New patch/logo designed by ex KD5ULX, Cassie Kite. George AD5CQ is processing this as a patch for online shirt orders.  

Many thanks to Jerry N5FWB for a short notice tour of the W5RRR radio shack. This semester’s spring students include: Left to right: Christine Goh KJ5FGT (committee lead), Diego Padilla, ( ), Amna Al-Azdee, and Mizan Mohammed. Gabriel Farris was there too but missed the picture.  We’ll let the reader try to figure out which … Read more…

Our first POTA activity for 2025 landed up back to San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Site, aka US-3511 (POTA designation).This was our first Sunday AM POTA outing, which is mostly unpopular because of the events and obligations that are typically reserved at this time. We had a last-minute cold spell run through Houston, so the … Read more…

David KG5URA has graciously given us detailed insights into the recent buildup of his newest Go-Box for travels.  We showed photos this box in December’s blog post, but here are some more descriptions for those that may wish to leverage his ideas into yours. As an avid and experienced POTA operator, David has refined his … Read more…

I took my Yaesu FT991A to my daughter’s house last week.  Once again, I was unpleasantly confronted with a very high noise floor on the radio.  At times, it was so bad that I couldn’t hear hardly anyone.  As the short video describes, it turns out to be a classic example of EMI (Electro Magnetic … Read more…

The 2024 JSC Winter Field Day at the JSCARC shack was a fun effort by: Bekah KD5TDP John AB5SS Paul KJ5JIO David KB5PGY Jayant KG5LJZ Dave W5OC Since the Winter Field Day (and the big one in June) is not a contest competition, this was just a good exercise in ham preparedness.  Hence, we had … Read more…

My Jan 2025 VHF Contest Outing—Another lesson “How NOT to do it…” Background My previous September 2024 VHF rover contest outing was excellent. At that time, I successfully traveled up the Texas midriff while operating continuously on 6m and 2m FT8 while in motion.  At 14 different stops within different grids, I activated SSB, CW, … Read more…

David, KG5URA, is at it again! He’s built a new Go-Box for his QRP IC-705 and Hardrock-50 amp. Checkout the nice setup including mounts, battery, tuner, and connectors.  Note: the interesting looking small yellow box mounted on the upper inside lid is a GL-MT300N-V2 mini wireless router. He’s also rebuilt a Go-Box for his IC-7300, … Read more…

George AD5CQ submits the folloinwg successful ham radio event report for his volunteer efforts on November 15-16 at the George Ranch:

It’s been another active few weeks for W5RRR and the JSCARC members: Friday 11/15-16George @ George (Ranch) – Frontier Days AD5CQ hosts a booth to demonstrate History of CW at the George Ranch Texican Market Days.(Photo from last year’s event)   Sunday 11/17ARRL Sweepstakes SSB Tanner W9TWJ and Bekah KD5TDP participated in the ARRL SS … Read more…