Category: Cool Links

So Long Cale, and Thanks for All The Fish

I am a little sad, a little happy to hear about the conclusion of the Ham Radio 360 podcast hosted by Cale Nelson, K4CDN.

The End of the Beginning…

On behalf of thousands of listeners, thank you Cale. Your podcast was a huge inspiration to all of us hams to keep inspired to learn more about amateur radio. There’s never been a podcast quite like it, and I think many will follow suit. It inspired me to start my own podcast (though I wish I could put the effort into it that Cale put into HR360!) and it was great to be a guest and a part of the community.

All 99 HamRadio360 episodes will continue to be hosted at http://hamradio360.com. I encourage you to take a listen through them all; it’s really quite the journey! The spinoffs, Workbench and Field Radio are continuing.

73 Cale and Best of Luck to your other 6ARN productions. Looks like you’ve got a lot on your plate!👋👍

It’s Happening! Millennials in Amateur Radio!

http://www.newschannel6now.com/story/37520668/wf-amateur-radio-society-looks-to-add-millennial

I can’t help but hope my wildly debated article is starting to make its motions through the amateur radio community. Conceitedness aside, it’s really awesome to see a club make a very public stride into lowering the age of their radio club.

Is your radio club a bit gray on top? Consider forming a youth interests committee, and marketing your club to younger people (and don’t forget their parents!) by hosting easy and free activities throughout the year, creating scholarship funds, giving presentations for schools and libraries, publishing your field day site and GOTA (and other on-the-air activity) information in highly public areas and social media outlets.

 

An Example of the Broadness of Amateur Radio

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375474

Hackernews (news.ycombinator.com) is a very simple link aggregator and forum (similar to reddit) that focuses on technology, cyber-security, tech companies, software development, venture capitalism and startups, and the like.

It’s always a happy day when amateur radio shows up on hackernews, because its community is smart – engineers, programmers, thinkers, doers, and hams. In other words, there are no cranky OMs there to ruin your day or overenthusiastic technophiles talking your head off.

ARISS came up today, and the thread blew up into a general, lightweight synopsis on a ton of different things that ham radio can offer. Since ham radio is “a thousand hobbies in one,”[1][2][3] I think it’s a great answer to the question “what can you do with ham radio?”

Check it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375474