by Bob, KI4SBL SK Do you ever wonder if those HT batteries are going to last through the upcoming bike race or 10K event? Well, this month’s feature will enable you to test those pesky batteries and find out if they will perform, or not! Read on for a little […]
by Chuck Catledge, AE4CW NFARL kicked off the year at the GARS TechFest with a demonstration of Surface Mount Technology (SMT) soldering techniques led by Mack, W4AX. TechFest attendees were able to try it for themselves and discovered that it’s not so hard after all! Special Interest Groups (SIGS) played […]
By Mack, W4AX This has been a phenomenal year for the North Fulton Amateur Radio League. The club’s continued success is due to our great members. We’re now at over 260 active members, our treasury has grown 16 fold in the past three years, and we’re a Federally recognized 501(c)3 […]
By Jim Streible, K4DLI SK There were many new and somewhat unfamiliar antennas used at this year’s NFARL Field Day. One of these was the one for the CW station. This antenna is basically two 5/8 wave antennas end to end. It can be fed with ladder line from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Jim Stafford, W4QO Appeared in QRP Quarterly, Fall, 2006 Up until about 8 years ago, I had an 80 foot tower with a TH-6DXX on it. It was quite fun working QRP with it on 20 thru 10 meters. Reports of “WOW, you can’t be QRP!” or “are you […]
By Hal Meyers – K4JHM SK First of all, lets get some basic concepts in mind. The thing that “gets” our equipment is the voltage difference between the various conductors coming into the equipment, not the magnitude of the voltage. Lets just take a simple modem as an example. It […]