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Tonights meeting was a presentation by Jeff, KB3SPH, on his newest acquisition of a DJI drone. He covered the various licenses you may need in order to fly a drone, depending on if it was recreational or more serious stuff. … Continue reading →

On this past chilly Saturday morning (11 Nov), several members of the CCARC descended upon Mallows Bay to operate a special event station For those not familiar with the area, here is a Google Map showing the general location: In … Continue reading →

Tonights presentation was provided by AA3WS and titled “How to modulate your IPOD.” His main equipment was an IG-42 Heath Kit Signal Gen along with a 20Mhz scope. Using a series of schematics, he showed how all signal generators are … Continue reading →

Jeff, KB3SPH, gave a presentation on building your own Battery Box. Items he covered were: Considerations (why would I need one and where would i use it?) A Demo of a battery box Considerations Where woud I use it? installed … Continue reading →

At tonight’s meeting, President Bob provided a brief that he presented to the senior community center some weeks ago entitled “Amateur Radio Today, no longer your Grandfather’s hobby”. The format of the brief is aimed at individuals who may have … Continue reading →

The CCARC meeting this month was presented by Bob (KB3KOW) and Jeff (KB3SPH) and was an introduction to some various digital modes to include FT8, JS8Call, VarAC and finaly Easypal. Instead of having radios set up, Jeff and Bob made … Continue reading →

On July 25th, 4 members of the CCARC visited the Senior Center located in LaPlata. Bob (MW3M) had coordinated with the center to provide a short talk on ham radio to any one who may have an interest. We had … Continue reading →

The meeting started with President Bob giving a short presentation on the VoA museum, Bethany Station, obtained from his recent trip to Dayton as well as some pics from his visit to the velocity center, located in Indian Head, for … Continue reading →

A bit late getting this updated and no pictures 🙁 During this meeting, Bob, KB3KOW, described his home Echolink node set up and how he leaves Echolink turned off until needed, however, he often forgets to start it up before … Continue reading →

A number of club members met up tonight to work on building the ARRL radio kit. Breaking out their soldering irons and cookie sheets (to protect the table tops), they got started with mounting the components and melting the solder … Continue reading →