David Lee 
Sheldon Lake State Park is only 33 minutes from JSC. It’s a beautiful park with plenty of mini-camp sites to spread out multiple ops on the same band. The park entrance is FREE For our last JSCARC POTA outing for 2023, Sheldon Lake was a perfect outing with weather that would have made all the … Read more…
Four of the JSC Student Interns from this semester attended a Fox Hunt (or T-Hunt) this past Sunday, November 19, held by Jeff AB4ME. Jeff hid 2 Bynoics MicroFox 15mW transmitters (146.565 and 146.430 Mhz) for the students to find using direction finding navigation. The venue was the open Gilruth field area by the shack. … Read more…
Tanner W9TWJ and John AB5SS, teamed up again this year to reclaim the ARRL SSB Sweepstakes Award for the Southwest Division. With Covid and babies (congrats Tanner) under control, the W5RRR shack would once again host a this SSB contest on Nov 18-19- essentially a grueling 24 hour activity conducted within the timeframe of Saturday … Read more…
South East Texas Amateur radio Club (SETAC) Thanks to David KG5URA, a SETAC flyer was sent to us, advertising a Saturday (Nov 11) Fox Hunt (and POTA) at the San Jacinto Monument. After just completing an NJ1Z modified Doppler Handi-Finder, I decided to test drive it at this advertised event. What a great group of … Read more…
On Wednesday, November 1, JSCARC hosted a table at the annual JSC Safety and Health Day program, where hundreds of JSC NASA employees and their contractors stood down to ingest presentations and venues that coveyed the importance of working and living under the umbrella of wellness. Our JSCARC representatives, Jerry N5FWB, Dave KB5PGY, David KG5URA, … Read more…
It was a great Fall morning on Friday, 1st day of Frontier Days at the George Ranch Historical Park. This would be my second year to demonstrate Morse Code in the 1890s in the Cook’s Quarters. The Cook’s Quarters is the single story building behind the Davis mansion. My setup was much like it was … Read more…
JSCARC POTA #15 @ San Jacinto Battleground Historic Park Report by George AD5CQ The day started out warm and sunny. I arrived at the park about 9:03am. Immediately an alert was sounded by the mosquito community that brunch was being served. The mosquitos began dive bombing me as I exited the car. Setup was … Read more…
Jamboree On the Air (JOTA) 2023 On October 21, Kelvin K5KGH hosted scouts visiting the W5RRR shack in support of the annual Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). The JOTA event is the largest Scouting event in the world and is held every 3rd full weekend of October. The objective is to get scouts on the … Read more…
This is a w5rrr groups.io repost with permission from George AD5CQ. George’s docent work at the Fort Bend festival was generously provided in hopes of sharing the history of early day’s communications using morse code. And of course, to “spark” interest with inquisitive minds along the way. This is the second year George donated his … Read more…
POTA #14- Another trip to the sea (Galveston Island) After months of relentless sweltering 100 degree heat, Mother Nature decided to treat our intrepid JSCARC POTA adventurers to a gorgeous day at the beach. On this Saturday, October 21, 2023, Galveston Island State Park was an accomodating 70-80 degrees throughout our morning outing. Around 0830, … Read more…
