Welcome to the Juneau County Amateur Radio Club and Juneau County ARES/RACES website
Next Net Meeting Jan 20th 2021,
@ 7:00 PM
146.850 Repeater, 123 PL
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Dear Juneau County Radio Club Members;
First of all, Happy New Year hope it will be a very good year for all. This last year has been trying for most. If anyone has fallen ill to the virus, please take care and our prayers are with you.
This year we would like to address the antenna at the South Tower Site. Currently this is a 2 bay antenna that was given to us by Jeff Rogers. We have had discussions about the loss in coverage of the repeater. One issue is that the antenna is only at 140 feet in height. the old repeater had a transmit and receive no duplexer. also we were able to have a transmit height at the top of the tower. before receiving the current antenna we had prices of a 4 bay antenna of aprox $1500. I will look into this again and bring a proposal to the members.
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When the virus subsides we will again have fundraisers, and test sessions.
I will be scheduling new test session Feb, April, June and November.
Please include an email address and phone number, when sending your dues.
President.jcarc@gmail.com or treasurerjcarc@gmail.com .
Thanks
John KC9ILO
Next test session
Feb 13th, 2021 @
the Mauston Ambulance Building
For more info contact
treasurerjcarc@gmail.com.
FCC 'paperless' Amateur Radio license policy now in effect
Starting February 17, the FCC no longer routinely issues paper license documents to Amateur Radio applicants and licensees. The Commission maintains that the official Amateur Radio license authorization is the electronic record that exists in its Universal Licensing System (ULS), although the FCC had routinely continued to print and mail hard copy licenses until this week. In mid-December, the FCC adopted final procedures to provide access to official electronic authorizations, as it had proposed inFrom the International Space Station:
The image below was received via SSTV from the International Space Station as it flew overhead on February 1st, it was a very good pass and the signal was very strong. The caption below the image reads : 80 years since the birth of Yuri Gargarin, who is the first Russian cosmonaut. The ISS was transmitting a series of 12 pictures via SSTV over the weekend.
Brian-WD9HXC