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 […]