Items of Interest: Congratulations to Jack Frisch who changed his call sign from KO4WFL to K2ITZ. HOW AMATEUR RADIO LAUNCHED THE WORLD’S FIRST PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE There are more than 1,600 CubeSats in orbit around the Earth, with more than …
Items of Interest: The story of the broadband dipole A dipole can be broadbanded by a number of techniques including by matching with resonant sections of transmission feed lines. For more information about Jasper County Electronic Recycling: Click Here Humor: Meetings: …
Items of Interest: Unknown space object beams out radio signals every 18 minutes While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of energy — and it’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. …
Items of Interest:What does ’73’ mean and why do ham radio operators say it? Have you ever stopped to think why we use that number to end a contact? The answer takes us all the way back to the days …
2022 Club Survey Click on this link to provide your input to the club activities in 2022. Decided to keep it open one more week, since only 12 people responded as of last week. Items of Interest: What’s On Short-Wave …
2022 Club Survey Click on this link to provide your input to the club activities in 2022. This is the last week it will be open for input. Items of Interest: Practical Amateur Radio Grounding The single point ground in …
2022 club survey Click on this link to provide your input to the club activities in 2022 Items of Interest: Samuel Morse Starts a Communications Revolution As a young man, Samuel Morse set out to become a famous painter. His …
Items of Interest: Ham radio school.com Recent Articles – Ham Radio School.com Common Mode Choke Design and Material Selection Presentation: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 11:00 am U.S. EST The common mode choke is a critical component in electromagnetic interference …
Items of Interest: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history as it became the first spacecraft to “touch the sun.” The probe was launched in 2018 to study the solar winds that emanate from the sun. After circling the sun eight times, …
Items of Interest: What Ham Radio Can Teach Us About Power Efficiency It turns out that the work of “silly” energy efficiency hobbyists can do a lot of good in the world. Humor: T’was the night before Christmas,And all through …
