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Category Archives: Events
Bands & Modes 2-7&8-23 15M & YSF 59073
This week’s bands and modes exercises are 15M & YSF 59073 Eagle Net QSY Tonight it’s 15 Meters 21.370 Mhz Digital Only After Hours YSY 59073 Hemet Hangout Post Eagle Net:15 Meters worked well for everyone. Super clear audio and … Continue reading
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Bands & Modes 1-31-23
It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month! That means our Eagle Net QSY will be 60 meters. Tomorrow’s Digital Only after hours will be YSF Hemet Hangout, 59073.
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Winter Field Day 2023 Recap #1
Winter Field Day was Awesome! The weather was perfect for the event. While it was super cold in the morning, by 11am it was pretty nice and it stayed that way all day. HF was good and K6CED’s wire antenna … Continue reading
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Digital Only After Hours 1-25-23
Bands & Modes Digital only net after hours now has a schedule Fourth Wednesday of the month 70cm 439.000Mhz FM DCS 026 (not digital)The purpose of this net is to experiment with 70cm simplex and practice DCS programming on your … Continue reading
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17M Bands & Modes
Our new trial schedule is week 3 Wildcard. We will go to 17 Meters for the first time.18.142 Mhz USB. That will be after at least 20 min of normal 10M Eagle Net. 10M 28.360 Mhz @ 19:00 then when … Continue reading
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Our First WEEKEND Breakfast
Is on the fourth Saturday of the month at J&M. Due to Winter Field Day the first weekend breakfast will be in February.2-25-23 9am. Thank You KN6SOJ for the idea. 🙂
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LDARC February Meeting
Our next meeting is February 15th at 6:30PM. Presentation from AK6R Bob Brehm Palomar Engineers Bob will give his presentation on End Fed Antennas
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Eagle Net 1-17-23 6M FM
Today for Bands and Modes we’ll be trying 6 meters. After the usual 10M eagle net activity we’ll move to 6 Meters FM 52.515mhz. From there maybe 6M C4FM or SSB. I’m really intrigued by the 6 Meter Band. It’s … Continue reading
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Winter Field Day Planning Meeting 2 of 2
We’re having our final WFD Planning MeetingNext Monday Jan 23, 06:00 PM Use the link to attend: Join Zoom MeetingMeeting ID: 743 7321 2177Passcode: 5BerbM All are welcome and encouraged to attend.More on Winter Field Day Here
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2 meter NMO/PL259 antenna project
SG2000: 144MHz(2m) KE6JGM gave me this antenna without the ground plane. The first time I used it, fortunately, was with the 991a and with swr indicated. After a brief gasp I stopped transmitting and switched out the antenna. I forget what … Continue reading
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Winter Field Day Door Prizes
Visitors that check in are entered to win the 100th anniversary ARRL handbook Hardcopy and a Dual Band HT. Additionally volunteers are entered to win a sma SWR meter.
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January LDARC meeting
Our first meeting of the year is January 18th at 6:30PM. Agenda More info on our LDARC meetings page.Board Members, remember that our meeting time is 5PM at the same location.
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Bands & Modes Digital 1-4-23
After our normal Digital Only Net we’ll QSY to ysf 59073 Hemet Hang Out
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Bands & Modes 1-3-23
Eagle Net Bands & Modes is 40M 7.212 LSB and will be at the usual time 20:30 hrs. 10 meters wasn’t too bad tonight.40 meters worked better overall but we did loose Ken K6CED. Charlie joined in and could be … Continue reading
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Bands & Modes 12-21-22
Digital only net B&M exercise Tonight we experiment with the GM mode on this repeater.
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