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Hello IPRC members!  Don't forget that our weekly net will be held tonight at 7:00 PM on the AirLink Gold Hill repeater.  Follow the link below for more details.  All licensed hams are welcome and encouraged to join our weekly nets.  Hope to hear you there.   https://indianpeaksradioclub.org/net.html

Field Day Weekend, 2021 ...

Hello all, Excellent meeting with some very exciting topics again tonight.  The presentations shared tonight, as well as the zoom recording of the meeting have been uploaded to the shared folder of the club google drive. I am personally very excited by the prospect of the IPRC getting back out into the field and doing some in person radio exercises and making some contacts for summer field day weekend on 26 and 27 June this year.  I have never been able to participate in a field day with this club, and I have the COVID induced cabin fever something fierce, so I am all in.  I have a small pop up camper trailer, a generator, deep cycle batteries, a solar charging array, and a plethora of radios and antennae.  I will definitely be participating in some capacity at one location or another, and I would very much like to camp out for the weekend in my trailer on site. Let's use this blog entry to have an interactive discussion about field day weekend.  We would like to know who is intere
Howdy radio peeps!   Just a reminder that we will be doing our simplex and emergency communications exercise on the IPRC weekly net tonight.  As always, we will be starting out on the AirLink Gold Hill repeater at 7:00 PM.  The more participants we have, the more data we can capture, and it should be a very educational and fun exercise as well.  Please do participate if you are able.   Non club members are also welcome.  Anyone with a current ham license is encouraged to join in.  So spread the word.    73,  Charley K4NYN  
Greetings all,  We received the letter from CCARC today notifying us that we have been granted our official frequency pair for the WØNED repeater project.  Thanks to everyone who has supported the club in making this happen, and special thanks to our club Trustee, John (KD6CFW) for persevering and navigating through the tedious CCARC online forms to submit the request. We are not announcing the frequencies to the public just yet.  We will be announcing the frequency pair (and hopefully the yet to be decided upon PL tone we will use) at the March club meeting on the 22nd, when I will be presenting on the progress and scope of the project.  Please join us if you are able. For now, suffice to say that we are in the very respectable neighborhood of 449 MHz, with a negative offset.  So get your UHF and dual band radios dusted off and tuned up.  We still have a long way to go toward getting the repeater up and running at the repeater site, but this is a major step, and this will allow Doug t
To all of the members of the greatest ham radio club in existence - the IPRC - you are all killing it with regard to your generosity and donations for the repeater project.  We are close to raising $1,500 now, and that puts us well within reach of getting the repeater up and functional in the basic (version 1.0) configuration.  We are still not sure whether the amount raised will allow us to explore enhanced options like battery backup power, etc., nor are we sure that we will even have space in the cabinet for such options.  More to come on that soon, but the generous outreach from our members and friends will also allow us to put up the repeater with a far better quality of antenna than we expected to be able to afford at the start, which should vastly improve the coverage, efficiency, and longevity of the system.  So in short, great job, and thank you for your generosity! As an update to the project, John has submitted the application to the FCC VFC and CCARC to ask for the frequenc
Hello IPRC members and friends!  We had a great club net on the AirLink repeater last night.  Thank you to Matt (KDØPYK) for hosting.  After the net, Scott (WØSJE), Jerry (KEØMWC), and I had a really good QSO on 146.550 MHz, 2 meter simplex.  It's always good to know which stations, locations, and fellow hams we can contact with no repeaters or other gear in between us - just radio to radio, as Nikola Tesla and the RF gods intended! I am in the process of creating a "matrix" document to record that capability now.  This information is invaluable during emergencies and times of crisis.  It lets us know what our options are to stay in touch with one another, and to relay critical information to people in different areas of the affected community.   As you make these simplex contacts going forward, I would ask that you please comment on this blog entry, or drop me a quick email letting me know the stations and equipment involved, how much power was being used by each, and th