CONTACT – The ISS contact was very succesful this morning with the exception of the You Tube live feed which did not work. We had about 9 minutes and the kids did a great job asking their questions. Thanks to al the voluteers and sponsors who made this happen. There will be a news story…
Continue ReadingWinter Field Day was held on January 26th and 27th at KEØLTD’s QTH. Club members ABØRR, KEØLTD, WØDFU, KEØKOO and KBØUMU participated in the event. AJ White and her Deb, her mom visited on Saturday and AJ made a few CQ calls. Aj is one of Dan’s STEM class students and is studying to get…
Continue ReadingYou can watch the You Tube Video here. It starts about 7:56 into the video
Continue ReadingPark County Radio Club Helps Kids Learn About Ham Radio
Continue ReadingA big thank you to John Auer, Laurtia Summerton, Cheryl Berg, Steve Berg and Mike Borrego for supporting the inaugural Make A Wish Trailblaze Challenge Hike. There were 65 hikers who raises over $215,000. PCRC plans to support next years hike tentatively scheduled for August 10 2018
Continue ReadingI have been experimenting with a matchbox end fed antenna that I got from nelson_antennas on ebay. He makes them and sells them on ebay. Here’s a link to his page https://www.ebay.com/usr/nelson_antennas I have had great luck with this little guy. I was able to hear Australia last night with a Yaesu 450 and a lazy…
Continue ReadingBelow are videos of the Dick Mountain Repeater site antenna inspection using a drone. We also inspected the surrounding trees a lot.
Continue ReadingOne of ham radio’s proudest traditions is public service. Right here in Park County the tradition continues, these communication resources are still available. Through out radio history, time after time in natural and man-made disasters when normal communications unavailable, hams are here to provide needed emergency communications to connect the impacted areas to the rest…
Continue ReadingPark County ARES Region 2 District 3 was activated for exercise Polar Express on 18 Oct 2014 at 0800, with two members, Frank/WB4CIW, and Daniel/NØBN. WB4CIW operated from his home and NØBN operated from his vehicle for the duration of the exercise. During the exercise Park County passed two ICS-213’s via WinMor, peer to peer,…
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