The video version of this episode is at: https://youtu.be/fpmh9S49Fis Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (a project of the Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/dlarc Zero Retries Newsletter: https://www.zeroretries.org Kay discussed the recent security issues at the Internet Archive, which is now 95% back to normal. Steve s…

The DLARC both at Pacificon featured the words FREE ONLINE HAM RADIO LIBRARY Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (a project of the Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/dlarc Zero Retries Newsletter: https://www.zeroretries.org The video version of this episode is at: https://youtu.be/Mbv0f7GKUdo Kay and Steve discussed their…

The video version of this episode is at: http://archive.org/details/store-and-forward-7 Steve is relieved that the Comment and Reply Comment periods for FCC Docket 24-240 https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:(%2224-240%22)) have ended. It’s been a pretty intense month of writing for him. Now it remains for the …

The video version of this episode is at: https://archive.org/details/store-and-forward-6 Kay discusses a subset of the ongoing DLARC project of Bob Cooper archive – https://archive.org/details/bob-cooper, discussing an obscure newsletter of Cooper’s called “Coops Technology Digest”. Despite the donation of a container full of Cooper’s personal arch…

Video version of this episode: https://archive.org/details/store-and-forward-5 Kay and Steve were prepared to tell each other about a great, newly released video of US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper’s 1982 talk to the US “No Such Agency”. In these videos, the late Admiral Hopper was in great form, with lots of humor and history about her career in …

Kay discusses their trip to Lima, Ohio to Fair Radio Sales – https://fairradio.com/, one of the last true military and government surplus stores (mostly electronic equipment). Fair Radio Sales is going out of business so the owner can retire. The business and its inventory is being auctioned and everything must go including a large amount of docume…

Our longest episode ever! Kay tells of their trip to Denver to sort through Bob Cooper’s material, and learns the story of HBO signal hacker Captain Midnight. Steve gushes about Bennett Z. Kobb’s book Wireless Spectrum Finder and “Irrational Exuberance in Amateur Radio” in Zero Retries 0162 this week – https://www.zeroretries.org/p/zero-retries-016…

In this episode, Kay discusses their summer travel plans to collect material for DLARC, and Steve talks about beginning the fourth year of the Zero Retries newsletter. Sites mentioned in this episode: Texas Packet Radio Society (TPRS) Quarterly Report newsletter https://archive.org/details/texas-packet-radio Bob Cooper’s web site http://bobcooper.t…

In the first episode of the podcast, Kay and Steve explain why they’re interested in amateur radio’s future… and past. Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications http://archive.org/details/dlarc Zero Retries newsletter https://www.zeroretries.org/ LinuxFest Northwest https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ MFJ Library https://archive.org/details/MFJ…