The Utica Amateur Radio Club, Inc. is sponsoring this year “RADIOCOM 2011 HAMFEST AND COMPUTER FAIR” on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds located at Cemetery St. Frankfort, New York.
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TRYON Amateur Radio Club – K2JJI
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During our last meeting a few members expressed their interest to learn Morse code. I found a small and simple electronic project that would help with the training. I know this project may be a little over some of our members expertise, but how else do you learn new things?.
On this article the author shows the schematics, list of parts and the source coded he used to build his low cost Morse code trainer. If anyone is interested on building one of these we could order the parts in groups to lower the cost and save on shipping.
Visit this link to read about the project.
Mark your canlendar
Mark your calendar. This year ARRL Field Day is approaching. We have less than 2 weeks.
Field day is the single most popular on-the-air ham radio event held annually in the US and Canada. Each year over 35,000 amateurs and people interested on the hobby gather with their clubs, friends or simply by themselves to operate.
To learn more about field day please visit: http://www.arrl.org/field-day.
Joe KB2TJE will be hosting this years Tryon ARC field day at his QTH: 25 East, 11th Ave Gloversville Ny. Join us on Saturday and Sunday. We will have multiple HF and VHF stations. There are plans for a digitalmode station and also we will have some older radios for everyone to see and use. You don’t need to have a ham license to talk on the GOTA station. Join us and experience the trill of talking to other hams across the world.
UPDATE: Photos of the event:
Members of the Tryon Amateur Radio Club participated on this year state emergency preparedness drill assisting as ham radio operators at the local Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home. Click here for pictures of the event.
Last week the echolink computer had a hard crash and kept the PTT closed. Luckily the local repeater has a time out timer so the TX lock up did not killed the repeaters finals, but nobody could access the repeater for a couple of hours due to the input being locked.
The suggestion was to enable TOT on the radio, but the radio is an older Azden PCS 7000 that does not have this feature.
The way how the PTT is activated from the computer is through the serial port. The signal RTS is set to high and together with the ground it closes the PTT, either by using an opto-coupler or a transistor. The solution I thought about was using the PIC12F683 and is described bellow.
The National Weather Service spring SKYWARN session has been scheduled for May the 18th 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 members of the Fulton and Montgomery Counties interested on weather observation (no ham license required). The online form is located here:
2011 SKYWARN™ SPOTTER TRAINING SESSIONS
