by Ken Hansen | Feb 3, 2021 | Tech Corner
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...
by Ken Hansen | Apr 23, 2020 | Tech Corner
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...
by Ken Hansen | Mar 25, 2020 | Tech Corner
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...
by Ken Hansen | Dec 18, 2019 | Tech Corner
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”...
by Roger | Apr 18, 2017 | Tech Corner
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...
by Roger | Apr 18, 2017 | Tech Corner
Programming the Baofeng UV-82 for the Irving WA5CKF 146.720 repeater: In this example, I will use memory channel 70, but you should use whatever free channel you want or any channel you want to overwrite. Other than the number keys, we will use the MENU, EXIT/AB, UP,...
