{"id":366,"date":"2023-04-18T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ve6bc.radio\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-05-27T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:05:32","slug":"this-is-the-home-of-amateur-radio-station-ve6bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ve6bc.radio\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/this-is-the-home-of-amateur-radio-station-ve6bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The purpose of this blog is to share my ham radio activities<\/strong> with others who may find some of it entertaining<\/strong> or even useful<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a big fan of vacuum tube<\/strong> radios from the 1940’s through the 1960’s<\/strong>. As such you will see a lot of those kinds of radios being worked on and in service in my ham shack. Brands like Central Electronics, Collins, Hammarlund, Hallicrafters and E.F. Johnson for some examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also enjoy VHF\/UHF<\/strong> FM repeater communications so there will be some of that, too. Antennas and transmission lines are another major area of interest here despite the fact that I am not in a position to deploy anything of any size due to the size of our small city lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got back into ham radio in early 2022 after a ~25 year hiatus<\/strong>. That meant building a new ham shack with operating positions and a test bench, unboxing and blowing the dust off of what radio\/electronics gear I had kept, acquiring the pieces of test equipment needed to service my radios and also acquiring a bunch more radios, in particular ones I’d wanted since I was a young SWL<\/strong> and later a ham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The limited size of my ham shack means that while I can’t have one of everything I can<\/em> have a small number of radios that are special to me in some way. My collection of radio equipment and test equipment is therefore curated to a specific set of criteria with the goal of meeting a defined need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you enjoy reading about my radio activities and perhaps even draw some inspiration for your own. If you’re an amateur radio operator get on the air<\/strong> in any way you can and use the bands<\/strong>. There is pressure from commercial interests targeting various chunks of our allocated spectrum and we need to use it or lose it. Get involved in a local club<\/strong>. Show the young folks<\/strong> what’s cool about our hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re not a ham but think you might like to be one, seek out a local club or national club that offers classes to prepare for the exams. Write the exams. They’re not hard. Get a radio. Put up an antenna. And get on the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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