Here’s a sneak preview of my new podcast, the No Nonsense Amateur Radio Podcast. Co-hosted by Tom, KB5RF, we’re going to attempt to do 20-30 minutes on where we are and where we’re going in amateur radio. It should be fun. Let me know what you think.
The No Nonsense Amateur Radio Podcast is available on iHeartRadio, iTunes and Stitcher. You can also listen to it on any Android device by downloading the app Ham Radio Podcasts Free, or you can also subscribe directly using the RSS feed.
I enjoy reading your blog, and hearing you on ICQ so I’m looking forward to this – there’s a couple different podcasts I like, but I don’t think anyone else is doing a short-format rag-chewish type thing on a regular basis. I love the long podcasts becasue I do a lot of driving for work, but something like this would fit the bill for me when I am just bopping around town doing errands on the weekend.
We probably don’t meet the “regular basis” requirement, but I run Phasing Line, which is pretty much a 30min – 1.5hr long ragchew — http://phasinglinepodcast.com/
That was a great analysis of the current state of ham radio, and you guys kept the focus on radio whiled discussing digital modes which is not the usual tone of discussions on the subject of radio. I liked how you pointed out that ham isn’t dying but is just evolving along with technology. it seems that your perspective on this isn’t de rigueur, which is to my mind a refreshing and more realistic than one usually encounters in these types of discussions.
I like the positive aspect of this podcast, and instead of finding things to criticize about current trends in amateur radio and condemning the way people are using radio today you both were very supportive of that while giving a nod to the traditions of the hobby.
73!
Nice episode! I agree that social groups tend to say the sky is falling when it’s just changing. These things need reflect incipient social change because it’s when “traditional authority” to define how things are supposed to be is eroding. It’s a natural social, not personal, process…
Just watch someone who was a child in a family of little means in the Great Depression. They tend to be very frugal and call what others consider normal consumption as “wasteful”.
Thanks for the episode guys! The topic really resounds with me :)
Wondering if you’ll be hosting this on an RSS feed; podcast players don’t parse Soundcloud as well as they should.
Disregard the last comment – I found the RSS feed, and it works fine.