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 […]
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This year’s set exercise will be on Saturday November 3, 2018 and run from approximately 9AM to 11AM CT. All WCARES members are encouraged to sign-up. The sign-up sheet is: https://goo.gl/forms/UnmXYUoOtHQqx2qI3 The plan is to have everyone to go to an assigned park, set up their gear and make contact with the EOC using as […]
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
WCARES is featured in a story posted by the Williamson Herald and written by Carole Robinson.
The story features interviews and photo’s of members.
Randy Moore, KK4SRO, WCARES EC would like to thank everyone who took part in what turned out to be a magnificent Field Day this year. It appears we did very well with numbers up in all categories. A big thank-you to Carl, KB9DKR and Cliff, N4CCB for all their hard work putting this event together. […]
Official WCARES Field Day Schedule is now available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7a98VJQ-w-kW-YofA_3ockxSjCg61HFJdD_WvqFVrU/edit?usp=sharing Click the following link for the Field Day 2018 presentation by Carl, KB9DKR: https://wcares.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018_FIELD_DAY_PRESENTATION.pdf Here’s the link to the N3FJP logging software: http://n3fjp.com/fieldday.html along with the links from Carl’s presentation: KX3 Training: WCARES Field Day application of the Elecraft KX3 radio and PX3 panadaptor. (Cliff, […]