Two shows on the QRZ.com/GigaParts radio giveaway? Yep. Well, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ messed up a few things while trying to do the ‘no manual’ test of the radio. So now, post RTFM, he clears some things up. It’s a radio review like only HamRadioNow can do. On board are West Coast Host David W0DHG and NorCal Host Jim NO1PC. Also, a our previous episode on ‘It’s Not CW’ got pretty well raked over by comments on QRZ.com, so we rake back. Easy to do when you own the show. And we ruminate on the ...
Sep 05, 2022•Ep. 441
QRZ.com and GigaParts are giving away this dual-band handheld to new hams until Halloween 2022. is it ‘free and worth it’, or is it a decent radio? We check it out.
Sep 02, 2022•2 hr•Ep. 440
NOTE: There is some intermittent audio breakup in this recording. We refer to it based on chat-room reports, and find that it was recorded, not just online. This week’s lineup: Kyle AA0Z, David W0DHG, Gary K4AAQ. So yeah, we let Gary do his CLICKBAIT rant, where he also thinks it should be Morse’s code - that’s with an apostrophe s. We expect all hams to start using that. Kyle gave a Huntsville Hamfest wrap-up, we talked about the new ICOM IC-905 VHF to 10 GHz radio and that was more or less it ...
Aug 29, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 439
AUDIO AUDIENCE NOTE: there’s a lot of visual stuff here. Or at least we think there is. It’s the kind of thing you may or may not be able to make up in your head as you listen. And there will be a show Sunday night. A ‘real’ show? Well, that’s yet to be determined. But this one went on long enough that we figured we should put it on the stream by itself and not tag it to the Sunday show. ======== Another ‘not an episode’? Well, we have a good reason for this one (but don’t we always?) This time,...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 14 min
East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ has been furiously… ok, intermittently… working on transitioning to the new Wirecast computer. He’s not quite done, but that left no time (he was willing to spend) on preparing for this show. So he and West Coast Host David W0DHG chatted for about 10 minutes and called it a night. If you believe that, you’ve never watched this show before. On Saturday, the day before the Sunday live show, they did a Promo that lasted almost an hour. Those boys can talk. The question is...
Aug 22, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 438
HRN West Coast Host David Goldenberg W0DHG spend last weekend as the Comm guy for one of the Stages of the Angeles Crest 100 mile Endurance Run . We get the slide show. Before that, though, East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ analyzes our theme music, which sounds suspiciously like someone sending CQ (badly) on a piano. Then it’s “YouTube Takedown Testing” with snippets from a variety of media that also sound as though they were based on Morse Code. Including… and one you hear it you’ll never unhear it… ...
Aug 15, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 437
Sometimes a quick promo becomes a show. Who am I kidding. Most of the time, what was intended to be a quick promo becomes a show. We’re not saying it’s a good show. Just a long show. It’s just Kyle AA0Z and Gary K4AAQ . And the YouTube and Facebook versions come in two parts because Windows Update. No, we didn’t get an ‘update’ in the middle of the show. An update scrambled the Windows audio settings, and of course Gary didn’t notice. Finally a viewer commented. Fixing it required a total restar...
Aug 13, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 437
So we move to 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific… do one show… then do a bunch of ‘No Show/Not a Show’ shows off schedule for one reason or another. Tonight we finally get back on schedule, and David and Jim aren’t available. Jim is still galivanting around the US, and David is sleeping after a big public service event kept him up all weekend. So filling in, we roped in Jason Johnston KC5HWB from Ham Radio 2.0, and our ‘Midwest Correspondent’ Kyle Kreig AA0Z , on his phone from Spokane, WA where he was at...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 436
Gary developed COVID just after returning from his Canadian vacation with Cyndi KD4ACW . He felt good enough to do a quick ‘no show’ show early Sunday, not knowing how he might feel by Sunday night’s regular time slot. David was available, and a drop-in from ‘East Coast Correspondent’ Marty NN1C rounded out the crew. Marty’s not to happy about being demoted from ‘host’ to ‘correspondent’🤨.
Jul 31, 2022•37 min•Ep. 435
It only takes David W0DHG and Gary K4AAQ 37 minutes to tell you that we’re not doing a show this Sunday. Because Gary (and Cyndi KD4ACW) are heading out to Vancouver BC for a train trip through the Rockies. So we talk (but don’t do a show) about programming Gary’s DMR HT for the trip.
Jul 16, 2022•37 min
The Live Stream has shifted to 7 PM Pacific, 10 PM Eastern Sunday, 0200Z (Monday, during US Daylight Saving Time) (not that you podcast listeners care, but maybe it opened up a window to watching the live show on YouTube or Facebook) How do you program your VHF/UHF radios? Totally by hand? Using software? Either way, do you have a plan? A strategy? Or do you just chunk channels in there willy-nilly? In tonight’s show, hosts Gary K4AAQ, David W0DHG and Midwest Correspondent Kyle AA0Z reveal their...
Jul 11, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 434
We’re not doing a show on Sunday, July 3rd, because holiday. But we can’t leave you high and dry. High is up to you. Dry we can help with a little. David and Gary popped online to do a five-minute quickie, and almost an hour later, they were done. Among other things, they discussed moving the show to a different time/day. There’s a poll on the HRN Facebook Group, asking when you the audience would like to see the show live. The results will ‘influence’ our choice. Of less significance, Gary has ...
Jul 03, 2022•50 min
David was up almost all night. Could he do a show? Jim was on the road. Could he show up? And Gary had spent a live stream earlier in the day* insulting Kyle AA0Z while restreaming Kyle’s Field Day live stream, then had the audacity to invite Kyle to come on the show. Would he show up? The answers to these important questions will be revealed as you watch or listen to this week’s thrilling episode. *see the previous entry in the HamRadioNow.tv web site for the two HRN Field Day live streams - li...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 433
Sean Kutzko KX9X and Nancy Livingston N9NCY are about to embark on a vacation from their home in central Illinois to Glacier National Park in Montana. The point of the trip is hiking and camping, but because Sean is Sean (and Nancy seems enthusiastic about it), there will be hamming. Mostly on Satellites from ‘rare’ grid squares, and some six meters. And they came by to talk about the trip. If that seems ambitious, our own Jim Aspenwall NO1PC will hit the road starting Field Day weekend for a mo...
Jun 20, 2022•2 hr 13 min•Ep. 432
This is a jam packed show. First, we talk with John Hays K7VE . John is Outreach Manager with the Amateur Radio Digital Communications Foundation . For the past three years, this group has made grants totaling millions of dollars to Amateur Radio groups and projects… and they’re just getting started. Find out where they got the money and how they give it away (maybe to your club?). John also talks about the state and future of Digital communications in Amateur Radio. Next, we take up the case of...
Jun 13, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 431
Host Gary K4AAQ caught what he describes as the Holy Grail of scanning – a beginning-to-end major (for his little burg) police manhunt, from initial call to final resolution. He says that almost never happens. And it only took an hour and a quarter to begin that segment of the show. David W0DHG (or, as Gary incorrectly typed in David’s title: WDHG ) and Jim NO1PC had plenty of other stuff to talk about first. Yes, once again it’s a totally wasted… we mean thoroughly engaging, entertaining and oc...
Jun 06, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 430
It’s Sunday night of the Memorial Day weekend. David W0DHG, Marty NN1C and Gary K4AAQ have nothing better to do, but no show topic is planned. We were gonna skip the week due to the holiday, but here we were. So we started the streams, pushed record, and away we went. Gary’s Wirecast program crashed in the middle of recording, hence the two parts on YouTube and Facebook. The audio version is edited together as one piece (enjoy the sound effect). (Side note: Gary originally titled the re-start Af...
May 30, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 429
So, GMRS - General Mobile Radio Service - is a thing. It’s becoming a big thing, or so it seems. And at least around Gary’s area (Charlotte NC), a lot of hams also have GMRS licenses. And with the fee dropped from $70 to $35, likely a lot more will (GMRS users are happy about $35, while many hams are grousing about it). And it turns out that your hosts already had GMRS licenses. David is WROT234. Jim is WQWB533. Gary is WRPG652. Those call signs just trip off the tongue, don’t they. Well, we exp...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 428
David, Jim and Gary ramble about the upcoming Dayton Hamvention (they won't be there) and the planned PopUp videos from our field reporter, Marty NN1C, who will be live on the scene! We get a surprise visit from Ham Radio 2.0's Jason Johnston KC5HWB
May 20, 2022•53 min
10.2 years ago, HamRadioNow evolved out of ARVN//AmateurRadioVideoNews’s DVD production business with a series of programs recorded during a visit to the Orlando HamCation in February, 2012. So we’re a couple months late… hence the ‘point tooth’ appendage to the big Ten Years. Well, we were kinda off the air that month, and we forgot all about it for the most recent two episodes (apparently it wasn’t that big a deal). But watching the 7th Anniversary Episode of HamRadio 2.0 reminded us. So Congr...
May 11, 2022•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 427
May 03, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 426
Apr 25, 2022•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 425
Norm Goodkin K6YXH visits with David W0DHG and talks about getting up and running to do remote testing for Amateur Radio Licenses. Norm mentioned that there were a lot of other players involved, but this is a good review of what they went through to get up and running. We discuss security concerns and how it works.
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Feb 17, 2019
Ward Silver N0AX joins Jim Aspinwall NO1PC and David W0DHG for the first of the ElmerCast Series. We talk about GROUNDING!
Feb 07, 2019
Jim Aspinwall NO1PC (of the Amateur Radio Elmers Facebook Community) joins me to talk about Elmering (mentoring) and our joint ffort to bring new content to the Amateur Radio Community!
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