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* Gigantic Radio Tower, currently resides in the bike shed | * Gigantic Radio Tower, currently resides in the bike shed | ||
* Kenwood Radio (is this the radio in the Champaigne room) | * Kenwood Radio (is this the radio in the Champaigne room) | ||
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| + | ** Status: [Bruce] took [his] dummy load and used the shop power meter to look at that HF rig. It has a tube final and [he] didn't want to drive it too hard without knowing the radios history but [he] got 50 W out out of it. [He doesn't] know how clean the signal was but it was drifting on the readout quite a bit. Receive seems to have a problem. Also, being an old radio, it may not be a good option for new hams first experiences even if we can fix it. ~From Bruce's Email 2/9/15 | ||
* Club Callsign | * Club Callsign | ||
** http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3323503 | ** http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3323503 | ||
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Contents
[hide]Overview
This wiki page is to track the resources available at Makers Local 256 for the Ham Shack. Makers Local HAM Email list: http://lists.makerslocal.org/mailman/listinfo/hams
Hardware Resources
- Gigantic Radio Tower, currently resides in the bike shed
- Kenwood Radio (is this the radio in the Champaigne room)
- HF Rig
- Status: [Bruce] took [his] dummy load and used the shop power meter to look at that HF rig. It has a tube final and [he] didn't want to drive it too hard without knowing the radios history but [he] got 50 W out out of it. [He doesn't] know how clean the signal was but it was drifting on the readout quite a bit. Receive seems to have a problem. Also, being an old radio, it may not be a good option for new hams first experiences even if we can fix it. ~From Bruce's Email 2/9/15
- Club Callsign
Projects
Current Projects
- Monthly General List Recap Email (if anything has been done)
- Get Club Call Sign transferred to new Trustee (previous trustee is no longer a member).
- Jeff has downloaded the form and is waiting to find out the current club call sign --Omegix (talk) 11:37, 3 February 2015 (CST)
- Jeff has the forms in the mail to ARRL making member Jake Polatty (General License) the new Trustee of the club callsign, KM4KER. --Omegix (talk) 09:52, 6 February 2015 (CST)
Brainstormed Projects
- Get [[HAM Shack\Antenna Tower | Antenna Tower]] Up
- Attend HAM Class via HARC (need a group for this)
- Flash Broadband Ham Meshnet firmware onto spare routers at the shop
- Setup DSTAR point at makeshop
HAMs (Friends and Members of ML256)
- Omegix, KK4DTX
- License: Technician
- Available on request: Baofeng (2M/440M), iCom ID-31A (440M/DSTAR)
- Jake Polatty, KI4BTJ
- License: General
- Trustee of Makers Local 256 Club Call Sign (KM4KER)
- Erik Arendall, W4EDA
- Greg Brown (not on HAM email list)
- Brimstone
- Bruce Campbell
- Justin Richards (not on HAM email list)
- Crashcart
- Preaux, KI4SGI
