Episode Details

Show Notes (contains affiliate links): 1 Pound POTA Pack Challenge

On this week's episode of Ham Radio Crash Course, a podcast roughly

based on amateur radio but mostly made up of responding to emails from

listeners, hosted by Josh Nass - KI6NAZ and his reluctant wife, Leah -

KN6NWZ, we talk about how stuff costs things, the 1 pound POTA pack challenge, Taiwan’s preparedness and Blast from the Past movie. 

Ham Radio Minute: Stuff costs things

Announcements: HRCC Net - https://hrcc.link. 

Ham Radio Test Study with Leah - Sub element 3

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CW Lounge: K, M, R, S, U, A, P and T.   M t r t p t k k u p a t 

Show Topic: The Jack of All Hams Challenge. The 1 pound POTA pack

Preparedness Corner: Taiwan Emergency Preparedness https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2771063/taiwan-proves-that-disaster-preparedness-pays-off

HRCC Movie Club: 

https://poll.ly/N7Jt2ACU1Epz5PSJmknw

Blast From The Past (1999) 

Bunker in Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcgNz-42rKI

Likelihood of disaster: 5/5 

Preparedness: 5/5

Realistic: 4/5

Characters: 3.5/5

Plot: 3/5

Entertainment: 3/5 

Overall: 23.5/30

Greenland 17/30

Sean of the Dead 16/30

The Postman 12/30

I Am Legend 25/30

Red Dawn (1984) 22/30

Frequency 17/30

Don’t Look Up 19.5/30

Threads Ranked: 18/30

Twister Ranked: 19.5/30

The Birds Ranked: 15/30

10 Cloverfield Lane Ranked: 26.5/30

The Book of Eli Ranked: 16.75/30

The Day After Tomorrow Ranked: 14/30

The next movie is Deep Impact

Email Correspondent’s Tower: We answer emails with ham radio questions, comments on previous podcasts, T-shirt suggestions and everything in between.

Links mentioned in the ECT: 

Here's a blog post that talks about Clos switching and mentions the pronunciation:

https://rule11.tech/its-not-a-clos-its-a-clos/

Wikipedia also has a decent article on Clos networks: