The Denver Radio Club, WØTX

Denver Colorado, U.S.A.
E-Mail to: W0TX@w0tx.org

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Join our weekly Sunday night net at 8:30 PM MT on the 145.49- & 448.625- repeaters. (100.0 Hz PL)

The next Denver Radio Club Meeting will be on
Wednesday, February 17th

Are you interested in easily determining:

1. The best type of HF antenna for your lot (dipole, inverted-vee, vertical, sloper).
2. Element length for a given height.
3. How best to effectively “bend” a horizontal antenna to fit your lot.
4. What would be gained, or lost, if you raised your antenna a few feet.
5. The theoretical SWR, bandwidth and impedance of your antenna design.

Bill, W6OAV, will answer these and more questions at the February meeting. He will give a presentation covering EZNEC. EZNEC is a powerful, but easy to use, program for modeling and analyzing nearly any type of antenna in its actual operating environment. Bill will demonstrate designing, and comparing, a dipole and an inverted-vee. The demonstration will include showing what happens when a dipole is raised above ground.

See you all at the meeting at the St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, 11202 West Jewell Ave., Lakewood, CO. That is about two blocks West of Kipling on West Jewell. And remember to check our website, w0tx.org, for lots of important information about the DRC. The Elmer Session and Tech Meeting start at 6:30 pm. followed by the Regular Meeting and Program at 7:30 pm.

SPECIAL REQUEST due to the ongoing Seasonal and Swine Flu situation:

We always like to see every DRC member at every meeting and activity, but, if you are sick or suspect you may have the flu, a cold or other similar ailment... Please do not expose our membership. This is the time you should not attend. Thanks for your understanding.

For a map to the Club meeting location, click on the "Club Meetings" button below.
Remember... Visitors are Always Welcome!... so please bring a friend.

To read the President's Message from our monthly Club Newsletter, "The RoundTable"... (a full 8 page PDF version is sent by e-mail to Club members) please click on the "Recent News" button below.

Are you ready to expand your Amateur Radio horizons?

Try the DRC 6 Meter Repeater.
Receive it on 53.090 Mhz., transmit to it on 52.090 Mhz., using a 107.2 Hz. access tone

Experiment with the 1.25 Meter Band using our 220 Repeater.
Receive on 224.380 MHz., transmit on 222.780 MHz., using a 100.0 Hz access tone.

And, if you have packet capability --
Our HF-VHF Packet Gateway will let you work the world on packet through the gateway node WØTX-7.
Try it at 145.05 Mhz on 2 meters or 14.105 Mhz on 20 meters

These repeaters and the packet gateway (2M side) can be used by all hams with Technician class and above licenses.

They are located west of Denver in Lakewood, providing local metropolitan area coverage - however, they are not wide area repeaters.

And, remember that our wide area repeater on Squaw Mountain, 449.350, is also an EchoLink station, number 4140. Call your out of town ham friends, or have them call you by connecting through their local EchoLink station or their PC.

Please see our DRC Repeaters Page...click below... it has photos showing our EchoLink® repeater location.

Oscar Hall, KØSSE, is our Emergency Communications Chairman.
For important information regarding Emergency Communications, Click on our "EmComm Info" link button below.

For interesting links to other web sites on our Ham Links page, click on the "Links" button below.

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