They will also start practicing sending Morse code. Wednesday will be the eighth class in the General Class course. This week is the first of two classes covering antennas. With cramming all the material into a 12 week course, our students have a lot of information to cover for each class!
Here are the latest updates on the new Handiham. When changes are made, I will post to the website. If you have any feedback about the website, I would love to hear from you. If you are a current member and your credentials are not allowing you to login to the site, please contact Pemdy for assistance at handiham allina.
Equipment connections are happening, and the list is open! If you have a request for the Equipment Connection, contact me, leaving your name and phone number. I will call you to discuss your request. Please note that it may take several days for a return call due to all the other things going on in the Handiham Program.
Additionally, if you have received any equipment from the Handiham Program during the last 12 months, you will automatically be placed at the bottom of the list so that others can also participate in the Equipment Connection.
Many thanks to the numerous people who have offered equipment for Handiham Members. If you have equipment that you would like to donate to a Handiham Program member, please email Lucinda at Lucinda. The Handiham Program needs contributors to Handiham World. Do you have a particular interest in amateur radio that you would like to share with others? Maybe you have a particular mode or band you like to operate and have learned a lot about. Or maybe you have some great stories to share from your experiences in the amateur radio hobby.
Put your writing skills to work for Handiham World by sending your submissions to Lucinda. We are always looking for more readers, including some with a background in teaching in STEM related fields, especially if you have also worked with students requiring accommodations. We also need some readers with a background in teaching in STEM related fields, especially if you have also worked with students requiring accommodations.
This volunteer position requires you to use your own equipment to record, however, we will provide the reading materials. If you or someone you know would like to try reading material for the members only section, please contact me for more information on how to submit a demo recording. We need help updating our available resources for members.
If you are blind and enjoy using your ham radio or assistive technology related devices, your assistance is especially needed. It would be a big help to your fellow Handiham Members if you would record a tutorial or product review. These need to be sent in Mp3 format, and the Handiham Program reserves the right to edit the recordings as needed before publishing in the Members Only section of the Handiham. Please contact me at Lucinda. I want to say a big thank you to those who have made or volunteered to make tutorials for the Members Only portion of the website.
We have already had a number of members step up to offer their services, and their help is greatly appreciated! We also have some new readers who are working on some books, so keep watching for website updates as we add more content. Linda, N7HVF, poses a trivia question in the first half of the Wednesday evening session, so check in early if you want to take a guess. The answer to the trivia question is generally given shortly after the half-hour mark.
We slept in our car. We had Field Days where a derecho came through a wind, derecho wind event came through and tore up a couple of our setups. TB: In a couple of hours, we were up and running again. And to see people come together to say, all right, we got to deal with this situation now, to see them come together and get back up and running.
LM: Yes. And in the long tradition of ham radio, hams help each other out. They cheer each other on. And Field Day is just all about that. TB: Absolutely. In fact, I use this—I run a number of nets locally here. And I use this as a trivia question. Field Day started in That was the first Field Day and look at it. You will be amazed.
There is not a blank frequency to be had. TB: Right, right, right. One year, we had a 50th anniversary celebration for my parents. I was out of town. I at least made a few contacts. I would encourage anybody and everybody to do it.
Well, you know, the one year we actually did it at the Salvation Army headquarters there in Grand Rapids. We were out front, had our antennas all hooked up there and working out front. But we had such a fun time. And people were coming through, stopping by. And anybody, by the way, anybody can do Field Day operating. And next thing we know they were licensed and actively participating in future Field Days.
LM: I remember watching a guy one year. He got all excited watching one of our guys do CW operation. LM: Yes, it is on the calendar. LM: And we already have people that are on the list for both classes. After that it gets easier. Same with the Morse code, assuming you know it.
LM: What an awesome experience. But I sort of knew he, I was confident that he knew enough to do it, and he was a pretty confident kid. I mean, he just, he just needed that extra push, you know, and once we did it, he was often running. A group of students at a school for deaf children in England are going to speak with an astronaut on the International Space Station ISS this weekend. In preparation, the school has been teaching classes covering electricity, circuits, energy, sound, space, and rocketry.
