NFARL is a long-time supporter of the North Fulton libraries; many of the ham radio books available in libraries in the areas served by our club were contributed by NFARL in years past. Early in 2009 our executive team surveyed the North Fulton libraries and discovered that the books on hand at all of the branches needed to be updated. The Joule Thief project was commissioned to fund the books. The books have been purchased, and delivery to the five North Fulton libraries has been completed. Following are pictures from the presentations at each of the five libraries. Jim, W4QO […]
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Renovation of Pre-1980 Electronics
by Dr. Gary Bush, W6GB Presented at the February 6, 2009 Club meeting. Click here to download a PDF file containing Gary’s presentation slides.
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2008 Christmas Party
It was great to see 85 festive hams gathered at the Southern Skillet December 16 for a wonderful celebration of the Christmas season and a successful year in ham radio. The party’s theme was “country hams”, and the pictures confirm that most dressed the part. Click here to see more pictures of the event. After lots of visiting & eating (the feast put out by Southern Skillet was delicious), head snake charmer Jim, W4QO called the assemblage to order. After a few introductory remarks, he recognized recipients of the Hams Helping Hams award. These went to club members who during 2008 […]
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2008 Stone Mountain HamFest
The Stone Mountain Hamfest & Computer Expo took place November 1 & 2 at the Lawrenceville-Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. In addition to vendor exhibits, flea market, tailgate market, VE testing, and boneyard, the Hamfest featured a youth lounge (all day both days) and a Youth Forum Saturday at noon in the main forum room. Almost a dozen of us (see participants in the photo at the top of the page) started the day with the very informative boneyard tour led by Jim, W4QO & Mack, W4AX. I’ve spent a lot of time with them, but was still amazed at their knowledge […]
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Batteries & Battery Safety
by Jim Krause, AB4CZ Presentation to our November 18, 2008 meeting Click here to download a PDF file containing Jim’s slides.
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JOTA 2008
NFARL hosted a Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) station on Saturday, Oct. 18 with about 20 members and 20 Scouts attending. The special event callsign W4S was obtained and nearly 100 QSOs were made. Three “stations” were in operation – HF, 2M with Echolink, and a “pure” Echolink station from a computer. It was a gorgeous day, but a chilly 50 degrees to start. In addition, a Radio Merit Badge class for Boy Scouts was held with 12 attending. The class was taught by AE4CW, AK4IK, KB7WO and W4QO. 10 scouts passed at the class with the others having some […]
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2008 Best Field Day Attendance Award
The “Best Field Day Attendance Award” was presented to NFARL by Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society on August 19, 2008.
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Field Day 2008
by Ian Kahn, KM4IK June 28 – 29, 2008 Details of how Ian and his team created a successful Field Day for NFARL. Preparations Recap Photo Contest Winner. Don Hinds, N8DWH took the winning photo, shown in the page heading. QST Article Results
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by Mike Herr, WA6ARA (Originally published in AIRWAVES, The newsletter of the Sierra ARC, May 2008. As extracted from the ARRL Club News – June 3, 2008 – Norm Fusaro, W3IZ – Editor – to subscribe, edit your ARRL profile ) As a kid in the ’60s I hung around my father, WB6MNX, and his ham buddies. The talk in those days was pretty much similar to now, what features their new rig had. But one thing I now note is that each ham had but one rig, yep, just one rig. It was usually a HF rig, and it was used both in the […]
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by Jim Stafford, W4QO. February 6, 2008. When non hams, who are looking at getting their ham licenses, ask me what they should do, I give them this list of what I think are the 10 things to increase their ham radio FUN!! I’ll write this as if I’m speaking to YOU the prospective ham. If you are already a TECH and tired of those 2M repeaters, you may skip step #2, but do NOT skip the others! more …
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