The HackPGH crew is headed to Dayton, OH this weekend for the Dayton Hamvention. Some of us have been there before, but for many of us it’s our first time. We are excited to see the sights and meet up with people there. If you are going to Dayton (and really why wouldn’t you be) [...]
On Sunday May 2nd HackPGH members Doug Philips, Sayan Chakraborty, and Matt Stultz put the amateur radio skills that they acquired at HackPittsburgh to good use by helping out with the Pittsburgh Marathon. Each year hams from around the community volunteer to help provide critical communications for the marathon. These jobs include passing on [...]
Attention amateur radio operators! This Friday at 7pm, join us at HackPittsburgh and learn about the Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System (NBEMS). Harry Bloomberg, an Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator for the Western PA Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), will talk about ARES, how the services works for Western PA and his responsibilities there.
Harry will also [...]
Beginning tonight (Jan. 4th) at 7pm, Monday Members Workshops are back at HackPittsburgh!
Monday workshops are free to all HackPittsburgh members and cover whatever topics our members want to teach and learn. Tonight, join us as we kick things off with these two workshops:
7pm – Amateur Radio Study Session – Study to earn your amateur radio [...]
Starting Monday, October 12th, HackPittsburgh president Matt Stultz is running members-only training classes for Amateur Radio Service (a.k.a. Ham radio) license certification.
Yesterday marked the first of these classes, with Matt running about 5 students through some of the question pools for the Technician class examination. Matt drilled us on questions about FCC licensing requirements and [...]
