On February 22-24, 1930, the congress and the first general meeting of the Polish Amateur Radio Union took place in Warsaw. In 2020, we proudly celebrate the 90th anniversary of this event. Tomek SP5CCC has released for the purpose of celebrating this event a number of historical photos from […]
Category: Miscellaneous
Storm Monitor – it’s worth having weather warnings in your cell
After the tragic events in the Tatra Mountains in Poland on August 22, 2019, many people ask the question: could this have been avoided? After all, it was impossible to give an official warning, because as meteorology experts and notable on TV claimed, the expected rainfall and wind did not exceed the alarm limits (!). […]
Meeting of the Virtual Division PZK OT73 at the HF5L club
On July 29, 2019, a social meeting of the VOT 73 PZK Division took place at the HF5L club headquarters. The highlight of the meeting was a lecture by Marcin SP5ES on the course of the 3Y0I expedition to Bouvet . Marcin presented an extremely interesting photo gallery from the expedition and videos illustrating the […]
QSL cards sent and received
QSL cards are always a nice surprise, sometimes a surprising content, often an attractive graphic form, a beautiful photo, a reminder of historical events, or advertising … But always QSL cards are welcome! Here is our last selected collection: Our current QSL card: Here’s what is more interesting QSL received:
The Great Orchestra of Christams Charity transmits from the stratosphere
Colleagues associated in SP6ZWR and SP5MASR to celebrate the 27th edition of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity released amateur radio balloons with SSTV, RTTY and APRS transmitters for the 2 m and 70 cm bands. Using the FT-991, the MA-1300 omni-directional antenna and the MMSSTV program, I managed to pick up several pictures. The […]
SV8/SP5ISZ
September 14, 2018 Marek SP5ISZ announced that he had started up QRP from the island of Milos. He had an ICOM 703 (10W only) with a 7.5 Ah battery, an LW 41m antenna about 6m above the ground, about 50m from the sea on the beach. With a 9: 1 transformer, the antenna has tuned […]
What is Hamsphere
The Hamsphere program is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Its originator and owner, Kelly (SM7NHC and 5B4IT), claims that it is not a typical “talk”, VOIP which are already several on the Internet, but a real radio program for hams, only in the Internet, with all the attributes of a real radio . We have there […]
Los 2018 – Ham Radio Fest Poland
Several pictures from the XII Ham Radio Fest which took place at Papierkowa Gora in Jaworzno (in the commune of Rudniki, Poland) at the meeting point of three province: Lodzkie, Opolskie and Slaskie (LOS) in May 2018:
Funny things on radio themes
Found funny, surprising, original things on radio topics … How to combine the mania of collecting with amateur radio? Goerge W9EVT got his first license at the age of 7 in 1937, and since then has collected over a thousand radios! See article. Ham’s paradise! At least at retirement age. Maybe even DRINK … […]