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Amateur Radio Holiday Gift Ideas
Shopping for your friend, family member, or significant other bitten by the ham radio bug can be challenge. Ham radio is such an encompassing field, that if you’re not in tune with their particular interests, you run the risk of getting them the wrong thing....
Hamfest Shopping Tips
Hamfests, the flea market of the amateur radio world, are part buying expedition and part social affair. Shopping a hamfest can be great way to outfit your shack, plus if you’ve been involved with ham radio more than a few years, a great way to connect and reconnect...
Get a better signal out of your handheld radio
We’ve all done it. Standing on our tippy toes. The dance, slowly swiveling around, alternating holding our arms up in the air and hands close to our ears. I’m talking about the weird contortions we do until we get the best signal out of our handheld radio. HTs bring...
Scanning local Fire and EMS services
I love listening to the scanner. In fact, it was a scanning around in the late 1990's that led me to find the amateur radio frequencies and my eventual getting my ham radio license. But I certainly haven't let go of my scanner roots, I'll often have a radio on,...
2014 Wisconsin ARES/RACES Conference Recap
Every year in mid October, Wisconsin ARES/RACES, the state's amateur radio emergency communications group holds its annual conference. While open to anyone with an interest in Emergency Communications, the conference gives ARES leadership an opportunity to network and...
Amateur Radio History: Simulated Emergency Test Then and Now
About a week ago our ARES/RACES group participated in the ARRL's Simulated Emergency Test. In this nationwide exercise amateur radio operators participate in a variety of mock disaster drills and communications tests. But did you know that the SET has been going on...
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