HRN 462: Angry Radio Relay League

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Our guest is Ria Jairam N2RJ, podcaster, YouTuber and Director of the ARRL Hudson Division. Ria’s kind of getting picked on at the ARRL (our words, not hers). She tells us about that trouble and a division in the ranks of the Board falling along lines of transparency vs secrecy. We’ve heard that before when a Board Code of Conduct tried to silence Directors who disagreed with policy passed by the board. Listen to Ria’s take. Ask your Director to explain what’s happening. That might be interesting.

Harry Potter and the Eight Watt BaoFeng

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In Episode 461, Glam Ham Natalie Gray NW6S revealed that she was one of the writers for the upcoming blockbuster video game Hogwarts Legacy. Gary K4AAQ jumped on the idea of introducing Ham Radio into the Harry Potter inspired project, because that’s what we always do.

Later, Gary felt the need to hammer the point home by creating a scene we wish we’d seen in the movies, and we present it for your consideration (but probably not Natalie’s 🙄).

Hogwarts Legacy, it turns out, won’t have any Harry Potter or Lord Voldemort in it anyway. Or BaoFeng radios. The game is set in the late 1800’s. So it could have some Spark Gap. Maybe Marconi can turn out to be a Wizard.

Our little play is audio only because we don’t have a movie set. And it’s ‘vertical’ because we produced it for our new TIK TOK channel. Yep, we have one of those now. What else might go there? Who knows.