Equipment – Page 4 – Anchorage Amateur Radio Club

A Really Big Day, Up and Away!

Saturday was a busy, busy day at the RSOC. A dandy crew of folks got together to tune up our AB-105 tower with a proper accoutrement of antennas, from 20...

By Kent Petty Published September 9, 2018 ARES, Contesting, Donations, DX, Equipment, FCC Building, Fundraising, RSOC Operations

Update – Who Are Our Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts? We’ve got a project!

NOTE: Please see below. We had some problems with the form attached to this previous post, so I you submitted the form, we probably didn’t get it. We’re taking a different...

By Kent Petty Published September 4, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RSOC Operations

Who Are Our Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts? We’ve got a project!

There’s a great opportunity for our Raspberry Pi enthusiasts to take on an important and interesting project for the club. If successful, it might be something that many of our...

By Kent Petty Published August 31, 2018 APRS, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters, RSOC Operations

New Swap N’ Shop Items

FOR SALE: All prices firm. All bought new by owner (with exception of VF-1): non-allergenic, non-smoking, and peaceful environment. All working as from factory. Sorry, No Pictures. LDG AT-600 Proll. Manual....

By Dave Webb Published April 24, 2018 Equipment

Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics

Pending U.S. legislation could force manufacturers to make repair parts and information available at fair prices Posted 24 Oct 2017 | 15:00 GMT By KYLE WIENS AND GAY GORDON-BYRNE The Consumer Technology Association estimated that...

By Dave Webb Published November 13, 2017 Equipment

Power Outage Takes Down Systems

A power outage struck parts of South Anchorage and the Anchorage Hillside a few days ago. The outage took down a few of our hillside assets for about 2 hours...

By Kent Petty Published October 30, 2017 ARES, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters

Working Wednesday, 10/4/2017

Working Wednesday tonight at the club station, 5923 Rowan. We should have someone there by around 1800. Lot’s of work to be done. A few things we’ll be working on:...

By Kent Petty Published October 4, 2017 5923 Rowan Clubhouse, APRS, ARES, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Working Wednesday

WL7ATC Tower and Antenna Donated to AARC

We mobilized a crew on Saturday morning (9/30/2017) at 1000L at Susan’s home in Peters Creek. Susan asked us to take down the 50’ crank up tower and associated antennas...

By Kent Petty Published October 3, 2017 Donations, Equipment

Working Wednesday, 9/20/2017 – Agenda

WORKING WEDNESDAY – 2017.09.20 @ 1800 – 2100 01). SNIPER’S NET CHECK-IN: 1800 to 1820 02). TEST HF WINLINK CONNECTIVITY TO FAIRBANKS / ANMC 03). SENIOR CENTER – FIND ORIGINAL...

By Kent Petty Published September 20, 2017 5923 Rowan Clubhouse, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Working Wednesday

Site Summit Upgrade In Progress

Dave Heimke (AL7LO) reports that he and Mike O’Keefe (KL7MD) visited Site Summit today to prep for major DC supply system upgrades and other repeater-related matters. While there, a preliminary...

By Kent Petty Published September 4, 2017 ARES, Equipment, Mesh Networking, Repeaters

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