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E0A – Safety: RF radiation hazards, hazardous materials, grounding. 49:39

George and Mike’s Excellent Adventure to Dayton Hamvention 2024. New radios, old radios, mystery radio and friends. Take your best guess at what new radio Icom has under glass. Learn more about the new Flex radios. Visit with good friends we all know. See 60 years of Icom Radio History. And find out about Emile’s Cheap Old Field Day plans. 1:28:36

E9H Receiving Antennas: radio direction finding antennas, Beverage antennas, specialized receiving antennas, long-wire receiving antennas. 40:29

DXing the entire AM Broadcast Band during the 2024 solar eclipse. Rattlegram, a new digital text messaging mode for HF/VHF/UHF recreational and emergency communications. Smith charts with the NanoVNA. 1:29:19

E9G The Smith chart 36:52

Can’t find the tool you need? Make it. Economical heat shrink tubing labels. Emile’s out of this world NASA adventure. Mike’s BitX40 build part 2. Kicking the tires of Icom’s IC-905. 1:23:19

E9F Transmission lines: characteristics of open and shorted feed lines, coax versus open-wire, velocity factor, electrical length, coaxial cable dielectrics. 49:59

Our visit to the Capital City Hamfest in Jackson, MS with a few old friends. A very rare Icom radio stack. Louisiana ARES Winlink forms and tactics. 1:03:11

E9E Matching: Matching Antennas to Feed Lines, Phasing Lines, and Power Dividers. 42:12

George hacks a gamer headset for radio use. Emile has video from Swamps On The Air. Mike begins his BitX 40 build. 1:04:20

E9D Yagi antennas, parabolic reflectors, circular polarization, loading coils, top loading, feed point impedance of electrically short antennas, antenna Q, RF grounding. 47:13

AmateurLogic’s Annual Christmas Extravaganza. Tommy upgrades his N5BOC Hotspot with a new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and it’s fast. Emile updates his hotspot with the WPSD Project. ALTV’s 2023 Gift Guide for last minute shoppers and slackers. Sampling the tastes of the holidays. 1:18:01

E9C Practical wire antennas, folded dipoles, phased arrays, effects of ground near antennas. 42:25

Tommy builds the M5 Ham Radio project. George makes a high quality 4:1 Balun. Mike assembles a Buck/Boost converter device for use with QRP operations. 58:56

E9B Antenna patterns and designs: E and H plane patterns, gain as a function of pattern,antenna modeling. 38:09

AmateurLogic.TV celebrates 18 years on the air. George reviews the Craftsman Battery Powered Soldering Iron. Jocelyn demonstrates the MFJ-1898 Portable HF + 6 Meter Antenna. Emile introduces Outlook Package Message Manager. Mike explores OpenWebRX +. Announcing the winner of our 18th Anniversary contest and Icom IC-705 prize package giveaway. 1:26:43

E9A Basic Antenna parameters: radiation resistance, gain, beamwidth, efficiency, effective radiated power. 57:59

Mike exposes an Unun. Tommy renews his FCC License step by step. Emile hits the Pi Bullseye. Announcing our 18th Anniversary Contest with an Icom IC-705 and a package of great accessories from MFJ. Contest details are available at https://amateurlogic.tv/contest 1:19:47

E8D Keying defects and overmodulation of digital signals, digital codes, spread spectrum 51:57

Visits with friends at Huntsville Hamfest 2023. Plus Emile’s adventures at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. 1:22:33

E8C Digital signals: digital communication modes, information rate vs. bandwidth, error correction. 47:43

W5AXC and W5SLA Field Day Events. JPC-12 40-6 Meter Vertical Antenna. Friedrichshafen 2023 1:30:00

E8B Modulation and demodulation: modulation methods, modulation index and deviation ratio, frequency and time division multiplexing, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing and balanced modulators, detectors, mixer stages. 58:29

Tips and tricks for a cheap old field day. Bluetti EB3A Portable Power Station. Building a high quality 1:1 balun. 1:16:04

George & Mike cover the premiere Hamfest of the season, Hamvention 2023. Visits with friends and vendors. Plus some great new finds you may not be aware of. Hamvention is always a fun, entertaining event and this year was no different. 1:39:34

E7H Oscillators and signal sources: types of oscillators, synthesizers and phase-locked loops, direct digital synthesizers, stabilizing thermal drift, microphonics, high-accuracy oscillators. 59:40

Emile builds a Geaux Baux. Software for NanoVNA analyzers. Dual Band Satellite Yagi, The Sequel. 1:20:24

