Ham Hijinks Covered Dayton

The Ham Hijinks news team was very busy during the Dayton Hamvention making up news stories about the biggest ham radio event of the year. Those of you that stopped by to read and comment on the stories, we thank you. To those of you that thought the restroom story was real and called/emailed Dayton officials about it, we're still shaking our heads.

In case you missed it, you can read all of our Dayton coverage here.

What People Searched For, Installment #1

It's time for the first installment of "What People Searched For To Get To Noiseblankers.com"

The data is real, and we believe it to be the true pulse of amateur radio today. And now, we give you a random list of actual search terms used to get to noiseblankers.com in the past week, with some speculation thrown in for good measure:

• lady ham-radios yl on the air videos (We have some single guys in the club, so this may be our own fault. Likely, though, the searchers were looking for this article.)
• what happened to 14.313 (We can go on and on about what happened to that frequency. But, we think folks probably found this story or this one.)
• special mother in law (Don't we all have special mother-in-laws? This guy has one special enough to do a special event.)
• ham operator hit (Is this related to the Ham Radio Mafia mentioned here?)
• hamradio catcall (See bullet point #1)

Happy searching! We hope you enjoy the site.  - 73 de K5KVN -

Ham Hijinks On The Move!

It is with great surprise and wonderment that we announce that our satirical Ham Hijinks news articles at www.hamhijinks.com are actually being read by a few people. To say that we are giddy is an understatement. But wait, there's more!

In the past month, Ham Hijinks has gone international! Here are some of the places we have shown up:

• Translated to French on radioamateur.org (Merci beaucoup, Phillippe!)
• Translated to Ukrainian on the Ukrainian Radioamateur QRP Club forum.
• Translated to Spanish on the Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles website.
• Translated to Russian on the RadioJourney website.
• Featured in Wireless Dispatch from the Emergency Amateur Radio Club in Honolulu.
• Featured in The Wobbly Oscillator, the newsletter of the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Society.

We thank them for including us! If you would like to use any of our Ham Hijinks humor, just let us know. We're happy to share and would like to link back to you! Contact us with the details.

Introducing: Ham Radio Hijinks

The Noise Blankers believe that ham radio is immensely fun. Our mission is: 1) Do radio stuff; 2) Have fun doing it; and 3) Tell others just how much fun it is.

So, we bring you Ham Hijinks. It's a new section of our website, dedicated to completely made up, satirical and hysterically funny news stories and internet memes related to amateur radio. We'll add new stuff often. None of it is real. Or is it?

Please give it a read, come back often for new stories, share it, let us know what you think. It's ok to make fun of ourselves, right?