ETH049 - Merry Christmas

Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to be talking about the some new scholarships that are available through the ARRL, My Christmas Wishlist and the latest episode of the Hamradio 360 Podcast, we talk about the St. Albans Amateur Radio Club in our amateur radio club spotlight, we talk about some upcoming events/contests over the next two weeks and wrap it up with some news from around the hobby!

Tech Corner - Merry Christmas

• Two new ARRL Scholarship programs announced
• • The Helen Laughlin AM Mode Memorial Scholarship is intended for female amateur radio operators,
  • • First choice Texas, then Arkansas then West Gulf Coast Region
    • $1000
  • The Atlanta Radio Club Scholarship is for Georgians between 17 and 25 years old.
  • • $500
  • ARRL has 80 scholarships that can be applied for: http://www.arrl.org/scholarship-descriptions

Christmas Wish List

• HF
• • KENWOOD TS-480SAT - $839.95 - 100 watt HF Plus Six Meters
• Mobile
• • Yaesu FTM-400XDR - $549.95 = 2m/430MHz: 50W FM, C4FM FDMA w/ GPS for APRS(1200/9600bps), Micro SD, RX: 108-990MHz
  • KENWOOD TM-D710G - $529.95 - 2M/440 TRANSCEIVER APRS/TNC GPS

• HT
• • Yaesu FT2DR - $333.00 - C4FM 144/430 MHz Dual Band Digital Handheld Transceiver
  • KENWOOD TH-D72A - $379.95 - 144 / 430 MHz Dual Band FM Hand Held with Integrated GPS / APRS
• Misc
• • RIGblaster Advantage - 199.95

Things You Can Do with a RIGblaster

• PSK31 (all models)
• WinMOR HF-Email (WL2K)
• MFSK16 (all models)
• ALE
• MT63 (all models)
• Hellschreiber (all models)
• SSTV (all models)
• Digital SSTV (all models)
• RTTY AFSK (all models)
• RTTY FSK (RIGblaster Pro, Plus II, and Advantage)
• PACKET 300 &1200 baud AX25 (all models)
• APRS with packet sound card software (all models)
• MCW transmit and receive (all models)
• CW transmit and receive (RIGblaster Pro, Plus II, Plug & Play, and Advantage)

• Contest Voice Keying (RIGblaster Pro, Plus II, Advantage, and Blue)
• WSJT FSK441 High Speed FSK meteor scatter (all models)
• WSJT JT65 Extreme weak signal Tropo and EME (all models)
• FM repeater announcements, automatic and unattended. (all models)
• EchoLink® (web) Internet radio linking with the EchoLink®system. (all models)
• Simplex or duplex repeater control with EchoStation. (all models)
• Digital voice over SSB bandwidth on HF (all models)
• Transmit Speech Processing: EQ and Compression (RIGblaster Pro)
• Computer RIG control (RIGblaster Pro, Plus II, Plug & Play, Advantage, and Blue)
• DX beacon monitoring (RIGblaster Pro, Plus II, Plug & Play, Advantage, and Blue)

Hamradio 360 - AREDN

ETH Ep 29 - Broadband Hamnet

Amateur Radio Club Spotlight Saint Albans Amateur Radio Club

Website: http://www.starc.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starcinc/

Meetings

• Last Thursday of the month at 7:30pm at the St. Albans VFW 353 Lake Road, St. Albans, VT

Repeaters ( Listen Live )

• 145.230 - PL 100 St. Albans
• 146.745 - PL 100 Jay Peak
• 443.400 + PL 162.2 St Albans
• 447.225 + PL 100 Jay Peak

Nets

• STARC Weekly net - Every Thursday evening at 7:00pm on the 145.230 Repeater

Activities

• Switchback Bike for the Lake
• Run For Jim Races
• QSO Parties
• Field Day
• Testing Sessions

Upcoming Events

+ RAEM Contest

0000Z-1159Z, Dec 25

+ DARC Christmas Contest

0830Z-1059Z, Dec 26

+ SKCC Sprint

0000Z-0200Z, Dec 28

+ AGB New Year Snowball Contest

0000Z-0100Z, Jan 1

+ SARTG New Year RTTY Contest

0800Z-1100Z, Jan 1

+ AGCW Happy New Year Contest

0900Z-1200Z, Jan 1

+ AGCW VHF/UHF Contest

1400Z-1700Z, Jan 1 (144) and

1700Z-1800Z, Jan 1 (432)

+ QRP ARCI New Years Sprint

1500Z-1800Z, Jan 1

+ QRP ARCI New Years Sprint

1500Z-1800Z, Jan 1

+ ARS Spartan Sprint

0200Z-0400Z, Jan 3

*Information taken from the WA7BNM Contest Calendar

Hamfests

None

*Information taken from the ARRL Hamfest Calendar

News Next Kids Day is Saturday, January 7

12/14/2016

The first Saturday in January is Kids Day — the time to get youngsters on the air to share in the joy and fun that Amateur Radio can provide.

Kids Day gets under way on Saturday, January 7, at 1800 UTC and concludes at 2359 UTC. Sponsored by the Boring (Oregon) Amateur Radio Club, this event has a simple exchange, suitable for younger operators: First name, age, location, and favorite color. After that, the contact can be as long or as short as each participant prefers.

Kids Day is the perfect opportunity to open your shack door and invite kids over to see what Amateur Radio has to offer. Details are on the ARRL website.

Suggested Exchange-

Name, age, location and favorite color. Be sure to work the same station again if an operator has changed. To draw attention, call “CQ Kids Day.”

Kids Day on the Ham Radio at Valley Christian Schools from Werner Vavken on Vimeo.

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