Ham Radio Nation - Amateur Radio Social Network

Browse Articles

Select a category below on the right to view articles within that category.

Articles (3 articles)

RigReference.com places QR-Codes on many pages. But what are they?QR-Codes are two-dimensional bar codes readable by mobile phone cameras. A QR-Code can contain up to 4kB of data, really useful for storing web site urls. See an interesting page but don't have time to jot down the url?...

Published on 10/14/2011, 9:54 AM by KD8BIG | 2 comment(s)

Tags: info

THE BIRTH OF WIRELESS

The term wireless was a natural extension of less wired or the telegraph. Not until 1906 did the term Radio begin to appear. 1850 - By 1850 most of the basic electrical phenomena had been investigated. However, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge...

Published on 10/7/2011, 4:05 AM by KD8BIG | 1 comment(s)

Tags: info

EARLY COMMUNICATIONS

The Greeks were the first to discover electricity about 2500 years ago. They noticed that when an amber was rubbed with other materials it became charged with an unknown force that had the power to attract objects such as dried leaves, feathers, bits of cloth, or other lightweight materials. The...

Published on 10/7/2011, 4:04 AM by KD8BIG | 1 comment(s)

Tags: Info

All Articles

Antennas

Electronics

General Amateur Radio (2 articles)

Other (1 article)

Propagation

Radio Mods

Radio Reviews

Software Reviews

Popular Tags

10 857 897 ARoIP Antenna CW Eletronics G5RV Ham Info PSK31 QSO QTC QTCs Radio WSJT Yaesu Zukunft acom aerial aerials ameritron amp amplifiers amps antennas balun baluns dipole ft ham radio handheld hannover hf monoband nature pa pas portable propagation research soho sports sun sunspots ten ten-ten tube tubes wc8ec