Ham Radio Chit-Chat [Archive] - The Island Of Misfit Hams

Fun with DC Power! (11 replies)
POTA - who plays? (10 replies)
ARRL Hit by Cyber Attack -- LoTW Down (17 replies)
location enquiry (3 replies)
Hamvention 2024 (8 replies)
MFJ Kaput?!? (17 replies)
Phonetic Alphabet (4 replies)
More “Maritime Safety Net” Yucks (3 replies)
SPE Expert Amps (0 replies)
2FA for the FCC's CORES (1 replies)
K9EID Bob Heil SK (5 replies)
IC7100 Mobile - opinions? (2 replies)
Speaking of New HT's... (6 replies)
New HT on the way (9 replies)
"Season's Greetings & Important Developments for the 2024 Board Meeting" (10 replies)
Back on the air again, again (6 replies)
is our technology too complex? (4 replies)
I think I broke the FCC website (15 replies)
20% Annual Dues Increase... But Wait, There's More! (16 replies)
New toy IC 9700 (11 replies)
Tatted With Glorious Sunspots (14 replies)
Extra, Extra, Read All About It! (15 replies)
What’s geekier than ham radio? (15 replies)
Just Pulled the Trigger… (93 replies)
Ho Lee Chit (21 replies)
Happy Holidays (9 replies)
A few notes on Icom's CI-V interface (10 replies)
TBDXC (26 replies)
Sticky Subject Revisted (0 replies)
Sticky Subject (5 replies)
V.E roll call (9 replies)
200 watt 2 meter amplfier on it's way. (12 replies)
Silly (2 replies)
Feedback requested: Vanity Callsign Predictions, including chances of assignment (11 replies)
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth (4 replies)
Bridgecom Systems & Ham Club Inquiry (3 replies)
Ham Radio (3 replies)
136 Khz (2 replies)
Brown Had Done It Again! (8 replies)
new misfit, ya'll (16 replies)
Icom 703+ (0 replies)
Feeling disheartened and ham radio culture shocked (40 replies)
How DX Engineering Just Saved Me ~$200 (18 replies)
GoFundMe Page for Tower Accident (4 replies)
Things That Make You Go "Hmmmmmmmmm", July 2020 Edition (19 replies)
FD 2020 (4 replies)
Covid Response? (7 replies)
Weekend radio plans: 1/31/2020 (3 replies)
Solar Cycle 25 has started (10 replies)
Of Yahoo and the future of Groups (3 replies)
ditching my Yaesu FT-2DR for a Kenwood TH-D74A ... any reason not to? (4 replies)
Mega Watt Power Supplies? (19 replies)
Really Cool FT8 Program... (0 replies)
What next? (15 replies)
Now What? (21 replies)
Field Day 2019 (15 replies)
Just Back from Xenia... (23 replies)
Backyard station (1 replies)
Vcc Killed Amateur Radio! (6 replies)
Xenia this year? (26 replies)
Packet radio - alive and well, or relegated to the dust bin? (3 replies)
Heathkit manuals. (2 replies)
ARRL WTF (9 replies)
EME In A Nutshell (2 replies)
Has contesting helped or hurt ham radio? (21 replies)
Just Renewed (7 replies)
BFO kit (6 replies)
Picked up my first bug. (3 replies)
30 AMP P/S (3 replies)
Yaesu "two meter" radios (10 replies)
455 KC BFO kit (4 replies)
I'm not sure if this is good or bad... (6 replies)
Winter VHF/UHF season... (3 replies)
I com 551-d 6 meter all mode. (21 replies)
Hamvention 19? (2 replies)
FT8 QRM.... (3 replies)
A little gift... (12 replies)
why are hamfests so damn early on the weekend? (17 replies)
Impromptu weather net..... (4 replies)
We need to have a conversation...... (1 replies)
Low Band experimenters (7 replies)
Kenwood TR-7800 (1 replies)
What are the big differences between the big three? (8 replies)
Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight 8/11/2018 (5 replies)
My little project.... (48 replies)
