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![]() KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// IARU Assumes Custody of Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur Posted: 25 May 2016 12:16 PM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu...m_medium=email The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has become the custodian of the operating standards guide Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur.Â*Over the last 8 years, the booklet Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur has become a respected work describing the best standards of operating on the amateur bands, the IARU said in a news release. Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur is available as a PDF document in more than 25 languages. PowerPoint presentations are also available that you can use to help you give a presentation on the topic. The authors stated goal is, to improve, where necessary, the behavior on the bands in matters of ethics and operating procedures, and make available to the newcomers in the hobby a document covering these subjects in detail. The guide was accepted by the IARU Administrative Council in 2008 as the recommended manual covering the subject of ethics and operational procedures. While I think the booklet Â*generally gives good advice, I take exception to some of it. For example, in Section II.9.6, it says, While replying to a CQ, do not send the call of the station you are calling more than once, better still is not to send it at all (you can trust the operator knows his own call).Â* The authors give this advice in several places. While not sending a calling stations callsign is standard operating procedure for contests and DX work, I dont think this is the right way to reply to a CQ in day-to-day operation. If you are replying to my CQ and don’t send my call, how do I know that it is me that you’re calling. Â*And, in poor conditions, it may be necessary to call more than once to ensure that I know that you’re calling me. Another example can be found in section, II.9.16. Here, the authors say to never sign /QRP.’ This is perfectly legal here in the U.S., and I see no reason not to do so if you want to alert the other operator that youre running low power. The post IARU Assumes Custody of Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur appeared first on KB6NUs Ham Radio Blog. /////////////////////////////////////////// Dayton 2016: QRP-ARCIs Four Days in May (FDIM) Posted: 25 May 2016 12:00 PM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu...m_medium=email For the past sever years, Ive been attending the QRP-ARCIs Four Days in May (FDIM), which is held in conjunction with the Dayton Hamvention. FDIMÂ*includes a number of different events, the biggest being the seminar held on Thursday, the day before the Hamvention. The seminar features a number of talks, and this year, the lineup included: Elecraft Shrinking the Multi-Mode HF Transceiver,Â*Eric Swartz, WA6HHQ. Elecraft likes to introduce new products at FDIM, and this year was no exception. The introduction of the new KX2Â*got this years FDIM off to a rousing start. I actually got to see it up close and personal, as one of the field testers, Bruce, N7RR, was sitting two rows in front of me, and he passed his unit around for folks to have a look. Its a pretty cool little radio, at about half the size of a KX3. To make the radio smaller, they did have to make some compromises, though. The KX2 only covers 80m 10m (no 160m or 6m), and theres not an IQ output. Even so, lots of folks in the audience were buzzing about it. WSPR and the Raspberry Pi, Scott Cowling, WA2DFI andÂ*Zoltan Doczi, HA7DCD. To be honest, this talk didnt do much for me. WSPR is kind of cool, and building an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi toÂ*run it is kind of cool, but I still cant work up a lot of enthusiasm for it. 2016 The Year of the Portable OperatorÂ*From IOTA to SOTA to NPOTA, Guy Hamblen, N7UN. This was a great talk, and its gotten me interested in doing some NPOTA activations this year. Unfortunately, there arent many NPOTA sites that I can activate in SE Michigan. Its pretty much the same for SOTA activations. Michigan is flat, flat, flat. Occams Scrip Â*the minimalist measurement mindset, Paul Darlington, M0XPD. Despite the need to explain the title of his talk, and his use of flowery language (well, he is English, after all), I mostly enjoyed Darllingtons talk. His theme was certainly right on. QRP is all about minimalism, and that mindset should translate into how we think about RF measurements as well. I would offer a caveat, though. Einstein is credited with saying, Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. Id paraphrase that, If somethings too simple, it simply wont work. Troubleshooting and Repair Techniques, Mike Bryce, WB8VGE. This talk was a chronicle of Mikes adventures in repairing old equipment. It was a real hoot, and almost the opposite of M0XPDs talk. Mike used decidedly more down-to-earth language than M0XPD, in a flat midwestern accent. Lots of good tips for fixing various and assorted problems. Thermatron Homebrew Ideas and Techniques, Grayson Evans, TA2ZGE/KJ7UM. Aside from a few new wrinkles, TA2ZGE gave this talk about building circuits with tubes (devices that he insists on calling thermatrons) at FDIM a couple of years ago. It was fairly interesting, but having heard this talk before, I think that Id rather have heard something else. The only other FDIM event that I participated in was Vendor Night on Thursday evening. I didnt sell as many books as Id hoped, but I did make contact with several ham radio instructors. I also got to meet several readers, and that was fun. In addition to those, I had a kid come up and take a look at the General Class study guide. He told me that he was going to take the General Class test the next day and was wondering if he should buy the study guide. I asked him if he was passing the online tests, and when he answered yes, I told him to save his money. He came back some time later and asked about taking the Extra Class test. He said that he hadnt really studied for it, but I told him to take it anyway. It wasnt going to cost him anything, so why not? I heard later that he passed the test. The post Dayton 2016: QRP-ARCIs Four Days in May (FDIM) appeared first on KB6NUs Ham Radio Blog. |
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