Author: K3LTC

At the January meeting the board convened at 7pm and many items were discussed including fund raising ideas for 2020. Most of the fund raisers in 2019 were led by a small core of members – getting more members involved in these efforts is key to meet our goals for this year, the largest of…

There have been several Allstar project build meetings over the past month at the home of Pres, W2PW where members gathered to modify radios, construct cables, and program their raspberry pi to create functioning Allstar nodes. For the most part the project has been a success and a lot of fun. The meetings are continuing…

After last night’s weekly Wednesday night net a couple members met up on our 70cm repeater to test out sending and receiving some SSTV images. This was inspired by listening to the W3HZU Keystone VHF Club net over echolink who held an SSTV net Tuesday night at 8pm. Two images were transmitted and received in…

It was a very good meeting last night! We had 17 members present and all the members are excited about the Allstar build that we will be doing in the coming weeks with Pres, W2PW. We went over the materials list and discussed the various options. Special thanks to Charlie, K2ATF for donating 2 signs…

Preston, W2PW who operates the WR2UHF repeater gave a great presentation to our club last night going over many aspects of DMR, D-Star, Fusion, and All-star. WR2UHF ( 444.700 MHz ) is, at times, connected as a node on the East Coast Reflector (which is actually a coast to coast US IRLP network – see…

Several members attended the Dayton Hamvention at the Green County Fairgrounds & Expo Center. This annual ham radio convention held in Xenia, OH is sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (W8BI) from which the event takes its name. Lots of great ideas were brought back which will hopefully be put into action!