Echolink... Round 1 (3 replies)
Educational field day moment..... (2 replies)
W8MAI Field Day: 2018 (2 replies)
6 Meters, Wooo Hooo (23 replies)
Morse Code/CW; Digital, Binary, or what? (11 replies)
What are your thoughts? (7 replies)
where to buy stuff? (4 replies)
RF Level Equations? (5 replies)
W6OBB SK (14 replies)
Ham Radio Bug is Biting (11 replies)
Who knew low sunspot activity helps falling debris stay afloat? (13 replies)
Rant... FT8... (96 replies)
new computer for radio room: any wisdom on makes/models (9 replies)
60 meters (21 replies)
Mr. Carlson's Lab (8 replies)
5 watts!!!! (25 replies)
Haven't Been On 2m In Quite A While (9 replies)
Yaesu 9000 discontinued....what replaces it? (10 replies)
"How 'bout it DX-Land........" (1 replies)
FT-8 and New Years Holiday (2 replies)
FOX-1B Amateur Satellite. (6 replies)
That 10 meter contest.... (2 replies)
40 meter AM qso (19 replies)
One tube BC receiver kit. (10 replies)
ARRL Craptacular Response to Puerto Rico (10 replies)
So I'm off to California to pack up the rest of the crap (4 replies)
90+year old tube and spec sheet. (18 replies)
So should I vote for this guy? (10 replies)
MA 160 (0 replies)
Don't know if this has been posted, but they want everyone to register. (20 replies)
Hurricane Irma live stream.... (8 replies)
Elecraft Discontinues K1, KX1 (5 replies)
more hf privileges for techs? (12 replies)
(Nearly) perfect packet terminal! (9 replies)
Propagation & Sunspots (3 replies)
Early Flex Radio Upgrade (0 replies)
Any y'all playing with FT8 (1 replies)
6 Meters yesterday (3 replies)
10 meters today... (15 replies)
13 Colonies begins this Saturday (13 replies)
Field Day Pictures.... (8 replies)
ISS Help! (2 replies)
an Android app to help me study for Extra? (0 replies)
Radio (or ensemble) you can't do without? (19 replies)
Anyone Seen One of These? (6 replies)
Well.. I went and joined.... (5 replies)
ARRL VHF Contest this weekend (8 replies)
Glenn Baxter, SK (14 replies)
Heard my first number's station!` (5 replies)
Has anyone here ever dealt with HRO trade or consignment? (9 replies)
Geek cred (8 replies)
New Icom Rig (3 replies)
New Amateur Band Allocations (5 replies)
Arrrrg. Make it stop!!! (25 replies)
Went to Crossroads Ham Fest Today... (7 replies)
MFJ-4230MVP (13 replies)
Jouquers Anonymous Question (36 replies)
It's AMAZING! (6 replies)
I suppose that's one advantage to living here ... (11 replies)
WA1ZMS 2 meter trans atlantic beacon. (1 replies)
podcasts we like (for ham radio)? (2 replies)
The ARRL is shortsighted (3 replies)
Anyone ever written a XML-RPC control for fldigi? (2 replies)
Since we don't have a DX'ing forum.... (20 replies)
AT&T High Seas Station ... demolished (16 replies)
For those who don't like ads... (2 replies)
Abraham Cozzi.... (10 replies)
Building Code (18 replies)
160 and 80 good cndx (3 replies)
Looking for another rig (27 replies)
Happy Thankgiving (24 replies)
My packet node is back online and... (19 replies)
I-Know-This-Isn't-Ham-Radio-Related-But.....It Could Be! (10 replies)
Hurricane Nets.... (11 replies)
Florida Repeater Council database leaked (15 replies)
For Interested Party (1 replies)
Ham Friend... Grrrrr..... (9 replies)
moving to a new region. change call sign, even if not a forever move? (36 replies)
Wackermobile Extreme (10 replies)
Meanwhile in the Ham Shack: EP4 "Tasmania"... (6 replies)
