HRN 489: Radio Trader

Gary K4AAQ begins reviewing the ARRL comments on RM 11953, the request to modify the HF side of Part 90 (commercial radio regs) to allow high power, wider bandwidth data to be used for “High Frequency Trading” on the various stock exchanges. The ARRL says this has a clear potential to create significant interference in the ham radio bands and for other HF users.

After a bit, Ria N2RJ joins the show and, well, makes it more interesting. David W0DHG and Jim NO1PC have the week off. So we modify the name of the channel to Ria’s HamRadioNow Shack just for this episode.

Here’s a link to download the PDF of the ARRL’s comments on RM 11953 with my ‘marginal notes’: K4AAQ’s PDF

HRN 488: DUE$ Ya Think I'm Sexy💰

The ARRL has increased dues… no surprise considering inflation. The shocker is that they also divorced the printed magazine from basic dues, and made it a fairly expensive add-on. We review the changes.

Gary K4AAQ has a short slide show of his trip to DC (not much ham radio in it). And in the post-show, Jim NO1PC explains that he is the ‘mystery’ Redditor who created a HamRadioNow sub-Reddit. Meanwhile, David W0DHG tries not to melt in his non-air-conditioned studio, as he waits for winter.

HRN 487: From the West Coast Studio

David W0DHG anchored this episode from his un-air conditioned West Coast Studio during an LA heat wave. Gary K4AAQ was in Witless Protection in an undisclosed location somewhere near Washington DC (with a cameo from Cyndi KD4ACW). Jim NO1PC wasn’t complaining, but we kept the show short, anyway.