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Ham Radio 360: 220 in the Real World

Posted: 09 Aug 2016 09:55 AM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...-world.533502/

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Ive long wanted to do a show featuring the 1.25 Meter band (220MHz). Ron
and Tim from Bridgecom stop in to tell us about what is happening in their
world and prime us for a conversation with others about using the 220 band
in the real world. Is it the forgotten band? Is it under-utilized?



(40:00) Brian, K5IN, from Olympia, Washington is our next guest....



Ham Radio 360: 220 in the Real World

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ETH030 - A Look Back Over the Past Two+ Years

Posted: 09 Aug 2016 09:35 AM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...-years.533531/

In this episode I did something a little different. Partly because of a
scheduling difficulties with the person that I wanted to interview for this
episode, partly because it was a major episode number.



I look back over the past 8 months of my podcast and the past two years of
my blog. I also talk about how I got involved with amateur radio, how my
time in the hobby has changed and how getting married and having kids has
affected my ham radio time.



I also talk about how and why I helped...



ETH030 - A Look Back Over the Past Two+ Years

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WA9PIE-2 DX Cluster gets a new home

Posted: 09 Aug 2016 08:31 AM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...w-home.533501/

The WA9PIE-2 DX cluster system has moved to a hosted environment in the
Google Cloud.



In late July, the hosting service where WA9PIE-2 resided suffered a
disk/storage failure that destroyed the files and data that ran the
system. This caused an outage for a few weeks while engineers at the
hosting service attempted to recover the system. That recovery was
unsuccessful and WA9PIE-2 was rebuilt from scratch on servers within that
data center.



But as a technology professional, I dont like...



WA9PIE-2 DX Cluster gets a new home

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100 Watts and a Wi Episode 57

Posted: 09 Aug 2016 08:08 AM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...ode-57.533444/

On this episode, Christian visits with Jason, W3AAX. Jason is the North
American Coordinator of the Worldwide Flora and Fauna program. We also get
and introduction to the JT65 mode, and we learn what it was like to learn
the code in the military.

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http://100wattsandawire.com/100-watt...wire/episode57

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100 Watts and a Wire ® is a weekly podcast celebrating amateur radio. Join
Christian Cudnik, K0STH for topical conversation, interviews, news and an
entertaining...



100 Watts and a Wi Episode 57

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NEW QRZ Operating Award

Posted: 08 Aug 2016 05:02 PM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...-award.530916/

We are very pleased to announce a new addition to our QRZ Operating Awards
offerings:

The United States Counties Award



During the last 18 months, QRZ has offered 4 award types. We have issued
approximately 34,000 of these awards to individuals representing 177 DXCC
entities. We think those are some great numbers and we cant wait to see
how many of you will take advantage of our 5th QRZ Operating Award!



The United States Counties Award is available to any...



NEW QRZ Operating Award