The July 2020 RRRA Business Meeting will be held on the W0ILO Repeater System at 7pm on Tuesday, July 21st. Both the July ARES Meeting and July License Testing Session (AKA VE Session) have been canceled.
These schedule changes have been made to avoid jeopardizing our members’ health during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
We look forward to resuming in-person meetings when conditions allow them.
In this episode of ARRL’s biweekly Eclectic Tech podcast: “the allure of the long waves; an update on NextGen TV."1
In his Bicycle Mobile on the HF Bands article (a free preview from the August 2020 issue of QST Magazine), Christian Bravo, W4ALF, discusses “an easy way to implement a mobile radio system, for the operator on two wheels.” 1
After experimenting with pedestrian mobile and being active with Summits on the Air (SOTA), I was looking for a new amateur radio challenge. My experiences with portable ham gear led me to the idea of adapting my mobile setup to fit on my bicycle. The two-wheel setup would allow me to be even more mobile, and still be able to communicate on the HF bands. 1
On June 30, 2020, ARRL—the National Association for Amateur Radio—announced:
Well-known contester, DXer, and National Contest Journal (NCJ) Editor Scott Wright, K0MD, has been “substantially” stepping back from ham radio while offering his expertise to the US convalescent plasma COVID-19 Expanded Access Program. The study began in early April under the leadership of Dr. Michael Joyner, MD, of the Mayo Clinic; Dr. Peter Marks, MD, PhD and Dr. Nicole Verdun, MD, of the US Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Arturo Casavedall, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University, and Wright, who is with the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Marks is AB3XC. 1
