Saturday, March 15 you can check out my booth at the CARE Medford ham club swap meet! Check it out:
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Rickreall Ham Fair Next Weekend!
Saturday, Feb 15 will be the ham fair in Rickreall, near Salem. Check out w7sra.com for details! Come and see the booth at the Rickreall vendor tables:
Continue reading “Rickreall Ham Fair Next Weekend!”Government publication shows practical ways you can prep for an EMP
Chances are you have seen a movie or book recently covering the topic of an EMP – an Electro-magnetic pulse from a faraway nuke that could cause outages and damage. While most of what you hear will either be dismissive of the possibility, or a horror story of years of electronic wasteland, the reality could be more in the middle and is something folks can prepare for, according to a US government publication linked in the documents section of the SHARES site.
The SHARES system is a HF long range ham radio service but there are several recommendations in the document that just about any civilian should be considering, not just radio maintainers and organizations:
Continue reading “Government publication shows practical ways you can prep for an EMP”Introducing the new EMP-proof Ham Radio Repeater Listing
If you have been using Amateur radio for some time you may know about the app connected to hearham.live repeater listing, which lets you keep an offline record of radio repeaters and a topo-map, on your Linux computer, tablet, phone, or even Android phone. But what would you do during an EMP or solar event causing extended downtime and damage of all computer devices?
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