A slow activation testing out my AX1 clone at #pota GB-5958 #hamradio

📻 Wednesday, August 5, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Wednesday brings a fine mix of the reflective and the practical, from W9KNI's second helping of DXing war stories to August's parade of special event stations. We've also got l… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-08-05 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Wednesday, August 5 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 80m-40m, 30m-20m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

Look closely at that ham radio antenna I posted yesterday and you can see birds on it. These are not birds indigenous to Japan but are rose-ringed parakeets, also known as ring-necked parakeets, which escaped from cages and settled in Tokyo many years ago.

📻 Tuesday, August 4, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Good morning, operators. Today we're wandering the England-Scotland border with a QRP rig, thumbing through August's special-event calendar, and swapping tales of pools, lightnin… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-08-04 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Tuesday, August 4 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Monday, August 3, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Monday brings a travel-minded mix, from talking a CW key past airport security to K4SWL chasing Roman ruins and an ATNO in the Scottish Borders. The bands stay quiet under low sol… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-08-03 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Monday, August 3 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

The first US wide radio navigation system used sounds to help pilots steer their aircraft. Starting in the 1920's the Low Frequency Radio Range system used morse code tones that could be picked up by any radio, no special radio compass needed. youtu.be/4Q4Jsy0LGeE

When Pilots Used Sounds To Guide Planes

YouTube video by Scott Manley

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📻 Sunday, August 2, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup A Sunday spread that stretches from Rapa Nui's Pacific isolation to low Earth orbit, with a returning ISS crew and a fresh OSCAR designation to celebrate. Closer to home, the stud… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-08-02 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Sunday, August 2 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Saturday, August 1, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Saturday's roundup leans heavy on the human side of the hobby, from a Kentucky family taking their fight over seized radios to court to Fred Hopengarten's call for fresh faces i… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-08-01 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Saturday, August 1 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Friday, July 31, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Friday brings a full band of headlines, from the WRTC 2026 committee re-checking its scorecards to a fond farewell for a legendary DXer. Closer to home, we've got POTA battery math… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-07-31 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Friday, July 31 Great HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m, 12m-10m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Thursday, July 30, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Thursday brings a healthy mix of the practical and the philosophical: choosing the right rig, sorting out new UK callsign prefixes, and pondering whether ham radio YouTube has hi… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-07-30 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Thursday, July 30 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

You know you’re in for a treat

Into my 5th decade as a ham radio operator. No lies detected.

📻 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Today's dispatch spans the QRP triumphs and the humbling company of giants: a marginal-weather POTA activation that reached across the globe on 8 watts, and a young operator's w… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-07-29 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Wednesday, July 29 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

New call! I’m now N3BMC. #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Tuesday, July 28, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Hamvention's afterglow lingers as we peek at portable antenna gear and a lodge-based state park activation. We also swing shortwave-ward for a look at radio's Cold War past and a… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-07-28 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Tuesday, July 28 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Monday, July 27, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Monday brings a satisfying mix of bench and beam: cheap high-performance SDR, QSL cards from far-flung archipelagos, and a fresh squabble over what contesting should become. We've… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-07-27 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Monday, July 27 Solid HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio

Good afternoon from amateur radio station KL2R in Two Rivers, Alaska. It’s been a nice weekend ham radio-wise. I can’t say HF is great, but this afternoon I worked my old pal Gerry W1VE, who was calling on 20m CW from 7Q2T Malawi using a remote connection. I managed several FT4 on satellite RS44.

@chrisg1vdp.bsky.social made it to ham radio greatness.

📻 Sunday, July 26, 2026 — your HamDaily roundup Sunday brings a coastal wander and a long-awaited eyeball QSO, proof that POTA is as much about people and places as it is about points. Elsewhere we've got antenna myths debunked,… https://hamdaily.com/roundups/2026-07-26 #hamradio #amateurradio

📻 Daily band report · Sunday, July 26 Great HF conditions today. Band-by-band, day & night, in the card 👇 🌅 Daytime best: 80m-40m, 30m-20m, 17m-15m 🌙 After dark: 80m-40m Live solar data + dashboard: hamdaily.com/dashboard #hamradio #amateurradio