Ham Nation

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Hosts: Bob Heil

Debut: May 24, 2011

Recorded: Wed 6:00pm Pacific

Released: within 24hrs

Duration: ~60 minutes

Set: The Round Table

Show Notes

Ham Nation hosted by Bob Heil, along with various co-hosts and guests, covers the excitement and importance of ham radio - from tossing an antenna wire in a tree allowing you to talk to the world, to the importance of ham radio operators in time of disasters. Ham Nation premiered on May 24, 2011. The show currently airs live on Wednesday at 6:00pm PT/9:00pm ET with the on demand download available within 24hrs.


Contents

Hosts

Contributors

For details on contributing videos for potential play during Ham Nation, see this link http://www.frozen-in-time.com/guide

Contact

Recent Episodes

Below are recent episodes you can download or watch.

  • Ham Nation 98 – Dayton 2013 –Dayton special event plans, video from Greenland, news from around the world, and more.
  • Ham Nation 97 – Preparing for the Trip to Dayton – Getting ready for Dayton, how to install a mobile radio for a road trip, AM/FM radio continued, and more.
  • Ham Nation 96 – Congratulations to Jay Adrick for the NAB Award –Video from George's celebration dinner, and creating parts with Shapelock.
  • Ham Nation 95 – I'm Back!–Bob is back with video of Joe Walsh and Bob Seger, help needed at Dayton, Newsline update about Boston, and more.
  • Ham Nation 94 – Tim & Ray at Twit–Contest University2013, part four of building an AM/FM radio, and your ham questions answered.
  • Ham Nation 93 – Viewer Discretion Advised–FCC's possible elimination of indecency policies, Bob live from NAB, and your videos.
  • Ham Nation 92 – AES SuperFest & Smoke&Solder–Bob's on the road, Gordo demonstrates interference, and part two of building an AM/FM radio.
  • Ham Nation 91 – George builds an AM/FM radio kit– Boy Scouts ham radio merit badge, video from IWCE, and more.
  • Ham Nation 90 – We Visit GigaParts– Bob shows off the Yaesu FT 3000, Ham Radio Day at GigaParts, and a look at transformers.
  • Ham Nation 89 – George Receives Dayton's Special Achievement Award– Hamvention award winners, contesting with vintage gear, and a transistor relay driver.
  • Ham Nation 88 – Ham Radio Featured on Tim Allen's Last Man Standing – Behind the scenes look, Inductive Reactance and more.
  • Ham Nation 87 – Show Us Your Shack– look at ham shacks across the country, snow on antennas, all about how inductors work and lots of chat room fun.
  • Ham Nation 86 – A Tribute to Wes Schum– Hands-on with the TS-990, a tribute to Wes Schum, and a homemade outpost.
  • Ham Nation 85 – It's Valentines Day– The InnovAntenna, Bob's custom built gear, how to build a class-D audio amplifier and more.
  • Ham Nation 84 – Hams Attend NAMM– The NAMM show, a preview of the Winter 2013 edition of CQ VHF, cheap wire tricks from George, and more.
  • Ham Nation 83 – Where in the World is Gordo– Wrap up of Quartzfest, Differences in PL259 connectors, and more.
  • Ham Nation 82 – The SoftRock Payoff– Show Us Your Shack photos, fox hunting, and the Softrock RXTX Ensemble finale.
  • Ham Nation 81 – History of SSB– Ham radio gear at CES 2013, history of single sideband, homemade solder paste, more.
  • Ham Nation 80 – Interest Your Wife in Ham Radio– Photos from Hamfest, hands-on with the new Icom IC-7100, and getting your wife into Ham radio.
  • Ham Nation 79 – How Is Your Mic Cable?– Preparing for CES, Gordon dunks a radio in water, and how to reduce RF interference
  • Ham Nation 78 – Merry Christmas From Ham Nation!– HRO Appreciation Day in Atlanta, christmas poems, and turning a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter.
  • Ham Nation 77 – Cheryl's Ham Nation Anniversary– Bob's tour of Voice of America, Quartzfest, working SoftRock receiver and more.
  • Ham Nation 76 – Gordon Receives the RCA Award – Gordo's trip back East, Bob's antenna switching system, and more.
  • Ham Nation 75 – Our 75th Anniversary – Leo joins us for our 75th anniversary, Bob fires up an original 1956 Harvey-Wells, soldering aluminum and more.
  • Ham Nation 74 – Tower Safety and Coaxial Dipoles – More about coaxial dipole antennas, tower safety do's and don't and more.
  • Ham Nation 73 – CW Sweepstakes – Old Ham newsletters, Bob's tower project, more SoftRock Building, and tracing coax cable with a cassette player.
  • Ham Nation 72 – Bob's Organ Transplant – Recovery from Hurricane Sandy, George builds Reference Monitors, and more.
  • Ham Nation 71 – Hams On Halloween – Impact of Hurricane Sandy, video from the K6H PAPA System Special Event, and Building the SoftRock part 2.
  • Ham Nation 70 – CQ World Wide Phone Contest – WAI4QT QRP FT817, Last Man Standing" Event, CQ WW SSB, SoftRock RXTX Ensemble Pt1, and more.
  • Ham Nation 69 – On the road again with Gordo and Don – We go on the road with Gordo and Don!.
  • Ham Nation 68 – George enjoys MFJ's 40th anniversary – Bob's Birthday Party, Gordo on his way to Pacificon, MFJ 40th Anniversary, MFJ-913K 4:1 Balun and more...
  • Ham Nation 67 – Big doings in Starkville – The MFJ 40th anniversary, identifying broadband noise, building an OpenBeacon, and more.
  • Ham Nation 66 – Viewer Videos – Capacitor and resistor substitution boxes, remote Ham radio operation, OpenBeacon part 2 and more...
  • Ham Nation 65 – Science of the Phased Array – plus part one of building the etherkit.com OpenBeacon and more.
  • Ham Nation 64 – Bull – Cowboy Bob and Clayton Cullen, Icom Contest award, Finish building a shortwave radio, and more.
  • Ham Nation 63 – After Isaac and Icom Contest – Bob's phased 75 meter dipoles, hurricane Isaac video, Building a shortwave radio, and more.
  • Ham Nation 62 – Hurricane Party – Hurricane Issac coverage, Solder a Type N connector and more.
  • Ham Nation 61 – Huntsville Hamfest – Coverage of the 2012 Huntsville Hamfest, Joe Eisenberg on kits, and more.
  • Ham Nation 60 – Chatrooms And Contests – Amanda returns, back to school with Gordon, capacitive reactance, and more.
  • Ham Nation 59 – Meet The Net Control Operators – Amateur Microwave Event, Introduction to Resistors, Icom Contest and more.
  • Ham Nation 58 – Lonnie W0GZV talks about Fi-Fi – The B-29 bomber, Quantum Sphere batteries, grounding revisited, and more.
  • Ham Nation 57 – Tom, HQA Radio – Tom, KB4HQA recovers from Dayton accident, Maker Faire, Grounding, and more.
  • Ham Nation 56 – Mobile HF Antennas – Going HF mobile, Gonset Communicator restoration, Raspberry Pi, and more.
  • Ham Nation 55 – George's New Studio – Anacapa balloon probe, Bob’s new antenna farm, constructing George’s new shack studio, and more.

More episodes can be viewed and downloaded here

Show notes

Below are detailed show notes for released episodes. These are updated as soon as possible as time allows and/or as much community effort is put into them.

Additional show notes for Ham Nation can be found here.

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