On Christmas Eve morning, December 24, 2022, the Alexander Grimeton Friendship Association, in southern Sweden will be on the air sending out a special Christmas message to the world. The event will begin at 08:30 CET (07:30 UTC) with the startup and tuning of the Alexanderson alternator transmitter through Grimeton Radio Station, call sign SAQ. […]
Same place as last year, INTERNATIONAL BUFFET (mostly Chinese, plus Sushi) at 48th and L St in Omaha, Thursday the 29th at 6:30 PM (plus or minus) for $12.99 plus tax and drink. . The ‘program’ is YOU with your Radio Related junk box Christmas Gift for a fellow Ham, and/or a Show and Tell […]
SWIARC Station Trustee Chris KF0FBL announced at the SWIARC November 2022 monthly Club meeting that the Club’s repeater site at Simms Avenue in Council Bluffs would have to be abandoned at some time in the future. This is the site that hosts the main portion of the K0SWI 146.82 repeater, with the exception of the […]
With Keith KE0AEP in charge of SWIARC Field Day this year, we were on the South side of Council Bluffs IA in a small park adjacent to (1 mile wide) Lake Manawa. . . This was the 43 foot HF vertical put up at our FDay site. . . And this was the inside of […]
This was the next to last Saturday morning gathering at Lake Manawa because it’s getting cold now. First Saturdays are in Mineola with Don WOAF who gets everyone to come to Tobey Jack’s for breakfast. Pic here shows Keith KEOAEP and a few others, at times discussing what happens when you measure a piece of […]
I think George KDONME (SK) would probably approve of this. He was a great Prepper. Suppose you’re on vacation and that Most Likely mini disaster occurs – the Lights Go Out. You’ve rented a boat and been out fishing, returning to find the power off – no lights, no air conditioning, no phone service for […]
One. In the same way raising your voice on AM or SSB increases ‘talk power’ and thereby perceived signal strength on the other end, raising your voice on an FM transmitter increases power density (signal power versus spectrum width) and therefore improved readability in a weak signal situation. . . This is a Spectrum Analyzer […]
Greeting you on arrival at the West side of Lake Manawa site were these three Amateur Radio banners plus four (4) decent size tents and a couple of generators. At the Noon safety meeting Keith KEOAEP handed out a number of items; a reprint of the safety page in QST magazine, and a large print […]
Let it be known… this was my (KONWJ) First Contest. Having only obtained my Tech license less than a year ago, I didn’t know what I was in for. . There was very clearly pent-up excitement for the ‘start’ of the contest. The local 146.52 & 446.00 freqs lit up when the clock struck 1pm… […]
This is a Direct Conversion radio. . i.e. It is not a Superheterodyne format receiver. And it does not have an RF stage of amplification. The ‘DC’ part means there is no Local Oscillator and therefore no Intermediate Frequency amp where the superhet gets most of its gain. And because there is only 1 tuned […]