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Foundations of Amateur Radio — 605 episodes · page 1 of 7
How to point an antenna without moving it?
Bald Yak 21: When you need to travel to Pluto and back
Getting Kitted Up with Amateur Radio
Monitoring radio spectrum around you
Global Ionospheric Maps
It's all in the community
Lightning in a bottle
Radio .. for the love of it
Give yourself a break!
Emergency response reality check
An emergency response
CME, Wind, Flares, Flux and Geomagnetic Storms .. say what?
The power of patience and pacing
The things you hear when you least expect it.
What does expertise look like?
Failure is a dirty word
Building a new resource: How do you get into Amateur Radio?
Telling Stories to Strengthen a Community
Bald Yak 20: More Pi with the Soap
Bald Yak 19: SoapyAudio adventures
Why not use LoTW?
Some days are like running in place ...
Keeping track of your adventures
Dealing with Complexity
What does amateur radio bring to your life?
You don't need an excuse to make noise!
What's in an S-unit?
Where is the spark .. gap?
Bald Yak 18: Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Bald Yak 17: Adventures in Radio Data Systems
Bald Yak 16: How do you decode FM?
One step forward ... three steps back.
Bald Yak 15, Playing with Radio .. now with software
How to go about documenting your setup?
Transmitting into a dummy load .. for a year .. on purpose.
How to become a radio amateur today?
Building a shack: Part 8 - Will it ever end?
Building a shack: Part 7 - Powering your shack
Building a shack: Part 6 - Noise
Building a shack: Part 5 - Antenna Shenanigans
Building a shack: Part 4 - coaxial cable alternatives
Building a shack: Part 3 - the ingress of coaxial cable
Building a shack: Part 2 - How much space do you need?
Building a shack: Part 1 - Setting the Scene
Bald Yak 14, choices and software flexibility
I have a problem .. with logging.
How to make our hobby and community resilient?
A new year with new services to the public .. in 1905
What do you call that .. radio?
On the origins of the RF circulator
Going around in circles, one-way.
Bald Yak 13, Monitoring the Sun .. small steps
When your hobby revolves around electricity ...
Preparing for an outing
Where is the fun in that?
Playing with Radio
Amateur Radio has literally changed my world view
How small is small?
Bald Yak 12, getting raw data from a remote receiver
Using an SDR as measuring equipment
Listening to local RF via a web browser
Decoding distant signals over the web?
What can we activate today?
Using Amateur Bands for other purposes
There's promotion .. and then there's Amateur Radio
Decoding a signal ...
Antenna modelling with genetic algorithms.
The ARRL incident of May 2024, a year later
The Art of decoding a signal.
Random Serendipity
Can you be a Professional Radio Amateur?
What's really happening at the IARU?
What do you think you're doing?
How does your member society represent itself?
A brief introduction to the HamSCI community
Can we figure out how much the Sun really affects propagation?
Being an amateur without either radio or antenna
Becoming Mode Agile
Playing Games On-Air
What is Amateur Radio really about?
What is the difference between a Dummy Load and an Antenna?
Echos from the past, 150 ms ago
Bald Yak 11, the goo between hardware and software
DX on a dummy load?
What's the story you'd like to tell yourself?
Bald Yak, universe 10, how does all fit together?
Bald Yak, droplet 9, fosphor and the impertinence of software
Bald Yak, arena 8, paying attention to the details
Finding your path in this hobby
Bald Yak, scene 7, building a circuit without burnt chicken smell
WSPR beacon QSY to 15m
Ham Challenge
Bald Yak, scene 6, chaos will reign
Bald Yak, scene 5, debugging
Bald Yak, week 4, time
Bald Yak - week 3 - Push To Talk
Bald Yak - week 2
Bald Yak - week 1
Suddenly there were 700...
Why does your Wi-Fi connection drop out when cooking lunch?