QSO Today Podcast - Interviews with the leaders in amateur radio
Hosted by Eric Swartz K2IDF and Eric Guth · Eric Guth, 4Z1UG
4.7from 142 ratings
- 542
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 142
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 35K
- YouTube views
About QSO Today Podcast - Interviews with the leaders in amateur radio
QSO Today is a weekly conversation, or QSO, between amateur radio operators about ham radio. Eric Guth, 4Z1UG, hosts a new guest every week to talk about their ham radio journey, their specialized expertise in ham radio, and how amateur radio has impacted their personal and professional lives. QSO Today is targeted at anyone interested in amateur radio who wants to learn more about this fascinating hobby.
- Publisher
- Eric Guth, 4Z1UG
- Category
- leisure · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jul 2014
- Latest episode
- 11 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 542 episodes have a transcript.
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 541 Eric Hofer KJ4YZI
23 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 540 Al Rovner K7AR
6 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 539 John Burwell KI5QKX
Inside a recent episode
Episode 541 Eric Hofer KJ4YZI
Published 11 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Anything that revolves around weak signal. For instance, FT8, people are using FT8 globally on every band. I want to use FT8 on every band. My 7300 is set to 0% output power with just the driver of the radio. and see what I can do. Or if I take it out in the field, we've used, you know, I'll use a bicycle ram on a loop tuner and use very minimal power to see what I can do with that. So that's right now in two meters, that's EME moon bounce. It may be 50 or 100 watts, but to round trip 500,000 miles to the moon and back to barely get into Russia on a guy's array that he can't see or hear my signal, but the computer said that was my signal, you know, and I got his back. off the surface of the moon, that's what's fun to me. […]
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- Eric Hofer
- Al Rovner
- John Burwell
- Will Everett
- Jim Hall
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- YouTube views
- 35,482
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 142 ratings
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 96
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