Get ready to feel a surge of pride, NFARL members! Our recent outreach event at Kittredge Magnet School was an incredible success, showcasing the fun and educational aspects of amateur radio to a bright group of young learners. On March 26th, NFARL volunteers enthusiastically welcomed 32 eager students from Kittredge Magnet School, along with their 5th-grade science teacher, Charamie DeMarco “W5FRM,” for an engaging introduction to the world of ham radio [User Query]. The focus of the day? Learning to solder and construct our very own Code Practice Oscillator kits! A fantastic team of NFARL Elmers – Mike Riley, Wayne […]
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Results of the NFARL 2025 Program Survey
Thanks to each of you for responding to the recent email survey intended to guide the selection of the upcoming NFARL Club Program presentations. As you saw from David Bisciotti’s March meeting presentation for the construction of a Dummy Load/Wattmeter, we already have enough interest to plan a Saturday Project Workshop. We have started the planning and will schedule the event as soon as possible. We will take your top subject selections and have them presented in the upcoming months. I look forward to organizing these selected subjects for our monthly club programs. If any of you would like to […]
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Antenna Propagation Tools
The January Club Program was about Antenna Propagation tools/programs such as Reverse Beacon Network and the PSK Reporter used to measure and compare, in real-time, your antennas with the worldwide CW/Digital Skimmer network with multi-band SDR receivers. There are thousands of listening stations, provided for and maintained by our fellow Hams. The skimmer outputs are aggregated and carried over the internet to the servers that deliver the spotting and propagation information.
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July NFARL program by Lee Johnson N4WYEPurpose: The aim of this workshop is to get you operational with your NanoVNA so that you can optimize your existing antennas and make it easier to put up new ones with the confidence that they will perform as expected.Materials required: As this workshop will be hands on showing the fundamental measurements that most of us use:1 – Please bring your NanoVNA along with the calibration loads and cables.2 – Also bring your 2m handheld whip as we will be using it for some of the steps.If you do not have a NanoVNA, you […]
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