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Category: Shack Day

CARS Tower Restoration – Phase 1

September 26, 2020August 22, 2021 Van Rowe

CARS Tower Restoration – Phase 1 CARS Monthly Shack Day Last Saturday, September 19th 2020, we started our long awaited tower rebuild project. Here is a video of what we accomplished so far.

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Good Shack Day (Jan 19, 2019)

January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 Van Rowe

Welcome to 2019 and we had a great Jan Shack Day to start off the new year. We had a lot of people show up to operate on the radios and make a few contacts. And we had guys working on the repeater controller, thanks to Steve (KC4CAW), Bill Runyon Read More …

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CARS December Shack Day

December 15, 2018 Van Rowe

This month’s Shack Day is today and we have a good turnout at the clubhouse. Working on the workbench scope, programming some mobile radios, working on Raspberry Pi’s and imaging plus operating the Icom-7300 this morning. A good turnout and being a productive Shack Day. If your in the area, Read More …

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July Shack Day

July 6, 2018 Admin

CARS shack day for July will be Saturday, July 21st.  Come on out and enjoy eyeballing those you talk to over the air!

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Shack Day activities

April 21, 2018April 21, 2018 Admin

Bill Mellema, N3WM giving his CW presentation now.

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