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The Palomino Dual Band J-Pole

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 mikie No Comments

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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” »

How does Fusion, Wires-X, YSF and FCS work?

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 mikie No Comments

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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?” »

What is up with the D-Star Repeater?

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 mikie No Comments

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Hi everyone, I want to give you an update on the D-Star repeater. As some of you know it has been in a local only mode for quite some time now. Once we got the new club callsign (W3FDK) we had to adjust all of the repeaters to accept the new call sign. The FM … Read More “What is up with the D-Star Repeater?” »

AREDN and LoRaWAN now operational at the Gambrill repeater site

November 28, 2020November 28, 2020 mikie No Comments

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Today 2 AREDN nodes and a LoRaWAN gateway were put up and activated at the Gambrill repeater site. Below are the details and links to more information. AREDN AREDN is the acronym for Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network. It uses a very small piece of radio spectrum right next to the 2.4 Ghz, 3 Ghz … Read More “AREDN and LoRaWAN now operational at the Gambrill repeater site” »

Digipeaters are now W3FDK

November 3, 2020November 4, 2020 mikie No Comments

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We have changed the callsigns on the digipeaters to W3FDK. We are in the process of changing the Winlink gateway as well but that is a bit more complicated and still working on it. Still no update on the D-Star callsign change. We will keep you updated as that progresses.

W3ICF repeater in Frederick is now W3FDK

November 2, 2020November 4, 2020 mikie No Comments

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The W3FDK callsign at one time belonged to Rolan Clark when he was trustee of the FARG repeater. FDK is the airport designator for the Frederick airport so the W3FDK call fits well into the repeaters located here in Frederick. Rolan went back to his old callsign and released W3FDK. After the 2 year waiting … Read More “W3ICF repeater in Frederick is now W3FDK” »

FARG and MAWCG Merging

November 2, 2020November 4, 2020 mikie No Comments

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The Frederick Amateur Repeater Group, a repeater group that has been in the Frederick MD area since the 1960’s is merging with the Mid-Atlantic Wireless Communications Group.

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New Discord Server

October 24, 2020November 4, 2020 mikie No Comments

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We have setup a new Discord server with the main use for Ham Social. But we have also created an area for our new podcast, the “Ham Radio Unlimited”. In addition we also setup an area for MAWCG as well. If you have not used Discord yet, it is a very easy to use communication … Read More “New Discord Server” »

Ham-Pi

June 25, 2020November 4, 2020 mikie No Comments

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HamSocial.org

January 19, 2020October 2, 2020 mikie No Comments

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