I painted mine black to make it more stealth on a black roof. It did not affect the SWR and as far as I could tell it did not affect my receive or transmit signal. Dan KA7GPP

Glendon is correct. When we moved the original SNOVARC repeater to the Bell's residence we happened to acquire the Cougar Mountain repeater. While monitoring the activity on both at the same time I

If you do it, please sweep it with an analyzer before and after so we can see if it changed the tuning at all. I do know that putting a ladder line j-pole into sched 40 pvc will change the tuning

Tonight on the Rookie Roundtable Net, Kirt (K7KDW) mentioned that he painted his GP3 to give it a bit more camo. I was wondering, do you think I could plasti-dip my GP6 black to make it more

If memory serves, Carnation repeater was appended with /C and the Duvall repeater gota /D. Allows means to identify source of the signal you're receiving. Get Outlook for Android

Here is something I have wondered about since I got relicensed, but it never before rose to my consciousness to ask: Why does the SnoVarc repeater ID in Morse Code with the call sign /C while other

This message is for those of you that use Winlink packet. Over the past year or so ARES and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have worked together to create a Winlink Template to report earthquakes

More about online Ham Expo. I got this today. Thanks, Rowland Join us for 48 hours of armchair Hamfesting! We are reaching out to let you know that despite the closure of all ham radio

Knowing what the gauges in various locations would generally read is helpful. The depth listed for “Tolt River Road” is 90 feet. Generally the Tolt River Gauge, which is near the end of Tolt

The numbers need reference to actually be useful. Perhaps some reasearch is needed. Ken

I’m not sure Ken. They were provided by Seattle Public Utilities’ Engineers. Kathy

Years ago I was hearing it’d take like 40 minutes to get into Carnation but then yesterday I heard 18 minutes from a couple of people out and about. Would be good if we get one or the other

Are these water levels based on current river gauge readings for USGS? Ken

The Carnation-Duvall Citizen Corps recommends to people to take 10 minutes to get what they need and get out of their house. Use the next 50 minutes to get off the valley floor, whether that’s by

If I recall correctly, it’s a little over an 1 hr (according to SPU). Rob Noonan KJ7GIG

We dont need to guess. There's a comprehensive study in the possession of seattle water, and both fire districts.

Man, sorry you had to go through that! That must have been scary! I understand the dam is about 16 miles from Carnation. Has anyone ever guessed how long the water would take to get there? I suppose

Boy…we sure know. Just a few comments on my experience. Traffic was bad in our quiet sleepy town. First thought was to grab my radio equipment but actually forgot to grab cell phone (lesson #1.5

Have you signed up for the Virtual Ham Expo for the weekend of August 8th and 9th? It is free to participate and there are a lot of great presentations that will be made. Sign up here:

As some of you may know the Tolt Dam alarm went off this morning letting people know the dam had failed and to evacuate immediately. Luckily it was a false alarm but there was a lot of confusion of