Here’s another Nostalgia Radio fix-up and evaluation. The CRF-5100 Earth Orbiter was Sony’s answer to the Zenith Royal 7000 and R-7000 Trans-oceanics. It was an exciting discovery for me and I hope you will enjoy reading about it. And please check out my other Nostalgia Radio articles under the Nostalgia Radio tab.
Read the Sony CRF-5100 Article
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Jay takes a look at the classic Panasonic RF-4900 from restoration to evaluation. Read the Panasonic RF-4900 Restoration & Evaluation article.
So what else is new? A political football since it’s inception during the Reagan administration, it seems like every year the Democrats scream that Radio & TV Martí is a waste.
Cuts are headed for BBC WS. Read the 4rfv.co.uk
Tags: BBC World Service, UK
Why do people do stupid crap like this? Just because your 2 meter commando radio operates outside of the allotted amateur radio band, doesn’t mean you can start using it outside of the band. The lady (KJ6CEY) is being charged with “threatening the lives of local police officers and fire department personnel” according to the article. Good grief!
Read the Inland News Today article
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Millions of North Koreans listen to dozens of foreign radio broadcasts transmitted by Japan, South Korea and the U.S., and the number is growing.
This is according to Peter Beck, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, who said that it is quite a phenomenon given that Pyongyang authorities distribute only radios with fixed dials, block foreign broadcasts, and imprison citizens caught listening to foreign radio for as long as 10 years.
read the rest of the Chosun Ilbo article
Tags: North Korea
Another article about kid with cerebral palsy and his fight to keep his tower. The one thing that this article mentions that the others did not is that his father is also a ham. Think about it. The funny thing is that the neighbors are complaining about RFI. Well I have a news flash for the neighbors… taking down the tower is not going to fix the RFI problem.
Beauty they say is in the eye of the beholder. To me towers are great structural works of art but I am biased I suppose since I am radio amateur, general radio nut and a guy who makes his living in the steel industry. But when the busy body neighborhood gestapos are in your town then look out! Here are a few stories that struck my eye today.
South Carolina: Sun City Tunes Out Ham Radio Operator’s Request For 8-foot Antenna
This guy wants to put up a modest little antenna because he lives next to the shore and is in the USCG Auxiliary. Seems reasonable enough to me. Though the article doesn’t make mention of it, until recently membership in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary required that you be a boat owner. The only exception was for radio amateurs. Wonder why? That rule has since been dropped.
Wisconsin: Village Concerned About Safety of Ham Radio Tower
Nothing empowers the neighborhood tower gestapo more than picking on a kid with cerebral palsy. The big mistake this kid (and his parents) made was not getting the zoning permits. Cover Your Ass rules always on tower construction but no doubt the village idiots would have a more difficult time taking on a local business that may not have a permit on a project who can afford a lawyer. This kid has already proven himself to be more of a public service radio amateur than most. Here are two other articles you can read about this situation. 10-Year-Old’s Radio Tower May be Illegal and Mount Pleasant Officials Will Decide on Boy’s Ham Radio Tower Wednesday Good luck little buddy. I hope you win your case.
Pacific Ocean: Three 14.300 MHz Amateur Radio ‘Networks’ respond to an urgent ‘PAN PAN’ call for emergency assistance from David KF7GWI, one of five crewmen aboard the (36) foot recreational vessel, “S/V Wind Child”, enroute to the Marquesas Islands. Read the Southgate ARC article.
The Digital Economy Act (doesn’t that sound Orwellian?) is set to make analog radio obsolete by 2015. Read the Telegraph article.
