The USS Wisconsin Radio Club (N4WIS) will be having a virtual (GoToMeeting) presentation on receiver diversity by Joe Ostrowski KI5FJ on September 10th. The presentation can be previewed here and Joe’s article will be in the October 2021 issue of QST. In addition to the presentation, Joe will open the Read More …
Category: Antennas
CARS Tower Restoration – Phase 1
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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Surprising explanation of Amateur Radio from a non-amateur
Linus is a very technical guy in Canada who does some excellent tech videos. Was surprised to see he did a spot on ham radio. Overall, very positive and good explanation of amateur radio. Some explanations are little too simplistic, but to see someone who isn’t into ham radio (as Read More …
CARS Repeaters are back on the air!

Bill Runyon and Bill Mellema worked with the tower crew and a tech from Gately Communications yesterday to resolve our repeater antenna issues. They are both repaired and were put back in service around 3pm. The problem was bad/broken connectors on the jumpers from the antennas to their hardline. Therefore Read More …