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HamRadioNow episodes

September 11, 2022 HRN 442 BikeMS / USB Cable Fun
Over the weekend, Gary K4AAQ played Ham Radio really hard with BikeMS in North Carolina. He checks in with a slide show from his hotel room while David W0DHG anchors from the West Coast Studio. Then Jim NO1PC reviews the issues with some of the USB cables needed for programming radios (and why some of those cables don’t work).
1 hr 52 min
September 05, 2022 HRN 441: QRZ-1 Radio Followup
Two shows on the QRZ.com/GigaParts radio giveaway?
Yep. Well, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ messed up a few things while trying to do the ‘no manual’ test of the radio. So now, post RTFM, he clears some things up. It’s a radio review like only HamRadioNow can do.
On board are West Coast Host David W0DHG and NorCal Host Jim NO1PC.
Also, a our previous episode on ‘It’s Not CW’ got pretty well raked over by comments on QRZ.com, so we rake back. Easy to do when you own the show.
And we ruminate on the need and potential future of a radio like the Icom 905.
2 hr 37 min
September 02, 2022 HRN 440: We test the 'Explorer QRZ-1' Handheld Radio
QRZ.com and GigaParts are giving away this dual-band handheld to new hams until Halloween 2022. is it ‘free and worth it’, or is it a decent radio? We check it out.
2 hr
August 29, 2022 HRN 439: It's Not CW (it's Morse Code) (a CLICKBAIT title)
NOTE: There is some intermittent audio breakup in this recording. We refer to it based on chat-room reports, and find that it was recorded, not just online.
This week’s lineup: Kyle AA0Z, David W0DHG, Gary K4AAQ. So yeah, we let Gary do his CLICKBAIT rant, where he also thinks it should be Morse’s code - that’s with an apostrophe s. We expect all hams to start using that.
Kyle gave a Huntsville Hamfest wrap-up, we talked about the new ICOM IC-905 VHF to 10 GHz radio and that was more or less it (less, because we spent a long time talking about nothing in particular after that.
2 hr 5 min
August 28, 2022 TEST TEST TEST (not a show)
AUDIO AUDIENCE NOTE: there’s a lot of visual stuff here. Or at least we think there is. It’s the kind of thing you may or may not be able to make up in your head as you listen.
And there will be a show Sunday night. A ‘real’ show? Well, that’s yet to be determined. But this one went on long enough that we figured we should put it on the stream by itself and not tag it to the Sunday show.
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Another ‘not an episode’?
Well, we have a good reason for this one (but don’t we always?)
This time, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ just got the new-to-us Wirecast computer up and running, and it was time to wring it out. Good news: it worked. Bad news: the Wirecast program doesn’t seem to use the second CPU. So it’s not helping as much as we expected. We’re looking into it.
Meanwhile, in this ‘not an episode’, West Coast Host David W0DHG is in New York City, where his daughter is competing in a Crossword Puzzle competition. David is a declared ‘non-combatant’, though he has a clear favorite in the event.
1 hr 14 min
August 22, 2022 HRN 438: Leftovers
East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ has been furiously… ok, intermittently… working on transitioning to the new Wirecast computer. He’s not quite done, but that left no time (he was willing to spend) on preparing for this show. So he and West Coast Host David W0DHG chatted for about 10 minutes and called it a night.
If you believe that, you’ve never watched this show before. On Saturday, the day before the Sunday live show, they did a Promo that lasted almost an hour. Those boys can talk. The question is: can you listen. We’ll see.
This audio file has the show… then the pre-show… then the Promo show. More for your money
2 hr 27 min
August 15, 2022 HRN 437: David Does a Rest Stop
HRN West Coast Host David Goldenberg W0DHG spend last weekend as the Comm guy for one of the Stages of the Angeles Crest 100 mile Endurance Run. We get the slide show.
Before that, though, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ analyzes our theme music, which sounds suspiciously like someone sending CQ (badly) on a piano. Then it’s “YouTube Takedown Testing” with snippets from a variety of media that also sound as though they were based on Morse Code. Including… and one you hear it you’ll never unhear it… the Mission Impossible theme.
We are joined by our Midwest Correspondent Kyle Kreig AA0Z to round out the team.
LINKS
We have a Discord, thanks to Jeff N4POD
https://discord.gg/FDP3JnyDun
Not sure exactly what we’ll do with it, but maybe that’s up to you!
There’s the stuff that will take us down from Facebook and YouTube:
Old BBC News Themes
NPR themes
NPR music composer BJ Leiderman riffing on the themes
UK Vintage Radio forum
The Dit Dit Song - Tommy Steele
Slim Gaillard - Communication
Pearls Before Swine - (Oh Dear) Miss Morse (NSFW if the boss can copy cw)
Episode 178: Radio Games - HamRadioNow
Ham Radio Live!
Gary will Guest on Sept. 3, 12 noon Pacific
https://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-hiring-for-high-frequency-direction-finding-center
New ARRL Lab/HQ station
https://youtu.be/68BJxGHg74Y
2 hr 19 min
August 13, 2022 PROMO for HRN 437
Sometimes a quick promo becomes a show.
Who am I kidding. Most of the time, what was intended to be a quick promo becomes a show.
We’re not saying it’s a good show. Just a long show. It’s just Kyle AA0Z and Gary K4AAQ. And the YouTube and Facebook versions come in two parts because Windows Update. No, we didn’t get an ‘update’ in the middle of the show. An update scrambled the Windows audio settings, and of course Gary didn’t notice. Finally a viewer commented. Fixing it required a total restart.
The audio file is ‘fixed’. The video is… what it is.
1 hr 32 min
August 08, 2022 HRN 436: Finally... a Real Show
So we move to 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific… do one show… then do a bunch of ‘No Show/Not a Show’ shows off schedule for one reason or another. Tonight we finally get back on schedule, and David and Jim aren’t available. Jim is still galivanting around the US, and David is sleeping after a big public service event kept him up all weekend.
So filling in, we roped in Jason Johnston KC5HWB from Ham Radio 2.0, and our ‘Midwest Correspondent’ Kyle Kreig AA0Z, on his phone from Spokane, WA where he was attending a DX conference. I’ll call it a ‘general conversation’. We got started extra early because Jason had limited time, and he ended up staying for almost 90 minutes anyway!
After Jason and Kyle excused themselves, I played some video showing my extensive ham operating on our recent trip to Canada for our Rocky Mountaineer adventure. I’m kidding - I barely got on the air at all. But I did some.
If you want to see video of the vacation in general, I’m posting what I call ‘raw video’ (really slightly edited) of each day’s activity on my ‘vacation video’ YouTube channel: https://YouTube.com/GaryPearce. You’ll find a Rocky Mountaineer playlist, along with playlists of other, similar ‘barely edited’ videos from other trips.
1 hr 33 min
July 31, 2022 HRN 435: No Show COVID Show (Oh No!)
Gary developed COVID just after returning from his Canadian vacation with Cyndi KD4ACW. He felt good enough to do a quick ‘no show’ show early Sunday, not knowing how he might feel by Sunday night’s regular time slot. David was available, and a drop-in from ‘East Coast Correspondent’ Marty NN1C rounded out the crew. Marty’s not to happy about being demoted from ‘host’ to ‘correspondent’🤨.
38 min

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