Another SARA Family Picnic has come and gone! The club headed out on a beautiful, sunny, Sunday afternoon to Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton to celebrate the club, camaraderie, and great food. The club provided burgers, hotdogs, and sausages as a main course. Everyone brought more food than the 36 attendees could possibly eat. […]
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The Yaesu FT-2DR is a fantastic handheld radio that operates 2m and 70cm FM, along with Yaesu’s Fusion digital mode. It has a built-in GPS receiver that is sensitive enough to operate even inside some houses, and can use that GPS with the best implementation of handheld APRS I’ve ever experienced. Given the lack of
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The Motorola XPR-6550 is different from the other ham radio oriented radios that are part of this review series. It is built for commercial and business operations, not for ham radio. You’ll often see the XPR-6550 hanging on the belt of police and fire personnel, factory workers and hotel/event staff. The radio is single band – covering
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If you missed Anthony Luscre K8ZT’s QRP presentation at the July SARA meeting, know that you missed a good one. However all is not lost. You can garner the flavor of the talk by viewing the Power Point using the link listed below. Anthony is the ARRL Assistant Ohio Section Manager for Education Outreach. As such
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I’m reviewing two radios together for this segment, as they are nearly the same radio just designed to cover two sets of bands. Batteries, chargers and other accessories are interchangeable between the two radios, and if you have both of them you can cover 5 VHF/UHF bands between the two. Alinco DJ-G7: a Tri-Band radio on
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