WSPR.... (34 replies)
so, when a NAL is filed, why don't amateurs like these lose their licenses? (10 replies)
hara not signing leases... (64 replies)
21 months later... (4 replies)
Thrilling night on the radio.... (22 replies)
AES going under. (42 replies)
Well, I've stepped in it now.... (19 replies)
Going contesting (10 replies)
Field day for me.... (11 replies)
The hobby- what is it really for you? (21 replies)
Hotter than hell at the ratnest (17 replies)
ARRL "Rainbow of Badges" (7 replies)
I'm Radioactive (9 replies)
What radio- how and why? (25 replies)
Stumbled on this on reddit (0 replies)
when you do that stupid thing and buy used equipment on ebay ... (19 replies)
MLink 5 USB Radio Adapter (2 replies)
6 meters (36 replies)
Splash one SDR Transceiver.... (12 replies)
Thought you guys might enjoy this... (3 replies)
Has anyone updated their name/address using ULS? (9 replies)
Wifi Controlled Remote Antenna Switch (5 replies)
Looking for a ham-related project for your raspberry pi? (3 replies)
40 meters (9 replies)
is there a reason to keep around old copies of the world radio tv handbook? (10 replies)
Lookee what I found.... (16 replies)
7.285 now (4 replies)
Catty shack. (11 replies)
Perhaps a dumb question (7 replies)
“Can you say ‘Whacker?’” (20 replies)
VY1RST Yukon on 14.245 loud in WA (10 replies)
Exciting SDR news! (0 replies)
QST QST, a wonderful new S-METER. (8 replies)
When did "banned" start at QRZ.com? (21 replies)
Captain reports abandoned boat via 14.300 (7 replies)
Breaking the SERA control on regional repeater lists (17 replies)
CEPT agrees on 60 meter spectrum (9 replies)
Northern Lights (3 replies)
JT65 (25 replies)
Vibroplex Buys Inrad (2 replies)
Heathkit is back (22 replies)
Figures (4 replies)
PSK31 (23 replies)
HAM RADIO,, The REAL Truth!!!!! (26 replies)
Fun contact today (13 replies)
Retivis RT-9000D (5 replies)
W2AMR/Backyard portable. (19 replies)
40 Meter CW for $10.00 ?? (17 replies)
LF Activity Day (1 replies)
New gear day. (60 replies)
Great cat call (5 replies)
More questions, Rotator division (2 replies)
What's this thing? (32 replies)
6 meter noob (63 replies)
WA6ITF Bill Pasternak SK (7 replies)
QRP thread (28 replies)
Maunder Minimum (28 replies)
More Aluminum Bad Craziness (28 replies)
Dayton 2015 (69 replies)
Tree Fishing (11 replies)
Call signs? This dude has Former Call Signs! (29 replies)
Look at what I got today... (11 replies)
Bottom Feeding AND the BIG STUPID (17 replies)
Operating in Oklahoma parks and refuges (6 replies)
Buddipole FUN! (3 replies)
Echo link...can I ? (3 replies)
Well, this is interesting! (11 replies)
OK, this is a new one on me. (5 replies)
Capacitor Question. (13 replies)
My First Meaningful QSO (11 replies)
Opinions on Yaesu FT-991 (42 replies)
Antennas on a Chip (20 replies)
QRZ founder on a ham opriented short wave broadcast (5 replies)
One Reason "Normal" People Think Hams Are Weird (30 replies)
"Works as it should" New cliche for the 2000 teens? (9 replies)
75/80 meter indoor loop antenna (19 replies)
Review: SainSonic AP510 (3 replies)
odd noise on 446.000 (20 replies)
Why? (14 replies)
LIDList (12 replies)
So, this happened yesterday.... (4 replies)
RS clearances... (16 replies)
Licensing class materials? (3 replies)
Wanna know why Ham Radio will never get more frequency allocation? (16 replies)
Baofent UV-5R: Go Figure (11 replies)