Sorry if I lacked clarity in my first response. 1. The "dust mask" so far as I can tell is made of paper and less porous than the pleated cloth mask and, IN MY OPINION the better option. My wife wears

Full disclosure for those in the club that don’t know my background: I am a registered nurse, retired from the Auburn Faith Hospital telemetry medical unit. “Telemetry medical” pertains to acute care

Greg -- You are spot on re "... protect others from someone who is sick ..." The dust masks you find at the hardware, from what I'm able to tell when compared to similar masks available for one time u

Gentlemen, thanks for sharing all. There is a lot of info and videos "out there" re rolling your own. Folks seem to be paying more attention to mask construction and little to proper donning and doffi

Yeah, ok, not directly radio related but, perhaps for the public good. How do I suspect if I have "just" the flu, the Coronavirus/COVID-19, the Creeping Crud, or Creeping Decrepitis? These graphics sh

A valid source for info: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters

Though this is not radio related, I believe it to be quite serious. Please take it in the spirit I intend. You've been hearing about how to avoid getting exposed to this rather contagious cootie. I ha

I'm going to guess that Covid-19 mortality is going to wiggle as more folks become infected. I read that it has been reported inside China as high as 4%. It is likely keeping the epidemiology sleuths

I realize this post doesn't have anything to do directly with ham radio. But, I hope it will be tolerated in the spirit in which I have keyboarded it. Some thoughts and 2-cents prompted by a conversat

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Greg -- less about GMRS 'being in a different part of the band' and more that the segment we have we use as secondary users to DOD. Jim

Check this YouTube video on the spectral purity of a UV-82. The testor shows a careful, calibrated lab setup for his test: https://tinyurl.com/vpmrzah

From FB Radio Amateur Elmers, a very interesting spectral analysis between the two radios at 1W out https://tinyurl.com/y6dzkpt6 -- Jim

I'm going to guess that the power backup that cable providers is likely v-e-r-y uneven. I use VoIP for my "land-line" (3rd party provider) and have the phone adapter, cable modem, and base for the wir

One the subject: anyone have any idea whether or not Comcast has power back up to their head ends and repeaters? Question relates to expectations of continued service if public power goes out, but one

WARNING, opinion ahead! Cellular service itself has morphed a “convenience” technology into, by virtual of the ubiquitous demand and use of its subscribers, to a necessity where POTS was sold as a rel

Off ham radio topic, I realize, but,since many of us in the club are veterans, the VA has a "canteen" and PX service available to us even if we didn't retire. I believe it is essentially the same as a

Gotta add, for me, a final anecdotal story: back in 2015 I was assigned to the Red Cross Shelter in the beautiful downtown cosmopolitan metropolis of Hayfork. It must have been thriving at one time en

Jan and Alan -- Re the loss of dial tone for POTS service: Used to be "back in the day" when all subscriber connections were copper pairs back to the CO (central office), you would virtually always ge