ARRL Reaches Agreement with Community Associations Institute on Parity Act

May 28, 2016 By ad 1 Comment

05/28/2016
After 2-1/2 months of intense negotiations, ARRL has reached an agreement with the Community Associations Institute (CAI) — the national association of homeowners associations — concerning amended language of the Amateur Radio Parity Act. This will allow H.R. 1301 to proceed to what is hoped will be passage of the bill in both houses of Congress this year.

“We express support for H.R. 1301, the Amateur Radio Parity Act, as proposed to be amended,” the CAI statement said.

ARRL, working with CAI and Congressional staff, agreed on an amended bill that would allow every amateur living in a deed-restricted community the ability to install an effective outdoor antenna.

“We are pleased with the agreement with CAI over new proposed language in the legislation, and thank CAI and the Congressional staffers who helped make this happen,” ARRL Hudson Division Director and Legislative Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, said. Lisenco stressed that, while the agreement with CAI is significant, there is still much work to be done.

The years biggest discounts on ham gear this weekend @Dayton

May 20, 2016 By ad Leave a Comment

As you may or may not know the Largest Ham Convention #hamvention is happening this weekend in Dayton Ohio.

Hamvention FaceBook Page

If you go you can score the best deals of the year on ham radio kit.

What…..You cant go…… Neither can I, but there is hope.

Here is a link to Ham Radio Outlet to this weekends specials. Everyone that sells ham equipment will have discounts right now

Ham Radio Outlet Dayton Discount Deals This Weekend

Example

ICOM IC-718 for $559.95!

Yaesu FT-450 for $589.95! You wont find it cheaper……

According to the HRO website, these deals are good until “Monday Night 5/23/2016 at 11:59PM EST

NPOTA National Parks On The Air event @ Petrified Forest National Park

April 5, 2016 By ad Leave a Comment

NPOTA National Parks On The Air

1×1 callsign is in hand N7P (National 7 area Park) and will be active in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona on 4/16/2016.

We will be operating at least 3 radios wtih 4 operators with one possible digital running either PSK,RTTY or JT65 if the bands are crappy.

More info on freq and modes as we get closer. This will coincide with the National Park Service event https://www.nps.gov/findapark/national-park-week.htm running from 4/16-4/25 2016.
Learn more about NPOTA events going on all year.
https://npota.arrl.org

Interesting new Coax Cable that reduces loss as the frequency goes higher.

April 1, 2016 By ad 2 Comments

My friend John Miklor did a write up on a new coax cable that reduces line loss as the frequency increases. It even has a outer cover that “glows” and shows RF hot spots in the cable. How kewl is that?

PERFORMANCE TESTS – LMR-450G
The recently announced LMR-450G cable has aroused much curiosity since its characteristics have not been collectively available by any one source. By multiple inquiries to several manufactures (only three at this time) and numerous lab tests, we hope to put many of the existing questions to rest.

DESCRIPTION
The physical make up of this cable varies slightly from most conventional RF cables. The center conductor is a semi-stranded copper alloy surrounded by Telfon, which will absorb and distribute cable ‘hot spots’ caused by excessive standing wave. The double silver braid and foil outer coating which provides a 98.6% shield is what the inverted high frequency loss characteristics are attributed. The loss is substantially less as the frequency increases, making this cable especially attractive for UHF, cellular, PCS and microwave applications.

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March 15, 2016 By ad 3 Comments

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