So let’s start out with a little edit of my previous post. Seems I spoke a moment too soon — this morning around lunch, I punched Refresh on my FCC license search tab and kaboom my callsign has been published! Finally! Ladies and Gentlemen, in the ham bands I am now known as: KG5RHR. Hello! …
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Futile Callsign Checking
Getting impatient. Seems the FCC is taking their sweet time granting me my ham license. I took and passed my Technician exam almost 2 weeks ago, and the examiner said I could have it as early as the following Thursday. The docs I’ve read said if it’s been over two weeks, feel free to call …
Hemisphere
There is still magic in the air. One must be a receiver to pick up on it. Right? For what it’s worth, 6060KHz is also known as Radio Habana Cuba. The magic of shortwave radio is that its broadcasts carry a long, long way. I’m able to hear broadcasts that happen in certain spots in …
Sounds of the Earth
During my downtime the past few nights, I’ve been listening to and reading up on a pair of phenomena that involve strange radio transmissions. Have you ever heard of Numbers Stations? These are radio stations on the shortwave band whose only job is to transmit a random-sounding series of numbers either by voice, Morse code, …