The beauty in ham radio. Curiously my "negative" videos get far more views and comments than my positve ones!

These are ham radio shacks that I have taken from qrz.com and eham.net Music from ocremix.

This is my video of my ARRL Straight Key Night(day) experience. It's all about morse code, old tubes that GLOW, chirps, keys, paddles, some of my QRP rigs and lots of on the air CW.

Amateur radio operators launch a balloon from Wharton, TX on August 23, 2008. Expected height 80,000 ft. Approximate repeater range 500 miles plus

Harp USA, Inc. Emergency Communication Trailer. HARP EMCOM. Los Angeles California

Interview with Larry KE6AGJ and Bob W6MOL at 2007 Field Day site for Sunnyvale ARES in Raynor Park, Sunnyvale on 6-23-07. Transmission was through the K6BEN amateur television repeater, uplink is 1.2GHz, downlink is 421.25MHz (cable channel 57). Uplink video was over-deviated and caused considerable dropouts. This is a draft videofile and I anticipate to replace it with a better file. Larry is the District Emergency Coordinator for Santa Clara County ARES/RACES organizations and Bob is his deputy and Emergency Coordinator for Sunnyvale city ARES. Larry visited several Field Day sites and I happen to catch him here when I did television transmission from Sunnyvale. Larry said he gets a lot of comfort to know our amateur radio operators have a wide range of capabilities which can be used in a disaster event when telephones and cellphones do not work. This draft file does not include interview with Bob but the updated file will include him. I uploaded this to share with others we performed TV transmission to include our DEC and Sunnyvale EC. Transmission was completely battery operated, reception was done on my home VCR recording K6BEN output. For more information on Santa Clara County ARES/RACES, see http://www.scc-ares-races.org This is real TV, not cellphone cam or wifi. We do it exactly like the bigtime broadcasters but we don't have the gillion dollar transmitter on top of Loma or Sutro. For more information on K6BEN, see http://www.mfwright.com/k6ben.html

Emergency Amateur Radio Kit for field use, Using a Pelican case, Samlex switching power supply, Mobile Radio and Fuse panel from West marine to a modified 19" rack panel allows for a presentable look at public events and emergency field operations. Details at http://www.hawaiirepeaters.net/emergear/emergencyradiokit.html

SKYWARNTM Recognition Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League. It celebrates the contributions that volunteer SKYWARNTM radio operators make to the National Weather Service. During the day SKYWARNTM operators visit NWS offices and contact other radio operators across the world.

Visit Amateur Radio Field Day June 28- 29

Hosted by Walter Cronkite, this video describes my main hobby...ham radio!

Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Demonstration January 2008 assisting Red Cross and Jefferson Co DES/WMD. HF station setup in less than 10 minutes. Capabilities included HF, VHF, satellite and digital modes, completely self contained and off the grid