The Houston Marathon is quickly approaching, with the We Are Houston Fun Run on Saturday, January 18 and the Chevron Houston Marathon Sunday, January 19. I encourage all hams to volunteer to support these events. The need is real. To fully staff ham effort requires about 150 hams. The last three years between 101 – … Read more…
The 2019 JSCARC Holiday Dinner will be on Thursday, December 12th, 2019, 6:30pm at Mamacitas Patio.
Certificates are now available to download from the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary celebration.
I recently bought a TS2000 with “extremely low sensitivity on HF”.
Guess what I discovered?
This is a late followup for Part II, but here’s the spoiler alert…. Success!
Working on KG5WNN, Fred’s TS-440S.
If you’ve ever been to an Arizona/Phoenix area hamfest you’ve likely seen Patrick Stoddard (WD9EWK) running the AMSAT booth and performing demonstrations as satellites pass over. If you’ve ever chased grids on or casually worked satellites there’s a high probability you’ve had a QSO with Patrick. Patrick routinely activates grids wherever his travels take him … Read more…
John, KG5ZOR, bought a TS-2000 for a great price. Unfortunately, it had some issues so he brought it into the Shack last week for a checkup. We hooked it up on the 20m TH7DX and called CQ around 6:00pm. We received a response from a mobile station and he gave us a 5×3 signal report. … Read more…
On Sunday, February 24th, Jerry Steward (N5FWB) invited Intermediate School student Gunnar Wye-Rodney (KG5YUW) and his father Bill over to the W5RRR shack. Jerry heard Gunnar, who already has a Technician license and is presently working on his General, and another student, Paul Bailey (KG5YUT), talking about electronics on the 146.86 repeater. Jerry was not … Read more…
Received a used replacement USB carrier crystal from Mr. Walter Dilley, KD7DNY. Many thanks to Walter, who continues to supply old hybrid parts (like this TS520) to the ham community.
