NW7US

Episode 184 - Tomas Hood - NW7US

Tomas Hood, NW7US is the propagation editor of a number of shortwave and amateur radio magazines, and has a wide variety of websites,  that grew out of his love for all things radio, and  for listening on the bands to far off DX and commercial broadcast stations. Tomas shares his understanding  of propagation and the lessons we can learn from listening, really listening to the QSOs and exchanges during contest operation.

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Tomas Hood, NW7US Links

• Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/spacewx.hfradio
• Tomas’s Space Weather YouTube channel
• NW7US active blog
• On Twitter at: https://twitter.com/NW7US
• https://twitter.com/hfradiospacewx


• http://SunSpotWatch.com - The first, longest- and continuously-running non-governmental space-weather and radio-propagation web site is run by NW7US

Tomas’s Facebook Groups:
General Amateur Radio Groups:https://www.facebook.com/groups/amateurhamradiohttps://www.facebook.com/groups/swl.ham/https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamww/
Morse Code:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/radio.telegraph.operators/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/skcwqrp/
Digital Operations:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ham.digital.vhf.and.up/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.hf/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/olivia.hf/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/fsq.on.hf/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/IFKP.HF/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/jt65a/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/JT9.digital.hf/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hf.wspr/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FT8.HF6m/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/radio.digital.throb/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.thor/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.psk/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.domino/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.mfsk/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.hell/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.mt63/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.pactor/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digital.packet/

Sun Spots
Magnetic Storm

Sony Four Band Shortwave Portable

Radio Shack 150 Electronic Projects

First Elmer: Tom Billis, Salt Lake City

US Army Signal Corp

First License: Novice, 1990,  KA1VGL
Later: N7PMS

First Rig:
Kenwood TS-520S transceiver
Dentron Wire Tuner

Roller Inductor (see photo right)

Kenwood TS-830 transceiver

WARC Bands

Favorite operating mode: CW

Tomas is the propagation editor of:
CQ Communications Magazine
The Spectrum Monitor Magazine
CQ VHF Magazine
Popular Communications Magazine"
Radio User UK Magazine

Rich Moseson, W2VU, Editor of CQ Magazine, guest in QSO Today Episode 147

http://www.ESA.gov

http://IPS.gov.au

http://NASA.gov

Plasma Clouds from the Sun

WSPRnet

PSK Reporter

Aurora Oval

Solar Wind Parker Spirol

Most excited by:
Maker Movement
Prepper movement
Amateur radio as the “incubator of new ideas”.

Advice to new or returning hams:
Get a radio and begin to listen
Listen first, then transmit

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Kenwood TS-520 HF Transceiver

Kenwood TS-830S HF Transceiver

Roller Inductor