Hi folks, As promised, the videos of the presentations from last Friday's SFARC General Meeting are up on the club's YouTube channel. If you missed either of the presentations, or want to go back and

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Just a quick follow-up on a comment made during this morning's Coffee Break net, below is a link to a listing of various testing opportunities - several are completely remote. https://hamstudy.org/ses

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Here is the NVIS Ionosphere Propagation website Jef, N5JEF, referenced in the May presentation. This site updates the map about every 10 mins http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Images/HF%20Systems/Global%20HF/

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The attached graphs show, in meters, specific lengths to "avoid" when planning a longwire antenna. Matching will be virtually impossible if you happen to land on one of these lengths. Of course, heigh

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I am a teacher. This link is a great resource. Thank you.

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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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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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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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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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This info may be of some use to some ... a remotely-control power switch that is accessible via its on IP address, like an IP camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOoCJGqJrHY

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September is just around the corner and that means the Samuel F. Morse Amateur Radio Club (W6SFM) will start another of their fabulous CW classes! See attachment for more information. Don't wait too l

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Brian makes good comments and the paper he linked makes good sense. Here's another paper, by Cebik, with even more detail. If you digest this, you'll have a very good understanding. http://the-eye.eu/

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Dennis - Thanks for sharing this. Battery chargers, inverters for solar panels, the little 5V USB chargers (AC or 12VDC powered), various wall wart AC-DC converters, grow lights, ... Hey, I just reali

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