Sunday 10 March 2024

ICQPodcast Episode 425 - Getting Ready For Successful Portable Operation

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is Getting Ready For Successful Portable Operation.

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News stories include: -

  • Bob Heil, K9EID, Silent Key
  • YLRL Celebrates International Women's Day with Special Event
  • ARISS Celebrates 40 Years of Hams on the Radio Space
  • Lunar Lander Still Functions Despite Landing Issues
  • UK Amateurs Start to Use New Privileges
  • Brandmeister Adds TETRA Based Network
  • Applications open for YOTA Czechia
  • Pop-Up Net Celebrates National Pi Day

The ICQPodcast can be downloaded from http://www.icqpodcast.com



Sunday 25 February 2024

ICQPodcast Episode 424 - Your Ham Questions / Our Amateur Radio Answers

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is Your Ham Questions / Our Amateur Radio Answers.

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News stories include: -

  • Amateur radio - More Freedom to Innovate
  • A Satellite Designed to Inspect Space Junk just Made it to Orbit
  • Bill S.3690 to Eliminate Private Land Use Restrictions on Amateur Radio
  • You Must be Joking - Amateur Radio Gets Downright Silly
  • California Girl Scouts Get Spaced out
  • Errata to the 2024 - 2028 Amateur Extra-Class Question Pool Released
  • Amateur Radio Operators Needed for Help with Solar Eclipse Project


The ICQPodcast can be downloaded from http://www.icqpodcast.com



Sunday 11 February 2024

ICQPodcast Episode 423 - Canvey Island Rally 2024

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is Canvey Island Rally 2024.

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News stories include: -

  • Alabama Radio Station Owner Reports 200-Foot Tower Stolen
  • Two Arrested after Theft of Copper from Destroyed Radio Tower
  • The First Amateur Radio Station on the Moon, JS1YMG, is Now Transmitting
  • AMSAT Makes Plea to Keep Greencube in Service
  • New SOTA Group is Growing for West Malaysian Hams
  • An Update on the Amateur Radio Licence Exams UK
  • AO-92 Satellite Reaches end of Life
  • Raspberry Pi Net each Sunday on EchoLink and AllStarLink
  • New Challenge for British Science Week


The ICQPodcast can be downloaded from http://www.icqpodcast.com


Sunday 28 January 2024

ICQPodcast Episode 422 - GB0ROC Bunkers on the Air Station

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT and Edmund Spicer M0MNG to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is GB0ROC Bunkers on the Air Station.

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News stories include: -

  • Young DXPeditioners Prep for Guyana
  • Some ARRL Reversals and Deferred Decisions
  • Ham Club Provides Mobile-Radio Donation to Humanitarian Effort
  • QRP Self-Spotting Website
  • Hams get Credit for Advancing the Information Age
  • HAMSCI Workshop to Review Annular Eclipse Findings
  • "Underground Radio" has a Different Meaning Inside a Bunker
  • RSGB British Science Week Activities
  • Amateur Radio Club Donation Helps Mississippi Library
  • ARRL Kids Day a Success in Nebraska
  • Class Licence Structure Arriving in Australia

The ICQPodcast can be downloaded from http://www.icqpodcast.com