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Thank You my Friends
I would like to thanks all of my followers from Resonant Frequency and Linux in the Ham Shack for being so patient over the last couple of months.
In the month of January I came down with the flu. I was only actually sick for about a week but I lost my voice for nearly a month. I was able to record LHS thanks to the editing skills of Russ.
Since the start of this month we have had an emergency surgery concerning my sons girlfriend and a yet to be named grandchild. I lost my mother right after that. Then I had to move my son out of his apartment in a hurry and my other son injured himself due to an altercation with an inmate at work. Add to that the largest snow storm I ever remember in this part of Texas and a power outage of more than 48 hours here. I have been a little busy.
My Fans are important to me. you folks have been with me for a long time and I will get a fresh Episode of RF out ASAP. We will be recording LHS tomorrow night and I will be there.
Thank you for your patience my loyal friends and listeners.
Richard KB5JBV
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Email to Discovery News about Amateur Radio
Here is another of those self indulgent things. I listen to the Friday news feedbag as a podcast and every week it seems that one of the host makes a negative remark about amateur radio. This week I had enough so I found the email address, loaded my musket and
Get a grip radio operators
I I have to ask myself sometimes "What is wrong with people." A few days ago a fellow showed up on Twitter asking the question " does the average HAM make a difference anymore?"
Well since then some others on Twitter have ask the same question. I say yes we do. We made a difference in Oklahoma City, We made a difference in and around New Orleans, and let us not
Are Elmers still relevant?
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I was part of the live chat room audience on Ham Radio 2.0 recently and the question “Isn't the term Elmer outdated?” came up. Well as with any group we amateur radio operators have our own subset of words , jargon if you like.
OCF Dipole antenna by Ron VK2DQ
We would like to welcome Ron VK2DQ as a contributing author here at Black Sparrow Media.
Ron is a well known technical writer and founder / manager of the Radio & Electronics School an online educational website. His passion is to see more people introduced to the hobby at a young age as he says "Its a benefit to them even if they don't continue to pursue the pastime" Ron says, "I really enjoy working with people in the course, I enjoy their excitement as they learn". Ron adds "there are exciting prospects for young persons
entering amateur radio to use the hobby as a launch pad to a career in the Electronics Industry". Outside of Amateur Radio he's a real science fiction fan, movies and books. His favorite author is the late Isaac Asimov - particularly in science fact books. When he has time he writes computer software and teaches Radio, Electronics, Math and Physics.
We are very pleased to have Ron on board. You can find the OCF Dipole article Here and don't forget to visit Radio & Electronics School at www.radioelectronicschool.net
