Dave, KI4PSR gave an informative talk on Chokes, Baluns and Ununs at the November Chew & Chat. His talk covers some of the history of transmission line transformers leading to the development of baluns, ununs and choke baluns as well as definitions and theory. Some discussion on chosing the right balun included ideas on measuring […]
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If you have ever wanted to learn about amateur radio (also known as “HAM” radio), or wish to upgrade from a Technician to General license for more radio privileges, then we have the class for you. WCARES offers free classes to help prepare for the ARRL license exams for both the Technician (beginner) and General […]
It’s time to start thinking about WCARES Winter Field Day 2019. Here is a link to the registration form. If you think you would like to take part, simply fill out the form and submit. We will get back to you soon. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRJzK7WoBxuYmAXWdAMH02OS0T2J80D_ZyzbkLdYiy2sICgQ/viewform?usp=pp_url
During the preparations for Field Day 2018, Carl KB9DKR had talked about the “moonshot” possibility of WCARES breaking into the Top 10 list in QST Magazine. Well, the results are in and we did it! WCARES placed 9th overall out of 2903 groups participating with a score of 14290 and we were 1st among the […]
At the recent October Chew & Chat meeting Tim Kreth, AD4CJ, gave an interesting talk introducing members to WSPR and the WSPRlite. The presentation included discussion on using WSPR to learn about HF propagation, the WSPRlite and related resources. Tim also discussed the calculations necessary and presented a spreadsheet tool useful for converting WSPR signal […]
Dave Matthews, KI4PSR gave a talk at a recent Chew & Chat. The talk covered receiver designs over time and included discussion of the Tayloe detector. Randy Moore, KK4SRO, our EC, has uploaded a video of Dave’s talk to Youtube and Dave’s slides are available as well: https://youtu.be/ZOvZlDoVlBw and Does-Your-Receiver-have-an-IQ.pdf