At the school, some students will attend in-person, while the remaining students and audience members will be linked via the internet. Reduce received noise. Lightning protection. Reduce RF current flow between pieces of equipment. Reduce RFI to telephones and home entertainment systems. While there is little you can do if a lightning bolt is aiming for your station, you can reduce the possibility of the damage it can do if you direct the charge to ground outside your shack.
Because there is no perfect solution to effectively grounding your station, you will likely have to decide what you want to focus on for your situation.
Options include lightning protection, RF suppression, or electrostatic discharge protection. Here are the latest updates on the new Handiham. When changes are made, I will post to the website. If you have any feedback about the website, I would love to hear from you. If you are a current member and your credentials are not allowing you to login to the site, please contact Pemdy for assistance at handiham allina. Equipment connections are happening, and the list is open! If you have a request for the Equipment Connection, contact me, leaving your name and phone number.
I will call you to discuss your request. Please note that it may take several days for a return call due to all the other things going on in the Handiham Program. Additionally, if you have received any equipment from the Handiham Program during the last 12 months, you will automatically be placed at the bottom of the list so that others can also participate in the Equipment Connection. Many thanks to the numerous people who have offered equipment for Handiham Members.
If you have equipment that you would like to donate to a Handiham Program member, please email Lucinda at Lucinda. The Handiham Program needs contributors to Handiham World. Do you have a particular interest in amateur radio that you would like to share with others? Maybe you have a particular mode or band you like to operate and have learned a lot about.
Or maybe you have some great stories to share from your experiences in the amateur radio hobby. Put your writing skills to work for Handiham World by sending your submissions to Lucinda. The Thunder screenreader website states in large, bold type:.
No, they didn't spell organizations wrong; that is the British spelling! Thunder is used worldwide, and the organization that offers it is in Great Britain. If you already have a commercial screen reader on your computer, you should stick with what you have, because we do not recommend installing two screenreading programs on a single computer. You open up the organization's website, and immediately it will begin talking to you and telling you how to use the screenreader.
Once it is running, you need to stay connected to the Internet and as long as you do so, you have free screenreader access on your computer. It's as simple as that; you really don't need to know very much about either operating a computer or screenreaders to make this thing work. We have not tested it on a dial-up Internet connection, but we strongly suspect that it would not work. We suggest either a DSL or cable modem connection to the Internet.
The AIR Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to advocate, teach, and deliver tools that promote accessibility as a fundamental human right. Its first corporate partnership is with Serotek Corporation. Where to find these resources: Go to the Handiham website at handiham. Last week we talked about the free audio editing program called Audacity. Today, I want to tell you about a wonderful way to control many modern amateur radio transceivers using a personal computer.
This information pertains to users of Microsoft Windows because the software is written to run specifically on that operating system. It may work with Windows 98 but this is not supported.
The policy is to support Windows versions which are supported by Microsoft. Any licensed Amateur may download, install, and use HRD. It is not open source software, however.
The difference is that the software author does not license the software under an open source licensing agreement, and the computer code is not public. Before I get into any details about Ham Radio Deluxe, I think we should make it clear that this software is constantly under development and is thus being improved all the time. It has gone through many releases and upgrades over the years, and I have used it with great success in my own ham shack for many of the years that it has been available.
The fact that HRD is always in active development sets it aside from many other software packages. Oftentimes you will find that a rig control program has maybe one or two releases, and not very much changes, if anything, after that.
Ham Radio Deluxe is different, because it keeps getting better and better. I like the fact that I don't have to worry about ditching my rig control program because it is hopelessly out of date.
This is one of the most important reasons to choose Ham Radio Deluxe. In order to use software to control your radio, you will need to provide a hardware connection between the radio and your computer. How you do so depends on which radio you have and what kind of ports your computer has available. Fortunately, there is information on the Ham Radio Deluxe website that will help you get this part of the job done. This was relatively easy to find at a good price via the Internet.
Further connections were done via a commercial rig interface, in this case a Rigblaster. I found that it was easiest to follow the Rigblaster instructions and everything worked pretty much as expected right away! You may find satisfaction in building your own interface, and you will find plenty of help for doing so on the Internet.
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