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February 9, 2020February 20, 2020RHG Articles

Winter Field Day 2020 roundup

With temperatures barely above freezing, and snow covering just about everything, members from the Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club setup their portable ham radio equipment, as part of the annually held Winter Field Day event. This event encourages Ham Radio operators across North America to test their radio equipment with the goal of making contacts in less than favorable weather conditions. Like previous years, the club decided to hold this outside at the Schaumburg Community Recreation Center. Continue reading “Winter Field Day 2020 roundup”

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SARC Holiday Party roundup – Jan 15th 2020

Below are some photos taken during the SARC Holiday Party at Garibaldi’s, on January 15th 2020.

During the party, club President Geoff Stevens KA9QGH presented the following awards:

Club Member of the Year, 2019 winner: Rob Glowacki, N9MVO
Bill Smead Construction Project Award, 2019 winner: Rob Glowacki, N9MVO

In recognition of his contributions to the club, including the use of materials and machinery to build the group J-pole antenna project, and more recently the Dummy Load project, Bob Zuttermeister W9GEW also received a special recognition award and a very large cake! Continue reading “SARC Holiday Party roundup – Jan 15th 2020”

January 15, 2020January 18, 2020Events RHG Articles RHG Phase Shift

SARC Phase Shift: A trip to the top of the Hancock Building

From time to time we’ll be bringing back photos of past events and featuring articles from past RHG issues.

To start the series off here’s a few photos of a fox hunt to track down a jamming transmitter located in downtown Chicago. The transmitter was found at the top of the Hancock building. These photos were taken in either 1997 or 1998 around Christmas as evidenced by the star hanging between the two antenna masts in one of the photos.

Fox hunt team on the roof of the John Hancock building in downtown Chicago. From L-R, Seth (from the comm. site management), K9IIM, N9QPD, KY0Q, N9EHA, N9WPD, and behind the lens for all of these pictures, KB9KMW

View of some some of the antennas mounted to the building itself on the south side of the roof. Needless to say, we experienced a small amount of intermod while standing here

View straight up from the base of one of the combined antenna supports

Front view of the final power amplifiers for several Chicago broadcast stations

Rear view of the same power amplifiers, with wave guides feeding combiners

View north, from the roof of the building

View south, looking out the window of the transmitter room

January 10, 2020RHG Articles

Ways to improve your HF SSB audio – by Mike K9KQX

Ways to improve your HF SSB audio – by Mike Sorensen, K9KQX

Not many of us have probably given much thought on how we sound on the other end of a QSO. We figure the mic we got will do just fine and the rig will do its magic to get out on the air. Well, there are quite a few things you can do with many of today’s rigs to improve the overall enjoyability of your time on the air. Continue reading “Ways to improve your HF SSB audio – by Mike K9KQX”