Ham Radio

ARRL Expands Member Access to QST Archive

From the ARRL email newsletter:

ARRL is pleased to announce that online access to the QST archive will be expanded. Beginning February 1, 2009, ARRL members will be able to search and view QST -- from December 1915 through December 2005 right from their computer. With an additional year -- 2005 -- added to the viewable archive, this valuable benefit is available to all ARRL members.

As an added benefit, ARRL Diamond Club members at the Brass level and above -- as well as ARRL Maxim Society members -- will be able to get images from the entire QST archive, right up through December 2008, an additional three years. According to ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH, this is the first new benefit that has been added to the Diamond Club since the Diamond Terrace opened in 2007. "Given the popularity of the QST online archive," Hobart said, "I hope that Diamond Club members and the Maxim Society members will enjoy exclusive access to the most recent four years of QST with our appreciation for their generosity. Perhaps the expanded QST viewable archive will inspire other ARRL members to participate in the Diamond Club and enjoy the other benefits available to Diamond Club members, as well."

The online archive was first introduced to members in fall 2008, providing PDF copies of articles from the huge QST archive, from December 1915 through December 2004. Since then, thousands of members have enjoyed searching, viewing and printing their favorite articles, projects and more. The membership benefit is a service of the ARRL Technical Information Service (TIS).

Access to the archive is free for ARRL members.

QST is the official journal of ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. An interest in Amateur Radio is the only essential qualification of membership. ARRL membership is $39 per year in the US. For a complete list of membership benefits and dues, please visit the ARRL Membership Web page.

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1/08 I am finally getting more time to look at this thing. I quit the 2nd job!

8/07 - busy busy... I look at the Kenwood from time to time, just have not gotten into it yet.

1/14/07 - Software Defined Radio

01/07 - I got my first radio, it's a Kenwood TH-F6A. Initial comments: The wall wart power supply looks like something from 1970. It's bigger than the radio. The radio works, it took a few hours to get the hang of the controls.

I powered it up just in time to listen in on the local ARES net. NOther than that so far there don't seem to be any people talking around here. :-) I probably listen in the wrong places.

I can hear lots of AM, FM, and TV stations. No shortwave.

11/06 - I got my Technician license.

APRS

Automatic Position Reporting System ==> APRS

TH-F6A

I realized I want to program the scanner with repeater frequencies etc. and what a pain it is to do by hand. I am getting a programming cable.

Build your own programming cable: http://www.geocities.com/azkoza/projects/pg4p/g71cable.html

(I bought mine from Ebay for $14 including shipping.)

Wiring on the cable: http://www.radioctl.com/english/THF6F7Cable.html

"Radio Control" software that goes with the cable diagram. http://www.radioctl.com/english/THF6F7.html

Kenwood's software

Review of Kenwood's software http://k0swi.microlnk.com/REVIEW/KW/KW_THF6A/KENWOOD%20MCP%20F6%20F7%20SOFTWARE.htm

This guy has an interesting page on the TH-F6A. http://www.brenemanlabs.com/Thf6a.htm

Documentation http://www.ham.dmz.ro/kenwood/th-f6a.php

Links

http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/ Lots of interesting stuff for beginners like me.