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To: pingman

Check the local clubs. That’s likely 25 years old and the tech has changed a lot, might not be worth much. Problem with the clubs, and understand that I am 64, is that most of the folks are in their 60s-90s. Not many under 60, even less under 30 interested in amateur radio. It is good for emergencies but nothing further nowadays.


25 posted on 04/08/2024 8:07:59 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Reno89519
Most of the Pocatello Amateur Radio Club are 60+ vintage, but we do have a few in the 20 to 40 age group. One of the new college kids is interest in the new digital wireless technologies in the 2.4 and 5 GHz range. They use repurposed access point hardware. The technology class is Amateur Radio Emergency Digital Network (AREDN). It's on my "to do" list.

After my surgical wounds heal, I want to dig a footing for my 27 ft vertical antenna. That will be fed with a 4:1 UNUN and tuned with an automatic antenna tuner at the base. Should be good for DX from 6 to 40 meters. I'm also planning a broad band terminated dipole with coverage from 6 to 80 meters. It's a wire antenna fed with a 12:1 balun and terminated in the center with an 800 ohm 500 watt non-inductive resistor. The antenna is the design used for HF Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) protocols. I find it attractive as a broadband antenna that works all the bands I can about and won't need much care even in cold Winter weather.

30 posted on 04/08/2024 8:30:28 PM PDT by Myrddin
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