Foundations of Amateur Radio
Hosted by Onno VK6FLAB · Onno (VK6FLAB)
4.7from 48 ratings
- 601
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 48
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 22K
- YouTube views
About Foundations of Amateur Radio
Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents. Note that this podcast started in 2011 as "What use is an F-call? (http://podcasts.itmaze.com.au/f-call/)".
- Publisher
- Onno (VK6FLAB)
- Category
- education · leisure · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Jun 2015
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 601 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Monitoring radio spectrum around you
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Global Ionospheric Maps
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It's all in the community
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Monitoring radio spectrum around you
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Then, when lightning was afoot, noise would suddenly increase above the threshold imposed by the squelch, and I could detect that. Nick pointed out that there's a better tool for this, RTL Power, written by Kyle Keane in 2013, which can continuously monitor a whole lot more frequencies, collect them over a set period, and intermittently output the power values, which can then be processed. The tool allows you to specify which frequencies to monitor, how long for, and at what resolution. This is extremely useful for exploring activity on a new band, You can use the data to create images of banned activity and see what's going on. […]
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- 22,345
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 33 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 15 ratings
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- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 95
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