For those that follow my posts both on my web site and on the Del City Amateur Radios Club’s web site, I need to let you know that www.delcityarc.org domain is about to expire in July.  This domain is going to be moved to another provider over the coming weeks so it may be unavailable [...]

What an amazing week.  A week ago it was a sad day when I had my tower taken down and sold.  The WIN System antenna was placed on my dad’s (W5QO) tower about 1/2 mile North of here.  The 443.3 repeater is back on the air at this new location with the antenna mounted on [...]

On February 6, 2010 the K5GLH tower came down.  This is the tower that hosted the 443.3 MHz repeater (WIN System).  This was a move that had nothing to do with the Del City Amateur Radio club but rather to help facilitate the sale of my home.  As I have posted before, we are planning [...]

This week has been very busy with having to work overtime the last two weekends in a row and working two hours overtime each day.  Some point this week, my HF antenna fell from the tower and landed on my next door neighbor’s power line.  Both the antenna and her power line were insulated so [...]

  When I was a kid my dad was active on ham radio calling CQ CQ CQ from K5GLH.  I grew up hearing that call over and over as he would speak to people all over the country.  Later when he upgraded to his Amateur Extra Class license he changed his call sign.  When I [...]

It is hard to find anything more pleasing than a nice morning sunrise when you do not have to go to work.  The beauty of my situation this morning is that it is the end of the year and I have some use or lose vacation time that I have to burn so I took [...]

This weekend the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) sent out an upgrade that would vastly improve the audio from node to node.  This update changed out two files, the imike, and ispeaker.  This allows nodes to connect to each other with uncompressed audio making an incredible audio quality.  This increase in audio quality also increased [...]

Today is a special day for amateur radio operators.  You may have heard them referred to as ham radio operators.  I have been a licensed ham radio operator since I was 17 years old in 1983.  Today being the last Saturday of the month of June makes this a day that many hams look forward [...]

This morning I woke up expecting to see ice all over the trees and power lines like we did in December but happy to see the temperature was above freezing and there were very few ice sickles. I was shocked to see rain dripping from the ceiling in four places in our den.  We just [...]

In my last post, I told how I was going to work on the antenna to get the ice storm damage repaired.  Larry Cline came over yesterday and we took that antenna down, repaired, and installed it back on the tower better than it was before.  I turned on the ham radio and made a [...]