| Hot News |
For the latest discussions, see our GROUPS.IO page here.
Elections of Officers for 2020 were held during our November
7 meeting. See Officers for the results.
This
site is current a/o December 28, 2019. See Radio Choices for new
content.
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| Introduction |
The seed for Amateur Radio was planted in the 1890's, when
Marconi began his experiments in wireless telegraphy. Soon he was joined
by hundreds. This section tells you what we are about 129 years
later.
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| Repeaters |
The 444.9
and 167.64 are both DR-2 machine are located at the Tower Road Site.
145.19 has been converted to DR-2 at a test location. Click on "Repeaters" our current status.
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| Station Design for VHF |
The Hill
Country has many locations that are good for VHF and UHF. With
proper antennas and low loss coax, one can work much further than could be
imagined.
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| Radio
Choices |
Many new to Amateur Radio wonder what radio
to choose after their hand-held. This
page provides information about Yaesu and Icom along with links to others.
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| Station Design for HF
to 50MHz |
Our members
operate stations from simple to elaborate. We can give you ideas for
yours.
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| DX |
This page
will provide some "how to" ideas, tell how to find who is on
the air and give you current propagation reports.
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| LoTW
and Club Log |
This subject
discusses Ham software, how to get the rare one in the log and then how to get the
confirmation.
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| QRP |
Want to get
started in QRP? KARS past President, Bob Rosier - K4OCE, recently inducted into the QRP
Hall of Fame, tells you how.
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| Weak
Signal World & Digital |
New modes like
MSK144 and
FT8 seem to be the fastest growing segment of our hobby.
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| Field Day |
Field Day -
2019 is here and gone. KB5TX scored in Second Place, Nationally, Category
5F. Preparation is now commencing for FD 2020.
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| Presentations |
We have frequent programs on a variety of amateur radio
subjects. Here see HF operating, software, contesting, NVIS, and
articles by K4OCE (QRP Hall of Fame). Page a/o 03/11/2019.
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| Technology |
Amateur
radio technology has come a long way since the spark transmitters of 100
years ago. See this page for how to use WSJT-X
on
a Raspberry Pi 3.
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| Meetings,
Training and Testing |
We meet the
first Thursday of each month. Find directions at the link. We
also provide
direction, mentoring and when you are ready, testing. See this page
for tips how to prepare. We now have 11 Volunteer Examiners and can test from Tech to Extra
once a month during our regular club meetings. See Training, Meetings
and Testing below and then call Steve
Verschoyle
or follow the "testing" link to make an
appointment.
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| Community Activities |
We have a
strong association with Kendall Co. EMS, the Kendall County Sheriff's
Department and other organizations. See new safety notice about
clearly posting your address for 911.
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| Current News
Letter |
This section
is to call your attention to information of long term interest from our news
letters.
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| Swap Meet |
Have
something to sell or trade? Provide text and pictures in .jpg format
to the Webmaster
for posting.
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| Forms |
KB5TX agenda template,
Membership Application and other club related forms.
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| Officers |
In addition
to information in the footer, you will
find the mailing address, email address, and a listing of KARS officers for
2020 here.
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| Links |
Here are links to various websites of interest. If you
want to hear how ship to shore CW was done just 20 years ago, check out the
Maritime Radio Historical Society.
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| Constitution
and By-Laws |
Our
Constitution and By-Laws are current as of Summer, 2016. These are
updated for approval by the membership as circumstances dictate.
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| History of
the Club |
KARS commenced informally around 1975 and was formally
incorporated in 1980. See this link for all the details.
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| Ideas
for Improvement |
All flaming arrows should be directed at the Webmaster.
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