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History and Humor	"Shortwave" - Father Knows Best This episode from the 3rd season of "Father Knows Best" is based on intercepting marine radio calls - and soon a distress signal - from the "Betty Ann" on a Zenith Transoceanic sho...  READ MORE	ranickels 06/25/2025	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	W9RAN's Pico Rx Presentation from W9DYV Technical Symposium This presentation was first made to the W9DYV Technical Symposium in Collinsville IL,  Jan 17, 2025. ...  READ MORE	ranickels 01/28/2025	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	W9RAN's Pico Rx - simple SDR Demonstration This video shows my Simple Pico Rx in operation.   It's based on the Pico Rx project by Jonathan Dawson 101Things:  https://github.com/dawsonjon/PicoRX Scroll down for links to m...  READ MORE	ranickels 01/28/2025	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	Dry Socks and a $5 Ring This video is not about radio, it is about my mom and dad.    A decorated WWII veteran,  my dad, who later became WAØOHP, came home from the war a changed man in many way...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/31/2024	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	Quantum Spectrum - a DSP option for SDRs and maybe ALL radios (someday) The Quantum Spectrum is an add-on DSP that provides real-time spectrum and waterfall display for any SDR providing IQ outputs.   This includes the Xiegu G90, uSDX, (tr)uSDX, mCHF, Elecraft, and ...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/11/2023	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	The 1859 Carrington Event On September 3, 1859 the Memphis Tennessee Daily Appeal noted a most startling event. “On Thursday night last, about 12 o clock, the heavens were suddenly lit up as with a half dozen moons.&rd...  READ MORE	ranickels 12/21/2022	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	Documentary features Montana Hams Student filmmakers from the University of Montana investigate the culture of Montana Amateur Radio Operators, or "hams", as they recount their admiration for the global Amateur Radio commun...  READ MORE	ranickels 12/20/2022	Ham Radio Information
RAN Technology Product demos	Build a Digital Oscillator and Complete Tube Transmitter for AM -- The R.A.N. Transmitter Master homebrewer Jay Miller KK5IM describes his homebrew transmitter.     Major elements are the exciter which uses the RAN Technology 4-channel oscillator board, the 100 watt modulat...  READ MORE	ranickels 11/21/2022	RAN Technology Product demos
History and Humor	At the Connections Museum in Seattle the insane telephone technology that led to today's computers Fascinating rarely seen, fully functioning telephone exchange equipment, from the electro-mechanical 1900's to the all-computerized system of the 1970s. Next time you use a modern computer, give...  READ MORE	ranickels 11/01/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	The Story of Heil Sound Rock and Roll Hall of Fame presentation How exactly did Ye Olde Music Shop in Marissa, IL become a centerpiece of the rock and roll universe? Heil Sound, founded by Bob Heil K9EID, has been a driving force behind professional sound...  READ MORE	ranickels 10/20/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	Earl "Madman" Muntz | Everyone with an interest in electronics has heard of "Madman" Muntz - the self-made milionaire entrepreneur who became famous for "Muntzing", where he was said to have compon...  READ MORE	ranickels 09/10/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	Scranton AT&T Long Lines Microwave Tower   Ever wonder what the view would be like from the top of one of those old microwave towers that used to dot the landscape?    Most have been removed, as they started becoming o...  READ MORE	ranickels 09/08/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	Recording - 50's style   Sound engineer Lincoln Grounds takes the viewer into Sugar Ray’s Vintage Recording Studio in the UK to find out why it’s still valid to record an entire band to tape, with on...  READ MORE	ranickels 08/11/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	High Speed A/D Conversion in 1965, with a Vacuum Tube! A short video about an amazing piece of technology that became obsolete before it was even used - a 1965 vintage analog to digital converter - using vacuum tube technology! ...  READ MORE	ranickels 06/07/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	W5IG has a cool transmitter W5IG "Inspector Gadget" proudly shows off his cool transmitter. .. ...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/20/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone Wired...or wireless? When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007 as a product that "changes everything" - many would say it was derived primarily from wireless technology - a better version of phones that came...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/06/2022	History and Humor
