N4EGM SK
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
Ticks and Mosquitoes and Bedbugs, Oh My! by Michael F. Rein, MD MACP, KA4JJD
UVAToday and Cav Daily stories about W4UVA
AARC Monthly Meeting, 11 April 2017
Turn your D710A into a D710sortaGA
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
New 630m and 2200m bands in US!
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
AARC Monthly Meeting, 21 March 2017
How Power and Signal to Noise Works on the Low Bands
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
W4UVA and cubesats
Our sister club, W4UVA at the University of Virginia, is designing and building the ground station for the upcoming UVa cubesat mission. See the article at https://news.virginia.edu/content/just-houston-engineering-students-begin-work-satellite-ground-station for more information.
The story has also been picked up the the Southgate Amateur Radio News (http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/march/university-of-virginia-satellite-project.htm… Read the rest