Nathaniel Frizzell
Appearances
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
And it's a beautiful thing, and the different stations and people, they have to watch out for each other because it's a difficult environment down there.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
One of the unique characteristics of shortwave radio is that it can travel, the radio waves can travel long distances, very long distances around the world.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
If we did not have the ionosphere, these shortwave signals would travel off into space and not be able to travel around the globe.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
Well, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
Oh, it can be incredibly simple. You need a transmitter on one side and a receiver on the other and a decent antenna. And when I say a transmitter, there are some people who they make their goal to talk as far around the world as possible with as little as equipment as possible, as low power as possible.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
So maybe using a quarter of a watt and $10 worth of parts, people are able to send signals that go all the way around the globe.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
I just heard all this crackling and buzzing sounds coming out of the radio. And I heard him talking to these faraway places. And that was just really fascinating to me.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
And 73, this is W2NAF, Whiskey 2, November Alpha Foxtrot.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
And it was just a very short contact. But, you know, that was pretty neat. You just throw a wire out your window and you're able to talk to a guy in Hungary. And it worked.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
We don't really understand what happens on short timescales. Like, why is the ionosphere doing this in New York City but doing something else in Pennsylvania, overhead in Pennsylvania?
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
And so it's very important to try to understand how everything is connected together in order to make those systems more robust and in order to make them work.
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Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
I think a lot of ham radio for me has always been about connecting people from different parts of the world together. And if you even look at why ham radio exists, if you actually look in the laws, I believe it says that it's for international goodwill. And it's important to try and promote this international goodwill.