6 Dec 18

Why Hams End A QSO With Dit Dit

In ye olden days, every time a train left the station, it would sound two short blasts from its whistle, warning everyone it was moving out. The old telegraph operators having been exposed to this practice, picked it up and would send two dits at the end of each telegraph message. This meant “GOODBYE”. So ham radio CW operators adopted the practice. It is still used worldwide today.

Source: AC6V’s website

3 December 18

27th of March 1964 a 9.2 earth quake hit Alaska at 0536 AST, for more information please click the links below…

Sources:  This is posted on the Fairbanks Radio Club Site…KL7KC, Fairbanks Alaska

This is a web based as well as a print news reporter from Alaska and is the best I read, especially some of the comments at the end… The Redoubt Reporter

More about the Earth Quake, Wikipedia

2 December 18

During the German occupation of Poland, the priest Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, SP3RN was arrested by the Germans. The Germans believed his amateur radio activities were somehow involved in espionage and he was transferred to Auschwitz on May 28, 1941. After some prisoners escaped in 1941, the Germans ordered that 10 prisoners be killed in retribution. Fr. Kolbe was martyred when he volunteered to take the place of one of the condemned men. On October 10, 1982 he was canonized by Pope John Paul II as Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Apostle of Consecration to Mary and declared a Martyr of charity. He is considered the Patron saint of Amateur radio operators.

Source … Amature Radio History Wikipedia World War 2 Section 

25 Nov 18

Howard Hughs… At a young age, Hughes demonstrated an interest in science and technology. In particular, he had great engineering aptitude and built Houston’s first “wireless” radio transmitter at age 11. He went on to be one of the first licensed ham radio operators in Houston, having the assigned callsign W5CY (originally 5CY).

More about Howard Hughs on Wikipedia (Click Here)

23 Nov 18

PSK31 derived from the 31 baud BPSK modulation system used in PSK31 was introduced by Pawel Jalocha (SP9VRC) in his SLOWBPSK program written for Motorola’s EVM radio. Instead of the traditional frequency-shift keying, the information is transmitted by patterns of polarity-reversals (sometimes called 180-degree phase shifts).

For more:

Wikipedia… Click Here

QST Article April 1999 … Click Here

22 Nov 18

Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff)  was a Russian physicist Born 16 March 1859 and died 31 December 1905.

On 7 May 1895 presented a paper to the Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg explaining how a lightening detector could be used as a coherer to detect radio noise from lightening strikes.

On  March 24th, 1896 in a demonstration, he used radio waves to transmit a message between different campus buildings in St. Petersburg Russia. Marconi registered a patent  Two Months after the demonstration. 

To Learn more about Popov I have 2 links below these pictures.

 alexander-popov

Alexander Stepanovich Popov

 

popovs-radio-receiverAlexander Stepanovich Popov‘s first transciever

Want to know more, these were my souces for what I have here as well as the pictures….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov

http://www.saint-petersburg.com/famous-people/alexander-popov/

20 November 18

TWiT has 4 studios in the US and offers tickets to view the filming of the shows. TwiT TV is a Tech based network with shows explaining and showing how to do, and deal with electronics. From cell phones to computers and anything electronic. As they put it,: We read the manuals so you don’t. Main office is in Petaluma California. To find out more and to even watch shows or up coming shows, Click Here

19 November 18

Filming new shows every Wednesday at 7 PM (pacific) and get posted on the website 24 hours later can be found at (Click Here).  Episodes have covered the history of SSB, Amateur Television, 10GHz Antenna Tests, Mobile HF Antennas, Icom HF DSP, contacts with the International Space Station, Field Day reports, Special Events, trips to television studios, tips and tricks, and even a ham wedding! Click the link above and go explore or Click Here