Hi Erik, That whip antenna (lower left)... Interesting mount! But the antenna's base (the black part) looks like something that's intended to mount on a car roof or such, i.e. a ground plane. If so, t

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Hi folks, The presentation videos from this month's SFARC General Meeting are up on our YouTube channel. There are three this month, with Orion's Tech-10 talk about Winter Field Day (coming in 2 weeks

For more on NVIS, take a look Jef N5JEF's presentation to the club from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-b1dQH72Q 73, Greg KO6TH Dennis - WU6X wrote:

Hi Joshua, 441.300+ / pl 127, 9pm on Wednesdays. It's the N6NA UHF repeater out of Sacramento somewhere. I'm in a bit of an RF hole here, so even with a beam it was not super strong. I only listened i

Nicely done, Jon. I hadn't heard of those apps. What is the SSTV net? Greg KO6TH jon@... wrote:

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing your success. Greg KO6TH Phil - KM6NFS via groups.io wrote:

Hi folks, With thanks to Joe K6SAT for the reminder... The ISS is running a Slow Scan TV event with an image every few minutes. We just had a perfect overhead pass, and I copied the attached two image

Good point. And, I guess "Galactic Interloper" has been taken by that space rock. Greg KO6TH Gerry Brentnall wrote:

Great article! Brings back memories of my contacts with folks in orbit (*). My first was with John Blaha KC5TZQ on the Mir Space Station. It was short - he was wondering what the score was on the game

Hi folks, I've started a tradition of including a recent astronomy photo with my Holiday greeting cards, and thought I'd share this years' with the club. The photo is attached. On the back I added the

Hi folks, A reminder, sign-ups for the 2021 Show us your Shack is still open! It's easy and fun! Reply to me and let me know you're interested, and when you can share your shack with the club. Thanks,

I'm still waiting for the opportunity to use Lily Tomlin's alphabet... "K" as in Knight. Or perhaps this compilation? https://web.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/Words/alphabet.html Greg KO6TH Earl Wilson wrote:

The article made a short reference to it, but "customizing" the pronunciation of even the standard phonetics can be required. My call prefix is sometimes misunderstood as KA instead of KO, unless I pr

Sharp eyes, Aaron. Thanks for pointing it out! Maybe we'll break 100 views this month...? A little advertising never hurt. Greg KO6TH Aaron K6ABJ wrote:

Hi folks, I'm putting the schedule together for 2021, and top of the list is the slate of Shacks that folks want to share with the rest of the membership. Sign-ups are now open! As a reminder, this is

Wonder if they'll take my Battery a Month Club card? Greg KO6TH Jim - N6MED wrote:

Hi Carl, Ah, I think you're right. Good memory (they say it's the second thing to go...). Greg KO6TH Carl Schultz wrote:

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Cool. I also enjoyed reading his articles back when I had a subscription to World Radio. Next challenge... Anyone care to build a Sterba Curtain antenna for our next Field Day event? Greg KO6TH Dave -

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Wow, 140 pages. So, did they ever figure out just who ol' Kurt is / was? Greg KO6TH Dennis - WU6X wrote:

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Hi folks, If you missed it, or want to review what was discussed, I've pushed the recording of this month's presentation by Dennis WU6X on Radio Contesting Tips to the club's YouTube channel: https://