Old Heathkit Manuals Forced Offline

"Even though the company (Heathkit) stopped making and selling kits back in 1992, it apparently just sold the copyrights on its old manuals to another company, which is going around forcing any old manuals offline and demanding people buy them instead..."

Read all about it here.

Surfin': Returning to Smart Phones and Antique QSLs

This week’s Surfin’ opens the new year by returning to the old year.

Update: The links for N8CIA's Web site in the figure caption and the third paragraph of this week's Surfin' went bad. The correct URL is http://www.n8cia.com

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year de WA1LOU

Get Smart and my radio

Watched Get Smart last night. It has a couple of laugh-out-loud moments, but it is not a great film and I probably will not watch it again.

However, it does have a ham radio moment. In the chase scene near the end of the film, there is a two-way radio in one of the automobiles: a Yaesu FT-1802, the same model of radio that serves as my APRS home digipeater transmitter. The displayed frequency of the radio in the film was 143.910 MHz.

I had a choice of accompanying this post with a photo of the FT-1802 or a photo of Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell appearing in the film. I think I made the right decision.

Surfin': Radio Shack Historically Speaking

This week’s Surfin’ looks back on radio and electronic history via vintage Radio Shack catalogs.

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