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”
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...
How-to: Texas Amateur Radio Operator License Plate
Simple instructions for getting those “weird” license plates with your callsign on them for your car(s), with links to appropriate Texas state forms.
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...
How-to: Texas Amateur Radio Operator License Plate
Simple instructions for getting those “weird” license plates with your callsign on them for your car(s), with links to appropriate Texas state forms.
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...