Store and Forward episode 3

Store and Forward

Our longest episode ever! Kay tells of their trip to Denver to sort through Bob Cooper’s material, and learns the story of HBO signal hacker Captain Midnight. Steve gushes about Bennett Z. Kobb’s book Wireless Spectrum Finder and “Irrational Exuberance in Amateur Radio” in Zero Retries 0162 this week – https://www.zeroretries.org/p/zero-retries-0162. Steve talks a bit about the weird unlicensed / Amateur Radio band at 902 – 928 MHz.

Bob Cooper Archive at DLARC (work in progress): https://archive.org/details/bob-cooper?sort=-addeddate

Shout out to Dan, the proprietor of Dr. Dan’s Vintage Audio Repair in Denver – https://drdanselectronics.weebly.com/#/. He worked with Kay find a good home for the electronics units that were part of the Bob Cooper collection that otherwise would have ended up in an electronics recycling bin.

Wireless spectrum finder: telecommunications, government, and scientific radio frequency allocations in the U.S., 30 MHz-300 GHz by Author Bennett Z. Kobb AK4AV https://archive.org/details/wirelessspectrum0000kobb

Primary theme of Zero Retries 0162 was “Irrational Exuberance”. ​​https://www.zeroretries.org/p/zero-retries-0162

Dan Romanchik KB6NU:

• Hackers On Planet Earth conference https://hope.net
• Article – Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? – https://www.kb6nu.com/back-to-the-future-are-hackers-the-future-of-amateur-radio/
• Article – Wanna work with satellites? Get an amateur radio license – https://www.kb6nu.com/wanna-work-with-satellites-get-an-amateur-radio-license/

Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications https://archive.org/details/dlarc

Video version of this episode: https://archive.org/details/store-and-forward-3