Wow! I never expected to see some of my work on HN. I'm coauthor on https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077324. I worked under Nathaniel Frissell (an amazing and inspiring person) when he was a post-doc at NJIT. Was a lot of fun. If anyone wants to contribute getting a HAM radio license and setting up a transmitter on http://wsprnet.org/ is a great contribution to a huge dataset. Setting up a an RBN receiver is also a fun activity if you're interested in that.
any particular recommendations for resources beginners to get in to ham radio these days? specific radios or web resources. i hear that the radios have improved dramatically in the past few years.
my dad was really in to ham radio when I was a kid and was always setting up huge antennas in our backyard and had lots of big mysterious black metal boxes with vu meters and nice big knobs of them. i remember him making a phone call to my mom via ham radio during the 80s and it blew my mind.
Huh. This is really cool. In Nathaniel's bio he mentions connects to the variability of the Polar vortex but I can't seem to find a paper where he talks about this. Could you point me in the right direction? I study atmospheric transport, cyclones, and other phenomena at the surface in the Arctic and connections to the Polar vortex are always important to me.
I have been enjoying amateur radio for about five or so months now. I'm about to take another license exam, to move from a Technician license to a General license.
I think it's a great hobby. At 61, I started learning about electronics when hollow-state devices were common and solid-state devices were still relatively new. It's been interesting to see how electronics have evolved over the years.
I'm hoping to pick up a nice ICOM radio when I pass my General exam in a couple of weeks. I'm also in the process of buying some land in Eastern Washington, in part to have a place where I can put up some HF antennas. Right now I only have space for a 2m Yagi on my back patio.
I encourage anyone interested in getting licensed to study the flashcards [1]. These are the exact same questions on the exam. You can memorize and pass the technician test with about 10 hours of study. An intro level amateur radio costs about $100.
The idea of another Carrington Event scares me. All of our modern lives piggy back on an attachment to power and communications. Going without such for even a few days would devolve the first world into chaos.
My local repeater has become overrun with political conversations of the right wing racist variety. Too bad because I used to really enjoy ham as a hobby.
[+] [-] gravypod|5 years ago|reply
Also the google group is pretty active and has some VERY smart people on it: https://groups.google.com/g/hamsci
[+] [-] durkie|5 years ago|reply
my dad was really in to ham radio when I was a kid and was always setting up huge antennas in our backyard and had lots of big mysterious black metal boxes with vu meters and nice big knobs of them. i remember him making a phone call to my mom via ham radio during the 80s and it blew my mind.
[+] [-] earthscienceman|5 years ago|reply
NVM. I finally found it:
https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA022168
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[+] [-] jes|5 years ago|reply
I think it's a great hobby. At 61, I started learning about electronics when hollow-state devices were common and solid-state devices were still relatively new. It's been interesting to see how electronics have evolved over the years.
I'm hoping to pick up a nice ICOM radio when I pass my General exam in a couple of weeks. I'm also in the process of buying some land in Eastern Washington, in part to have a place where I can put up some HF antennas. Right now I only have space for a 2m Yagi on my back patio.
John, KJ7RDV
[+] [-] daveevad|5 years ago|reply
[1] - https://hamexam.org/flash_cards/15-Technician
[+] [-] throw0101a|5 years ago|reply
* https://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Beacon_Project
The one in Eureka, Nunavut is quite the location.
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