Amateur Radio QSO Show

Dan Henderson N1ND ARRL Field Day Director and Regulatory Information Manager talks all about ARRL Field Day 2009 and all the up coming activities. Everything you always wanted to know about ARRL Field Day. Dan also talks about Amateur Radio FCC enforcement issues and our new enforcement appointee Laura Smith.

Pi K1RV talks about the Museum Ships weekend. 78 Museum ships will be the site of Amateur Radio Stations all this weekend as we celebrate a Museum Ships weekend. Pi talks to us abou the event and all that will be going on and how to get a Museum Ships Certificate. Pi also fills us in on how you can get your ham ticket by the study program offered on Ham Test Online.

Live from the 2009 Dayton with special guests Ted Alexander W8IXY along with Bill Morine N2COP the head of the ARRL PR comittee. Dr. Michael Barrett of Transworld Antennas and others.

The Saturday podcast recordings of the live broadcast from The Dayton Hamvention contain compromised audio with some distortion. We had the choice of not putting these podcasts up but we felt in spite of the distortion the program material was well worth the listen. We do apologize for the distortion. As a listener we want to thank you for dealing with the distorted audio Live from the 2009 Dayton Hamvention on Saturday. A number of guests join us at the QSO broadcast booth including Michael Kalter W8CI the public relations chairman for the Dayton 2009 Hamvention.

Tom Boza NE7X the man with the wonderful collection of amateur radio gear. You may have got an email that had a link to his site as the email has been going around. Tom has been licensed since 1964 and now holds the extra class license. Tom spent 3 years in Vietnam and was with Sony Analog for 13 years and Intel for 25 years. Tom is a member of the A.R.R.L. and the Central Arizona DX Association.

Bob Inderbitzen NQ1R is Sales and Marketing Manager of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national association for Amateur Radio. He is responsible for ARRL membership and publication marketing. Inderbitzen regularly attends ARRL’s national conventions and Dayton Hamvention as part of the team that organizes and operates ARRL exhibits. He enjoys speaking with volunteers about ARRL membership recruitment, benefits and services. Bob earned his first ham radio license in 1981 as KA2PZD. He was in the sixth grade. He became NQ1R when he upgraded to Amateur Extra in 1989. His interests in ham radio include casual HF operating, portable operating and contesting. He is an ARRL Life Member. Bob joined the ARRL staff in 1991, serving the Volunteer Examiner Coordinator Department as Assistant to the Manager. In 1993, he became Assistant to the Manager in the Educational Activities Department. There, he helped maintain the large array of services offered to Amateur Radio newcomers, instructors, schoolteachers and recruiters. He is a member of ARRL’s “10-Year Club” for employees with at least 10 years of service. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, and holds a B.S. degree in Management and Organization from Central Connecticut State University. Bob lives in Rocky Hill, Connecticut with his husband Michael Bower and daughter Victoria. He and his family are active in church affairs and enjoy vacations to Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Scott Myers AC8DE is the exhibit chair person for the Dayton Hamvention 2010. Scott talks about the Hamventions coming up and Hamventions of the past. Scott was first Licensed in 2004, Upgraded to Extra in 2009 Built first HF shack just recently at end of 2009. Scott enjoyw AM, SSB and most digital modes Scott says he is a Christian and is married to a wonderful wife, he works in the hydraulics industry, he has 2 young children and has 3 older grown children. If you are headed to Dayton this year be sure and look up Scott and say hello!

Jeff Murray K1NSS. In the sixties Jeff became WN2EXW in Whitesboro, NY. Upgrading to General, he joined the Utica Amateur Radio Club and worked 20, 40, CW, DX as WB2EXW until saying good-bye to all that in 1966. Forty-something years later he returned to the Empire State as K1NSS -- his sentimental vanity suffix references the Navy station that he says patiently taught him V, D, E, N and S, his first five letters of Morse, received on his first shortwave set, an Ocean Hopper. Amateur radio not quite aside, I also draw a web cartoon feature called Dash! The Dog-Faced Ham. In the 1980s, I drew comics for alternative media like the New York Press, Baltimore/DC City Papers and San Diego Reader, plus editorial cartoons for a chain of suburban Boston weeklies.

Joe Rothe WC4R Talks about his battle with a neighborhood association and unreasonable restrictions as well as his victory over the association. This is good information for any Radio Amateur who wishes to install or presently has an Amateur Radio antenna. Restrictions can be imposed by neighborhood associations as well as at the city or county level. Joe Talks about FCC ruling PRB-1 and what it means to all radio Amateurs.

Ted along with David KG4WXW and Matt KG4WXX open up the mail bag on what is to be the first QSO mailbag show. It is interesting to hear from so many folks from all over the country that are listening to QSO.

Dr. Michael Barrett N4ECW of TransWorld talks about the new stealth 8080 Adventurer antenna they are releasing at the Dayton Hamvention 2009. The 8080 Adventurere solves the problem of so many amateurs that want to work 80 meters but do not have the real estate to do so. Emmy winning science reporter Linda Moulton Howe with an update on solar activity

Mike Thompson WB8ERJ hails from Mansfield Ohio and is a radio broadcast engineer. Satellites are fun and easy to work. Mike says "Here I am on Lake Erie working the A0-27 satellite running just 2 watts with an HT. Hey the way I look at it, if those guys can run around the beach with a metal detector, why can't I sit there with an antenna and work AO-27?" Mike has had an interest in the MIR space station and it's transmisssion of Slow Scan TV pictures on the frequency of 145.985 Mhz. Mike talks about amateur radio on a bycycle and how it is done. Ted tells a hilarious story about an inept radio station manager that he encountered while working for a radio group. Ted tells a great story about Ronnie Milsap WB4KCG.

Jim Eller K8ELR With ARROW Communications Association for Washtenaw and Wayne Counties in Michigan. Jim talks about all the activities that ARROW is involved in including a Hands On Amateur Radio Museum. Jim talks about their AMPTeam, Field Day and all the activities ARROW is invovled in promoting Amateur Radio to their local communities. Jim keeps your attention and will raise your enthusaism about Amateur Radio.

Don Keith N4KC Don Kieth was first licensed as an amateur radio operator in 1962 at the age of 13 as WN4BDW...later WA4BDW. He changed his call sign to N4KC in the 1970s when he got his Extra Class license. Don says "I enjoyed a 22-year career in broadcasting and was twice named BILLBOARD magazine's "Broadcast Personality of the Year." I later worked for a company that developed software for radio, TV and adagencies, then spent 4 years with Arbitron, the company that provides audience rating information for radio broadcasters. I'm currently vice-president of advertising and communications for Virginia College (www.vc.edu), a chain of career colleges headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. I'm also an author with 15 books in print.

Tom Medlin W5KUB is the Amateur Radio helmet cam guy! You have seen him at Dayton and Huntsville. You have probably watched his live coverage of hamfests. Tom talks about streaming video and other new technology and how it is impacting Amateur Radio today. Scott Morrison KA3DDR is the host of www.ka3ddr.blogspot.com. Scott leads us down the road of blogging as well as other new Internet technolgy being used by Amateur Radio today including Twitter. Scott talks about his early interest in Radio Sport and explains a great deal about his involvement in the hobby.