http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog HamRadioResources.com blog - open to anyone that is a ham or wants to be! Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ham radio. Girlfriends. Somehow I figured they wouldn’t go together. And Gordon West’s presentation didn’t help that perception much either! He says that you’re not a REAL ham radio operator unless your neighbors look at your antenna - roll their eyes and say, “What the HECK ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/ham-radio%e2%80%99s-perfect-woman/ Ham radio's SkyWarn recognition day is December 6, 2008. This is a day when the National Weather Service takes their valuable time and resources and says "thanks" to those of us that help out with SkyWarn operations. It's pretty cool. I attended last year's event and got ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/ham-radio-skywarn-recognition-day/ Ham radio equipment can be really fun to buy – or – it can be a huge waste of time and money. It all depends on the research you do before you buy it. Now, I don’t mean that you have to be some penny pinching equipment expert. ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/ham-radio-equipment-%e2%80%93-how-and-where-to-buy-it-%e2%80%93-a-few-thoughts/ Ham radio license exams are not really hard. I know. I passed them all. With flying colors. The first time. One right after the other. After studying for only a few weeks for each one. And I am no ham radio expert, engineer, ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/how-to-pass-the-ham-amateur-radio-license-exams/ HamRadioResources.com/blog has been down recently for a few days. Sorry about that. I have been upgrading WordPress, which is the software on the Yahoo! Small Business hosting server that runs the blog. I needed to do that so that I could customize the blog look and feel. ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/hamradioresourcescom-big-changes-underway/ Recent events remind us that hurricane season starts as the midwest's tornadoe season winds down. And those that are trained in emergency communications can play a vital role when traditional communications networks go down in heavy wether. One problem, just on the news tonight, is that so many ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/ham-radio-hurricane-season/ I am planning a trip and have been checking some of my weather resources that I provide links to on www.HamRadioResources.com . One that I start with gives me a really nice three day overview of severe weather threats. You probably get this information from your local ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/severe-weather-resource-for-skywarn-types/ My girlfriend recently took a picture of me and then told me that she thought it would look nice on my website at www.HamRadioResources.com , so I uploaded it. Thought you might want to have a look. In the non-ham world I am an Auditor for SCA Tissue ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/my-humble-photo-on-wwwhamradioresourcescom/ Last weekend I was driving up to WalMart to pick some things up and had the FT-857d mobile in scan mode as I drove. I heard the usual police band chatter, somone on a repeater, so ariline traffic, and then it stopped on 164.520 - the National Calling Frequency ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/hf-mobile/ham-radio-balloon-contact/ One of the really neat things about having a ham radio is that many of these radios also will do wide band scanning. What is that? As I understand it, it will scan a wide array of different bands of frequencies. I own a Yeasue FT-857d... ... http://www.HamRadioResources.com/blog/uncategorized/wide-band-scanning-or-swl-short-wave-listening/