, 2017 Julian OH8STN 2

All Weather Field Station for Emergency Comms

Amplifiers for Low Power Field Communications 

June 7, 2017 Julian OH8STN 0

When QRP power simply isn’t enough! Seriously!

New Release: Starlink and Ham Radio

December 10, 2024 Julian OH8STN 0

Since the disaster brought on by Hurricane Helene, followed up with the unnecessarily complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged FEMA response, I thought it time […]

The best ham radio antenna?

November 3, 2018 Julian OH8STN 0

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 […]

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