Author: Elizabeth W4EHC
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Learn About Space Weather
At our club meeting on April 15, 2021, Rich K3VAT showed two short YouTube videos: Tim Duffy, K3LR Interview with Dr. Tamitha Skov, the Space Weather Woman 05/2017. Tim introduces Dr. Skov, who tells us how she got started in the physics of the sun and what she does for her day job. CLICK HERE…
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A Little Club History
John Kanode N4MM came across this certificate recently that commemorates his acceptance as a Senior Member of the Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club on May 17, 1974. Time flies when you’re having fun, right John?
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Amateur Radio in the International Space Station
SVARC VP Rich Kennedy K3VAT reminded us at the last meeting that the International Space Station has an amateur radio station onboard. Here’s a link for getting more information about how to contact them: https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html Here is the public link about the Greenbank Radio Telescope Facilities: it’s a beautiful, 12-page color PDF with many of…
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NEC Co-Author Jerry Burke
Roger Steyaert K7RXV informed us of the sad news that Jerry Burke, co-author of NEC/MOM family of programs about which Roger has given recent presentations on antenna modeling, has died of cancer. Jerry and A. Poggio wrote the programs at Lawrence Livermore Labs in 1981, under contract to the US Navy. NEC2 was later released…
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Moonbounce on 10 Meters
Thanks to Stephen Pederson KN4IOU for sharing this info and video from Tom DK3EE’s adventure of doing moon bounce on 10 meters. He has a 10-meter beam with 50-foot boom, so very high gain. The moon was near the horizon, so he didn’t need an elevation rotor. The video that plays on YouTube after this…
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The History of the Phonetic Alphabet
From “Able-Baker” to Today: The History of the Phonetic Alphabet” by Sam Lichtman Excerpt: “From Marines in the most remote areas on Earth to airline pilots ferrying travelers across the world at 35,000 feet, nearly everyone who uses voice radio for important communication can understand each other using the phonetic alphabet. It took a herculean…