History and Humor	The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of Another outstanding video about Analog Computers, setting the stage for their comeback.    If names like Laplace, Fourier, and Kelvin make your eyes glaze over because of the maths, sit bac...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/11/2022	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	We're Building Computers Wrong Excellent video about analog computers - and why this may not be a dead technology. ...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/08/2022	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	Tactical Communication - The HF Renaissance in the US Army HF works. Always has. With the invention of of satellite, tropospheric scatter, Line-of-Sight (LOS) microwave and fiber optic communication technologies, HF communication's importance slowly faded for military comm...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/01/2022	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	"A Little Bit Of Everything" (1928 Radio Broadcast) The 1920s Channel on YouTube Ever wonder what radio actually sounded like in the early days, aside from the old time radio shows?    The "1920s' Channel" says  "Here is a collection of1920s radi...  READ MORE	ranickels 02/20/2022	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	Pirate Interference with Russian UVB-76 "The Buzzer" - January 2022 using SonicPhoto to generate waterfall images Tension between Russia and Ukraine are high as Russian has begun putting troops on the border between the two countries. But shortwave radio has been producing some interesting activity on what&rsqu...  READ MORE	ranickels 01/26/2022	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	RCA Tube finishing operations Lancaster PA 1966   Fran Blanche shares a rare training film made by RCA in it's vacuum tube plant in Lancaster PA in 1966.   There is no sound, this film was intended to be used internally but Fr...  READ MORE	ranickels 11/04/2021	History and Humor
History and Humor	Your Career in Radio and Television! 1940 edition   The Antique Wireless Association has found another gem from the past - a 1940 Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. career profile titled "Radio and Television" in its "Y...  READ MORE	ranickels 09/10/2021	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	WRL Duo-Bander 84 demonstration My demo of this innovative transceiver WRL brought it's A-game to the design of the Duo-Bander 84 in late 1966 when it was already a leading supplier of SSB transceivers in it's Galaxy line.   So why risk offering a less-expe...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/27/2021	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	The Transistor A 1953 documentary by AT&T, anticipating the transistors coming impact on technology Made between the 1947 invention of the transistor at Bell Labs and the 1956 awarding of the Nobel Prize for Physics to its creators, this documentary is less about the discovery itself than its antici...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/22/2021	History and Humor
History and Humor	"Announcers Blues" Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra Every radio nut will recognize three notes in this snappy tune! ...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/18/2021	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	JSB-20 Synthesizer demo Tuning and USB/LSB selection This is a short video that shows my external Arduino-controlled frequency synthesizer that is used to make the JRC JSB-20 frequency agile.     Tuning is implemented  by means of u...  READ MORE	ranickels 12/12/2020	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	JRC JSB-20 SSB Radiotelephone Demonstration Vintage Sideband Net 12-12-20 This shows the JSB-20 portable 10 watt radiotelephone in operation using my 80 meter dipole checking into the Vintage Sideband Net with W9JFM.   Dan is in Algoma WI, 195 miles from my QTH in Fre...  READ MORE	ranickels 12/12/2020	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	John Sargrove - the Father of Modern Electronic Manufacturing Automation E.C.M.E and a man decades ahead of his time You've probably never heard the name John Sargrove before, but we've all benefited from the electronic manufacturing revolution he tried to start in the middle of the 20th century.  &nbs...  READ MORE	ranickels 12/10/2020	History and Humor
History and Humor	Drone video tribute to legendary DC station WMAL Site was demolished in 2016 This is a short montage honoring WMAL Radio in Washington, DC, featuring a few stills from station archives, sandwiched around a drone video of Bethesda, MD transmitter site recorded in March of 2015....  READ MORE	ranickels 07/01/2020	History and Humor
History and Humor	Telecommunications Radio, Ham, Teletype, Telex, Telephone, Computer, Electronics, 1966 Film about the International Telecommunications Union Interesting 20 minute historic film produced by the ITU to tout it's mission and accomplishments, but which provides a look at quite a range of mid-60s era vintage equipment and technology. ...  READ MORE	ranickels 06/26/2020	History and Humor
History and Humor	Radio Aids to Navigation: the Radio Range and Radio Compass 1941 Training Film by the US Army Air Corps   Periscope Films provides this vintage training film and the following commentary with callouts for specific aspects of radio navigation, including the Four Course Radio Range (Adcock Ran...  READ MORE	ranickels 01/02/2020	History and Humor
History and Humor	Treasures and Pleasures of the 1960s Do we, do we remember these? The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. ..Ford's new Mustang...eating sugar without guilt....do you remember the  60's? A great 8 minute compliation by YouTuber FredFlix: The World We Knew ...  READ MORE	ranickels 08/28/2019	History and Humor
History and Humor	History of the American Radio DJ celebrating National Radio Day Wherever you lived during the golden age of Top 40 radio, chances are you were within the sound of at least one of the voices you'll hear in this salute by Rado's Best Friend, Art Vuolo. ...  READ MORE	ranickels 08/20/2019	History and Humor
