HRN 445: Ian Overhead 🌀

We made up this title when the tropical storm remnants of Hurricane Ian were predicted to pass directly over the East Coast Studio (in the Shadow of Charlotte, at the foot of Mt. Belzoni). The track moved about 100 miles east and flooded Raleigh, instead. But of course, the serious devastation was in Cuba, Florida and coastal South Carolina.

We have our usual gang of hosts, Jim NO1PC, David W0DHG and Gary K4AAQ. And we’re joined by Christine Duez K4KJN, SEC for the West Central Florida Section, and Gordon Mooneyhan W4EGM, Public Information Coordinator for the South Carolina Section. Both were on the edge of the path that Ian took through Florida and South Carolina.

HRN 444: BEST! HAM Band of 2022 (a Clickbait title)

What is the BEST! HAM Band of 2022?

Just because that is a silly, unanswerable question that pokes fun at all the ham (and general media) BEST! lists that provide ample fodder for many, many (many) shows, that doesn’t mean we don’t give it a shot. And by the time we’re done, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ unilaterally announces a winner!

Along the way, Gary, NorCal Host Jim NO1PC and West Coast Host David W0DHG are joined on the Zoom line by two live viewers: William K4ARX, and Kent N6WT. And the fun is in the journey, not the destination. We talk about a lot of stuff, some of it even useful.

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HRN 443: TAPR DCC Review / Interop Drill

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