HAM Shack

Creator: Omegix Status: Existing Born On: 14:01, 21 August 2014 (CDT) Last Updated: 20:38, 08 March 2015 (CDT)

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

• HAM News

Meetings

• March 10 2015, 7:00pm - 8:00pm: HAM Interest Meetup in AV Area

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
  • http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3323503

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)
    • http://www.arrl.org/files/file/VEs/ARRLClub%20605C-2011%20interactive.pdf
  • 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)
  • Radios: Yeasu FT-890 (HF Rig)
  • Tuner: MFJ-945D
  • Sound Card Interface: MFJ-1275 (Digital modes for FT-890)
  • Linear Amp: Alinco ELH-230D (Power amp for HTs)
• Erik Arendall, W4EDA
• Greg Brown (not on HAM email list)
• Brimstone
• Bruce Campbell
• Justin Richards (not on HAM email list)
• Crashcart
• Preaux, KI4SGI

Useful Links

• http://www.harc.net/