SEKARC Christmas/Holiday Dinner

Please RSVP so we can give Barto's a good count for our reservation. The Christmas dinner will be Decenber 2, 2025 at 6pm at Barto's in Frontenac. It is always a great time and hope to see all of you there! as usual we will be doing a Secret Santa gift exchange.. so if you bring a present.. you will get a present !!

SEKARC COFFEE QSO UPDATE !!

 ATTENTION !!

SEKARC is moving it's weekly Coffee QSO to Jimmy's Egg at 3103 N Broadway AND is returning it back to Wednesdays!! Jimmy's was a great place while Harry's was closed and the regular group decided it would be best to go back to Wednesdays and change the location. So, update your calendar and we hope to see as many as possible on Wednesday!

Field Day 2025 Update INFO/Sign Up

 Almost here... Field Day 2025 is days away and we have lots of updates! It will be held at Tyler/Meg's home at 1326 E 14th Street in Pittsburg. House has plenty of air-conditioned rooms and lots of space for antennas! Let's have a great turnout!! Below is a sign up form so we can get some counts.

Stay tuned to email and GroupMe chats for details about a zoom call to discuss and plan that will be held Thursday the 26th.

SEKARC Spring Meeting June 7th

Mark your calendars for the next SEKARC meeting June 7, 2025 at 9am in the training room at Fire Station #1 in Pittsburg. The station is located at 911 W 4th in Pittsburg. We will have the usual breakfast casserole, coffee and will be a great time to get together since it has been a while.

Main topic of discussion will be Field Day 2025. Tentative plans for Field Day are to hold it at Big Brutus once again. Details are to be finalized with the folks at Brutus on Thursday May 22. Field Day this year in June 28 and 28. Big Brutus has always been a great place for radio and there are RV spots available if you'd like to bring your RV and join the festivities! 

Other topics hopefully will include repeater updates, and suggestions for other activities in 2025. Mark your calendar and plan to be there.

Pictures By Radio? SSTV !!

On The Air

Great Podcast by ARRL !

Ask Dave? Balanced is Balanced and Unbalanced Isn't!

 Another great post from Dave!

John, K0RW, asks Dave to provide a reference other than the ARRL that confirms a grounded vertical antenna is "unbalanced". Watch to see what Dave presents! 

ATAS-120 In The Field? YES!

We have talked about using the ATAS-120 mobile antenna in the field and here it is... I have one of these on my truck that works well but maybe it has other applications?

From W4ARB YouTube Channel

"In this video I try using the Yaesu ATAS-120A antenna by itself, not mounted mobile! I chose to use a ground spike with eight 12' ground radials. See for yourself how it works! I ran 50 watts for a quick CW Parks on the Air (POTA) activation at Tuskegee National Forest K-4451 on 1/3/24."