Our favourite vendor, Les WBOKFK of D&L Antenna, just bought an old 1939 radio made by RCA. He says: I bought a 1939 RCA K-130 in perfect condition today 100 bucks! Last time I saw one was 2nd grade November 1963. The teacher came to all of us weeping she had us listen to the […]

In case you missed the October program at the Omaha club meeting put on by Joe KONEB on Pirate radio and other oddities on HF (there were only 20 guys who showed up) here’s a great site for such info suggested by SWIARC member Rob NOSNW: HFunderground.com . Joe NEB has been doing a program […]

No one brought any radios to the Lake Manawa gathering on Saturday 09.09 but Joel KOOQL (One Quart Low) brought his father’s 1951 Mercury ‘woody’ station wagon and let us look around. The chrome in front, headlight rings and such, appear either like new or re-chromed. Wood looks really good, but has it had an […]

August meeting featured Craig KDOYTI with 2 vertical antennas, both easy to set up like at a park or for Field Day. In the picture here, Craig is putting together his JPC-12 center loaded vertical. It comes in a bag that’d fit easily into your laptop computer carry-on bag, and screws together in half a […]

In the late 1970s Harold KOJBC had a solar station, just a panel or 2 with a battery for his Ten-Tec station. (The Ten-Tec Triton – now called the 540 because Motorola owned the Triton name – is a 5 band, hundred Watt HF rig.) Those old radios (including the Kenwood 520) weren’t synthesized, and […]

John WBOCMC has a tech article in the August 2023 QST magazine on p.50. He made an audio signal generator, engineered it, and even made the circuit board himself. Wait, it gets better. He’s making his own ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) system, and to test it he needed 2 audio signals in quadrature (same freq […]

KØSWI 442.225 FUSION REPEATER’S NEW HOME The good news first. The 442.225 Fusion repeater is up and operational at full power at the Memorial Park site. Initial coverage reports are excellent, all we could have hoped for, and maybe even more. Yes, we were intending to place the 82 repeater there but the repeater gods […]

Keith KEOAEP has rescheduled the Lake Manawa Saturday get-togethers for just once a month, and in July 2023 brought in over a dozen of us along with half a dozen HF radio setups. Present the 3rd Saturday (delayed a week by the North Bend Hamfest) were: . Keith KEOAEP Icom 7300 Don WOAF Xiegu 5105 […]

Both Bill and Bob had tree damage last night, 07.11, and both pretty much cleaned up their yards before beginning to cut away tree limbs that were still hanging. Bill used an aluminum ladder and long fiberglass tree saw pole to cut away damaged limbs, and then went over to Bob’s house to help. This […]

At the May meeting, 2 days before Field Day, Greg NOGR gave a demo of the Yaesu WIRES X system. On the table is a Yaesu radio, power supply, mag mount antenna, and Greg’s laptop computer. In PDN mode (Portable Digital Node mode) the radio does NOT transmit even though you’re pushing the PTT. It […]