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President’s Ramblings for February, 2023
The new year is already starting to slip away but after that short ultra cold snap I for one am looking forward to warmer weather ahead.
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2M/70cm Slot Antenna: Re-purposing a satellite dish for amateur radio
With a surplus satellite dish on my hands as a result of an internet upgrade, I began to look around for a potential amateur radio use.
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USING AN OPEK HVT-600 VERTICAL AS A MOBILE ANTENNA
The Opek HVT-600 is a 200 Watt 10-band (1/4 λ) ham radio antenna (80m - 2m).
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Technological advancement in Amateur Radio: Software Defined Radio and innovative software with potential application for POTA and SOTA.
This emphasis on technological advancement and experimentation in the amateur radio community has rapidly developed with the advent of Software Defined Radio (SDR).
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CAMSAT’s Transponder Satellite CAS-5A (Fengtai OSCAR-118)
This article summarizes my thoughts of working for QSOs through Fengtai OSCAR-118
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Kilowatt Amplifier PART 5 – 1600 W Fan-Cooled Dummy Load
In this article I will provide a brief update on the amplifier’s build progress.
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Mo's bent dipole
An update on the “Shortened Dipole for Balconies” (Rambler, Jan 2022, Vol 64, Issue 5) In a previous article in the January 2022 issue of the OVMRC Rambler I reported experimenting with a linearly-loaded induction dipole, shortened for use on a balcony. Since the length of this dipole is longer than my balcony allows, I…
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OVMRC Field Day 2022 Report
There is some very good news about the club’s performance in the 2022 ARRL Field Day in June, as posted in the December 2022 QST. This year the OVMRC came in an amazing 3rd place overall in terms of our participation numbers. We had 22 members enter the contest. Last year we were in 2nd…
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