Here are the meeting minutes for 3/19/15: The meeting came to order at 7:05p. Present were: Scott KB8VWM, Forest KD8NKI, Reece KD8VNY, Teng (no license yet), Andrew KE7ESD, Gregg WB8LZG, Ed W8EO, Bob W8RSJ, Dennis KB8ZQZ, Steve WB8WSF, John KD8BQX, Dave, K8GVK. Reece accepted the role of Club President for the following…
A film about radio use at the end of the Second World War. There is an interesting simulation of an AM ham radio contact at 3:08.
If you’ve ever sung in the shower and hit a note where the sound seemed to amplify, you’ve experienced resonance. Every antenna has a particular frequency on which it is “resonant”. When we transmit on a radio frequency that is resonant with the antenna, very little power is lost and…
Join us March 19 at 7PM, 2121 Engineering Building for the MSU Amateur Radio Club March Meeting. We’ll review W8SH’s current equipment compliment and hold a maker-space build-it-yourself session on “Building an Audio Oscillator.” See you there!
Can radio amateurs connect their computers across a wireless network? You bet. Firing data between ham stations is as old as the Morse Code. With the advent of Packet Radio Two popular ways to do it are D-RATS and HSMM-MESH. D-RATS is a lot like what Internet Relay Chat used to…
An appreciation by Jason Feifer in Popular Mechanics.
900MHz quad-core system-on-chip, 1GB of RAM, and still just $35.00. I use the Pi to interface with my D-Star DVAP dongle and it’s been darn near bulletproof. Eager to put this baby through her paces. Here’s more from Gizmodo.
“The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015” — H.R.1301 — has been introduced in the US House of Representatives. The measure would direct the FCC to extend its rules relating to reasonable accommodation of Amateur Service communications to private land use restrictions. Learn more here.
Baluns. We see em in a variety of amateur radio applications. They help turn a couple of long pieces of wire into a tool that a coaxial cable can feed with radio frequency energy. But what are they? Why do we need them? And how do they work? This 1985…
Got one of those older generation BluRays or Flat Screens that requires a CAT 5 connection? No CAT 5 wiring in the house and your wifi router is not in a convenient location for a direct connect? Here’s an great way to extend your network without having to upgrade that…