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Club Events
/ CCARS Technician Boot Camp |
on: Nov 15th, 2009, 07:04am |
| Started by WA4GWB | Post by WA4GWB |
The Camden County Amateur Radio Society (CCARS) will be presenting a “Technician License Boot Camp” on December 5th, 2009 at the EOC located on 131 South Lee Street (Hwy. 17) in Kingsland, Georgia. This class will prepare candidates for taking the Technician Test of 35 questions, which will be given by the club’s VE team immediately following the class at 5:00 pm. The cost of the exam is $15.00, and candidates should bring cash and two forms of identification. To improve chances of passing, candidates should order The Ham Radio License Manual, Level 1 Technician, (24.95 + shipping) from the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) at http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?item=9639. Candidates should read and study this manual a few weeks prior to the class. During the class, information in this manual, and the actual test bank will be reviewed by club members who will be present to help students with questions. Practice exam my be taken on-line at: http://www.qrz.com/testing.html . Upon passing this exam, candidates will receive in the mail (2-3 weeks), a Technician License and amateur radio call sign from the FCC. Candidates passing their Technician License Exam will be eligible to enter a drawing to receive a new 2-meter amateur handheld radio. New HAMs are invited to join CCARS at: http://www.ccars.org and ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) at: http://ares.camdencounty-ga.com/. Candidates can register via email at: WA4GWB@arrl.net or W4ULB@arrl.net
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General Board
/ Camden County Technician License Boot Camp |
on: Nov 15th, 2009, 06:57am |
| Started by WA4GWB | Post by WA4GWB |
The Camden County Amateur Radio Society (CCARS) will be presenting a “Technician License Boot Camp” on December 5th, 2009 at the EOC located on 131 South Lee Street (Hwy. 17) in Kingsland, Georgia. This class will prepare candidates for taking the Technician Test of 35 questions, which will be given by the club’s VE team immediately following the class at 5:00 pm. The cost of the exam is $15.00, and candidates should bring cash and two forms of identification. To improve chances of passing, candidates should order The Ham Radio License Manual, Level 1 Technician, (24.95 + shipping) from the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) at http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?item=9639. Candidates should read and study this manual a few weeks prior to the class. During the class, information in this manual, and the actual test bank will be reviewed by club members who will be present to help students with questions. Practice exam my be taken on-line at: http://www.qrz.com/testing.html . Upon passing this exam, candidates will receive in the mail (2-3 weeks), a Technician License and amateur radio call sign from the FCC. Candidates passing their Technician License Exam will be eligible to enter a drawing to receive a new 2-meter amateur handheld radio. New HAMs are invited to join CCARS at: http://www.ccars.org and ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) at: http://ares.camdencounty-ga.com/. Candidates can register via email at: WA4GWB@arrl.net or W4ULB@arrl.net
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Club Events
/ 2010 IOTA NA-58 Cumberland Island |
on: Nov 14th, 2009, 1:25pm |
| Started by W4ULB | Post by W4ULB |
Plans are currently underway to activate Cumberland Island (Islands On The Air #NA-058, US Islands # GA-002S) by operating a multi-op, 2 radio, battery powered station KB4CC the weekend of 23-24 January 2010.
Permission has been received from the Park Rangers, transportation to the island will be via the Cumberland Queen from St Marys. A campsite will be established, as operators and family plan to spend the evening on the island.
Volunteers are welcome for all stages of the operation, including the dry-run set up in early January, pre/post inventory & packing, cooking, hauling of supplies to/from the campsite, etc
All offers for temporary donations of equipment, antennas, batteries, etc. will be greatly appreciated.
Comments and suggestions welcome.
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Parts Needed
/ Re: Amateur TV Equipment |
on: Oct 16th, 2009, 10:11pm |
| Started by KI4UOE | Post by W4ULB |
Hey Josh,
Were you ever able to get your idea working? When I was with the Inshore Boat Team at KB, I had several ideas for using both APRS and ATV over encrypted radio to track our patrols. Never did get to implement them.
