DX Calendar for April 2020

License Exams (VEC) indefinately postponed

HQ building is closed but ARRL/VEC is working remotely. The FCC is processing applications.

This is what the interim CEO has told me:

What is being processed:

1. E-filed test sessions. There are a few who are doing this as the system is in limited testing.

2. Scanned test session paperwork in PDF format. These must NOT have any social security numbers, only FRNs. There are smartphone apps which will do this if your team doesn’t have a scanner.

3. VE accreditation (eg. if you want to become a VE)

4. Administrative updates to licenses (eg address changes) for individual and club licenses submitted via e-mail or telephone.

5. License renewals submitted via email or telephone.

What is NOT being processed:

Anything that has to be mailed or physically delivered to HQ. Mail service and processing is extremely limited due to the Connecticut executive order and these will be held to be processed later on.

73
Ria, N2RJ     Hudson Division director, ARRL

NOTE:   FLARC license exams are suspended “for the duration” …

 

 

Talking To Submarines: The Goliath Antenna Network

Here is a pretty interesting story from World War II…..The Goliath Communications Network

Interesting Engineering is an, er, interesting engineering daily newsletter on engineering (what else?)

 

We’re International … setting the pace for the world?

We’ve been discovered, and tweeted about!, in the UK …

Southgate Amateur Radio News_200319 for PDF

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/march/fair-lawn-amateur-radio-club-begins-daily-health-and-welfare-broadcasts.htm

or the shortcut at      http://dlvr.it/RS5jdk

CANCELLED * DXing with FT8 – Joe Taylor at SJRA 3/25

CW SAVES HUMANITY!!!

At this point in the SciFi Movie “Interstellar” we hear the request for a MORSE Encoding … later seen as *Second Hand* movements, and written down (dit dahs) and incorrectly verbalized as *dots and dashes* (somethings never change) for further transcription. What IS the valuable info? Data stream metrics of what exactly happens within a Black Hole. 

 

“Ham Radio? CW (Morse Code) ‘We still do THAT here!'”

😉

73-

w2nz

 

 

DX Calendar for March 2020

 

 

The scheduled H44 operation this week by AA4NC has been cancelled due to transportation and immigration issues associated with COVID-19.

WHAMM, this appears “The Baffling Menagerie of ISSUES!”

There are those of us who struggle with finding the *right* word for expressing our frustration, consternation, distress, …

Our imitable Wa2aLy demonstrates with aplomb a wonderfully, worthy flourish for us in need of a simple “heady” expression when THAT time comes – WHAMM!

 

73-

w2nz

 

 

Capt. Larry – Part 2 Radial Burial Grounds

 

In fine fashion Larry Wolff, Capt. (Ret.) USMM gives the final learning experiences, deductions and the last 30+ days of the most recent best practices material on maximizing the efficiencies of deploying Ground Radials to augment your vertical AND dipoles (ie, inverted *L*)

The Presentation is laced with entertaining anecdotes while uncovering his 28 year old method of success which earned him 5BDXCC and 5BWAS on 17, 30, 160 Meter and MORE.

ENJOY!

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73-
w2nz
FairLawnARC.org
YouTube Channel Manager
Visual Services Director

 

 

 

 

Capt. Larry’s Experiences: Buried Radial Grounds – the Why’s and … more!

Our Briny Capt. Larry, WA2ALY, gives us some whiteboard schooling on the Benefits of Burying Radial Grounds, and the ideal number to utilize to have the best antenna radial system.

ENJOY!

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73-
w2nz
FairLawnARC.org
YouTube Channel Manager
Visual Services Director