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RRRA January ActivityLearn how you can build high performance portable antennas for POTA, SOTA, Emergency Communications and HOA Deployments during KJ6ER’s Zoom presentation at the January RRRA Meeting.
September 2019 Business Meeting Minutes
- Meeting called to order at 19:01
- Introductions
Thank You for Making Our Hamfest a Success
Thank-you to the sponsors, donors, attendees, seminar speakers, vendors and volunteers who made the 2019 RRRA Hamfest and RRRA Dakota Division Convention a success. See you next year!
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Sponsors
This Hamfest supported by contributions from:
- KD0YX
- 4 Square QRP Club
- ARRL
- Blarney Stone
- Buckmaster International, LLC
- DIY Solar for U
- DX Engineering
- Easy Way Ham Books
- Elecraft
- Hammond Manufacturing
- Mastrant Antenna Guying
- MFJ
- N3ZN Keys, LLC
- NCG Company (Comet Antennas)
- Pacific Antenna
- Parks Digital, LLC
- RT Systems, Inc.
- Seminole Wire & Cable
- Tigertronics
- West Mountain Radio
- Yaesu
WWV Centennial Celebration and Special Event kick off this weekend
The culmination of months of planning will come to a head this weekend as the WWV Centennial Celebration and the related WW0WWV Amateur Radio special event get under way. WW0WWV will begin operation on Saturday at 0000 UTC and continue through October 2 at 0000 UTC. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club (NCARC), and the WWV Amateur Radio Club have teamed up to organize 100th anniversary events. WW0WWV will be active around the clock on 160– 6 meters on CW, SSB, and digital modes (FT8 operation will be Fox and Hound, except on 160 meters). WW0WWV will operate from the challenging RF environment at the WWV site near Fort Collins, Colorado. Logs will be streamed live to Club Log, and all logs will be uploaded to Logbook of The World (LoTW) after the event ends.1
The Doctor is In: Coaxial Cable Connectors
Learn about Keeping Water Out of Coaxial Cables in this episode of the
- ARRL The Doctor is in podcast.
Build The Wouff Hang
An important part of hanging an antenna from a tree is a bearing, or pulley, to eliminate guy line friction and facilitate antenna repairs and adjustments.
The Wouff Hang—whimsically named after the infamous Wouff Hong from Amateur Radio history—is an easy to build bearing made from common PVC water pipe or electrical conduit found at any hardware or home supply store.
Author Roy Lewallen, W7EL, describes construction and use of The Wouff Hang in a well illustrated article which is (a free preview from the October 2019 issue of QST Magazine).
