RAIN Report Podcast

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #113, posted 04-20-24. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 12M00S there is a station ID at 06M0S then timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] Bob Heil/K9EID was the only microphone manufacturer to be inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. Bob passed on February 28, 2024. This is our third and final excer...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #112, posted 04-06-24. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 17M28S there is a station ID at 07M59S then timer resets approximately every 4 minutes.] So what microphone did Bob Heil, K9IED detest the most? We'll find out in Part 2 of Hap Holly/KC9RP interview with Bob back in 2018. The microphone world has never been qu...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #111, posted 03-23-24. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 18M01S there is a station ID at 08M50S then timer resets approximately every 4 minutes.] The world lost a pioneer in microphone technology on Feb. 28, 2024--Bob Heil/K9EID. He was 83. In 2018, Hap Holly/KC9RP interviewed Bob for the RAIN Report. This week In Bob’s...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #110, posted 03-09-24. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 22M22S there is a station ID at 09M58S then timer resets approximately every 4 minutes.] We hope you enjoyed the first part of a truly entertaining after-dinner talk about ham radio we shared with you the last time. It’s called “Your Code Record is Cracked.” It wa...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #109, posted 02-28-24. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 17M54S there is a station ID at 08M58S then 4 second timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] When is the last time you heard a truly entertaining after-dinner talk about ham radio? Well, here’s one from Hap Holly/KC9RP’s archive called "Your Code Record...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #108, posted 02-12-24. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR, back after a couple months of RNR while Kent Peterson/KC0DGY loaned his voice to this biweekly podcast. Good job, Kent, and mega thanks from both Hap and me for your help. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 19M33S there is a station ID at 09M58S then timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] It’...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #107, posted 01-27-24. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 10M55S with timer resets approximately every 4 minutes.] If you have noodled around the hf ham bands; you already know the chances of connecting with someone you haven’t spoken to in decades are remote. This isn’t to say it doesn’t happen...it does! This is the...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #106, posted 01-13-24. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 19M42S with a station break at 9M19S and timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] Today, we are dipping into the RAIN Report archives... Almost 30 years ago the Northern California DX Foundation launched its International Beacon Project. It’s still a functi...

You've connected with RAIN Hamcast Podcast #105, for 1-1-2024. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. Happy New Year! [Total playing time is 20+ minutes. There is a station ID midway through with 03S pauses approximately every 03M0S for timer resets] The RAIN Hamcast Podcast #105 consists of a December, 1987 podcast consisting of an early audio interview with April Moell, WA6OPS, a driving force in t...

You've connected with RAIN Hamcast Podcast #103, for 12-16-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [Total playing time is 15M44S. There is a station ID at 09M34S and 03S pauses every 02M50S for timer resets] In this Hamcast we’ll be honoring the late Oren Brand/K9KEJ, who became a silent key November 15, 2023. Oren was a ham whose voice was heard across the United States on Saturdays for decades o...

[The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 15M57S with a 10-second station break after 8M55S. There are 3-second breaks every 2M50S.] For this episode, we’re going to step back to a RAIN Report from early 2004, voiced by Blair Alper/KA9SEQ, reviewing a scary event that took place in South America, Nov. 18, 1978 with some ham radio elements. As a postscript to this intriguing RAIN Report, i...

For November 18, 2023, This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #101, voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 14M31S with timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] In May, 2022 a legally blind resident of Janesville, WI studied for and passed the Amateur Radio technician exam to become a ham. She's Ericka Nelson/KD9VBX. Ericka works for the Industries For...

You've connected with RAIN Hamcast Podcast #100, for 11-4-2023. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [Total playing time is 14M25S with a station ID at 8M53S, and 2S pauses every 3M.] If you are an HF officionado, just how low can you go? According to the ARRL website, U.S. hams could not transmit below 160 meters (1.8 mHz until 2012. That’s when the World Administrative Radio Conference voted to r...