History and Humor	Field Day - RSGB Style! Archive video from 1947   Fantastic archive footage of the National Field Day, 7 and 8 June 1947, (mostly around SE England) - lots of cool old radios. bugs and keys, generators and masts - families and suits a...  READ MORE	ranickels 05/28/2019	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	The Bob Heil Story How a ham and sound engineer revolutionized rock and roll   He invented speakers, mixing boards and equipment that revolutionized concert sound. And then there's the talk box. Just ask Joe Walsh or Peter Frampton about Heil an...  READ MORE	ranickels 05/21/2019	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	Field Radio receive test K5UJ calling CQ Initial testing of W9RAN Field Radio on 75 meters, with Rob K5UJ kindly providing a test signal. Receiver and transmitter are light aircraft radios from the early 1940s which have been conver...  READ MORE	ranickels 05/11/2019	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	Happy 228th Birthday to Samuel F. B. Morse Inventor of the first digital mode It's a bit humbling to realize that the United States had only been a country for 15  years when the man who invented the Morse Code was born. Samuel Finley Breese Morse, (April 27, 1791 &n...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/29/2019	History and Humor
RAN Technology Product demos	Simple AM BC Radio using just an LM-386 audio IC it's surprisingly good!   The LM-386 has long been a favorite audio amplifier for getting the audio from a direct conversion or other type of receiver up to the 1 watt level to drive a speaker.    But ...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/26/2019	RAN Technology Product demos
History and Humor	The Incredible Machine Computer graphics in 1968 and the shape of things to come   The Bell Labs 'Graphic 1' computer system consisted of a Digital Equipment Corporation 'PDP-5' computer coupled with input devices such as the 'Type 370' light pe...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/23/2019	History and Humor
History and Humor	Godzilla 2019 Trailer Battle of the Boatanchor Radios?   Personally, I've never been a fan of Godzilla or other manic monster movies, and yet there is a new one coming this summer.   Believe it or not, this will be the 35th movie of ...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/20/2019	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	Crystals Go To War A documentary about the technology that won WWII Clear communications were critical to the success of the Allies in World War II. The stability of the Allied transmitters and receivers depended on the performance of tiny quartz crystals. During WW...  READ MORE	ranickels 04/12/2019	Ham Radio Information
History and Humor	"Shortwave...take it down, quick!" The Three Stooges copying CW Larry, Moe, and Curly need a little more CW practice, but their Morse sounder has a nice T-9 CW tone! ...  READ MORE	ranickels 03/19/2019	History and Humor
Ham Radio Information	LM386 audio amplifier makes a really good regenerative receiver! Demo of simple AM BC receiver breadboard I'm nuts for minimalist solutions. ..as the wise old engineers would say "It's easy to make a circuit work if there's no limit on parts or cost".    Early televis...  READ MORE	ranickels 02/25/2019	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	Emergency Radio telephone circa 1939 Field Day, Ma Bell style... Interesting 3 minute video showing how AT&T used portable radio equipment to provide telephone communications after disasters disrupted wirelines.     "And it only weighs a fe...  READ MORE	ranickels 02/22/2019	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	WWII Command Set radio checkout in a P-47 Thunderbolt Radio Mechanic Jones...bring your screwdriver, you have a lot of Dzus fasteners in your future! PREFLIGHT RADIO INSPECTION FOR FIGHTER AIRCRAFT is a WWII film made for newbie Army Air Force Radio Mechanics. The film shows a P-47 Thunderbolt's SCR274 radio being checked out on the ground, p...  READ MORE	ranickels 02/18/2019	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	The Sputnik Moment - the day everything changed Oct. 4, 1957 It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses on 20. 005 and 40.010 MHz. Its radio signal was easily detectable even by ...  READ MORE	ranickels 01/15/2019	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	Heathkit Interviews - the Heathkit Files A couple of the "hams at Heath" "The Radio Geek" on YouTube atteneded the 2016 Heathkit Employee Reunion and interviewed two of the long-time "hams at Heath".     David Poplewski and Ed Mos...  READ MORE	ranickels 01/04/2019	Ham Radio Information
Ham Radio Information	Ham Radio and Disaster Preparedness A California ham's vintage radios featured in EMCOMM video CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. - The Coachella Valley is prone to potential natural disasters like earthquakes which could knock out many lines of communication. If that happens ham radios can be the key in...  READ MORE	ranickels 12/18/2018	Ham Radio Information
RAN Technology Product demos	Controlling external devices using VERSA-TR VERSA-TR can be used as an RF-actuated switch to control external devices such as a linear amplifier. Sometimes it's nice to be able to turn something on/off when RF is present.    A common example is to key a linear amplifier without having to run DC control signals, or to turn on an &...  READ MORE	ranickels 11/28/2018	RAN Technology Product demos