7 results for month: 01/2016

Watch the GARA January Meeting Live Here!

When we're ready, we'll start up our super Internet video machine and live stream the entire meeting in the player above.  The stream should begin around 7:30pm EST tonight, January 25.  Since this is our first shot at this, bear with us as we work through any technical problems that might come up.  Although we'd prefer to see you in person at Captain Bills, we'd be happy to see you online!

Sunday Night Tech Forum from January 24, 2016 – Tech Exam Questions, and Ham Jargon, and More – Listen Now!

If you missed the Tech Forum on January 17, you can still benefit from all of the great information about the Technician License Exam questions related to FCC rules and additional discussion about ham lingo and jargon! There is tons of excellent information for aspiring hams in this installment. Click the player above to hear the entire forum. And as always, join us at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings on the 145.150 W4GSO repeater to ask questions and share knowledge yourself! You can also join via Echolink by joining node N5ODE. Many thanks to Cameron Conover, AJ4TW, for providing the recording.

Letter from the President’s Shack: January 2016

Happy New Year, GARA!  I feel honored to have been selected by my fellow members to serve as the president of this wonderful club.  GARA has so much rich history in amateur radio in the Greensboro area and North Carolina, it is a wonderful thing to be a part of that.  I believe we are uniquely positioned in the history of GARA to do some great things and really build on what those before us have done.   Speaking of those before us, there are only a few members around who remember the beginning of GARA.  GARA has been around for as long as I’ve been breathing almost, over those 40 years the club has shifted and changed, grown and shrank, and ...

N4G Update

N4G-Radio-Equipment From David, AJ4TF: Permit application is in the hands of the National Park Service, but their new policy is that they won't issue the permit until we provide evidence that we have paid our liability insurance policy for 2016 (which runs from March 1st to March 1st.   (someone needs to send me the paid receipt as soon as possible please!) KE4MOW will not be able to provide his excellent ICOM HF rig this year, since he has it installed in his shack.   So we will be looking for someone to loan a good HF rig (preferably one that can be operated by relative beginners to HF).    Antenna #1 setup: Cameron ...

North Carolina Dstar Net – Listen Now!

This is a recording from this weeks NC Dstar net that takes place every Tuesday night at 9:00 eastern on W4GSO and other repeaters and hotspots connected to reflector 54C.   This week there were a few technical problems from various participants, more than usual.  Instead of crackle and white noise or static like FM in digital modes you get audio artifacts commonly referred to by users as R2D2.  (Might be time to switch to BB8!) This recording was made through REF 054C on the SD card of an Icom ID-31 by Collins Conover, AF7PO.  Enjoy!

Sunday Night Tech Forum from January 17, 2016 – Getting your Technician Class License – Listen Now!

If you missed the Tech Forum on January 17, you can still benefit from all of the great stories and information about how local hams came to be, well, hams! There are a lot of great stories and tons of excellent information for aspiring hams in this installment.  Click the player above to hear the entire forum. And as always, join us at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings on the 145.150 W4GSO repeater to ask questions and share knowledge yourself! You can also join via Echolink by joining node N5ODE. Many thanks to Cameron Conover, AJ4TW, for providing the recording.

Sunday Night Tech Forum from January 10, 2016 – Amplifiers – Listen Now!

If you missed the Tech Forum on January 10, you can still benefit from all of the great advice that was shared about different types of amplifiers, how they're used, and pitfalls with using them!  Since this is hosted on YouTube, you'll also be able to see the various ways you can change and manipulate a Software Defined Radio to improve reception quality. Click the player above to hear the entire forum.  And as always, join us at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings on the 145.150 W4GSO repeater to ask questions and share knowledge yourself!  You can also join via Echolink by joining node N5ODE. Many thanks to Cameron Conover, AJ4TW, for providing the ...