According to one of our new members and elmer, Sal-K6SAL, if you want to study for your Tech or General license, you can no do it online at this site: https://hamradioprep.com/ Dennis - WU6X

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Once again the Benicia Amateur Radio Club and its volunteers will be conducting another One-Day Ham Radio Class. This class is intended for those wishing to get a Tech Ham license, or existing Techs w

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I should probably mention also that the inverted V configuration for NVIS is very easy, but not ideal because it can pick up significantly more noise from (1) moderate distance lightning storms, and (

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That's a handy way to set up for NVIS in the field with only a single (central) support. The important thing is to get the center up at least 1/8 wavelength above the ground for efficient NVIS--so at

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I cant remember what it was called but an inverted v with the ends close to the ground worked real good for near to medium. Here is a cool link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=ht

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Has this NVIS presentation been made for a SFARC meeting? Maybe before my time in the club? If not, please contact Greg, KO6TH and putvitvin the schedule. Best Regards! Brian Gohl - AI6US (916) 770-77

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Attached is the latest propagation prediction charts for March, downloaded from ARRL: http://www.arrl.org/propagation These are handy for estimating the time/frequency for the best chance of communica

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Thank you Dennis, Jef, et al., for sharing NVIS! 73 Orion Endres, AI6JB 1201 Wood Oak Court, Roseville, CA 95747-7383 (916) 788-8251 H \\ (916) 534-8251 C What the heck does “73” mean? 73 is morse cod

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I absolutely agree that #NVIS is and should be a topic of its own. I got my first ham ticket in 0-land... Colorado... and we did a lot of NVIS out there due to the challenges with terrain. Our ARES gr

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What is a BTN antenna?

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A couple more attachments for anyone interested. These provide a more rigorous discussion of NVIS in general, and antenna height in particular. Short story on antenna height: A horizontal antenna betw

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Dennis - I am pleased but surprised by your email and your interest in NVIS at this time. Two years ago, on February 21, 2018, I had requested and argued that #NVIS be one of our group keywords and wa

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I haven't paid much attention to NVIS propagation in the past, but now with the BTN antenna I have up, just 6 feet off the ground, I found a few things to be very interesting, and confirmed by this bl

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Hello Club members. The W6SFM encourages everyone to become an active CW operator for both Emergency communications when all else fails, and just for the fun of it. With that said; The SFM ARC would l

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The Perserverance DX Group is operating from South Orkney Islands until March 6th. Lot's of people calling them right now as they are number 15 on the list of most wanted DX. The attached propagation

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After completing the configuration of my openSPOT2, I went back through the steps and documented how to setup the openSPOT2 for use with a Yaesu FT-2D Fusion-capable radio. Configuring the radio is th

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My Yaesu FT-2d will now cross-band to DMR thanks to this video step-by-step on how to set this up on the Shark OpenSpot2. I have three profiles setup; FCS, YSF and DMR and can switch between them with

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oops... unable to add to QRZ page. Enabled mine: https://clublog.org/livestream/AI6US

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Cool Dennis, I enabled mine: https://clublog.org/livestream/k6baa Bruce-K6BAA

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That is a cool feature and the map can be embedded on the QRZ page. Good incentive to frequently update the database. :) Best Regards! Brian Gohl - AI6US (916) 770-7751 cell

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