Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
Simulated Emergency Test (SET) scenarios
Severe Weather Reference Card
ARES Moments - 10 short articles for a club bulletin promoting ARES participation.
My Amateur Radio Adventures
Classic Rigs at the Dayton Hamvention from 2007.
Classic Rigs at the Dayton Hamvention from 2009.
Antique Splitdorf Crystal Radio. This little radio belonged to a friend of mine to whom it was given by a neighbor who said it belonged to her grandfather.
QRP Low Power Ham Radio
Articles
"The Internet is a Wonderful Thing!" from WorldRadio, February, 2008. This story follows a trail that began with my 2007 visit to the RSGB and how chasing some details of a TPTG transmitter owned by Barbara Dunn, G6YL, the first licensed female operator in the UK, led to a 70-year old QSO with a ham in Ohio.
"A Bit of Radio Row in Brooklyn?" from WorldRadio, December, 2008. This story touches on New York City's famed "Radio Row" and Leeds Radio, a survivor from the golden age of radio. The editor omitted my two footnotes. The first credited a quote from Walt Gezari, N2EEZ, describing Radio Row in its heyday: http://www.eham.net/articles/2910 The second footnote was for the Leeds Radio web site: http://www.leedsradio.com/
"Getting an 'Almost' Wrinkle Finish on Diecast Aluminum" from The QRP Quarterly, Winter 2008. There are lots of procedures for finishing diecast aluminum. I did a fair amount of research amongst the alternatives and settled on a pretty simple and straightforward way to get a great-looking finish for my Hi-mite 20 meter QRP rig.
"A Lost Dit of Vibroplex History" from QST, February 2009. This is the story of Edward F. "Buck" Buchanan, United Electrical Manufacturing, Horace G. Martin, a Wall Street crash, the little town of Norcross, and the rare Norcross Vibroplex bugs.
"Alfred Powell Morgan: the Eternal Boy Turns 120" from the ARRL online web site of 9 September 2009. The author of The Boys’ First Book of Radio and Electronics (and Second, Third, & Fourth) inspired many hams in the 20th Century; but there's more to Morgan than just the Boys' books.
In 1955, Larry Lighthouse and the publishers of General Electric G-E Ham News announced a contest for the development of creative crystal set receivers for use in case of national disaster. Of course, the disaster they most feared at the time was nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union. The contest was called Operation Crystal and here is a little article, "Crystal Radio to the Rescue," that appeared in The AWA Journal, the quarterly bulletin of the Antique Wireless Association, January 2010, Volume 51, Number 1. The original issues of G-E Ham News concerning the contest also may be found on my web site here.
In October, 2009, I visited the Canadian National Warplane Heritage Museum. From that visit came the little article, "Flying Classrooms - for radio operators", that appeared in the newsletter of my local club. The museum has a Fleet Fort Model 60K which was a training aircraft for radio operators. That little aircraft and the airmen who trained in it deserve remembrance.
Publications of historical importance rescued from obscurity and posted on the web for the benefit of all hamkind.
Museum Ships on the Air
2009: USS Alabama (BB60)