Field Day

      In tomorrow night’s session, we will cover some of the internals of the most popular digital mode and discuss the controversies surrounding the FT2 mode.  We hope that you will come away with a deeper understanding of…
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In tonight’s edition of QRV, we’re going to look at the sometimes daunting task of programming your DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) ham radio. DMRs, once programmed, are very easy to use, but the initial hurdle of getting a radio going…
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In tonight’s edition of QRV, we’re going to look at Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, the technology that allows airplanes to automatically communicate their position to ground stations and other planes.  We’ll talk briefly about the history of ADS-B, how…
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Tomorrow night, our very own Don Weeks (N5SKT) will be talking about FreeDV and running a demonstration on how it works.  He will be discussing the basics of its operation, the different modes (and which ones are best suited to…
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Solar weather events—such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic storms—significantly influence HF radio propagation by altering Earth’s ionosphere, often affecting signal reach and reliability for amateur radio operators. Recent activity allowed the northern lights to become visible as…
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This month’s QRV presentation will be hosted by Joe Jaison from the University of Ottawa’s Rocketry team.  Joe will explain how they use radio in rocketry for telemetry using a mix of commercial and designed technologies.  He will additionally talk…
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One of the biggest complaints about the popular FT-8/FT-4 digital modes is that the exchange is short and fixed, and there’s no way to add to the QSO. What if I told you that there was a mode that used…
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During tomorrow night’s QRV session, we will learn about NOAA’s GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) satellite system and how you can decode its transmissions for yourself.  We will talk about what GOES is, how the data is channelized and transmitted,…
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