TAPR PSR Now Available

The Spring 2015 issue of PSR, TAPR's quarterly newsletter is now available here. (Yours truly is the editor of PSR.)

Table of Contents:

• Hamvention with TAPR
• 2015 Hamvention TAPR Forum Schedule
• TAPR Calendar
• DCC in Chicago
• Penelope to PennyLane
• Near Space Flights as a Tool for STEM Education
• Build a Better Demodulator for APRS / AX.25 Packet
• Amateur Radio Lectures in India
• Write Here!
• On the Net
• The Fine Print
• Our Membership App

Since my last post, I added two new stations to the AM radio log, both broadcasting from the City of Brotherly Love:

• WHAT on 1340 kc heard on April 3 at 2300 UTC transmitting 1 kW 164 miles to my southwest
• WKDN on 950 kc heard on April 4 at 0300 UTC transmitting 21 kW 163 miles to my southwest

Both were heard using my CC Radio 2E barefoot.

I have heard plenty on the car radio during my morning commute, but nothing new to report.

Looking forward to the Dayton Hamvention next month. I will be staffing the TAPR booths (451-454 in the Ballarena). Stop by and say, "Hello!"

Thank you, C.Crane!

Three weeks ago, I mentioned that C.Crane updated their CCRadio 2E Enhanced so that the default display is now user-programmable, i.e., you can configure it to display the time of day or the radio frequency.

Originally, you had no choice; it displayed the time of day. The radio frequency only showed up when you changed frequency or momentarily when you pushed the Freq button. I prefer to see the frequency displayed rather than the time, so I complained, C.Crane listened and now the display functions the way I like it.

And there’s more!

My 2E Enhanced completed a roundtrip to C.Crane last week where its firmware was updated. So now my radio’s display functions the way I like it, too!

And there’s still more!

I logged a new one with the 2E Enhanced last evening: WFLR on 1570 kc in Dundee, New York, transmitting 5 kW, 217 miles to my west-northwest.

Groundhog Day 2015

As far as I am concerned, March 31, 2015 was my Groundhog Day because I saw my first groundhog of the year yesterday (and I saw three more today).

The property around my workplace is an old apple orchard and groundhogs have the run of the place during the warm weather, but until yesterday, they were out of sight. That is understandable considering that snow covered most of the grounds until last week.

And although it snowed last night, spring is in the air and the Red Sox play on Monday!