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by Tim Bratton K5RA What exactly is the American Radio Relay League Field Day?? Is it a radio communications and emergency preparedness exercise? Is it a radio operating contest? Is it a vehicle to experiment with new technology? Is it…
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As promised (and on schedule!), here’s The Chawed Rag for November 2021. Thanks to all of you that sent me notes on the September relaunch – I appreciate the thanks and the feedback. I’m still interested in what everyone thinks…
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By Chip Coker KD4C (source AMSAT) One of the easiest ways to get started with amateur satellites is to start with maybe the most known and prominent one – the International Space Station (ISS). It orbits around 250 miles overhead…
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As promised (and on schedule!), here’s The Chawed Rag for October 2021. Thanks to all of you that sent me notes on the September relaunch – I appreciate the thanks and the feedback. I’m still interested in what everyone thinks…
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By Chip Coker KD4C By now, you may have seen or heard that the FCC published a change to their regulations in December 2019 that changes the Rules on RF Exposure evaluations. In short, in the past the Amateur Service…
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By Jon Suehiro NN5T You see this image on RWK home page – https://www.k5rwk.org/ . But what does it mean? You also hear about Solar Cycle 25. What do you need to know about the current propagation and solar conditions?…
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By Jon Suehiro NN5T The rest of the year tends to be a busy time if you are into “Radiosport” or contesting. There are several of the better contest events that are coming up in late October, November and early…
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By Joe Hodgkins KI5O With wonderful consideration from Doug KD5OUG and direction from Grant W5XJ, I was fortunate to take intopossession an incomplete Knight T-60 Transmitter. Upon receipt of the contents in an original Knight box, I foundthe following correspondence…
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By John Slaughter WB5HSI Recently I was faced with trying to repair a battery-operated device and had the usual problem of how to make connections to the battery. Normally a spot welder is used to weld nickel strips to the…
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By Chip Coker KD4C As we mentioned earlier in the year, we’ve been hard at work planning some improvements to the K5RWK repeater systems. There are three separate activities in work. Improvements to the main Palisades repeater site Relocation of…
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