With heavy heart we mark the passing of our dear friend and RRI charter director Grant Hays WB6OTS. Grant passed away suddenly while touring overseas on September 25th 2019. Grant was a lifelong traffic handler and joined the U.S. Army in 1959. After a stint with the Army Security Agency he served in various capacities […]
There’s still plenty of reason to know how to use this Morse telegraph key. Reprinted from The Conversation under the terms of the Creative Commons License Photo: Jason Salmon/Shutterstock.com May 21, 2019 7.36am EDT By Eddie King The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., […]
We regret to report W2EAG’s key fell silent on June 1, 2019. Mark Rappaport was the long-time manager of the Hit-and-Bounce Net and a great supporter of amateur radio traffic handling. His family’s obituary: Mark Wesley Rappaport, 78, of River Bend, passed away on Saturday, June 1, 2019. Mark was born in New York, NY […]
Submitted by Dave Struebel WB2FTX Radio Relay International has submitted comments to the FCC on RM-11708 which is the proposal to eliminate the 300 baud symbol rate limit on digital signals. This baud rate limitation was set by the FCC in the early days of amateur radio digital use and is the only such baud […]
http://k9jm.com/NYS%20Net.mp3 It’s the New York State traffic net ca 1970. NCS was W2FR ex-W2SEI FB OP Howie. H/T W2TR via K9JM who says “Interesting to hear fists of that era again.” And it is. Notice the timing of the old bugs!
Submitted by Dave Struebel WB2FTX: Many of NJ traffic handlers might have missed this. I found it in the October 2018 issue of CQ Magazine. Our own Dave Popkins W2CC, longtime Net Manager for the New Jersey Phone Net (NJPN, 6 PM 3950 Khz) has been recognized by the President for a lifetime achievement of […]
We are saddened at the passing of our friend and colleague Frank Thrash, W4DLZ manager of RN5 and a lifelong radioman. We offer our deepest condolence to his beautiful XYL Mary and his family. Submitted by Jerry carter W4SU: Frank Wadley Thrash W4DLZ December 7, 1932 – November 3, 2018 To RN5 and CAN traffic nets: […]
From the CQ newsroom Petition Drive to Save WWV/WWVH – Sept. 15 Deadline WWV transmitter site in Colorado. The NIST budget request for fiscal 2019 eliminates funding for continued operation of WWV and its Hawaiian counterpart, WWVH. (US Government photo) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has eliminated funding for the continued operation […]
Save WWV and The Death of Old Time? – NIST Cutting WWV This is another mind-bogglingly short sighted move to save a few budget dollars at the expense of an irreplaceable service. The U.S. government has been responsible as the nation’s clockmaster since the U.S. Navy established Naval Observatory Washington. As we’ve seen since […]
ZL1NZ posted this video record to You-Tube on Aug 14, 2018. From the description, It is a short recording from 20m featuring great signals from WB8WKQ and K6TOP, recorded at ZL1NZ/ZM50MAUQ. Each station sent and received formal traffic (although that’s not on this recording). Since this test, regular skeds were established and formal record traffic’s […]