September 19, 2022

HRN 443: TAPR DCC Review / Interop Drill

September 19, 2022/ Gary Pearce

Another busy weekend…

David W0DHG was up on Missile Mountain doing an Interop Drill, while Gary K4AAQ was helping with the video from the 2022 ARRL/TAPR DCC, in his hometown this year. David and Jim get into the weeds on Emcom in CA

LINKS:

TAPR DCC Schedule PDF
TAPR DCC Friday Live Stream
- Note that we had both streaming issues on Friday. It took a while to get the stream to work, and when it did, the audio was bad. We found a workaround and things get better (but not ‘good’) at the 01:26:00 point.
TAPR DCC Saturday Live Stream
- Audio and video were good both Saturday and Sunday
TAPR DCC Sunday Live Stream

September 11, 2022

HRN 442 BikeMS / USB Cable Fun

September 11, 2022/ Gary Pearce

Over the weekend, Gary K4AAQ played Ham Radio really hard with BikeMS in North Carolina. He checks in with a slide show from his hotel room while David W0DHG anchors from the West Coast Studio. Then Jim NO1PC reviews the issues with some of the USB cables needed for programming radios (and why some of those cables don’t work).

September 05, 2022

HRN 441: QRZ-1 Radio Followup

September 05, 2022/ Gary Pearce

Two shows on the QRZ.com/GigaParts radio giveaway?

Yep. Well, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ messed up a few things while trying to do the ‘no manual’ test of the radio last time. So now, post RTFM, he clears some things up. It’s a radio review like only HamRadioNow can do.

On board are West Coast Host David W0DHG and NorCal Host Jim NO1PC.

Also, a our previous episode on ‘It’s Not CW’ got pretty well raked over by comments on QRZ.com, so we rake back. Easy to do when you own the show.

And we ruminate on the need and potential future of a radio like the Icom 905. Jim gets to do a little rant.

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