Volunteer Examiner Session
by Michael KA4JJD
On June 3, the Albemarle Amateur Radio Club held a Volunteer Examination Session at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory as part of the ARRL VEC. Michael KA4JJD, Jeff K4OLW, Ed N3US, Bob K4DU, Bill N0WP, and Bill N4VUF served as VEs.… Read the rest
The May 6 Daily Progress has an obituary for Gunther A “Dutch” Vogt, former Mayor of Charlottesville. In addition to many interests he held the call sign N4EGM. Some of you old time Charlottesvillians may remember the Dutch Vogt’s Ovenaire facility when it was located in Charlottesville. … Read the rest
Like many of you, I have a Kenwood TM-D710A mobile radio in my car. Among its many fine features and qualities, it has native APRS capability built in. The fly in the ointment is the need for an external GPS receiver. … Read the rest
Time to buy antenna wire in bulk quantities and start building really long antennas. We have two new bands!
http://www.arrl.org/news/new-bands-fcc-issues-amateur-radio-service-rules-for-630-meters-and-2-200-meters… Read the rest
Below is from the Top Band Mailing list and was sent to me by Alan Swinger, K9MBQ
Hi topband lovers,
The basic concept that explains how power and signal to noise ratio works on
low band is very simple. On high bands we need the signal to bounce back to
the Earth.… Read the rest