FLIP OR FLOP (Part 2) – The satellite console

Part II (The satellite console)

On a drizzly Saturday morning Feb 10, 2018, club members came to the rescue (again) to finish up some reinstallation of electrical/ground cover plates (removed for the previous day’s painting) and the major job to dismantle our famous Apollo vintage metal cabinet which housed our current satellite station.

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W5RRR 2m Net Traffic – 2/13/18

1. ELMERS. During our new recruitment drive, we’re projecting many new members that likely are seeking to get licenses and needing someone to help them get introduced to the hobby. Looking for ELMERs to be matched as dedicated mentors with our new members. No experienced required other than helping new members get introduced to the functions of … Read more…

FLIP OR FLOP (Part 1) – Painting

The W5RRR radio shack is getting a major redo and it’s almost done!

Last weekend, members, K5RG/N5FWB/AB5SS/W9TWJ/N8MTV/W5OC joined forces to have a painting party in the shack.
The shack now has a nice off-white paint job on three walls, with a fine accent wall at the front wall of the room.

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Welcome New Members!

JSCARC warmly welcomes new members during our 2018 Membership Drive. New license classes, New club project builds, New operating Events, New club activities! Come to the next meeting and we’ll roll out the red carpet.   Keep checking this site for updates and rollouts of our new activities. 73 (best regards),  W5RRR

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W5RRR 2m Net Traffic – 2/6/18

1. Shack refurbishment

  • Carpet pulled out
  • Tile installed – wasn’t done correctly, so N5FWB demanded a redo, which is complete
  • Tile now in place, but await proper reinstallation of baseboards and damage to drywall during their removal
  • Baseboards reinstalled, but again N5FWB has demanded rework of poor workmanship
  • Keith is requesting all-hands-on-deck to now paint the walls before reinstalling furniture
    • Bob sent out APB for painter help for Thurs- Fri
  • Will finish shack with 2 new modular desks (from MCC)
    • one will be replace satellite station, one will be Emergency Ops Center station
      • both on far fall (where IC-781 was)
    • 3 existing desks will sit side-by-side on primary wall
    • rework antenna coax patch panel onto smaller footprint

Note:  historical heavy satellite console/rack will be excessed, but we’ll take photos for historic files

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W5RRR makeover (in progress!)

Here’s the first glimpse of our newly tiled flooring.

Many thanks to Jerry, N5FWB, who managed to get us this nice upgrade from our ratty carpet.

So, much of the equipment has been moved to a temporary holding room for now.  The tiled floor is now complete, and we’ve decided to paint the walls while the opportunity exists.  Standby for an all hands on deck for painters this week.  This shack refurbishment includes installing 2 donated operations desks from the MCC (thanks AB5SS).  One of the new benches will replace our old Satellite console and the other will be set up as an Emergency Operations Center station, against the wall where the IC-781 current sits.  The remaining 3 wooden benches will be placed side-to-side on the primary wall, while we also shrink and update the patch panel into a smaller footprint that can sit ontop of a bench top.>

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W5RRR Mail Call

Thanks to KG5HOK the shack now has a real mailbox! With the clubs new found activity online, we’re getting tons of mail asking for QSLs. We now have our separate mail tray at the Gilruth and it’s regularly filling up. So our new shack mailbox will be a nice touch to place incoming QSLs and … Read more…

AB5SS is a World Class VHF/UHF Rover Contester.


John, AB5SS, is a World Class VHF/UHF Rover Contester.
2000 – 1st place in the US and Canada (AB5SS+W5DF)
2002 – 4th place in the US and Canada (AB5SS+W5DF)

“From  1998-2002, we ran a serious competitive rover station and had many top 10 rover scores for the US & Canada.”
—John Maca, AB5SS

On his truck, John had radios covering 6m through 3cm (that’s all 10 bands – 50/144/222/432/902/1296/2304/3456/5760/10368 MHz).

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