Twitter, Facebook and Ham Radio

Surfin': Twitter, Facebook and Ham Radio By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU Do You Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers, known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey everyone! All of us here at The Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! Remember to give thanks for everything today, and have a safe and happy holiday! The BVARA W3SGJ.org

New Webpage – Geocaching!

We now have an official webpage for geocaching! Check it out at: http://geocaching.W3SGJ.org Check it out and post your comments here on the blog, or over on the geocaching site! Grant, KB3QFQ

How Social Networking Can Help Ham Radio

If you haven't read my article yet, here is your chance! I'm posting it below for y'all! Enjoy, and please comment!! :) Just by reading the title, you will know this is a debatable subject. Your opinion may differ. That’s fine, and I’d love to read your opinion of this article. I am the editor of our local radio club’s newsletter, so I have decided to write an article about how social networking can actually help, not hinder, amateur radio. Although I’m familiar with most of the major so...

ARRL Atlantic Division News

Atlantic Division News November 9, 2009 Bulletin 2009-10 Thanksgiving is around the corner and it is the time to count our blessings. We'd like to thank you, our members, for your continued support in the growth of amateur radio, the time and talent you've put into public service events, training classes, testing sessions, and plain old having fun with radio stuff. We'd also like to thank the members of the ARRL Field Organization within the Atlantic Division headed up by some ve...

George E. Smith, AA2EJ, Wins Nobel Prize

Around 5:30 on the morning of October 6, George E. Smith, AA2EJ, of Barnegat, New Jersey, got a phone call that changed his life: He had just found out he had won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit -- the CCD sensor." Smith will share the prize money with two other recipients: Charles K. Kao, of Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the United Kingdom and Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, and Willard S. Boyle, of Bel...

Review: Yaesu 817

FT-817 The Ultimate Backpacker! Multi-mode Portable Transceiver THIS IS A GREAT LITTLE QRP RADIO. Its built in keyer and all mode/all band operation make it quite suitable for field day, backpacking, camping and most outdoor operations.I have made contacts world wide on ssb-cw-psk 31-as well as my local repeaters. Don't expect everything from an inexpensive piece of equipment. After all, its still a QRP radio. So before going through buyer remorse, one should take a bit of time to compile a ...

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Ham Radio Quiz

Here's a cool "ham radio jargon" quiz from Fun Trivia. Some of you will know all of the answers, but I think all of you out there new to ham radio will enjoy the quiz. 1. When radio amateurs are trying to solicit a new contact, what two-letter phrase do they use? CQ WX CX DE 2. In amateur radio parlance, what does the two-letter phrase "DX" stand for? disconnection destination distance dial 3. When radio amateurs discuss a "Yagi", what are they ta...