Amateur

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My amateur radio journey began in the mid-1970s. At the time, I was about 12 years old, with an interest in electronics that puzzled my parents. With little guidance, and fear for their lives, as I regularly inspected the inside of the TVs and radios in the house, they turned to the kind older gentleman

London is one of the cities with an identity problem when it comes to airports. There is no airport in London, instead a group of airports serve the city at different distances from it. London Gatwick is the second largest and is located with its single track in the province of Sussex, about 30 miles

As President of ARRL, [Rick Roderick, K5UR] spends considerable time proselytizing the hobby. He has a standard amateur radio call that includes tales accumulated from his decades as a licensee, and has QSL cards from rare DX contacts to show how radio amateurs speak around the world. He has given this talk countless times and

In mid-2012, he turned it on. “Son of a gun,” he recalls. “I’m getting a signal.” Soon he got up obsessed with making those pingbecs pour into his antenna. At the beginning of 2013, he came out live with a website – then www.satwatch.org– where he uploaded data. At one point, he had observations of