E7G Active filters and op-amp circuits: active audio filters, characteristics, basic circuit design, operational amplifiers. 51:22

George takes to the swamp for a 50 Kilowatt ‘Tales From The Transmitter Site’. Tommy explores BlueDV OTG. Mike builds a dual band Yagi for working the satellites. 1:20:47

E7F DSP filtering and other operations, software defined radio fundamentals, DSP modulation and demodulation. 1:00:07

Easily and cheaply control relays over a USB port. Nano VNA explorations. Brutal Winter Field Day rearview mirror edition. 1:06:31

E7E Modulation and demodulation: reactance, phase and balanced modulators, detectors, mixer stages. 48:54

George demonstrates how to cut a quarter wave stub to notch out interference. Emile packs for 2023 Winter Field Day. Mike explores W0CHP PiStar Dashboard. Plus, mysterious solar powered antennas installations are popping up. How could this be cryptocurrency miners? 1:27:11

E7D Power supplies and voltage regulators, Solar array charge controllers. 1:01:03

Tommy uses Chirp open source software to program his transceiver. Emile discusses a tactical net in the Slidell area using Amateur Radio, GMRS and FRS. No ALTV Christmas episode would be complete without some comic entertainment. In the spirit of the season we present ‘Cheap Old 2022 Rear End Review’ and ‘AmateurLogic.TV Crazy Cheap Close-Out’. 1:38:57

E7C Filters and matching networks: types of networks, types of filters, filter applications, filter characteristics, impedance matching, DSP filtering. 51:19

Kay Savitz, K6KJN joins us to discuss the Internet archive.org special project that’s creating a huge online arena of Ham Radio resources. Learn what’s available and how you can enjoy it for years to come. Tommy updates us on the latest version of the VC4SL battery charger. Emile’s got the scoop on Pi-Star’s Brandmeister DMR API update. Plus a short tribute to our good friend and a truly great Ham, Andy Anderson, AA0WX. 1:25:44

E7B Amplifiers:(part 2 of 2) Class of operation, vacuum tube and solid-state circuits, distortion and intermodulation, spurious and parasitic suppression, microwave amplifiers, switching-type amplifiers. 54:01

Join the AmateurLogic crew as we celebrate 17 years. Announcing the winner of the Icom IC-705 portable transceiver and MFJ 8-Band Compact Antenna package. RSP Spectrum Analyzer, Open-Weather on-line satellite image decoder, Irwin Vice Grip Wire Strippers, and a visit from Peter, VK3PB. 1:19:42

E7B Amplifiers:(part 1 of 2) Class of operation, vacuum tube and solid-state circuits, distortion and intermodulation, spurious and parasitic suppression, microwave amplifiers, switching-type amplifiers. 1:11:47

Huntsville Hamfest was back full strength this year and we visited with lots of friends. Here’s our wrap up of the 2022 Huntsville Hamfest. Also, AmateurLogic.TV celebrates 17 years October 15, 2022. We’ve teamed up with Icom America and MFJ again for another great anniversary contest. Prizes include an Icom IC-705 transceiver, MFJ 8-band compact HF Antenna and Power Supply. Get all the details on how you can register to win. 2:50:00

E7A Digital circuits: digital circuit principles and logic circuits, classes of logic elements, positive and negative logic, frequency dividers, truth tables. 1:03:53

A super cheap Hotspot. Thrifty Old Digital Update Roundup. Modding Pi-Star to include M-17. DVMega Globetrotter opens up your digital possibilities. 1:16:00

E6F Electro-optical technology: photoconductivity, photovoltaic devices, optical sensors and encoders, optical isolation. 50:38

Field Day up North. Field Day down South. A Rockin Field Day out West. Cheap Old Field Day segment. An Apocalyptic Field day. 1:34:04

E6E Analog ICs: MMICs, IC packaging characteristics 42:03

When it comes to finding the best value at a hamfest, no one sniffs out the bargains like the Cheap Old Man. Follow George and Emile as they explore Hamvention 2022. Mike continues his controversial discussion with ‘To Ground, or Not To Ground’. Tommy shows how to use ‘Terminal Mode’ for easy D-Star network communications without a repeater or hotspot. 1:52:40

E6D Toroidal and Solenoidal Inductors: permeability, core material, selecting, winding, transformers, piezoelectric devices. 56:54

Driving a ground rod using water. Windows 3.0, GEOS, CPM, GEM and MS-DOS on a microcontroller. APRS FI explored. On our way to Dayton. 1:07:42

E6C Digital ICs: Families of digital ICs, gates, Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs). 51:15