Hurricane Watch Net
The Hurricane Watch Net ( HWN ) has announced tentative plans to activate on 14.325 MHz on Wednesday, September 18, at 1800 UTC. The net will switch to 7.268 MHz at 2100…
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Celebrating 100 years of WWV
WW0WWV – 1919-2019 We’re glad you’ve joined us to help celebrate the World’s oldest continually operating radio station, WWV, as it turns 100 on October 1, 2019 – less than 5 months!…
SUNDAY NIGHT DIGITAL NET
Try out the area wide digital net on the Keystone-West network. Local users can access it on the W3KWH 444.450 repeater or any of Pittsburgh area C4FM repeaters, we are going to…
VE Testing This Sept 18th
Chris Grimm K3PQ is now our VE Testing examiner contact person. People interesting in becoming an amature radio operator or planning to upgrade their license should get in touch with Chris at…
Locating RF Interference at HF
A proven and practical approach to dealing with RFI from grow lights and more. By Tom Thompson, WØIVJ Radio frequency interference (RFI) increased dramatically in my neighborhood recently. Locating the sources was…
AMSAT and ARISS Designing for Lunar Gateway
Details are still being fleshed out, but AMSAT and ARISS are working on the design of an Amateur Radio system for NASA’s Lunar Gateway. As NASA explains, the Gateway “will be a…
All antenna projects are now done!
The last antenna is now up and open for contacts Click Image for full size image Now all the tower are filled with antenna’s at the steel City club house. The NA4RR…
Coax Cable
From the ARRL “So What” podcast All about the Coax Cable Regardless of whether you are operating at HF, VHF or UHF, the quality of your feed line is critical to your…
World Scout Jamboree — NA1WJ Station
World Scout Jamboree — NA1WJ Station You can work the World Scout Jamboree station July 22 to August 1. We will be posting our operating frequencies in real time on Facebook and…
Wall Street Tries Shortwave Radio
Wall Street Tries Shortwave Radio to Make High-Frequency Trades Across the Atlantic Editor Note: While this is not an direct amateur related article it is using our technology. Hopefully it doesn’t hurt…
NU3Q on TV
Bob NU3Q was on the K5KUB Amateur Radio Roundtable show on July 9th. He gave his “Go Box” demonstration on the show, and below is the link to the show. If you…
Did you know? C4FM Fusion on 10 meters
Did you know that you can do C4FM “System Fusion” on HF? Well at least on the FM portion of the 10 meter band you can. So ant one General or higher…