November 14, 2023
During a recent construction project club members built dummy loads for testing radios. The loads required a heat sink and club member Bob W9GEW provided materials and machine time from his business to help produce those. He provided this video of the machining process.
November 10, 2023
Robert W9RKK took this short video when he attended the CFMC Belvidere Hamfest and a few fellow SARC members stopped by.
November 8, 2023
by Jim KB9RGU Well , it’s over. Summer that is. Oh, and the Foxhunt season as well. October 28th 2023, the last of the four Saturday Foxhunts is in the books. We changed the hours at the suggestion of a couple participants. Started at 1500 and finished at 1600, welcomed sunshine on a cool and …
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[This discussion took place on our SARC-All email reflector – Ed.] Bruce N9EHA started the discussion with this post. In older radios, in order to get the tuning dial scale to tune linearly across the band and not “bunch up” frequencies at one end of the scale, they used an air variable capacitor that would …
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Board of Directors Meeting November 1, 2023 Robert Kocourek W9RKK Chairman called the meeting to order at 7:00PM Attendees Robert Kocourek W9RKK John Shofield AC9JS Bill Riess KW9WR Danny Kafka KD9HIL Cliff Sowka K9QD Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK John Douglas AC9JS Ed Lishka AC9SD Secretary’s Report Cliff Sowka K9QD: October BOD Meeting …
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