UT Amateur Radio Club Field Day

UT Amateur Radio Club Field Day - Saturday from 8AM to 6PM:

"The University of Tennessee Amateur Radio Club (www.utarc.org) is sponsored by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  The club's purpose includes attracting science and engineering students to the field of radio communications. It's primary radio transmitting station is located in East Stadium Hall and serves as the emergency communications backbone for the UT Campus in cases of disasters and major events. 

The purpose of the UTARC Field Day Event planned for April 30, 2016 from 8 am to 6 pm is to: (1) interest students in this activity, (2) test its low power portable radio equipment, and (3) perform the annual exercise if its emergency communications capability. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has already granted and issued a special event licensed callsign for this activity (K4V)."

Unreal Bike Ride

unReal bike ride...



And the making of...


Via Althouse

Tytera and TYT

I've been using TYT more than Tytera, so I'm a head of the game. :

"Tytera announced plans this week to change the brand name on their line of two way radios from Tytera to TYT next month. According to an official spokesperson from Tytera, starting May 2016 the company will begin to replace the Tytera brand on their entire product line with the name TYT."

In fact, I never created a Tytera tag and have just been using TYT.

Via this post at Buy Two Way Radios

Marathons

Astronaut runs a marathon in space.

I hate when this happens - 12 year old girl accidentally runs a half marathon.

Amazon Kindle Book Deals

Highly recommend...



Recommend - especially if want to see or saw the movie...



Tempted...

Go Cubes - Chewable Coffee

Go Cubes - Chewable Coffee - I'd like to try them, but I don't think I need a case.

Via Dustbury

FX-9A: 10 Band 15W HF Transceiver LSB/USB/CW

FX-9A HF 10 Band 10W-15W HF TRANSCEIVER LSB/USB/CW:

Model: FX-9A
Model: LSB / USB / CW (iambic keying mode A and B)
Supports manual and automatic key, the machine automatically detect, you can alsoset the menu
Frequency range: 160M / 80M /60M/ 40M / 30M / 20M / 17M / 15M / 12M / 10M 10 amateur bands
Output Power: SSB about 15W about 10W CW low power profile around 5W.
Receiver sensitivity: about 0.5UV
SSB filter bandwidth: 2K
CW filter bandwidth: about 200HZ
Support VFOA / VFOB, supports CW Automatic Call (programmable own call sign)
Support RIT, support CW speed adjustment, support channel and VFO mode
Support high VSWR protection, the menu can be set to protect the value of the
CW Broadband Narrowband settings
Japan COPAL use photoelectric encoder, frequency tuning smooth, fast and accurate
Screen using OLED display, even in sunlight can clearly show that the use of temperature -40-80 degrees Celsius

size: Length: 16 cm Width: 10 cm height: 4.8 cm
Input voltage: DC10-14V, maximum 15V
Receiving current consumption of about 360MA, the emission current maximum of about about 3A-3.7A
Net weight: 600 g

Via Sparky

Guns on Campus

Let's just ask all the bad guys to comply.

"We would prefer not to have any guns on campus," DiPietro said.

Navy Leap Frogs - Neyland Stadium Jump

Extremely cool video of parachuting into Neyland Stadium.

No Baofeng Policy

N4NJJ - No Baofeng Policy:

"In order to provide the best experience for all operators, our repeater system has a zero tolerance for Baofeng, Wouxon, Retevis, etc. radios. These portables do not have the ability to perform pre-emphasis/de-emphasis, which results in below acceptable audio levels. Users to the system are encouraged to operate a commercial and/or public safety grade portable or mobile. Users are also encouraged to use amateur grade gear."

And N4NJJ's open letter about the policy.

Via Chinese Ham Radio Google+