From CQ Magazine, Oct 1972
Freely downloadable as a pdf file from Ade W0RSP:
The Five Watt QRP Movement in the US, 1968-81 is a 119 page look at the changes and personalities of QRP during the years covered.
Contributing authors include Doug DeMaw W1FB, Wes Hayward W7ZOI and others.
From back when QRPers shared their news via mimeographed newsletters, a look back at the sequence of events that led QRP from 100 watts to today’s 5 watt definition.
Contained within Ade’s ebook are snippets from various newletters describing circuits, QRP results and ads from Ten Tec’s pre-Argonaut days when $50 would buy a “completely wired” Power-Mite transceiver.
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Table of Contents
Part 1. K6JSS and the 100-watt QRP ARCI …………………………………………. 1
Part 2. QRP/8 Newsletter, QRPP CORNER Column, and THE MILLIWATT:
The Beginning of the Five-Watt QRP Movement in the US … 3 Continue reading 'New eBook from Ade Weiss W0RSP'»
Up Two - Adventures of a DXpeditioner is a collection of stories based on 30 years of DXpeditions conducted by Roger Western G3SXW. It is not a manual on DXpeditioning - there’s nothing on logistics or reciprocal licensing. No detailed equipment narratives.
Fortunately, the book contains more depth and human interest than such topics would allow.
Far from being a ”how-to” on DXpeditioning, Up Two is a collection of anecdotes and serendipitous occurances that every global traveler is fortunate enough (or not!) to either endure or enjoy, depending on the nature of the event. It is also a peripheral look at geo-political changes over the years with ham radio being the vehicle by which the changes manifest themselves in Roger’s travels. Continue reading '“Up Two – Adventures of a DXpeditioner” by G3SXW'»
Just after Christmas, I read on the ARRL’s news page that Fred Hargesheimer W0EBG/VK9FH had passed away. The name was vaguely familiar to me but I had to read into the article to remember why.
A web search led me to a site set up as a method of raising funds to support his cause, in part through the sale of a book detailing his experiences in World War 2 and the subsequent events that followed.
In short, Mr. Hargesheimer’s specially outfitted P-38 was shot down over the island of New Britain in 1943. For 30 days, he lived in the jungle, eating whatever he could find to sustain himself. After a month of ongoing malnutrition, he was taken in by natives of the island who hid him from the Japanese and nursed him back to health. An eventual rescue by submarine brought him back to the States. Continue reading '“The School That Fell From the Sky” and W0EBG/VK9FH'»
One of two groups of saboteurs delivered by German subs to US in 1942
A few days ago, I was having a conversation with a friend about the recent arrests of Russian spies and their use of CW as a communications method. This friend is also an ex-submariner and he asked me if I knew about Operation Pastorius during World War II.
I’d never heard of it.
Enter Google, Wikipedia and my friend’s knowledge of the event. The more I heard & read, the more I wanted to know. Continue reading '“CQDXVW de AOR” and Operation Pastorius'»
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“No invention of modern times has extended its influence so rapidly as that of the electric telegraph”.
The Scientific American, 1852
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History is at its most interesting when it can be applied personally. For most reading this, as Morse operators and internet users, The Victorian Internet touches on that connection, if only tangentially.
The book is a highly readable and engaging look at the parallels between today’s internet generation and the 19th century’s development of the landline telegraph network where, almost overnight, the speed of information went from the pace of the fastest horse to that of light.
That milestone changed many aspects of life & the language used by those describing the changes is uncanny in its similarity to how the tech-savvy speak of the internet today. Continue reading 'Telegraphy, chronocentricity and the electric skeptics…'»
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