Thank You, Sparks !

People who think radio is obsolete are ignorant. They see it as comparing a row boat to a ship.  When a mighty ship sinks, the lowly rowboat becomes King.

73 de Ray  ..._ ._

For those who thought HF and MF can be scrapped and replaced entirely by satellite, you can read here what happened when one of the major providers of satellite service was hacked the day Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022:

https://nrrl.no/nyheter/nrrls-assistanse-til-meteorologisk-institutts-stasjoner-pa-ishavet/

Google Translate will do a decent job here if you don't read Norwegian.

A couple of background links about the break of communications:

https://thestack.technology/viasat-ka-sat-outage-cyber/
https://news.viasat.com/blog/corporate/ka-sat-network-cyber-attack-overview

Thanks Marjamada.
Unfortunately the forum has fallen into disuse.
Hopefully that will change. Thank you for your post.
Gil.

Quote from: RadioRay on June 15, 2022, 01:43:21 PMThe training schedule can be found here: http://radio-relay.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RRI-Training-Classes-3Q-2022.pdf

Information from RadioRay in another thread today:

"The website has been changed to radiorelay.org — No hyphen between words."

Thanks for the note, Sparks.  The website has been changed to

radiorelay.org

No hyphen between words.


73 & ZUT de RadioRay  ..._ ._

Quote from: RadioRay on September 03, 2018, 10:36:08 PMRadio Relay International  after action report on exercise contains useful information about QRP CW for emergency communication.

http://radio-relay.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/RRI-2018-Q1-and-Q2-Exercise-Evaluation.pdf

Please note: "radio-relay.org is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com".

Bump!

Bump!

Thanks to make me discover that sparkplug-antenna !! HI
excellent !!

Hi Mark,
thanks for sharing that info. I'm in the "balun/transformer subject" for now and not heard of that method.
Interesting measure's results !

73, Ben