Ice Cream Social in Troy, NY

This past Sunday over a dozen amateur radio operators gathered at the Snowman in Troy, NY for the weekly ice cream social. A new location is established every week, usually Sundays around 3 PM. Listen to TheBIG94 for details and upcoming locations. Photo taken by K9SMB. Pictured from left to right starting in the far …

Rolled Ice Cream with TheBIG94, Ice Cream Social!

Have you ever heard of rolled ice cream? It is absolutely fascinating! Join us today at 3pm in Clifton Park at a place called Icy Point. Their website and location are listed below. Anyone and everyone is invited. Especially scanner listeners. Tune into TheBIG94 today! 146.940 on your FM amateur radio dial. Icy Point Rolling …

Pictures from Field Day 2021

We had a really great turn out for the first BIG94 Field Day! The event took place from 2pm until 8:30pm at the Halfmoon Lighthouse Park in Waterford, New York on Saturday June 26th. A handful of ham radio operators arrived around noon time to help secure the site and setup equipment. Everyone had a …

TheBIG94 Field Day Event 6/26 at 2pm!

The upcoming Field Day event will be held on Saturday 6/26 at the Halfmoon Lighthouse Park on Route 4 in Waterford, NY. Field Day will run from 2pm to 8pm at this location. If you would like to help setup please arrive around 12pm. The address and pictures of the location can be found below. …

TheBIG94 QR code!

Robert Isby K2RHI, is the control operator for TheBIG94 repeater 146.940. His dedication, hard work and expertise behind the scenes is one of many reasons why TheBIG94 is the premier ham radio repeater in the capital region. It has amazing audio, a gigantic footprint and top notch equipment. Plus, it's one of the oldest repeaters …

Tech Tuesday – Happy DOS-cember!

I will be the first to admit, when someone starts talking about retro computers, or retro games, I will go bananas. Why? Because I still have one foot firmly in the 80's and early 90's.  Why? Because I am a Commodork! Commodork /com-oh-dork/ noun 1. A person who is addicted to or a lover of …

Tech Tuesday – The House that M1 is Building

For transparency I am a former Apple Employee, but that doesn't change the fact that an AWS virtualization engineer, got Windows 10 running on a new Apple M1 Macbook Pro, and it was pretty damn snappy! Faster than Microsoft's Surface Pro, which is also ARM based, like Apple's M1 chips. The article published by ZDNet, …

Tech Tuesday – Save Your Fork, There’s Pi! (Reduex)

Back when I was doing the original Tech Tuesday on the radio station blogs, is about the time the first Raspberry Pi came out. And it really was a game changer! Inexpensive, small and powerful with a ton of features for the homebrewer and kit basher, as well as the all around loveable geeks like …

Tech Tuesday – Don’t Discount The Dipole

You know, a lot of times, I see people post on social media and ask other Ham Radio ops, "What's a good antenna to use?" That on the surface is a loaded question (Get it? Loaded? OK.. moving on.). It really depends on what bands you want to work, your space considerations, topography and a …

Zero Gravity Amateur Radio!

The first ham radio operator in space was a NASA astronaut by the name of Owen Garriott. His callsign was W5LFL, he used a 2-meter radio to chat with King Hussein of Jordan, senator Barry Goldwater and also his mother. This occurred on November 28, 1983. Owen SK'ed April 15th, 2019. On November 15th, 2020 SpaceX launched four astronauts …