Comm Academy: FREE Virtual Training Conference on Emergency Communications

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Comm Academy: FREE Virtual Training Conference on Emergency Communications

Comm Academy, the conference for EmComm and preparation, has been around since 2001, but this year, the event is online and free. The event, which normally takes place in Seattle is two days of training, talks, and information on emergency communications. Comm Academy 2021 will take place on 10-11 April 2021, and the theme for this year’s event is “Disasters Here, There, and Everywhere—Are You Ready?”

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PRESENTER OPINION: Study Scores Rigs on Price, Performance, and Consumer Satisfaction→

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PRESENTER OPINION: Study Scores Rigs on Price, Performance, and Consumer Satisfaction

Frank, K4FMH, is one of my fellow “presenters” on the ICQPodcast. He is also Professor Emeritus at Mississippi State University, where he taught statistics, survey research methods, and GIS/Remote Sensing over four decades. In other words, he’s a pretty smart guy.

His latest effort is a study that compares a list of popular HF transceivers and receivers sold in the last 50 years by these three criteria:

  • retail price

  • measured receive performance by Rob Sherwood NC0B

  • overall satisfaction as reported in the reviews on eHam.Net.

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PRESENTER OPINION : CW-ELMER: Fun Tool for Analyzing Your Fist

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PRESENTER OPINION : CW-ELMER: Fun Tool for Analyzing Your Fist

As I’ve written in the past, my friend Paul, KW1L, is a real CW technician. So, when I saw the article, “CW-ELMER Advanced Morse Code Learning System” in the January 2021 QST, I knew he’d be interested in it. And, since all it takes to build it is an Arduino, a speaker and a 16×2 LCD display, I already had all the parts.

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