It was a big day in Ann Arbor today (February 12, 2022) for Amateur Radio License testing. I don’t have the exact count at this moment but it was on the order of two dozen Technician and upgrade candidates. A large crowd for amateur radio testing may seem like a “so what” thing to the…
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Contesting… What is it?
Cascades Amateur Radio Society’s own Dale Cole (K8TS), and champion blogger, has written up a description of amateur radio contesting and what it is.
Quick Review of the Anytone D878UVII Plus
Our friends at Anytone have made long model name even longer by adding ‘Plus’ or ‘+’ to the Anytone D878UVII. The ‘Plus’ adds additional on-board memory for DMR radio IDs, which are loaded from RadioID.Net. The current DMR database is approximately 218,000 entries as of this writing. If that seems like a lot, it is….
Winter Field Day 2022
Winter Field Day is coming up on January 29th and 30th of 2022. Please see here for details.
Preparedness
Being PreparedBy Tim Bair, WD8PMDEmergency Coordinator, Jackson County MichiganJan, 2022 Prepare they say ….. This begs the question, have you? As amateur radio operators, some of us tend to think along the lines of preparedness and public service in whatever form that may take. Here in Michigan, we are very lucky in that most natural…
Coax Prep Made Easy
At the January 2022 meeting of the Cascades Amateur Radio Society, Wesley Cardone (N8QM) gave a presentation on the DX Engineering DXE-UT-KIT4 cable prep kit. Wes could not say how it typically is for the rest of the members in attendance at the January meeting but for his case, he only finds himself doing coax…
FCC RF Exposure Rules 2021 and You
What’s New? The FCC made a rule change effective for May 3, 2021. Nothing about any actual RF exposure rules have changed but the FCC has removed the automatic exemption for amateurs. What has changed: Amateurs must now determine if they qualify for an exemption. That’s it, folks. That’s all that has changed. If the…
AD8GN in Serious Skydiving Accident
The details are at the link below. Our prayers go out to Jeromy and hope that he makes a full and speedy recovery. https://www.wkhm.com/2022/01/10/county-commissioner-alexander-in-critical-condition-following-skydiving-accident-in-fl
Happy New Year!
The year is 2022. We’ve seen 2021 out the door and have a new book, open to page one, to start writing the history of CARS for another year. What will the club do this year? Field Day? The Jackson County Fair? Other volunteer activities? We all know CARS is about more than just playing…
A Thermocouple Calibration
Some years ago, I developed a protocol to implement an improved characterization of the SPICE diode. In time I intend to publish this protocol but to do so I need to be able to make lab measurements of a diode’s forward voltage drop as a function of its current at three named ambient temperatures. In…