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This site documents my radio experiments and setup. See the navigation bar for sections and links to documentation.

I will occasionally blog interesting topics I find related to ham-radio.

Recent Blog Posts

Radios, how do they work?

lcamtuf put together an excellent primer on how radios work. Their goal was to “provide an introduction to radio that’s free of ham jargon and advanced math” and I think they succeeded. It’s well worth a review, even if you’re an experienced ham. The video below is one of the excellent demos in the article:

M17 on Modified ICOM Radios

Manoel shared his efforts to get M17 working on ICOM IC-F5060 mobile radios and IC-F3162 HTs. This is a really cool effort. More hardware that can run M17 the better! I’m also interested in the breakout boards. I bet you could build an APRS digipeater, CATS igate, or other digital radio goodies inside the radio body!

500kW Transmitter

Hackaday shared a video from the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting about the history of the 500kW WLW AM broadcast transmitter. WLW was sometimes called “the nation’s channel” because it was so powerful you could hear it in most of the United States. The tubes in this transmitter are amazing!
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