CARS Club Technical Programs Resource Page
Here are the presentations from Technical Programs presented at the Cherokee Amateur Radio Society Monthly Meeting. For questions, please contact the author of the presentation.
2024 Technical Programs
January 2024
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| survey-january-2024.pptx |
February 2024
Emergency Communications Methods & Technology
Rob Bruderer (W1JKU)
New Hams Workshop Download
| newhams-april-2024.pdf |
March 2024 |
April 2024
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| pota_-_beginner_to_extreme.pptx.pdf |
May 2024
July 2024Field Day After Action Report - Chad Cone KY4KP
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August 2024
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September 2024
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2023 Technical Programs
January 2023
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February 2023
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March 2023
May 2023
July 2023 - Special Event | |||||||||||||||||||||
| away-from-shack_computer_options.pdf |
Workshop: "10 things I wish I knew about antennas - Part 1" - Tony Drake - KC4OBY
Downloads:
| 10-things-antennas-cars-aug-2023-pt1.pdf |
November 2023
"Understanding Filters"
Martin Buehring - KB4MG
| understanding_filters_-v3.pdf |
April 2023
Basics of Emergency Communications
Rob Bruderer W1JKU
| cherokee_county_basics_of_emergency_communications-8_april_2023.pdf |
June 2023
Field Day Workshop
Chad Cone - KY4KP - FD Chairman
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Attendance by all interested in Field Day
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September 2023
Jeff Stuparits - W4DD -"RFI: Identifying, locating, and mitigating its impact on Amateur Radio Operations ”
Workshop: "10 things I wish I knew about antennas Part 2" - Tony Drake - KC4OBY
Downloads:
| 10-things-antennas-cars-aug-2023.ppt |
| nanovna-coaxloss.pdf |
October 2023
Cherokee County Simulated Emergency Test (SET)
Rob Bruderer - W1JKU will lead the exercise
No downloads - see Cherokee ARES site for summary
2022 Technical Programs
January 2022
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| cars__plan_for_2022.pdf |
March 2022
"Design and construction of GO Boxes" Richard - W4BYT
Workshop: Q&A with owners of Go-Boxes, demos
| building_a_go_box_-_richard_austin.pdf |
May 2022
"HF Antennas - A Practical View" by Bob Cheek N4RFC
Workshop: Building End-Fed Half-Wave Antennas for Field Day
"HF Antennas - A Practical View" by Bob Cheek N4RFC
Workshop: Building End-Fed Half-Wave Antennas for Field Day
Field Day - June 25-26 , 2022
Soldering Workshop - Tom - KN4LSE
WINLINK-RF - Rob - W1JKU
NanoVNA - Marty - KB4MG
| nano_vna_workshop_fd2022_v1.pdf |
July 2022
Field Day Debrief - Lessons Learned
October 2022
Club Picnic and Fox Hunt - Tim Wall KJ4RDF
February 2022
"Introduction to VHF and UHF" by Martin Buehring - KB4MG
Introduction to ARES and RACES" by Mark Schulze - KO4IFY
| intro_to_vhf_and_uhf_with_ares.pptx |
Workshop: Working with Arduino software
April 2022
"Feed Lines - What is in-between your radio and your antenna?"
by Martin Buehring KB4MG, Tim Wall KJ4RDF
Workshop: Soldering connectors to coax
"Feed Lines - What is in-between your radio and your antenna?"
