SRQARES is pleased to announce that an FCC Technician Class license training course has been formed. Jim Woodson, KE4INM, with the Sarasota County School Board has arranged for 10 school custodians to attend, and they have provided a location for the training. This will allow the school hurricane evacuation shelters to have emergency, amateur radio …
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IT’S OK TO BE A HAM Talk to the world without the Internet Help support county disaster communications needs Experiment with radio, digital, satellite, television, and microwave communication No Morse code is required! You can just talk or type. Low entry cost. Start for as little as $100! No age restriction…..6 or 86 is OK …
The Tamiami Amateur Radio Club will sponsor and host a General Class license training course in March. Members Andy Durette – KB1HP, Chet Fennell – KG4IYS, and Paul Nienaber – KN4BAR will conduct the training. Two separate sections of the course will be offered to make it more available to those Technicians that want to …
TARC started this Elmering program in February 2019 to mentor new hams and to help old hams learn new tricks. A dedicated group of experienced club members have made themselves available to help other hams become better hams. Anyone wanting help with an amateur radio subject should send an email to askelmer@tamiamiarc.org. You’ve taken the …
IT’S OK TO BE A HAM Talk to the world without the Internet Help support county disaster communications needs Experiment with radio, digital, satellite, television, and microwave communication No Morse code is required! You can just talk or type. Low entry cost. Start for as little as $100! No age restriction…..6 or 86 is OK …
In May of 2018 TARC presented a series of 3 hour training classes on each of the 4 Saturdays in May at the Jacaranda Public Library on Jacaranda Blvd. in Venice. The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual 3rd Edition, ISBN:978-1-62595-013-0 was used as a textbook for the course along with the 2014-2018 Technician Class test …
Tamiami Amateur Radio Club’s DMR repeater is located atop a 200’ tower at Paul Morris Industrial Park in Englewood. It’s roughly 10 air miles from downtown Venice. The repeater transmits on 444.1 MHz and listens for us 5 MHz higher with color code 1. If you are programming your radio to use our repeater, you …
Getting started with DMR is easy! Just follow the four steps below and you’ll be up and running in no time! 1. Check for DMR Coverage Verify that you are within the coverage area of a DMR repeater using the DMR repeater map. 2. Get a Subscriber ID All radios on ham radio DMR networks require …
Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is an open international standard developed and ratified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in 2005. As a technology guiding body the DMR Association, also established in 2005, supports ETSI throughout the DMR standardization process and interoperability testing (IoP). DMR Association membership is open to any person or organization interested …
by lady ada OK so unlike many simpler & analog radios, you can’t just type in the frequencies you want to use into the keypad and off you go. Instead, you must run communication software that will set the repeaters you will be using. You can assign various repeaters to up to 16 different channels. You …