Ham Radio News of the Funny Variety
By K5KVN, on the scene ATLANTA, Ga. — It was a case of Twitter trespassing yesterday as fans of rap artist M.C. Hammer and ham radio operators found themselves fighting over the hashtag #hamr. Ham radio operator Kenneth Singlemyre said he first saw the crossover at 8:30 a.m. “I was at work and had my Twitter page up. I always […]
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By K5KVN, on the scene Henryetta, Idaho. — Members of the Henryetta Old Noodles On the Radio (HONOR) club are dealing with “an integrity issue” after reviewing their logs from last weekend’s QRP contest. Inspecting the paper log prior to mailing it to contest organizers, club president Steven Horowitz noticed a pattern. Every contact in the log noted that a […]
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By WBØRUR, on the scene NEW CAMBRIDGE, Maryland – The staff at a national magazine devoted to amateur radio is calling its most recent radio contest a “dramatic failure.” Darius Von Sparringburg, Chief Editor of “73s and 88s” magazine, says logs submitted for the recently completed “North American QSO Championships” contain an unusually high number of errors. So many in […]
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By K5PO, on the scene BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England — Radiosport, or amateur radio contesting, is not for the faint-of-heart, but it may in fact be for the faint. Thom Tranton, a ham radio operator from Barrow-in-Furness, reports he had a “rather fine” performance in the latest UK DX BPSK63 Contest despite not really remembering much of it. “It’s just been an […]
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By K5PO, on the scene MARKINGTON, New Mexico — Roger Matthews, a Markington-area amateur radio operator is fed up with the directors of the CQ WW SSB Contest and claims he’s “Not going to listen to nobody telling him he’s wrong no more.” His lavishly-equipped radio “shack” is a bounty of fine microphones, including his prized 24k gold gilded Astatic […]
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