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| Antennas for Sale
Posted by Dave Prestel, W8AJR on Saturday, 22nd September 2007 at 6:43PM |
| Dual Band J-Pole Antenna |
| Do you want a free dinner?
Posted by Doug Hart on Monday, 3rd March 2008 at 4:00PM |
 Active CARA members may become eligible to attend the CARA Dinner Event in 2009 without paying for their meal! |
| The Solar Cycle
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Monday, 3rd December 2007 at 8:28AM |
There is much talk in amateur radio about the solar cycle. The SOHO Spacecraft has orbited the Sun for the last 12 years taking all kinds of pictures. The folks at the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site have published a composite picture of the Sun during the last solar cycle. If you want to see what a solar cycle looks like check out:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071203.html
PS: If this type of thing interests you then check out the archives page on the APOD site for more interesting photos. |
| Cara’s Field Day with PVRC – Photos Up on ARRL Contest Soapbox
Posted by Ed Cabic, N2EC on Wednesday, 1st August 2007 at 1:39PM |
Go to http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/index.html?con_id=133&call=w3AO
and see the report with 40 captioned thumbnail photos. Click on each to see a larger photo. Our total score is 27,150 points.
Also see the Carasat page for a report of the satellite group and more photos of Field Day 2007. |
| AO-27 Rejuvenated, Back on the Air
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Sunday, 28th January 2007 at 6:51AM |
 AMSAT News Service reports that AO-27 (EyeSat-1) http://www.ao27.org has again been recovered and returned to operation. Launched in September 1993, AO-27 has been listed as non-operational. Michael Wyrick, N3UC, of the AO-27 command team told ANS that after addressing problems with the microsat's AFSK modem, ground controllers were able to upload operational software. The satellite has been sending telemetry, and the analog transponder has been turned on again. |
| SuitSat-2 Goes To College
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Sunday, 28th January 2007 at 6:08AM |
 Eleven electrical engineering students at The College of New Jersey had a hand in designing some of the software defined radio (SDR) hardware that will fly aboard SuitSat-2. The college seniors signed up last fall for "Software Defined Radio," taught by adjunct professors Bob McGwier, N4HY, and Frank Brickle, AB2KT -- both members of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) SuitSat-2 team. |
| ARRL Board Accepts National Emergency Response Planning Committee Report
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Sunday, 28th January 2007 at 6:01AM |
 The ARRL Board of Directors accepted the Report of the National Emergency Response Planning Committee (NERPC) when it met January 19 and 20 in Windsor, Connecticut. Upon dissolving the committee with its thanks, the Board set in motion a process to identify and implement action items in the report as soon as possible. ARRL First Vice President Kay Craigie, N3KN, chaired the 13-member NERPC, charged with developing comprehensive recommendations to improve the League's response to regional, national and international disasters. Among other things, panel members evaluated the responses and actions of ARRL and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) during Hurricane Katrina as well as lessons learned. |
| It's Official! Morse Code Requirement Ends Friday, February 23
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Sunday, 28th January 2007 at 5:38AM |
 Circle Friday, February 23, on your calendar. That's when the current 5 WPM Morse code requirement will officially disappear from the Amateur Radio Service Part 97 rules. Effective that date, applicants for a General or Amateur Extra class Amateur Radio license no longer will have to demonstrate proficiency in Morse code. They'll just have to pass the applicable written examination. Federal Register publication January 24 of the FCC's Report and Order (R&O) in the "Morse code proceeding," WT Docket 05-235, started a 30-day countdown for the new rules to become effective. |
| This Day In History: 1910 - First radio demonstration
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Saturday, 13th January 2007 at 7:23AM |
 Lee De Forest, the American inventor of the vacuum tube, broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera. The broadcast over a telephone transmitter could be heard only by the small number of electronics hobbyists who had radio receivers. De Forest started regular nightly concerts in 1915, increasing interest in radio receivers, which at the time depended on the vacuum tubes manufactured by De Forest's company. |
| This Day In History: 1938 - Morse demonstrates telegraph
Posted by Bernie Basel, K3BAZ on Saturday, 6th January 2007 at 8:53AM |
| Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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