Greetings to this replay of a RAIN Report from 2017, read by Will Rogers, K5WLR. [Total playing time is 10M35S with a station break at 6M31S.] If you built electronic kits while growing up, especially those marketed by HeathKit, chances are you used a small plastic too called a Nut Starter. Did you know HeathKit did not manufacture the Nut Starter? A young man named John Brake sold tools to HeathK...

You've connected with RAIN Hamcast Podcast #98, for 10-07-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [Total playing times is 15M57S with a 10-second, FCC-mandated break at 08M45S] Did you write for a ham radio news letter in years past but don’t know the whereabouts of all those columns you wrote? Or do you have a file cabinet full of old communications news letter that you don’t know what to do with...

This is RAIN Hamcast podcast #97: Radio Shack Goes 202 in '91 - Part 2, posted 09-23-23, voiced by Kent Peterson, KC0DGY. [The running times for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 14M28S; with a station break at 8M48S. Short timer resets occur approximately every 2M50S.] In the late 1980s Radio Shack made history in the ham radio world with the introduction of its first Amateur Radio transceiver, th...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #96, posted 09-13-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 14M014S with a station break at 8M46S. Short timer resets occur approximately every 2M50S.] Did you frequently shop at your local Radio Shack store in the 90s? In August, 1991 7,000 copies of the Fall Radio Shack catalog were mailed out with an ad on page 68 tha...

This is RAIN Hamcast podcast #64: He Built A Better Mouse Trap, posted 04-02-22, voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running times for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 16M30S/06M22S; timer pauses: 03M38S, 06M22S, 09M26S, 12M21S, 15M19S] What were you doing when you were 20? Tony Berg/K9ASB was delivering pizzas in the Chicago area...not a very promising future doing that. Little did he or anyone else re...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #95, posted 08-26-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KC0DGY. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 15M04S with a station break at 8M24S. Short timer resets occur approximately every 2M50S.] January 15, 1991 was the beginning of Operation Desert Storm for the U.S. armed forces. It was, however, a red-letter day for Passport to World Band Radio, a shortwave pub...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #94, posted 08-12-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KD0DGY, sitting in for Will Rogers/K5WLR for a few weeks. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 10M47S with an ID break at about 5M50S. EchoLink and AllStar timer resets are approximately every 2M50S.] Back when you were in high school or college, did you ever almost buy a used car until you realized its A....

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #93, posted 07-29-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson/KD0DGY, sitting in for Will Rogers/K5WLR, who is mending his wife back to health. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 14M40S with an ID break at about 8M50S. EchoLink and AllStar timer resets are approximately every 2M50S.] When you passed your license exam and received your ham radio call sign, you learn...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #92, posted 07-02-23. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 13M06S with timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] This is a RAIN Replay , voiced by Blair Alper, KA9SEQ. In the early to mid 1990s Mark Thompson, WB9QZB penned a column entitled Bites from QZB. These were often controversial but always thought provoking commentaries. While the focus of...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #91, posted 06-17-23. Voiced by Kent Peterson. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 17M56S with timer resets approximately every 2M50S minutes.] This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #91 for June 17, 2023;, voiced by Kent Peterson. Gordon West, WB6NOA is one of the most recognizable hams in Amateur Radio today. Few Amateur Radio operators have successfully...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #90, posted 06-03-23. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 17M48S with timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.] In this edition we bring you our second excerpt from an autobiographical presentation given by ham radio author and cheerleader, Gordon West, WB6NOA. This entertaining presentation was first heard on Eric Gut...

This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #89, posted 05-21-23. Voiced by Will Rogers/K5WLR. [The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 18M25S with timer resets approximately every 3 minutes, beginning at 2M50S.] - --A replay of RAIN Hamcast 20 from May 29th, 2020--- Just who is ham radio's #1 cheerleader? It's Gordon West, WB6NOA. In the summer of 2019 Gordo was interviewed by Eric Guth, 4...