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K7RA

Posted: 21 Feb 2016 12:01 PM PST
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Episode 081 - Tad Cook - K7RA
Propagation, especially in the HF bands still remains
a mystery for many amateur radio operators. Eric is joined in this QSO
Today by Tad Cook, K7RA, author of the weekly ARRL Propagation Bulletin to
discuss our amateur radio hobby and the effect of Space weather on low band
propagation. Show
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Thomas Edison - American
inventor, with over 400 patents, former telegraph operator

Elmers: Jay Sasnet, K7TTZTom Evans, K7RZCStan Askanazi, K7SS
First License: 1965, Novice, WN7CSK

First Rig:Allied Knight-kit Star Roamer Single Transmit Crystal: 3743 Khz
Rig upgrade: Hammurland HQ170Heathkit DX20 transmitterHeathkit Marauder SSB
Teltone Corporation

Strowger Switch

Blue Box telephone

Commodore 64

AEA packet Amtor Packet

Ed Tilton, W1HDQ, ARRL Propagation Bulletin.

Space Weather TV - Dr. Tamitha Skov

XRay radiation charge ionosphere

W6ELProp - predicts ionospheric (sky-wave) propagation between any two
locations on the earth on frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz.

Cycle 19 peak of Sunspot activity, 1957-1959

MUF - maximum usable frequency

Space Weather Website

Solar Flare

Sporadic E VHF

Kenneth Tapping, Solar Flux data

Maunder Minimum about Sun Spots

Skeptical Inquirer Magazine

Great Circle Path

Mercator projection

Carl Luetzelschwab - K9LA

Repeater Autopatch - telephone interconnect.

VOACAP Software - Voice of America coverage analysis program

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Knight Kit Star Roamer GC Receiver Heathkit Marauder SSB
Transmitter The Strowger Switch_ Example of a "Blue Box"