Category: Education
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Important Changes To EZNEC
Last year, Roger Steyaert K7RXV made an interesting presentation to the club on the topic of network analyzers, one of which was a program called EZNEC. He just alerted us to an important announcement from Roy Lewallen, W7EL, about his retirement in 2022 and his release of EZNEC to the public domain. If you have ever…
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All About Electronic Circuits
A big shout out to Mason McCoy, who found this resource while working on his Boy Scout Electronics Merit Badge and shared it with our club to use on this website. It’s an excellent article by Mark Houlahan for Speedway Motors Academy, and while it’s especially for kids, it’s also good for anyone new to…
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Got Chirps? Whistles? and WWV
Take a moment to tune in at every 8 after the hour on WWV and 48 after the hour on WWVH transmitters. WWV, WWVH stations, HamSCI and NIST and investigating HF propagation. The Characterization Signal will consist of a 45 second WAV file on minute 8 for WWV and minute 48 for WWVH. Right now…
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The 1921 Transatlantic Tests
Frank Donovan, W3LPL, talks about the Centennial of the 1921 Transatlantic Tests. This was a historic achievement for Amateur Radio. You might enjoy reading “The Story of the Transatlantics” by the Editor of QST Magazine in February 1922, just two months after the original event.
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More on POTA 11/4/21
Program announcement from Rich, K3VAT Due to several positive comments on the last Parks on the Air (POTA) presentation, for the upcoming SVARC Presentation on November 4, we plan on showing two POTA YouTube videos covering. 1) What to Pack for POTA and 2) POTA Logging Both are fairly recent and total length of both…
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Basic Antenna Principles Using Antenna Modeling
This program by Mike Mladejovsky WA7ARK was recommended to us by club member Roger Steyaert K7RXV. The presenter is a knowledgeable retired professor. This video starts in the middle of the recording but at the beginning of his presentation.