Kila, the Magic Husky's Ham Radio College featuring Kila and her Trusty Sidekick, Ben

Kila, the Magic Husky's Ham Radio College

featuring Kila and her Trusty Sidekick, Ben

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Episode 2 -- aired on February 22, 2016 -- What can we do with Ham Radio and the beginning study of Electricity

Listen to the episode 56.8 MB MP3

What is Ham Radio for?

Meeting new friends and learning about
- electronics
- Computers and microprocessors
- electric cars, boats and flying machines (yes, you can build your own drone)
- off-grid solar systems
Keeping in contact with friends and neighbors, as long as they’re hams too
- GMRS & CB & MURS are alternatives
- Keeping a radio available for emergencies outside cellular range
Chatting all day
- Like the internet, but without the monthly fees
- Or, if you can’t get the internet (or telephones)
Contests (including mountaintoping and field day)
Public Service
Traffic Handling

Electricity

Seven Kinds of Energy
1. Mechanical or Kinetic -- movement, motion, vibration, sound waves
2. Heat or Thermal -- actually, this is vibration or micromechanical energy
3. Gravitational -- we don't float away, ocean tides, spinning planets
4. Chemical -- Blood Sugar and burning logs
5. Light -- sunlight, lasers, photoluminesence
6. Nuclear -- just stuff coming out of rocks
7. Electrical -- static and current
8. (Potential) -- Stored; a book on shelf hasn't fallen yet (gravity), batteries (Chemical), energy which is available, but not yet used. I include it here only for completeness; whenever you read about energy, they'll say there are 2 kinds; Kinetic and Potential. I was always confused by that, myself. That's why I'm listing it here.
Atoms of elements and molecules
Neutrons (neutral), protons (+) in the nucleus and electrons (-) orbitting and their charges
Four States of matter: Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma
Two kinds of Electricity -- Static Electricity is like a lake full of water, heaving with energy, but the energy's just there; going nowhere, not doing anything in particular. Disorganized. Kaotic. Current Electricity is like a river, flowing only in one direction at a time in an organized measurable fasion. All electronics uses current electricity travelling through wires. Static Electricity is what you see in a lightning bolt, plasma arc or spark.
- Static Electricity
  - The Greek word for Amber (rubbed to make static electricity) is elektron.
  - Plasma
  - Lightening
  - Grounding
  - Radio Waves?
- Current Electricity
  - Electron flow and hole flow
  - Insulators, Conductors and Semi-conductors
  - 3 Kinds of electrical wire
    1. uninsulated
    2. enamelled
    3. insulated
  - How to build an electromagnet
  - Spark Gaps and Crystal Radios
- Coulomb's law:
  
  According to Wikipeda, "The magnitude of the electrostatic force of interaction between two point charges is directly proportional to the scalar multiplication of the magnitudes of charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them... If the two charges have the same sign, the electrostatic force between them is repulsive; if they have different signs, the force between them is attractive."
  
  Force is equal to the amount of charge of each of the two charges, multiplied together, multiplied by a constant to represent the permiability of air, all divided by the distance between them, squared. (Squared means, "times itself" -- that is, distance × distance)

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