Amateur Radio

Ok, Ok, you’re right. It’s a new toy and I wanted to show it off.

Grand knows his stuff – thank you, Sir! More flux did the trick.

The tip of the soldering iron I tried to use is too big - it bridges all five wires at once.

The several pink and clear baggies hold the several dozen parts.

In the previous sections, we eavesdropped on a live conversation between two ham stations, one in Windsor Ontario and the other in Venezuela on the northern coast of South America.

In the first part of this post, we had a quick look at a conversation taking place between ham radio stations in Ontario Canada and Venezuela where I just happened to be in the right place, Phoenix Arizona, to “hear” both of them.

I’m running my ham radio that uses the computer to do a lot of the work.

While there are several ASCII to Morse code translators out there, I haven’t seen the encoding used herein.