Category Archives: Videos

VA3OOG covers Bowie like no other

Posted on May 13, 2013 by k4swl

In this music video, Col. Chris Hadfield (VA3OOG/KC5RNJ) records a revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, on board the International Space Station: As if he wasn’t cool enough already. We hams couldn’t ask for a better ambassador than VA3OOG.

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Amateur Radio & Velveeta Cheese make television debut

Posted on February 4, 2013 by k4swl

My guess? There must be a ham in the marketing department at Velveeta:

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OH6DC’s Liver Casserole CW key

Posted on January 28, 2013 by k4swl

And I thought my buddy, Mike (K8RAT), was being gastronomically adventurous when he made a homemade single-lever “sideswiper” with a steak knife! Imagine what might happen if the steak knife meets up with this:

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Video: See a prototype Begali Adventurer in action aboard the USS Slater

Posted on September 21, 2012 by k4swl

This video features operations of the QRP DE-Xpedition aboard the USS Slater.  Among other innovations, they show a protoype Begali Adventurer in action.  The Adventurer is a miniature set of paddles which attaches to portable QRP rigs like the new Elecraft KX3.

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Video of Kenwood TS-990 at the 2012 Tokyo Hamfair

Posted on August 25, 2012 by k4swl

Admittedly, I love the analogesque dial above the tuning knob:

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Video: Tuning the Ten-Tec Argonaut VI

Posted on May 23, 2012 by k4swl

As Ten-Tec was setting up at the Dayton Hamvention last Thursday, I was able to meet with their engineer (John Henry) briefly and had a little time to play with the new Model 539 Argonaut VI. As I tuned around … Continue reading →

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Gmail Tap: I only wish it were true….

Posted on April 1, 2012 by k4swl

Google has once again featured morse code–this time (unfortunately) as an April Fool’s joke! This video will explain it all, then, raise your hand if you’re disappointed.

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Building an Elecraft K3 in 7 minutes

Posted on January 4, 2012 by k4swl

This is a great time-lapse video of the assembly of the Midland Amateur Radio Club‘s Elecraft K3: See, that wasn’t so hard!

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Morse “encoded” National Guard building in Milan, Illinois

Posted on December 22, 2011 by k4swl

Dave Mayfield noticed a pattern in the bricks of this Milan, Illinois National Guard building. (Source: WQAD) If you have trouble viewing the embedded video above, please click this link to view on WQAD’s website.

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Video: Learning CW the old fashioned way…

Posted on October 5, 2011 by k4swl

Original Newsreel from the New Naval Radio School circa. 1941 Click here if video above does not appear. Of course, if you want to learn CW another way–a more modern way–read this post!

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