R/
Glenn
W4ULB
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Parts Needed
/ Amateur TV Equipment |
on: Sep 23rd, 2009, 05:29am |
| Started by KI4UOE | Post by KI4UOE |
Good Morning,
Does anyone have any ATV equipment I could borrow to prove an idea at work to my command (Coast Guard). I need a 1w or greater transmitter and a down converter. Everything else I have.
Thanks in advance,
KI4UOE
Josh
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General Board
/ Re: 10 meter net |
on: Oct 15th, 2008, 5:11pm |
| Started by W4ULB | Post by W4ULB |
Well, the "net" has met two weeks in a row now on Tuesday at 2000Z on 28.330 USB. The first week it was just David K4EHI and myself, and last night I was joined by Andy AA4XS and Chuck K4TIS for about an hour of chat on antennas, digital modes and more.Signals were strong and the freq was clear so far.
I hope we can have more folks join us!
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Projects
/ Re: Bobtail Beam |
on: Oct 7th, 2008, 05:12am |
| Started by aa4xs | Post by W4ULB |
Nice work Andy!
I guess this takes care of the technical discussion for next month's meeting...Can't wait to see your presentation! 
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General Board
/ Re: 10 meter net |
on: Oct 6th, 2008, 10:38pm |
| Started by W4ULB | Post by aa4xs |
I like David's idea. Informal ragchew but with a purpose.
Something a little lighter than what we are used to would be nice. The format doesn't matter as long as we can get people to dust off their radios and get on the air.
And David said he wants to be the first Net Control. 
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Projects
/ Bobtail Beam |
on: Oct 6th, 2008, 10:17pm |
| Started by aa4xs | Post by aa4xs |
Hey Guys!
Here is a link to the antenna I've been working on. It's called a Bobtail Beam.
I finally finished it today and tested it on the 444.200 machine on the Dames Point bridge. I was able to bring up the repeater on only 1 watt with the antenna at ten feet connected to my VX-5 HT. At 3 watts I was copyable but with a lot of noise. This was without tuning as I am missing my N adapters for my watt meter.  The design on the link is for 2 meters but I scaled the dimensions down to 440 using the formulas on the link and must have gotten them pretty close.
I put it up at 20ft and hooked it to my FT-7400 and at full power I was almost full quieting. Not too bad for another one of my thrown together, junkyard antennas.  I couldn't even bring up the repeater with my 1/4 wave antenna at full power. To be fair I have mention that the 1/4 wave is only up about 10ft. I was also using standard RG-58 coax which did not help. Used the same RG-58 on the Bobtail test too. I know it's not a good coax for UHF but I didn't have any LRM-400 handy and I didn't want to wait a few days for UPS to bring me some. I'm not impatient. I just hate to wait.
I built it out of some 1/2in pvc pipe and tees(I was out of 90s) and old welding rods I had in the shack. The only mod I made was instead of a direct connection of the coax I installed a SO-239. I hope that with a little tuning it will work even better. It looks like crap, most of my projects do, but it works. I tested it with my field strength meter and the side rejection is great. From 20ft away the meter never moved. The front to back wasn't bad. The back was about a 1/3 to a 1/4 of the front reading. Yeah... Yeah... I know... some real scientific testing going on here. Hey, ya use whatcha got. That's right I'm a proud product of southern education. All in all, considering the construction and materials, I am quite pleased with the results. It is an interesting design that actually works. This antenna was really easy to build, cheap and has a lot more gain than a 1/4 wave vertical. This would be a great project for any ham. I think I'll build a 2 meter like the one on the link next. Don't know if I'll use brazing rods or coat hangers for that one. All depends on what's laying around in the shack
My new motto: Don't throw your junk away. Put it in the air and talk on it!
Here's the link:
www.hamuniverse.com/2meterbobtailbeam.html
73
-Andy
AA4XS
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General Board
/ Re: 10 meter net |
on: Oct 6th, 2008, 2:19pm |
| Started by W4ULB | Post by k4ehi |
why not 28.330 at 8:00pm. informal net just come by and chat awhile?
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