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Icom Inc has announced a firmware upgrade for the IC-7700 HF/50MHz The new upgrade, available for download from ICOM firmware page in March 2014, will provide the same additional features as made available to the IC-7800. Waterfall display function that allows a more complete understanding of the status of the band. Mouse operation of band…
Icom Japan just announced the release of a new D-Star DualBand Mobile Transceiver. ICOM ID-5100 /D The new ID-5100 is a dual band mobile transceiver 144 / 430 MHz that will be released in the market (Japanese) in February 2014 in two versions ID-5100 20W and ID-5100D 50W. As far as I’ve understood from the…
FT5ZM clublog log db has been updated right now! So it means they have an internet connection Are you in the log ?
During these first days of the long-time awaited Amsterdam Island dx pedition FT5ZM, lot’s of us are looking for the FT5ZM log search in order to verify if that 599 TU was really address to our call. Well, looks like the crew at FT5ZM have no internet connection, since the announced Club Log upload is…
Google glass are wearable computer, with a built-in Android OS on it, and in this movie N3WG Nick Garner show us a sample application of a ham radio related application written for the Google Glass platform. Practically Nick is able to remote control an Elecraft KX3 radio via the Pigremote connected via Wi-Fi, of…
Tokyo Hy-Power, world famous Japanes amateur radio equipment manufacturer filed for bankruptcy on 24th December 2013. Tokyo Hy-Power, founded by JA1DJW Nobuki Wakabayashi, since 1975 has been an industry leader in military, medical, commercial and amateur product market, and is particularly famous in the ham radio market for their HF and VHF RF power amplifiers….
Looks like the Arduino platform is getting popular and popular among amateur radio community. I’ve been reading a lot’s of interesting projects based on the Arduino, from CW Players, to antenna tuners, beacons, keyers, and rotor controllers, magnetic loops controllers and more. The Arduino looks is so popular that the ARRL is also publishing a…
Web rumors, and some social network postings, says that the largest 160 meters band antenna, setup in Finland, collapsed during a recent storm. I can confirm that all Europe has been touched by violent winds and storms during last weeks. At time writing the Radio Arcala website did not mention anything related to OH8X antenna…
I’ve restored the Original CQ MAP of the world representing the world divided into the 40 Zones according to the CQ WAZ Award.Read the CQ Worked All the Zones Award Rules
Received from Jojo DU1VHF, NTS Chairman and CFO for the Philippine Amateur Radio Association – please read and heed. “The much-awaited CQ WW CW Contest is nigh and everyone is chomping at the bit. However, here in the Philippines, our enthusiasm is a bit tempered by the recent events of a catastrophic typhoon which…