What makes an engineer and/or ham radio amateur??

W2ICE and Spark Transmitters

Bruce Kelly, W2ICE (SK), demoing several spark transmitters at the AWA Museum in Bloomfield, NY. For more information on the AWA visit www.antiquewireless.org. (Original video shot in 1994)

Ham Radio In Space

NASA photo of U.S. astronaut Susan J. Helms, KC7NHZ, Expedition Two flight engineer, talking with Amateur Radio operators on Earth on July 16, 2001, from the Amateur Radio station in the Zarya module of the International Space Station (ISS).

Lessons In Electric Circuits

Lessons In Electric Circuits is an excellent series of free e-books on electricity and electronics. It appears to be fairly thorough and easy reading with lots of illustrations.

Pounding Brass

"Hello..." Presentation on Amateur Radio

Here is a promotional video about ham radio that you might want a friend to see. You can do that by clicking on the envelope icon in the lower right corner of this post. A link to this post will be emailed to your friend.

No Sun spots

There have been no Sun spots for the past week. More about it at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/10/19/100/?nc=1

New Meeting Time

Meetings will start at 7:30 pm, starting with the October 15 meeting.