Amateur Radio Roundtable

Tom makes a short appearance since his disc surgery. Voice was pretty bad during the show but other times it sounds normal.  Brett talks about a company asking the fcc for frequencies to be used for satellite cell service that are used by hams.  Brett also shows us a visit to a local ham fest. 

Tonight Tom is still out with voice problems. Bretts has the show. 2 segments.  1.  Using rain gutters as antennas, 2. Hamfests.

Tom is still out . Voice is still bad from surgery.  Tonights guest is ARRL lawyer discussing HOA antennas

Glen gives us a review of the Mena, Ar hamfest. Brett discusses lightning protection,  Tom is still out from  repair of a disc in his neck.  Plus more. 

Tonight Bret does the show from wyoming.   Tom makes a short appearance but he can not talk. He had neck disc surgery this morning.  

we review the new ic-7300 mkII, look at show projects, 7 band 49 ft vertical ant matcher, bringing new live back to old non working equipment, and satellite operation using the S.A.T. , and review so new test equipment.

Tonight we review the Huntsville, AL hamfest, we show off the items we purchased. Bill brown shows us a pico balloon launch he did at hamfest. 

Tonight we look at a free program that will allow you to use your laptop to control nano vna.  It makes the work easy.   We also talk about metor scatter. 

Tonight Brett shows us how to receiver slow scan TV from the ISS. We look at the nanovna and the tinySa.    Magnetic loops, egg beater antenna plus more 

Tonight we discuss with Mark Brown N4bcd the up coming Huntsville, AL hamfest.  Also review the shows 7 band vertical project