SARA and ARRL Field Day received a nice write-up in The Daily Record out of Wooster. See http://www.the-daily-record.com/lifestyle/20180621/calling-all-amateur-radio-enthusiasts–national-american-radio-relay-league-having-field-day-in-rittman
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From Mike N8QQN – The Silvercreek Amateur Radio Association (SARA) will be holding its annual Field Day Operations from 2:00 PM – Saturday – June 23rd continuously until 10:00 AM – Sunday – June 24th at the American Legion Hall located at 220 E. Sunset Dr in Rittman Ohio. The public is invited to come
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Hamvention 2018 is now behind us, and it was a great event. Day 1: Jason N8JDM and John N8CD got on the road around 6AM on Friday for the trip down. We checked in with the Barometer Net and were active until a bit past Mansfield. John N8CD had had his mobile hotspot and was
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The source material for tonight’s trivial question for Sunday Evening 6m Net comes from a 1994 QST article Overview of Amateur Call Signs, An — Past and Present. The article is a fascinating look at the history of how amateur call signs were assigned in the US up through the present regions and assignment schemes
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This is the third in a series of short reviews of handheld/portable/HT radios. Read more about the series here. The Yaesu FT-470R Dual Band HT Not long after Yaesu introduced the FT-23/33/73 series of radios in the 1990’s they followed it up with a full featured dual band radio with direct keypad frequency entry, 42 memories,
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