by Martin Buehring KB4MG, Tim Wall KJ4RDF
Workshop: Soldering connectors to coax
| feedlines_-_april_2022_v3.pdf |
June 2022
"Field Day Workshop and Planning Session"
"Field Day Workshop and Planning Session"
| field_day_2022_workshop_version_2.1.pdf |
August 2022
HamPi by Dave Slotter - W3DJS
| getting_started_with_hampi.pdf |
September 2022
SPECIAL EVENT - Dr. Bob Heil - K9EID
November 2022
Space Weather and Propagation Part 1 - Neal Sulmeyer N4EA
2021 Technical Programs
January 2021
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| back_to_basics.pdf |
July 2021
"End Fed Have Wave Antenna Project" by Stan Ham, WB9GFA ( build notes on the groups.io files page)
| wb9gfa-efhw_antennas-10july2021.pdf |
August 2021
"Email by RF - Intro to the Winlink Network" by Rob Bruderer, W1JKU
September 2021
"WSPR - A complete guide to understanding and deploying it in your shack" by Tim Wall - KJ4RDF , and Marty Buehring - KB4MG
| cars_-_wspr_presentation_on_9-11-21.pdf |
November 2021
"Receiving and Decoding SSTV from the International Space Station" , by Jason Turnage KO4NDP
| receiving_iss_sstv_images_-_nov_2021_by_jason_turnage_ko4ndp.pdf |
February 2021
"Station Operating Skills" by Bob Cheek N4RFC and David Poss KM4IEH
| hamradiooperation_-_feb_2021.pdf |
March 2021 - Special Presentation
"Early US Satellites" by Rick Maxwell W8KHK
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| spacecars5_part2.pdf |
Field Day 2021
"Intro to the nanoVNA" by Martin Buehring , KB4MG
| nano_vna_workshop_fd2021.pdf |
October 2021
"Computers in the Shack" by Jeff Kashinsky, W2UA
| computers_in_the_ham_shack.pdf |
December 2021
Year in review - Rob Bruderer - W1JKU
| w1jku-wx4car_2021_in_review.pdf |
2020 Technical Programs
January 2020
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| w1jku-cars-pota-presentation[8349].pdf |
| pota_worksheets_-generic.xlsx |
| brochure_v3-green-with-pota_logo.pdf |
July 2020
Outpost Packet Message Manager by Bob Cheek N4RFC
| outpost-packet-manager-n4rfc.pdf |
September 2020
"Slim-Jim" Antenna Build Project
By W1JKU - Rob Bruderer
Reference: Plans
February 2020
"Topics on operating CW (Morse code)" by Don Coltrane - KJ4UC, Bruce German -KK4GEE
March 2020
"Goin' Digital" by Martin Buehring - KB4MG
| goin_digital_v2.pdf |
August 2020
"Batteries for Amateur Radio Applications"
by Martin Buehring - KB4MG
| batteries_for_ham_radio_applications.pdf |
October 2020
"Setting up a station for WSJT-X FT8"
by Jeff Kashinsky - W2UA
| ft8_presentation.pdf |
2019 Technical Programs
January 2019
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| microcontrollers_for_ham_radio.pdf |
March 2019
"Try something new! -An introduction to DXing, Contesting, and QSL card exchange"
Wendell Abernathy - N4VLK
Click : YouTube Video
| expand_your_radio_skills_try_something_new2.pdf |
August 2019
"Space Weather and Propagation"
Martin Buehring - KB4MG
| space_weather_and_propagation_v2.pdf |
September 2019
"Ohms Law in the Real World"
Martin Buehring -KB4MG, Matt Pesch -KK4NLK
| ohms_law_in_the_real_world_v5.pdf |
February 2019
"Building and Deploying NVIS antennas"
Bob Chambers - KK4JPM
| bcnvis.pdf |
April 2019
"Software Defined Radios"
Demo of the FLEX radio operated remotely
Bob Cheek - N4RFC
July 2019
"EMP and National Power Grid"
Al Sims - KK4JPO
Resource: DHS Study on Surviving a Catastrophic Power Outage
| niac_catastrophic_power_outage_study_508_final.pdf |
2018 Technical Programs
March
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| aa-30.zero_final.pdf |
SWR and Complex Impedance
| antanalyzer_swr_compleximp.pdf |
May
What is SOTA? Joseph Ladd - N3NNU describes this fun aspect of Amateur Radio.
Here are the slides and SOTA checklist. If you want to participate in a SOTA outing please contact Joseph Ladd.
| summits_on_the_air__sota_.pdf |
| sota_gear_checklist.docx |
July
Field day Recap
| field_day_2018_after-action_final.pdf |
September
Special guest George Zafiropoulos KJ6VU of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast.
| hrwb_pacificon_2018_rev_2_georgezaff.pdf |
April
ARES Orientation and EMCOMM
See the Cherokee ARES Website for more information
www.cherokee-ares.org
August
What is DMR?
Thinking about getting a DMR radio or have one already?
Now what?
Bob Cheek's presentation on "Introduction to DMR"
| introduction_to_dmr.pdf |
October
Notes and slides from the Future of Ham Radio discussion
| 2018_review_and_future_of_ham_radio.pptx |
2017 Technical Programs Archive
Power line interference - causes and remedies - Neal Sulmeyer K4EA
Practical Antennas - By Martin Buehring KB4MG and Jim Millsap K9APD
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Solar Eclipse QSO Party by Martin Buehring KB4MG
Space Weather & Propagation - By Martin Buehring KB4MG
WSPR Presentation - By Matt Pesch KK4NLK
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