We’re baaaack… providing amateur radio license classes to all JSC center employees and students.
Dr. Bob Scully has taken the instructor lead to kickoff this years first series of Technician licensing training courses beginning today February 21 and lasting approximately 9 weeks. At the end of the course, an FCC license exam will be provided by our team of VE’s, led by KB5PGY at the Gilruth Center.
This weekend from Saturday at 1pm to Sunday at 1pm will be Winter Field Day at the W5RRR shack.
At the 11/9 monthly meeting, Keith Brandt (WD9GET) made a presentation on D-STAR.
If you’d like to try out contesting, on November 18th, the ARRL Sweepstakes kicks off the SSB segment (CW just concluded last weekend). Never contested? No problem. For this event, you can’t operate for more than 24 hours for the duration of the event and can only have one transmitter on the air. It’s a perfect time … Read more…
On Tuesday, October 17th, a mini-training session was held on the repeater by David Fanelli (KB5PGY) on handling and passing traffic.
If you’d like to learn more or practice passing traffic, here are a few links from David and Fred Shetz (AD5FS).
After guidance at the last JSCARC meeting from Ken, K5RG, and reading on-line comments, I successfully completed my first climb of Mount Gilruth (aka the 80’ W5RRR tower). Actually, I only climbed up a bit beyond the rotator, so the actual summit measure was more like 70’.
A few comments posted here, which may aid future, ham trekkers. Some comments are reinforcing messages from Ken, and some are my own lesson’s learned.
Here goes:
