N1UGK’s Amateur Radio Blog

When I was about 5 years old or so, my grandmother took me to the local Radio Shack store to get me a “transistor radio”.

As I have written in previous posts, my first programmable calculator was the Tandy PC-7, which happened to be the least capable pocket computer from the entire Radio Shack line.

Features Summary Provides cassette interface emulation to read and write programs and data directly to and from a micro SD card.

Slow Scan TV, or SSTV is a digital mode available to amateur radio operators which has been around way before FT8 and other digital modes.

Smartphones have almost completely replaced the landline telephone for home and personal use.

The Casio FX-702P was released in 1981, about one year after Sharp released their first BASIC programmable pocket computer, the PC-1210.

I remember the first time, and only time, I ever heard AM stereo.

The Casio FX-750P was released in 1984 and is similar in many ways to the Casio PB-700 / PB-770.

Quite a bit has changed over the years with respect to scanner radios.

The Casio FX-880P was released in 1991 and was a bit bigger than the PB-100 series, and added a data bank feature and scientific function library.