Online Radio and TV

I know, this one may be just for my interest…. but I want to make sure to post this before I lose the links. KE3IJ has some nice home built simple radio projects on his site that look like fun little projects. In fact, I’ve got some component s on order for another [...]

For quite some time our land line phone has had an annoying buzz on it. (The wired extension, the cordless is fine.) When the power is out, no buzz so I know it’s something in the house I just haven’t tracked exactly what is causing the buzz. However, as I was studying [...]

I haven’t got an Amateur Radio (Ham) license (yet) but every so often I get the interest to. It started when I got into shortwave radio and then my interest was rekindled a bit when I discovered the UHF/VHF local bands. There is the The American Radio Relay League as a great online [...]

There’s also an online stream of the Charlotte Mecklenberg County (North Carolina) available online. It’s a trunked system and the link to the stream is on this page. It’s an mp3 stream and they’re using an bc-825 trunk tracker to track it.

I’m still not sure if/when I might be look at the GROL (General Radiotelegraph operators License), but…. one site I wan’t to note is www.fcctests.com which has practice tests available online for the marine operators test, the GROL and several others. If you’re looking at commercial licensing it might be worth a look. [...]

Well… I have a hard time setting something down halfway done… so last Sunday, I passed Element’s 1 2 and 3 of the Amateur Radio testing to get my General license. (I scored a perfect score on those elements). I missed Extra by about 8 or so questions last week. (Hadn’t studied [...]

There are sites that give live scanner feeds online. Among those is http://www.police-scanner.info/live-police-scanners.htm. (That link takes you directly to the live streams.) Anyway, there are a number of North Carolina departments listed there and it’s likely worth it if you’re interested to check it out for your state as well.

I’m now listed in the FCC ULS database and have been assigned a call sign as a General Class Amateur Radio Operator - KI4TQN - so now I’m legal to transmit in any of the FCC’s recognized amateur bands (with the restriction of the several Amateur Extra reserved segments)…. Only missing one little detail and [...]

I haven’t heard the EMS in our area use these kinds of codes, but some places do have a system for describing patients conditions via various codes (one adam one). There are a couple good posts in the radioreference.com forums explaining this long list of codes.

Just as a followup… I thought I’d post that I did test today for my amateur radio license and passed Element’s 1, 2 and 3 (that’s 5 WPM Morse, Technician and General). So, within a couple days I should show up in the FCC ULS as a General Licensed Amateur Radio Operator…. MANY [...]