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Bob Heil, (video casts) with various co-hosts and guests, will cover the excitement and importance of ham radio

VE6BLD — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:29:50 +0000

Bob Heil, with various co-hosts and guests, will cover the excitement and importance of ham radio – from tossing an antenna wire in a tree allowing you to talk to the world, to the importance of ham radio operators in time of disasters.

Records live every Wednesday at 6:00pm PT/9:00pm ET. Also see drop down menu under ARTICLES.

http://twit.tv/show/ham-nation

NEW REPEATER VE6QE PACKAGE INSTALLATION TIME LAPSE VIDEO

VE6BLD — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:02:05 +0000

New VE6QE repeater package installed on May12, 2011

This is a 13 second fast video of VE6BGT Skip and VE6BLD Bob installing the new VE6QE repeater package built by Skip over the past many months.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/f0eRrxbZ1IvjoEpaS-62D9AAHgG5tvMXgEy_nVJXItk?feat=directlink

Click this link to watch a 4 minute video of the same video above

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qnu9wrhjdKgoBuJDb4MdONAAHgG5tvMXgEy_nVJXItk?feat=directlink

New Brochure for the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club

VE6BLD — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:37:20 +0000

I have produced a new Brochure for the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club.

To download a color printable PDF document of the Club Advertising brochure complete with hot links back

to the web site click this link

or check the second Tab under Site Tools menu.

Bob VE6BLD. Webmaster

ARISSat1 Will not deploy until July 2011

VE6BLD — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:43:21 +0000

I have been anxiously waiting for the next launch of ARISSat1 formerly know as SUIT Sat . After working every orbit of the first SUIT Sat in February of 2006 I now have to wait a little longer! The most exciting time of my life as an amateur radio operator was receiving all the transmissions from the badly disabled Suit Sat and decoding the secret words and SSTV picture from the spinning satellite. Hopefully when this new satelite is launched in July 2011 everyone will get the opportunity to receive the weak signals from it.

Please click this link to read and hear the many reports I received along with a few others of the first SUIT Sat

More information and an overview of the new satellite at this link.

For the latest information and news please see the link below.

73 VE6BLD

http://www.arissat1.org/v3/

S-Meters

VE6CIA — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:15:25 +0000

BUILD an inexpensive heavy duty power supply

VE6BLD — Sun, 23 May 2010 03:22:42 +0000

BUILD an inexpensive heavy duty power supply by VE6HGR

A power-supply that will handle the high Amp’s required for present day transceiver tends to be a costly affair. $100.00 or more is not uncommon.
Maybe an old computer power supply is the answer for the small wallet. ATX supplies are capable of carrying high loads; have a 100% duty cycle and have all the safety build in you can wish for. On top of it they are small in size and light in weight. As an experiment I turned one into a bench unit with all the possible voltages. To see how I went about it please click this link

Have fun!

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Rail Gun

VE6BLD — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:26:18 +0000

[html] This is a new "rail gun" the US navy is testing on one of their ships..It uses a electromagnetic field pulse to shoot a projectile over 200 nautical miles… It takes 3 million amps to shoot his thing for each projectile..The kinetic energy of a solid projectile hitting something at this speed is equal to a cruise missle hitting it, but a lot cheaper to use…
The average ordinary 15 inch gun now can only shoot around 15 nautical miles… The energy needed to shoot the solid projectile at mach 8 is around 32 megajoules… Its calculated to shoot this gun
6 times per minute the ship will have to supply 16 megawatts of power…They want to achieve a goal of a 64 megajoule weapon which would take a staggering 6 million amps to shoot…
They still need to develop a breakthrough in material construction so that the guns themselves won't be shreaded by each high velocity barrage…
Submitted by Skip VE6BGT

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Facts on Ham Radio

VE6ATO — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:33:49 +0000

[html] Thought people might be interested in reading some of these facts on Ham Radio. Â I've added it to the links as well so it can be found after this news item is archived. Â Its kind of an Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) which I think would be a good addition to this site for new hams to find out more about what amateur radio is all about.

http://www.magiclink.com/web/shurst/Page1.html
It's a page by By Steven R. Hurst, KA7NOC

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