Zach, N0ZGO, our roving Dallas/Houston JSCARC ham, kindly gave us permission to upload this on our website after posted on the w5rrr.groups.io reflector.  As a keen practictioner of hands-on radio repairs, this one was particularly impressive for several reasons: Induced lightning damage is usually catastrophic since today’s radios have so many sensitive components within the … Read more…

Parks On The Air (POTA) #13 San Jacinto Battleground Historic Park There was nothing unlucky on our 13th JSCARC POTA activation this past Saturday at the San Jac park.  In many ways, this was our luckiest outing because of the terrific meeting of visitors that showed up. Because of a past stern reminder from the … Read more…

<Posted in hopes of enouraging other to try Roving> The plan was in place, but it really didn’t happen.  After an exhilarating June VHF contest 1st attempt as a rover, I was ready to try it again last weekend. The CQ WW VHF Contest is a 2m and 6m contest over the weekend using CW, … Read more…

Can you believe it?  A dozen POTAs already conducted by the club and this one will be lucky #13. To celebrate the great Texas summer weather, we’re doing it at our go-to San Jacinto Battleground Historical Site- full of trees, shade, and great facilities Who:  Anyone!  to date- KG5URA, N5LOW, W5OC, AD5CQ confirmed What: Activation of POTA … Read more…

Operating POTA from Galveston State Park.   My QTH Shack: I have the following equipment in the shack: 1. Icom IC-7610 with Heil PR10 mounted onto a PL2T boom 2.  Ultamax-100 66 foot end fed for 6-80m3.  Ameritron ALS-600 (600 Watt PEP) amp4.  LDG 600 Pro II 5.  Icom UHF/VHF “ID-5100A Plus” base station6.  Diamond X200A … Read more…

  Wow!  What an awesome Field Day 2023.   Many thanks for Presidents of JSCARC and CLARC (Terry KA5TBB, Dan KG5PVP) and the mode captains (KB5PGY-digital, KA5TBB-SSB, N5LOW-CW, K5KGH-GOTA) for their hard work to make this a one memorable: o  Another Top Shelf collaboration between JSCARC/W5RRR and CLARC/K5HOU clubso  30+ guest visitorso  10 active transmitters … Read more…

  The objective of ham radio’s Field Day is to promote public service and outreach.  ** See our Field Day Flyer, click HERE We want to fulfill this responsibility by giving some special hands-on experiences for young & old visitors, as well as for inexperienced licensees (e.g. newly licensed or inactive) who haven’t had a … Read more…

This Sunday, Jayant KG5LJZ went to participate with the BVARC (Brazos Valley ARC) members for one of their many POTA park activations.  Sunday’s event was held at the Brazos Bend State Park (POTA # K-2992), about a one hour drive headed SW from JSC. The BVARC group had an impressive DX Commander Multi-band Antenna as … Read more…

  How long have you been a ham?Since May 2017 How did you get interested/started? I had a large 27Mhz setup Back in min 70’s and Listening to offshore shrimpers on a receiver in Corpus Christi Texas with Dad. He bought me a Kenwood R-300  .2 – 30 mhz Receiver and we enjoyed listening to … Read more…

  POTA (Parks On The Air) #12 at Galveston Island State Park, arguably was one of our best for different reasons.  Terry N5LOW, David KG5URA, David KG5PGY, Dan KG5PVP, and David W5OC were the activators on this Saturday.  Joe K5KUA stopped by, as the local beach area resident ham friend. Before starting, let’s comment on … Read more…