QST: Technician license course offered through Santa Cruz ARES, starting April 12, 2021: This information courtesy John Gerhardt / N6QX. The course is free, and is presented on Mondays from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., for six weeks. Textbook is Technician Class by Gordon West ($25.00). Space is limited. Sign up here — https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4da9a822a4f4ce9-technicial For further […]
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Congratulations to Suellene Petersen / K6CPA
Congratulations to Suellene Petersen / K6CPA, our Public Information Coordinator, who has received a Certificate of Appreciation from the San Lorenzo Valley ARES group. The certificate recognizes Suellene’s outstanding public service work in 2020 and 2021. […]
County DSW Registration
QST de SCV DEC: County DSW Registration will take place on Saturday, April 17th, at 9:00 am. If you need the County DSW registration, or if you have lost your County DSW ID Card, sign-up for this event. I do not know when we might be able to do this again anytime soon; so, if […]
Great Radio Amateurs of Yesteryear
Great radio amateurs of yesteryear: The late Rudy Van Gelder (W2TMD) was a master recording engineer whose music studios in Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey were used in many famous jazz sessions on the Blue Note, Prestige, and Impulse record labels. https://tinyurl.com/h7kev62w “Rudy got interested in electronics early on, and he became a radio […]
Plans Proceeding for Fall 2021 Willis Island DXpedition
The team from the Hellenic Amateur Radio Association of Australia (HARAOA) that’s planning a November 3 – 13 DXpedition to Willis Island (VK9HR) has expanded by one, and the DXpedition planning is on schedule. A vessel to take the team to Willis Island has been chartered to leave Australia on November 3, returning on November […]
Dark Hair Versus Silver Hair
Dark Hair Versus Silver HairBy Suellene Petersen, K6CPA About a year or so ago my husband, Stephen Petersen, AC6P, came into the house waving a letter at me. He had a huge smile on his face when he showed me a clipping from an old newspaper that showed two handsome young men sitting in front […]
Monster Dipole Can Deliver Monster Signal
Monster Dipole Can Deliver Monster Signalhttps://youtu.be/7ah95zW9-WM This video shows how Gary Watson, ZL3SV, in Nelson, New Zealand, installed an enormous all-band dipole with each leg extending 320 meters (about 1,050 feet). The antenna is multiple wavelengths on HF, and on 20 meters it has a gain of more than 16 dB, Watson says. It hears […]
ARLB007 FCC Not Yet Collecting $35 Application Fee
SB QST @ ARL $ARLB007ARLB007 FCC Not Yet Collecting $35 Application FeeZCZC AG07QST de W1AWARRL Bulletin 7 ARLB007From ARRL HeadquartersNewington CT March 23, 2021To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB007ARLB007 FCC Not Yet Collecting $35 Application Fee The FCC Part 97 rules establishing a new $35 amateur radio application fee go on the books […]
More Winlink Adventures
More Winlink adventures: Here’s a de facto QSL from ARCPACIFIC regarding the March 11, 2021 drill, details of which are described below. [email protected] via bounce2.pobox.comFri, Mar 12, 7:33 AM (6 days ago)to nv6wWinlink has automatically forwarded this message… Subject: ACK: Express Check In [Exercise]-NV6W-San Jose, CAMessage ID: GRQ4PDLF4WUZDate: 2021/03/12 15:30From: ARCPACIFICTo: NV6WSource: ARCPACIFICCMS Site: CMS-A [message […]
Experience Gained in March 11 Winlink Thursday
K1CE for a Final: Experience Gained in March 11 Winlink Thursday Red Cross/ARES Exercise Ahead of May 8 Nationwide Exercise I participated in the March 11 “Winlink Thursday” (WT#6) to gain some more experience with Winlink Express, its message and other form templates, attaching jpeg files to messages, and using the VARA HF high-speed (thanks […]