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I survived Field Day

7/4/2018

I spent most of Field Day down at the club station, taking advantage of the Air Conditioning! It was hot outside!

However, on Sunday morning, I made a few last minute contacts, and then went to sleep so I could to work Sunday night. I think my total score was 12 points.

However, I have acquired two new QSL cards in the mail! I still get excited when I get them.

AZ SkyWarn Frequency Change

6/9/2018

Hello Spotters,

This message is geared toward those who are Amateur Radio operators ("Hams"). There has been a change to the Sector 2 (Maricopa County and northwest Pinal County) Skywarn repeater. The new permanent frequency is 442.550 MHz with PL tone of 100. This will also apply to the weekly routine Net. Please update your records.

If you have any Ham specific questions, please contact Ken Waters - N4PBY at ken.waters@noaa.gov

Austin Jamison
NWS Phoenix

That was fun...

5/30/2018

Between getting back on HF, and work/family stuff, I had not looked at my webpage in a while. Quite a while, it turns out.

And neither had anyone else. The DNS record for the site was broken, and was prompting routing errors.

So, that's finally resolved, the site is presenting again, and hopefully all is well.

Now, if I could just do something about the clickbait emails I keep getting from "people" wanting me to include their resources on my site. Maybe it's time to think about doing that, to some degree,

Meanwhile, I need to work on my next antenna project. 20m is pretty much dead in my area right now. Time to build a 40m antenna.

73, Dave

There’s Still Time — But Not Much — to Make Plans for the ARRL National Convention and Banquet

1/21/2016

Time is tight to order ARRL National Convention Banquet tickets and to make your plans to attend the Convention February 12-14, hosted by the popular Orlando HamCation®, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. The banquet will take place on Saturday, February 13, at 6:30 PM, with ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, as the keynote speaker. Guests also will hear from the ARRL’s new President, Rick Roderick, K5UR. Master of Ceremonies will be ARRL Southeastern Division Director Doug Rehman, K4AC. Banquet tickets will be available until January 31. The ARRL cannot guarantee that any tickets will be available for sale during the convention...

More on ARRL Website

ARRL releases new ARES & NTS Manuals

5/21/2015

This came across the ARRL - ARES twitter feed this morning

Here's the link to the new ARES Manual. http://t.co/yNVluYPfyi The NTS Manual can now be found here http://t.co/uhlzQ2dKZh
— ARRL - ARES (@ARRL_ARES) May 21, 2015

Those links are:

ARES Manual
NTS Manual

100 Years of ARRL

1/24/2014

This year, the American Radio Relay League celebrates it's 100th birthday.

ARES and CERT

12/20/2013

One of the groups I belong to on LinkedIn.com has just finished up a long discussion on Community Emergency Response Teams and Amateur Radio Emergency Service.

Training Standards

11/10/2013

Originally published by CA State ACS office, Nov 4, 1996, as EMC Bulletin 052

Query: “Are there any training standards for communications units that serve government?”

Don't listen to him, he's not "an #SMEM expert!"

11/9/2013

What does it take to be an expert in something?

What are the desirable traits for a Volunteer?

11/9/2013

A management workshop, based on Harvard business school techniques, divided 110 people into eleven groups of ten people each. The groups were asked to list all of the attributes that came to mind. After a period of time they were told to stop writing lists and vote on their top eight. Then all eleven groups combined their results into the following top eight attributes: