When it comes to Amateur Radio, things that I think I’m building or installing for temporary use sometimes end up becoming a permanent fixture of my station. What was intended as a “kludge” gets used longer than it should have. This was the case for the rope-and-pulley system that supported my first HF antenna, an …
Thanks to Katie and David Gilliam, K4TER and N7RCE, the FARA held its first VE Session in many years. The club has been wanting to resume VE sessions for a while and with the pandemic restricting the number of VE sessions, the desire was even greater. Katie and David who had just joined our club …
ARRL Field Day 2020 was certainly different that any previous Field Day event. Because of the pandemic and social distancing (a phrase that we all are sick of hearing) the ARRL temporarily change the rules to allow club scoring from individual participating stations. We as a club decided near the end of May that we …
On a chilly February day, FARA members conducted another fun Fox Hunt. The exercise took place the afternoon of February 29th, 2020. This time the Fox Den was led by Bob, KN4SPL along with Garth, K4BOX, and Mike, KF4TEK making up the rest of this iteration of the Fox Den. The hunters gathered in a …
It has been 28 years since the last time leap day occurred on a Saturday, but it appears to have inspired members of the club to socialize. A total of 33 people attended this month’s club breakfast at The Bistro on the Hill at Fauquier Hospital. From founding members to the newly elected and prospective …
Here are some thoughts on one way to adjust your SDR and waterfall for “optimal” reception and viewing. This is my preferred style; there are others, but my hope is that these examples will help illustrate what each of the controls do and what the observable effects are. These examples use the AirSpy HF Discovery …
For the first time in a very long time the Members of FARA felt it was time to have a fox hunt – after all the club is located in fox hunt country. Brad, N7IVV, volunteered to be the leader of the Fox Den, the small group involved in the planning and building of the …
