Saturday, April 19, 2008

BirmingHAMfest - May 3-4

BirmingHAMfest
Zamora Shrine Temple, 3521 Ratliff Road
Bell Ringer gathering:
Saturday, May 3 at 1:00 pm in forum room #2
Contact: John WA5MLF

Thursday, April 17, 2008

WA9JNM -- Bell Ringer #322


Please welcome Steve WA9JNM as our newest member of the Bell Ringers. He is member #322. Steve is a frequent participant in our Saturday morning net and our weekday morning QSOs.

W4UOA presentation on Intermodulation Distortion and the 3rd Order Intercept Point

On April 14 Carl delivered this presentation to the Tuscaloosa Amateur Radio Club. Here is a photo taken at the conclusion of the session. W4BXI and WA5MLF attended, following a visit to Carl's hamshack

Photo from W0S Special Event















Here is a photo showing Sap along with visiting operators Fred and Smitty.
Additional photos are posted at a page of the Bell Ringers gallery.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

W0S Titanic Special Event - April 12-13

The Titanic Special Event takes place this weekend, April 12-13. You can find most of the essential details on the Titanic Blog.

The home page includes this link to a live video stream.

Sap advises that the weather will again be frigid for this event. We hope that Fred & Smitty will enjoy operating the station under authentic Titanic conditions.

Friday, March 28, 2008

S-Meter Ham Radio Website

You may find this web site of interest. It was suggested a while back by Smitty. Here is a quote from the home page:

"Check your signal and listen to others on remote receivers. Read thousands of pages of ham radio information. Download virus-free radio-related design programs. There is no charge for receiver usage, any of the information, or any downloaded computer programs."

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Updated Links

I have updated the Bell Ringers links page with some new content and some regrouping of existing content. Let me know if you have other links / topics that you'd like to see displayed there. I consider it to be a repository that will be updated infrequently while serving to complement the dynamic content of this blog.

In the green box to the right I have spotlighted a free open-source program - QUCS - that I enjoyed using recently to produce some neat and easy-to-revise schematics. I'm also learning to use its powerful circuit simulation capabilities. I have used both the Windows and Linux versions of the program. Contact me if you'd like more information.

Another program for you to check out is the 4nec2 Antenna Modeler.

73, John