Amatuer Extra’s

Change Club Station Trustee

This past year our club station trustee, Dennis Riise, K5AVT passed away, requiring our club to quickly submit forms to assign a new station trustee. Not knowing the process, I turned to the ARRL and looked at their Club Station FAQ [1]. Scanning the FAQ (Frequently...

“This Thing of Ours”

“This Thing of Ours”

As some of you may know, I was first licensed some 26 years ago – I earned my Technician license shortly after the FCC dropped the Morse Code requirement. I had been interested in getting a license since I was in the 7th grade in California. I attended a class put on...

DMR Project

For the month of May, I’m working on a special project I’d like to share with the club, I want to demonstrate DMR radio and walk the club members through the steps of building a hotspot of their own, configuring it, programming a DMR radio to use it, and help anyone...

Contest University (CTU) USA 2020

I have been to the Dayton Hamfest three times, and the last two times I made a point of participating in Contest University, organized by Tim Duffy, K3LR, and several corporate sponsors, including both DX Engineering and Icom America. I attend CTU (as it is referred...

Attaching Crimp-On PL-259 Connectors (Video)

This is a video by Dave Cassler, KE0OG, which briefly demonstrates attaching crimp on PL-259 connectors using a crimp kit similar to the one Dave uses, though I don't believe our kit came with  crimp dies for Anderson Power Pole connectors (the club also has an...

Motorola CM300 VHF Mobile Radio

I have wanted a Motorola radio since before I became a licensed Ham – I’d been fascinated with the radios I saw in the television shows ofmy childhood Adam-12, Emergency, and S.W.A.T., especially the EMT radio “Go-box” (as we would call it today) called the “Biophone”...

Repeater Update!

Repeater Update!

As you may already be aware, the bulk of our repeater upgrade/update project was completed a few days ago, but some work still remains.When the three club repeaters were brought down, reconfigured, and re-racked, we apparently introduced some problems into...

How-to: Paper copy of your FCC license

How-to: Paper copy of your FCC license

Back in February, 2015 the FCC suspended the issuance of mailing printed copies of new/renewed/updated Amateur Radio Licenses and instead directs licensees to their Universal License Manager System to print their license. To access their license on the FCC website, a...

Short Review: Baofeng BF-888S

Short Review: Baofeng BF-888S

Short Review: Baofeng BF-888S Let’s get the adjectives out of the way – inexpensive, available, simple, limited. Those words describe the Baofeng BF-888s, a 70CM monoband HT available from Amazon.com for $11.70 each. They are not field programmable (this is a plus in...

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Change Club Station Trustee

This past year our club station trustee, Dennis Riise, K5AVT passed away, requiring our club to quickly submit forms to assign a new station trustee. Not knowing the process, I turned to the ARRL and looked at their Club Station FAQ [1]. Scanning the FAQ (Frequently...

“This Thing of Ours”

As some of you may know, I was first licensed some 26 years ago – I earned my Technician license shortly after the FCC dropped the Morse Code requirement. I had been interested in getting a license since I was in the 7th grade in California. I attended a class put on...

DMR Project

For the month of May, I’m working on a special project I’d like to share with the club, I want to demonstrate DMR radio and walk the club members through the steps of building a hotspot of their own, configuring it, programming a DMR radio to use it, and help anyone...

Contest University (CTU) USA 2020

I have been to the Dayton Hamfest three times, and the last two times I made a point of participating in Contest University, organized by Tim Duffy, K3LR, and several corporate sponsors, including both DX Engineering and Icom America. I attend CTU (as it is referred...

Attaching Crimp-On PL-259 Connectors (Video)

This is a video by Dave Cassler, KE0OG, which briefly demonstrates attaching crimp on PL-259 connectors using a crimp kit similar to the one Dave uses, though I don't believe our kit came with  crimp dies for Anderson Power Pole connectors (the club also has an...

Motorola CM300 VHF Mobile Radio

I have wanted a Motorola radio since before I became a licensed Ham – I’d been fascinated with the radios I saw in the television shows ofmy childhood Adam-12, Emergency, and S.W.A.T., especially the EMT radio “Go-box” (as we would call it today) called the “Biophone”...

Repeater Update!

As you may already be aware, the bulk of our repeater upgrade/update project was completed a few days ago, but some work still remains.When the three club repeaters were brought down, reconfigured, and re-racked, we apparently introduced some problems into...

How-to: Paper copy of your FCC license

Back in February, 2015 the FCC suspended the issuance of mailing printed copies of new/renewed/updated Amateur Radio Licenses and instead directs licensees to their Universal License Manager System to print their license. To access their license on the FCC website, a...

Short Review: Baofeng BF-888S

Short Review: Baofeng BF-888S Let’s get the adjectives out of the way – inexpensive, available, simple, limited. Those words describe the Baofeng BF-888s, a 70CM monoband HT available from Amazon.com for $11.70 each. They are not field programmable (this is a plus in...

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