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ICQ Podcast Episode 353 - Parks on the Air and Xiegu G90 SDR Transceiver
Review

Posted: 21 Jun 2021 10:10 AM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu/tVpu/~3/JPBkHelUwAQ/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

On this episode, I joined Martin M1MRB, Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, and
Edmund Spicer M0MNG to discuss:








Fly Me to the Moon. An amusing story about the first Bitcoin transaction
using EME communications.


WIA Seeks Review of Amateur Radio Exam System


International Space Station to be in Cross-Band Repeater Mode for Field
Day. Get out the satellite antenna for Field Day!


Aluminium-Ion Battery Development. Scientists in Australia have developed a graphene aluminium-ion battery that they claim has up to three times the capacity of a lithium-ion battery and can charge up to sixty times faster.
Now, we just have to wait and see if this battery can be manufactured in quantity at a reasonable price.


IARU Workshop Future of Amateur Radio Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities
and Threats. A good first step in understand where we are and the
challenges that amateur radio will have to confront in the future.



The features for this episode include coverage of Parks on the Air (POTA)
by Bill Barnes WC3B, and review of the Xiegu G90 SDR Transceiver by Ed
Durrant DD5LP.







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Easing back into the world

Posted: 20 Jun 2021 04:04 PM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu/tVpu/~3/cB41PK-6uy0/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email


Ive been vaccinated since the end of February, and have slowly been easing myself back into the world. Ive been to dine-in restaurants with friends,
have gone to see movies at the Michigan Theater with my wife, and today,
went to my first hamfest in a year and a half. The Monroe (MI) Hamfest is
held every year on Fathers Day. The weathers usually good, and its mostly
an outside affair (see below), so I and many other hams felt safe enough to attend.
The Monroe Hamfest is a mostly-outside affair. Fortunately, the weather cooperated today.

I had a great time, too. I set up a folding table and set out all the junk, errr great stuff that I brought, sat back in my folding chair, and waited
for the customers to wander by. And, wander by, they did. I sold a lot of
junk, errr great stuff today.

The highlight of my morning was the sale of a Grundig YB400PE portable shortwave radio to a young lad who was there with his father. I had gotten
an email from the boys mother a couple of weeks ago, who said that her son
had become interested in radio. I mentioned that I just happened to have
the aforementioned Grundig, which was part of an SKs equipment that I was liquidating. I told them about the hamfest, and the mother said that shed
be sending father and son down there to meet me.

We made contact a little before 11 am. I showed them the radio and had a
nice chat with both father and son about ham radio. I showed them the
Grundig, and they decided to take it. As a bonus, I threw in a copy of the Handbook.

They both seemed quite enthusiastic about getting into ham radio, and I
have no doubt that well have yet another father/son combination in the
hobby real soon now.

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