The DVRA had another exciting and informative seminar at the DVRA shack held on June 29th at 10am.
Here is a link the the presenation: Learn to talk on HF like a Boss!
Want to take advantage of your Technician class privileges on 10 meters?
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DVRA IARU-Style Fox Hunt Report – 6/1/2024
Glen, NK1N – James, KB2FCV – Chris, WA2SEM – Ben, KC3VVA – Ryan, K2RPH – Masen – Bill, W2WZ
Rich, KD2CQ Photo
Well, the weather we ordered for June 1st was delivered on time and DVRA conducted a terrific fox hunt at Veterans Park in Hamilton.
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EME (“Moonbounce”) Training Sessions held on July 6th at the shack
On Saturday mornings, on July 6, hands-on training was available for club members interested in learning the capabilities of our Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) station.
Attendees examined and asked questions about all the important equipment, both hardware and software. Some simple radio astronomy was done by pointing the 3 m dish at the Sun to measure solar radio noise and check antenna pointing.
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DVRA Nets are now on the 440 MHz repeater
The 440 repeater is situated at 840 feet on the tower adjacent to the Quaker Bridge Mall and provides an increased coverage area for our nets. To access the repeater, set your receiver to 442.650 MHz with a +5 MHz transmit offset and a PL tone of 131.8 Hz
With the greater coverage it is now much easier to join our nets:
The Tech Net is held every Sunday night at 9pm.
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DVRA IARU-Style Fox Hunt – June 1, 2024
It’s time to release the Foxes!
** New Venue **
DVRA will host its second IARU-Style Fox Hunting Session of the 2024 season. IARU-Style is an on-foot fox hunt where multiple foxes are released into the woods for hunters to find – Think: orienteering with radios.
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2024 ARRL International Digital Contest
The 2024 ARRL International Digital Contest is coming up on the weekend of June 1 – 2, from 2 PM local time on Saturday through 8 PM Sunday. We will be operating once again from W2ZQ. We garnered a 2nd place showing in 2023 and are looking for #1 this year !
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2024 Annual ARRL Field Day – June 22-23rd
The DVRA will once again participate in the annual ARRL Field day. The ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada.
On the fourth full weekend in June, thousands of radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
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DVRA IARU-Style Fox Hunt Report – 5/5/2024
Rain was predicted for our first Sunday morning Fox Hunt but if you opted out due to the threatening weather, I’m sorry, you didn’t learn from last October’s event and … you missed another good one.
Two hunters gathered at Veterans Park in Hamilton to take part in DVRA’s first IARU-Style fox hunt of the 2024 season.
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W2ZQ PARKS ON THE AIR ACTIVATION RESCHEDULED TO MAY 25
Due to a poor weather forecast for 5/18 and problematic band conditions thanks to solar CMEs, we are rescheduling our POTA activation to MAY 25 and changing the operating time to 2pm – 5pm to catch better band conditions.
DVRA Members and Non-Member Guests: Please join us on Saturday morning,
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Antenna Construction Event – 6 Meter Moxon
The Antenna committee will hold an construction event on Saturday May 11th, 2024 at 10am at the W2ZQ station. We will discuss, design, and construction techniques for Moxon beam antennas. This will be followed by the construction and testing of an antenna that will be used for Field Day.
Contact k3ea.dx@gmail.com with any questions.
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