I have found the quality of Alkaline Batteries, Like everything else on the market these days has deteriorated. Used to be the leading batteries Like Duracell and Energizer would never leak inside you

SnoVARC Weekly Winlink Check-In Procedure 1) Check-In every Thursday, except for the 1st Thursday of the Month. Please send your message by 19:50 each week. 2) Connect to a Winlink CMS server, by one

I like Radio Mobile On-Line. https://www.ve2dbe.com/rmonline_s.asp You do need to create an account, but it's free to use. Nice user interface. Real good data specifics and nice graphic output. You ca

I have to agree with Jackson here... PL259, SO259 Connectors are not water proof. Not without sealing them up good. Which would defeat the whole quick-change concept. It if was me, I would run the coa

Hi Ryan, Do you have an Antenna Analyzer? The documentation for the Buddipole gets you close, but it is affected quite a bit by where it is setup. So best to fine tune the resonance for the band you a

The software for the Cougar Repeater has been updated to reflect CW: KE7GFZ/R and will be applied the next time there is a need to drive up to the mountain and reprogram the repeater. Such a minor cha

I have seen many CMS HF stations now reporting they will no longer be supporting winmore after the end of July. Also heard that ARDOP is being abandoned by winlink. So that leaves VARA as the only cur

I defiantly want one when they go on sale! That is assuming Icom does not price it outside of my means. Cool QRP Rig. I love the display on the 7300, so this is big plus. Also it is an SDR. Uses the s

Nice article on grounding. Thanks for sharing Howard! Jim W7ABD

Re-posting Ken's message on snovarc, as I don't have write permissions to KE7GFZ on groups.io... The DVR Readback test is called by DTMF: 123 I checked cougar repeater receive via the DVR readback at

Good RF Detective work there Paul! Sounds like you nailed it down for sure... Jim W7ABD

A few things to consider... The size of the tarheel antenna coil depends on where you plan to mount the antenna on your vehicle. The bigger coils need to mounted to the frame or the lowest part of the

Winlink is a store and forward email system. Messages sent are queued up and once another station, be it Telnet, VHF/UHF, HF or Winlink.org connects, the message is sent to that station and deleted fr

Hi Paul, Here is the Buddipole design for a 80-40m NVIS Antenna. https://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/buddipole/nvis2008.pdf I have put one of these together and it seems to work. But like all buddipole co

W7ABD Jim (net control) opened the net at 20:00 hours. The following SnoVARC Members checked in: W7ABD Jim (with traffic for the net) WA7CPA Robin WA1HEM Howard W7ECK Ken W7PFB Paul WA7TBP Tom (with t

This message begin sent on behalf of SnoVARC President, Tom WA7TBP... CERT RESPONSE REQUESTED - SNOVARC, CARNATION, DUVALL CERT's When: Today at 13:30 (1:30pm) Where King Co, Fall City This request is

Hi Howard, Your Winlink message came through just fine. I sent reply. So you should see it in your inbox the next time you connect Jim W7ABD

Hi Paul, Welcome to SnoVARC! Check out SnoVARC's website at: http://snovarc.org/ We have two weekly nets as well as the KBARA Net and a morning ragchew daily. The nets are on Thursdays of each month,

Hi Paul, Congrats on getting your General license! Welcome to the HAM World. A VE is a Volunteer Examiner. This certification is issued by the ARRL. A VE is trained and certified to be a proctor of HA

I have had real good luck with the Buckmaster OCF Dipole. It's a multi-band OCF Dipole. Comes in various lengths for 20, 40, 80 and 160 meters. Also comes in two flavours - 300 watts and 3000 watts. I