Amateur Radio Weekly-B Sides:  “NASA to develop Lunar Time Standard.’

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Issue 347 September 14th, 2024 B-Sides I’m travelling again this week which means I haven’t had the time to get a proper newsletter together. Instead of skipping it altogether like last time, I put together a series of B-side links. These are links from the past several months that were excellent, but didn’t quite make the cut. Enjoy! -K4HCK Top links NASA to develop Lunar Time Standard NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC). NASA Build the Frankentenna The ultimate portable Ham Radio vertical antenna. KB9VBR Exploring international analog TV from leaky cable TV networks via the Airspy Server Network Use SDR# and the Airspy Server Network to explore cable TV stations across the globe via cable TV signal interference. RTL-SDR How well does 17 meters work? The higher the bands get the further they tend to reach more distant stations for me. WK4DS War of the Worlds in CW War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells in Morse Code starting at 20 WPM. AA7FO Rise and stall of GPS The average age of GPS satellites hits 13 years. Payload Improving the antennas on Heltec ESP32 v3 devices A neat little quarter wave 868Mhz vertical antenna for this device. M0AWS HF in small spaces Loop antennas like these are typically used only for receiving, but in a pinch they can be used to transmit as well. Hackaday The great shack QRM hunt Now that I’ve taken up POTA and know how nice S0-1 background noise is, I wanted to have another go at the home situation. Ian Renton Video Comparing desoldering tools Is the Hakko FR301 desoldering tool worth 4X the ZD915 clone? More Fun Making It Making a hot dog talk with RF We devised a test to see just how dangerous the RF energy can be on an AM tower. Geerling Engineering Did you receive this email as a forward? Sign-up here Amateur Radio Weekly is curated by K4HCK. Do you have an interesting item to share? Email us! Thank you for reading. 73 Friends of the Newsletter | View the archive | Follow on Mastodon Explore the Ham Weekly Network Amateur Radio Weekly | NetFinder | Amateur Radio Daily