ICQ Podcast Episode 310 - Grow, Merge or Disband your Amateur Radio Club!

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Frank Howell K4FMH, Ed Durrant DD5LP and Bill Barnes N3JIX to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Grow, Merge or Disband your Amateur Radio Club!

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News stories include: -

• PACTOR Developer SCS Announces Monitoring Software
  
  
  
• Can Online Ham Radio Exams Improve Accessibility?
• Inspiring Youth with Science in Space
• Michigan State University Amateur Radio Club Celebrates Centennial with Second-Century Special Event
• New ARRL Online Groups for More Direct Communications
• Amateur Radio Operator Faces Fine for Blocking Other Amateurs
• RSGB Youth Team Recruiting
• December is YOTA Month

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ICQPodcast Episode 309 - Propagation Tools and Contest Validation

In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB/W9ICQ) discusses Propagation Tools with Steve Nicol G0KYA and finds out how the RSGB has modernised the adjudication of RSGB Contests for faster, more accurate results with Simone Wilson M0BOX.

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News stories include: -

• 2019 Construction Competition Winners
• New On the Air Magazine
• Concern and Confusion in California’s Amateur Radio Ranks
• Apply now to run GB19YOTA

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Not sure how I got found out contesting :-)

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Hans Summers G0UPL Receives First Homebrew Heroes Award

Ridgeland, Mississippi— October 13, 2019 — Today, the Homebrew Heroes Award Program announced its first annual recipient, Hans Summers, Call Sign G0UPL. This annual award recognizes persons, groups or organizations who help define the frontiers in amateur radio technology through the long-standing tradition of “homebrew” construction. This is the first of the annual awards to be given by the new program, housed at the website address, homebrewheroes.org.

“Our Steering Committee sought the advice of an anonymous Selection Committee who surveyed the landscape of known homebrew designers in amateur radio. There are indeed many very deserving ones! But only one can be chosen each year. The Steering Committee was very pleased to accept this recommendation to make this first Award to Hans Summers G0UPL,” said Frank Howell K4FMH. Other Committee members are Martin Butler M1MRB and Colin Butler M6BOY. All three are affiliated with the ICQ Podcast (icqpodcast.com).

The Hero for 2019, Hans Summers stated, “To be the honouree for the first of these Homebrew Hero Awards is quite significant for me. I am humbled and,

frankly, just blown away by it all. I’ve been sharing my homebrew work through my personal website at hanssummers.com for years now and my company, QRP Labs (qrp-labs.com), for just a few years. But the latter is my full-time work these days. To have these efforts publicly recognized in this way is so personally gratifying!”

Martin Butler, M1MRB from London added, “Hans has continually demonstrated to all with at least one eye open that the traditional homebrew craft and science is alive and well. I am glad that I was not part of the choosing process per se but I am very pleased to accept the recommendation.” “I’ve watched Hans Summers continue to innovate in his design of terrific homebrew kits and products that have made a fantastic impact on the amateur radio market place,” added Colin Butler M6BOY, of County Kilkenny, Ireland.

“The donated prizes to our Hero 2019 are beginning to arrive at Hans’ residence. These very supportive donors deserve note by those in the homebrew space when they consider their own purchases. As publisher of the ICQ Podcast, I am delighted for us to serve as the official promotional partner of this Awards Program,” Colin Butler continued.

Frank Howell K4FMH added, “Commercial companies making prize donations for this year include: Digilent Inc., a National Instruments Company; Siglent Ltd.; MFJ Enterprises; the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast; and Heil Sound. Other companies have expressed positive interest and are evaluating the right product to donate.”

The formal video presentation is available at the Award Program website, homebrewheroes.org. A longer audio feature interview is available in Episode 308 of the ICQ Podcast at icqpodcast.com.

For more information, press only:

Frank M. Howell

Contact page on Homebrew Heroes website

@frankmhowell (Twitter)

To contact the Award recipient, Hans Summers G0UPL, e-mail him for arrangements at hans.summers@gmail.com


For more information on the Hombrew Heroes Award:

https://homebrewheroes.org

Graphic Logo: https://homebrewheroes.org/index.php/about/

Picture of Hans Summers G0UPL, Homebrew Hero 2019:

Homebrew Hero 2019, Hans Summers G0UPL

ICQ Podcast Episode 308 - Announcing Homebrew Hero 2019

In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Matthew Nassau M0NJX to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Homebrew Heroes.

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News stories include: -

• OR Prefix Celebrates Belgium Princess Birthday
• US radio ham flies to UK to present First Class Operator Club Honor
• SOTA Mountain Goat Award
• Ofcom 2018/19 Annual Report
• GB3JV London TV Repeater
• Melbourne QRP by the Bay
• HAREC exams at HAMEXPO show 12 October 2019

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ICQPodcast Episode 307 - Rola Masts and Handheld Radio Programming Guide

In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB/W9ICQ) reviews headphones from BHI Noise Cancellation Products, A Handheld Radio Programming Guide and we speak to Chris Taylor from Moonraker regarding Rola Masts, Network Radio and a Dual Band DMR Radio with Bluetooth Connectivity to any device.

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News stories include: -

• ARRL Online Auction
• Exercise Blue Ham 2019
• South Hampshire Repeater Group Launches 70cm ‘Internet Free’ Linking
• The Netherlands - Changes to Ham Radio Call Sign Policy

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