This past Thursday we finally were able to get a tower climber for the first phase of the repairs on the repeater tower. Below is what we accomplished and what is left to do. There are also some pictures from the work that was done that day. It was a beautiful day as you can … Read More “Gambrill Repeater Site Update” »
Saturday May15th starting around 10 and going for a couple of hours, a small group of amateurs are getting together for a small event that has taken on the name of Modulation Day. Keep an ear out on simplex channels for them trying to make contacts. As part of the contact challenge they will be … Read More “Modulation Day” »
The Three Amigos (Sandy KB3EOF, Steve KC3MAU and Kurt K3KOH) from our local Ham family have designed and built a dual band J-Pole with very low SWR. You can build one too… The video below walks through how it was designed and how to assemble it as well as how it performs. Be sure to … Read More “The Palomino Dual Band J-Pole” »
In our local group recently there has been some confusion and questions about how Fusion, Wires-X, YSF and FCS works. I hope with this post to make it a little clearer. Neither MAWCG or FARG have a fusion repeater but our close partner FARC does. However, we do have a YSF server up and Running. … Read More “How does Fusion, Wires-X, YSF and FCS work?” »
