November 28, 2020 update The link antennas for echolink. No description provided DUE TO COVID-19, THE MONTHLY BREAKFAST HAS BEEN CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Pennsylvania is now enforcing an order that requires face masks to be worn. EMCOMM, EMergency COMMunications. The repeater now has battery back up emergency power in the event of a power … Continue reading Latest News November 2020

Ever wonder what is in the way of your simplex or your signal into a repeater? Here is a resource to check out. http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html

http://www.pg1n.nl/articles.php?lng=en&pg=367 Some 2m antenna projects that may be of interest. Can also be found on the Homebrew Corner/DIY Projects page on the website

I think it was a broken link on the first email notice. This should take you to the full article Here is a link to an article, "A Ham's guide to RFI, Ferrites, Baluns and Audio interfacing. This is a well written, by an expert, about RFI, Baluns and Audio Interfacing. It is in down … Continue reading A Ham’s Guide to RFI, Ferrites, Baluns, and Audio Interfacing by K9YC

REPEATER BACKUP SIMPLEX FREQUENCY (in the event the repeater is off-air) 146.985 Mhz Simplex (NO PL TONE). When programming, you may have to  manually set repeater offset to 0.000 Mhz). It is suggested that you program a “memory channel” for 146.985 simplex, NO PL Tone, 0.000 Mhz offset (may have to change the auto repeater offset to … Continue reading REPEATER POWER OUTAGE PROTOCALL

If you ever wanted a printable azimuthal map from your qth check out the following link. I found the compass headings for various DX countries were in the direction as indicated by the map interesting.  IE: China is due North https://ns6t.net/azimuth/azimuth.html sample below from West Chester

A few pictures from some of the users of 985 operating ARRL Field Day 2020. 985 Repeater users in action

Last post had a wrong link  Click here for a few pics operating portable on top of Mt Penn 985 Repeater users in action

Thanks to Dylan, K3DZM the Podcasts are back. Next time you hear Dylan "on air", please thank him for his efforts in bringing the podcasts back. It was very popular before.Click for the Podcasts  

VHF Propagation   Do you want to know if the VHF bands are open?  Take a look at this hourly updated map to find out.  http://aprs.mennolink.org/ This map shows actual radio propagation from stations operated near 144 MHz. It uses data gathered by Automatic Packet Reporting System-Internet Service (APRS-IS) from packet stations in the amateur radio service. The map shows activity that has happened … Continue reading VHF Propagation