TRYON Amateur Radio Club – K2JJI

RACES Drill – Tuesday at 7pm EST | On air: -146.70Mhz No-PL | EchoLink: 510372 | Fulton County NY

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This past weekend (Nov 12/13) the TryonARC conducted the “Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Women’s Suffrage Special Event”. We would like to thank everyone who participated on this event. We made about 200 contacts. We have received a few Paypal certificate requests and the snail mail request are starting to come in. If you would like [...]

I came across an interesting article on the “Electronic Design” magazine. The TryonARC is not affiliated with this publication, but this article “SDR and CR boost wireless communications” does a great job explaining in a human understandable language what the Software Defined Radios (SDR) are, how they work and how they are used on telecommunications. [...]

There was a recent announcement that G+ opened the doors to businesses and organizations for g+ pages. This means we can have an official G+ page with google’s blessing. We’ve opened one up here. We plan on having “Virtual NETS” from time to time so people can brag about QSO’s, QRP projects, SOTA Activations, etc.. [...]

The National Weather Service winter SKYWARN session has been scheduled for November 16th from 7pm to 9pm at the EOC room, located at the back of the Fulton Co Sheriff Dept. To participate you will need to register. Registration is free and open to the public of Fulton and Montgomery Counties interested on weather observation [...]

On November 9th national communications will be disrupted for around 3 minutes during the first nationwide test of the emergency broadcast system. From the article: ‘On November 9, at 2 PM EST, FEMA will transmit the EAS code for national level emergencies to Primary Entry Point (PEP) stations in the national level of the EAS. [...]

I came across William Dillon blog. William has a post describing one of his projects using a SDR receiver to capture audio which he then converts to weather images. This is an interesting project. He uses the “SoftRock RX Ensemble II Receiver Kit” to receive the NOAA satellite weather pictures. For more on the project please [...]