Episode 80 - Ward Silver, N0AX, & YASME

Hello and welcome to episode 80 of The DX Mentor – a discussion with Ward Silver, N0AX, about his journey, his many contributions to ham radio, and the YASME foundation. I’m Bill, AJ8B.

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Below are the links that we alluded to.

In addition to Ward, Joe, W8GEX will be joining us.

ARRL Handbook https://www.arrl.org/arrl-handbook-2023

ARRL Antenna Book https://www.arrl.org/arrl-antenna-book

Ham Radio for Dummies https://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/Ham%20Radio%20for%20Dummies.pdf

Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur

https://www.arrl.org/grounding-and-bonding-for-the-amateur

Western Washington DX Club https://www.wwdxc.org/

The YASME Foundation https://www.yasme.org/

The YASME Book https://www.yasme.org/the-yasme-book/

Kure Atoll DXpedition http://www.cordell.org/KURE/KURE_pages/KURE_KK6EK.html

Ham Sci https://hamsci.org/

Personal Space Weather Station https://hamsci.org/psws-overview/

WRTC 2014 and "Contact Sport"

https://wrtc2014.org/contact-sport-a-story-of-champions-airwaves-and-a-one-day-race-around-the-world/

Ray Tracey - Zone of Iniquity

https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracy-Iniquity-Ward-Silver/dp/1105584410

Contest Hall of Fame - https://contesthof.com/n0ax/

Southwest Ohio DX Assoc. https://www.swodxa.org

Daily DX https://www.dailydx.com/

DX Engineering https://www.dxengineering.com/

Icom https://www.icomamerica.com/

IC-905 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-905/

IC-9700 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-9700/

IC-7610 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7610/

IC-7300 https://www.icomamerica.com/lineup/products/IC-7300/