Weekly Club Newsletter
Items of Interest: Morse Code Key Collection This site shows a large collection of Morse keys classified by country with samples from all over the world — but mostly France. The new DXer’s Handbook — is available online Humor: Meetings: …
Items of Interest: Bob Wilson, N6TV, has updated his presentation, Everything You Need To Know About USB and Serial Interfaces. His presentation includes the history and evolution of serial ports, chipsets, software tools for troubleshooting, and how to best utilize …
Items of Interest: Transmitter hunting (also known as T-hunting, fox hunting, bunny hunting, and bunny chasing), is an activity wherein participants use radio direction finding techniques to locate one or more radio transmitters hidden within a designated search area. This activity is has an organized sport variation is known …
Items of Interest: The venerable 555 timer IC has been replicated using vacuum tubes. This is one of the most common integrated circuits made today, just not out of vacuum tubes. Everything You Need To Know About Coaxial Cable background …
Items of Interest: Ham Census This survey is divided into six parts, runs year-round delivering constantly updated results. The only caveat is that, though it is absolutely free for all to take and use, only those who complete all six …
Items of Interest: Bluffton Fire District Radio Test – May 19 Did you know that more than 50% of calls to Bluffton Fire District come from Sun City? The Bluffton Fire District is requesting our help to test the 2M …
Items of Interest: Star Wars sound designer is a radio enthusiast. His grandfather was a ham and that got him interested in electronics, radio and sound. Annual Armed Forces Day Cross-Band Test Set for May 7 – 8 The US …
Items of Interest: Looking to upgrade or know someone who is interested in getting a license? The Club will be sponsoring an FCC Amateur Radio license testing session at 10am on May 19, at Pinckney Hall. While the test session …
Items of Interest: Sunspot index graphicsThe yearly (black, up to 1750) and monthly (red, from 1750 up to now) sunspot numbers. Ham Radio 101for those new to ham radio, this DX engineering blog may help provide context to what is …
Items of Interest: Earthlings and astronauts chat away, via ham radio “It was absolutely unbelievable, to push that microphone button and call the International Space Station and then let go of the button and wait, and then you hear this …
