QST! QST! QCWA MEETING
QCWA meeting Saturday 3/9/2019. Meeting starts at noon at Rocky’s Bar & Grill 1562 Island Ave. Mckees Rocks, Pa. everyone is welcome.
NEWS
Club news
Minutes – Feb 19, 2019
This information is for Steel City Members only via the web. For public access please go to the club house on any monthly business meetings for access.
Tree Down – Power On Backup
Road is open again and power is back on! With the wind storm on Sunday night there is a tree down on the driveway. Its currently hanging on the telephone pole wires.…
Ham Radio & Raspberry PI
Don, N3BMT sent me an email and I thought it would make a good posting for the site since he ask alot of good questions. So below is what Don sent me…
2m Repeater Update
The technical committee has been dealing with this noise issue on the old Kenwood 2m repeater for about two weeks now. After cleaning up several noise sources up on the hill it…
Championship Radio Foxhunting News
The Nineteenth USA National ARDF Championships Near Raleigh, North Carolina, July 28 – August 4, 2019 Plans are well under way for 2019’s USA Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships. Members of the…
AMSAT 50th Anniversary
The 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Symposium will be held at The Hilton Arlington in Arlington, VA, in the Washington, DC Metro Area on October 18, 19, and 20, 2019. The Hilton Arlington…
2019 LIGHTBULB QSO PARTY
Saturday March 9th 20:00 UTC to Sunday March 10th 20:00 UTC. Objective: to build and use an antenna constructed with a lightbulb as the main radiating element and make as many CW,…
Video of FT4 talk
On March 15, Joe Taylor K1JT gave a talk on the new digital mode FT4 to the Fair Lawn amateur radio club “Soon after the “FT8 Roundup” held on December 1-2, 2018,…
Building the Dummy Load
By Ken, K4EAA This is a take-off on a Dummy load that I’ve built in many different forms over the years. It uses a number of non-inductive resistors in parallel to achieve…
Applications Piling Up As Shutdown Continues
Volunteer Examiner Coordinators across the US are continuing to receive paperwork from Amateur Radio exam sessions held during the partial government shutdown. While it’s still possible to access the Universal Licensing System…
Joesph Marek – KA3JQA SK
KA3JQA – Joesph Marek Age 89, of Penn Hills, formerly of Moon Twp. passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 20, 2019 in Baptist Homes, Mt. Lebanon, with his loving family by his…