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OVMRC Radio Course Cancelled
Due to the risk of safe assembly during these unusual times, the Ottawa Valley Mobile Radio Club will not be offering the usual September start for their Amateur Radio Course. If circumstances change for the better, we may consider offering the course in January. In the meantime, the OVMRC recommends folks register for an on-line…
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Installing PL 259 Crimp Connectors on LMR 195 Coax
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Administrative Notice - Idle Account Purge
Greetings all! It is my intention to purge all unused accounts this weekend. If you have a commenting account, and haven't logged in for more than 6 months and aren't on the OVMRC executive, I will be removing your account on Saturday, 13 June. There are no major effects of this - having an account…
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Getting Ready for FD/2020 - Class 1E
Hi Everybody, I suppose this could have been written as an article for the June Rambler, but that might be a bit late for the tale I'm about to tell which is my 24-hour experiment in running a Class 1E/QRP/Battery+Solar station for 2020 Field Day. In the 42 years of holding an Amateur Certificate, I've…
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May 2020 Rambler
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Please Join The Fight
Hi folks, This weeks AMSAT news included an item advising that Stanford University is now dedicating its "folding@home" distributed computing application to determining the protein binding mechanism of the COVID-19 virus which, it is hoped, would lead to development of a vaccine or other mitigating therapy. You can find the link easily enough by searching…
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