Foundations of Amateur Radio

Science

Foundations of Amateur Radio

by Onno (VK6FLAB)

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?".

100 episodes

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All Episodes

1

Bald Yak 16: How do you decode FM?

6:51 Mar 14, 2026

2

One step forward ... three steps back.

5:38 Mar 7, 2026

3

Bald Yak 15, Playing with Radio .. now with software

6:48 Feb 28, 2026

4

How to go about documenting your setup?

5:22 Feb 21, 2026

5

Transmitting into a dummy load .. for a year .. on purpose.

8:34 Feb 14, 2026

6

How to become a radio amateur today?

6:02 Feb 7, 2026

7

Building a shack: Part 8 - Will it ever end?

3:45 Jan 31, 2026

8

Building a shack: Part 7 - Powering your shack

8:15 Jan 24, 2026

9

Building a shack: Part 6 - Noise

8:05 Jan 17, 2026

10

Building a shack: Part 5 - Antenna Shenanigans

5:40 Jan 10, 2026

11

Building a shack: Part 4 - coaxial cable alternatives

5:55 Jan 3, 2026

12

Building a shack: Part 3 - the ingress of coaxial cable

9:40 Dec 27, 2025

13

Building a shack: Part 2 - How much space do you need?

7:27 Dec 20, 2025

14

Building a shack: Part 1 - Setting the Scene

7:21 Dec 13, 2025

15

Bald Yak 14, choices and software flexibility

8:19 Dec 6, 2025

16

I have a problem .. with logging.

8:45 Nov 29, 2025

17

How to make our hobby and community resilient?

6:37 Nov 22, 2025

18

A new year with new services to the public .. in 1905

7:18 Nov 15, 2025

19

What do you call that .. radio?

7:37 Nov 8, 2025

20

On the origins of the RF circulator

6:04 Nov 1, 2025

21

Going around in circles, one-way.

6:14 Oct 25, 2025

22

Bald Yak 13, Monitoring the Sun .. small steps

5:46 Oct 18, 2025

23

When your hobby revolves around electricity ...

11:53 Oct 11, 2025

24

Preparing for an outing

4:52 Oct 4, 2025

25

Where is the fun in that?

4:19 Sep 27, 2025

26

Playing with Radio

4:31 Sep 20, 2025

27

Amateur Radio has literally changed my world view

4:14 Sep 13, 2025

28

How small is small?

8:08 Sep 6, 2025

29

Bald Yak 12, getting raw data from a remote receiver

5:13 Aug 30, 2025

30

Using an SDR as measuring equipment

5:14 Aug 23, 2025

31

Listening to local RF via a web browser

4:42 Aug 16, 2025

32

Decoding distant signals over the web?

5:49 Aug 9, 2025

33

What can we activate today?

4:28 Aug 2, 2025

34

Using Amateur Bands for other purposes

10:59 Jul 26, 2025

35

There's promotion .. and then there's Amateur Radio

5:33 Jul 19, 2025

36

Decoding a signal ...

8:22 Jul 12, 2025

37

Antenna modelling with genetic algorithms.

5:08 Jul 5, 2025

38

The ARRL incident of May 2024, a year later

12:27 Jun 28, 2025

39

The Art of decoding a signal.

5:10 Jun 21, 2025

40

Random Serendipity

5:02 Jun 14, 2025

41

Can you be a Professional Radio Amateur?

3:56 Jun 7, 2025

42

What's really happening at the IARU?

9:49 May 31, 2025

43

What do you think you're doing?

3:03 May 24, 2025

44

How does your member society represent itself?

8:28 May 17, 2025

45

A brief introduction to the HamSCI community

4:59 May 10, 2025

46

Can we figure out how much the Sun really affects propagation?

6:37 May 3, 2025

47

Being an amateur without either radio or antenna

3:50 Apr 26, 2025

48

Becoming Mode Agile

3:21 Apr 19, 2025

49

Playing Games On-Air

4:37 Apr 12, 2025

50

What is Amateur Radio really about?

4:41 Apr 5, 2025

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