Archive for March 3rd, 2008

Numbers station

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I was just scanning around the bands when I got home from work, and tuned up 30m, the amateur band between 10.100Mhz and 10.150Mhz. I heard some voice on 10.126, which is odd, since the band is dedicated entirely to Morse and data transmissions. What was even odder: it consisted entirely of a woman repeating digits. I had discovered my first numbers station:

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Here’s a brief recording!

Wacky!

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Bob Simpleton’s Guide to Quickie Antennas

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

VE7BPB was telling KC9MUC how to make a quickie 6m dipole out of a chunk of coax on the irc #amsat channel. I don’t think (inexperienced ham that I am) that I had ever seen this exact technique before. Digging around, I found link to the method on the web, so I won’t have to transcribe the steps here.

Bob Simpleton’s Guide to Quickie Antennas

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