Ham Radio 2.0

DIRTY 'FENG! Let's take a look at the newest Baofeng for 2024, the 5RM. Today I put it on the power meter and then do some emissions testing with the TinySA
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We've done several interviews about M17 in the past and today there are new updates that the team wants to share with us. Join me Sunday night as I welcome Ed and Steve back onto the show to talk about the latest M17 Updates.
What is M17? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKp4sMZ59A&t=5s&ab_channel=HamRadio2.0 M17 vs DMR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpktVM-UbgU&t=6s&ab_channel=HamRadio2.0

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Ham Radio Emergency Communications, or Emcomm, might not be what Disaster Preppers think it is. What do you think? What REAL usefulness can Emcomm have during an Emergency or Disaster? Should we include it in our prepping plan? Here are my thoughts...
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Links: Original Article: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1aori6s/change_my_view_emcomm_is_a_ham_radio_fantasy_of/

Carrinton Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

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I picked up some new Coax Jumpers from ABR Industries during the Orlando Hamcation of 2024. This set has FME-style connectors, which allows you to add any traditional connector that you want - PL259, SO239, SMA, BNC, etc. You can use these jumpers to connect anything in Ham Radio. SPONSOR: Save 10% off of these jumpers and all ABR Products with the coupon code ABR10KC5HWB at this link - http://hr2.li/wwdrm

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I caught up with Steve from Alpha Antennas at Hamcation 2024 and got to see a couple of new projects he is working on, plus talk about some of the other antennas that are in his inventory. We used his Hextenna on a POTA activation last year and it worked great! Check out his website here - https://www.alphaantenna.com

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When the cellular networks are down, what works? RADIO is off-grid, but what does that mean? When cellular phones and Smart Phones network towers and internet to work, radios do not! Here are my thoughts on this AT&T Outage of 2024
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LIVE! from the Houston Hamfest 2024

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There are new HF Radio Bag Inserts for the Explorer Backpacks from Gigaparts. Now you can choose from a laptop sleeve, or from bags for the Icom IC-7300, Yaesu FT-891, Yaes FT-991a or Yaesu FT-817/818. Coming soon there will be a new IC-705 bag which is larger than the original, so you will be able to add a Peovi (or similar) cage to the 705 and have it fit into the new bag.
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I caught up with Patrick from Geochron at the Hamcation 2024 Hamfest and he took us through some new features that were recently added to the Geochron device. This device is great for tracking weather, satellites, the ISS and many other things. Let's take a look!

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