[tbw2]

Free and cheap ham radio projects list by WA5VJB
http://www.wa5vjb.com/references.html

[backwoods-engineer]

Smart guy. I used to be in the North Texas Microwave Group with him. Fantastic club— had a “Who’s Who” of moonbouncers, microwave ham radio innovators, thinkers and do-ers.

[G Larry]

What is the status of California’s attempt to remove support for Ham radio?

[srmanuel]

I have a General Class Ham Radio License and am getting into SDRs, I have a cheap $20 USB Dongle from RTL-SDR coming in the mail.

Where I live I should be able to pick up significant airline traffic and might be close enough to a major shipping port to track shipping containers, etc...

[nevergore]

BTTP

[DocRock]

[Gnome1949]

Advanced Class (grandfathered class) Ham here. In 2004, I bought a old 1960’s Heathkit linear amplifier SB 200. I bought update modification kits for the power supply, soft start and soft key to make a 50-year-old vacuum tube amplifier work safely with modern, solid state Ham transceivers.

Lots of fun soldering and updating. New capacitors and protective diodes for the old analog meter. Works great!

Modern amplifiers are VERY expensive so a modified “old timer” has been a nice alternative.

The amplifier takes about 100 watts normal transmitter output and bumps it to about 600 watts out for better transmitting performance and stronger, long-distance communication.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Boomer]

Good info; thanks.

[politicianslie]

For later reading

[dljordan]

Thanks, I bookmarked the webpage.

[alabama_heart]

Thanks! Bookmarked.