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\"SX-99-Dial\"<\/a><\/p>\n

London Shortwave<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

I’ve just discovered that there is an Amateur Radio equivalent of the StackOverflow website (a Q&A website for programmers where answers are upvoted\/downvoted according to a number of strict guidelines, ensuring answer relevance and quality).<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ham.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n

After a quick scan it seems that it contains many useful answers that are also relevant to SWLs, for example:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ham.stackexchange.com\/questions\/606\/can-i-reduce-rfi-noise-at-the-antenna<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very cool! With over 630 questions ham radio questions so far, there are many answers that can help SWLs. Thanks for sharing this, LS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London Shortwave writes: I’ve just discovered that there is an Amateur Radio equivalent of the StackOverflow website (a Q&A website for programmers where answers are upvoted\/downvoted according to a number of strict guidelines, ensuring answer relevance and quality). http:\/\/ham.stackexchange.com After a quick scan it seems that it contains many useful answers that are also relevant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43],"tags":[389,4102,3221,2704,4082],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-amateur-radio","tag-ham-radio","tag-ham-stack-exchange","tag-london-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2MQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16752,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/maritime-emergency-ham-radio-recording\/","url_meta":{"origin":10716,"position":0},"title":"Maritime emergency ham radio recording","author":"Thomas","date":"January 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"An SWLing Post reader recently sent me the following YouTube video--a recording\u00a0Hanz (W1JSB) made on the 20 meter ham band several years ago.\u00a0Here's his description from YouTube: Several years ago I was tuning around the 20 meter amateur radio band and heard this lively, engaging, and impressive exchange on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ham Radio"","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"maritime-exchange","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/maritime-exchange.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/maritime-exchange.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/maritime-exchange.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14670,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-enigma-event-an-on-air-exchange-of-encrypted-messages\/","url_meta":{"origin":10716,"position":1},"title":"The Enigma Event: an on-air exchange of encrypted messages","author":"Thomas","date":"September 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) Members of the ARI Fidenza will be activating special callsigns IO4ENG and IQ4FE during the 'Enigma Event'. 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