Podcast Episodes

Antenna modelling with genetic algorithms.

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Recently I was helping a friend erect their newly refurbished multi-band antenna and during the process we discussed the notion of tuning an antenna that's high in the a…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

The ARRL incident of May 2024, a year later

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Just over a year ago, the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, the peak body for amateur radio in the United States and one of the oldest of such organisations, experi…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Art of decoding a signal.

Foundations of Amateur Radio

The other day Randall, VK6WR, encouraged me to get on-air. He described it like this:

"There is a mystery signal on 40m that you can try your new Universal Radio Hacker…

Published on 5 months ago

Random Serendipity

Foundations of Amateur Radio

The other day I was discussing with a fellow amateur the increased frustration my mobile phone provider was inflicting. We hit on the idea of figuring out if other provi…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Can you be a Professional Radio Amateur?

Foundations of Amateur Radio

The other day a fellow amateur asked me to help them with lowering their radio mast so they could do some maintenance on the antennas attached to it. This is not the fir…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

What's really happening at the IARU?

Foundations of Amateur Radio

The other day a report in "Amateur Radio Daily" caught my eye. Under the heading "IARU Considers Consolidation", I read that the International Amateur Radio Union, celeb…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

What do you think you're doing?

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Right off the bat, let me start with a question. "What do you think you're doing?"

To give you some context, it should come as no surprise that I'm talking about amateu…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

How does your member society represent itself?

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Around the world are thousands of associations, groups of people, clubs if you like, that represent radio amateurs. Some of those associations are anointed with a specia…

Published on 6 months ago

A brief introduction to the HamSCI community

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Since becoming a licensed amateur in 2010, I have spent a good amount of time putting together my thoughts on a weekly basis about the hobby and the community surroundin…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Can we figure out how much the Sun really affects propagation?

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Recently I saw a social media post featuring a screenshot of some random website with pretty charts and indicators describing "current HF propagation". Aside from lackin…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago