The Denver Radio Club, WØTX

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

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The Denver Radio Club Hamfest is Coming!!!

The "BIG ONE" is Almost Here - Sunday, August 22nd

Don't Miss Out -- Reserve Your Table Now!

For More Info See Our Hamfest Web Page

Join our weekly Club Sunday night net at 8:30 PM MT and

the weekly (except 3rd Wed) DRC Learning Net on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM MT

Both are on the 145.49- & 448.625- repeaters (100.0 Hz PL)

Now you can quickly check the status of our repeaters and links>> here

The next Denver Radio Club Meeting will be on
Wednesday, August 18th

After last week's walk through of the CBS4 transmitter site you have seen what is involved in getting the high definition digital TV signal to your house. But, now that it's there what's involved in being able to see and hear it? This is a complicated issue if you are not receiving the TV signal off the air with those "rabbit ears," but using a cable or satellite box. It gets more difficult if you put an AV (audio/Video) receiver in the middle. Now, add a Blu-Ray DVD player and we're really getting sophisticated. If you have already done this, or, have started looking into it, you probably have heard the term HDMI cable. Well, what is an HDMI cable and why do they cost so darn much? And, is there a difference between the cables they sell for $100 and those that cost $10? Well this month's presentation by Bryan, KBØA is going to answer those questions and quite a bit more. If you want to learn about those High Definition cables you will not want to miss this meeting.

The August meeting will be back at our new, regular location, the El Jebel Shrine, East Room - 2nd Floor, 4625 West 50th Ave., Denver, CO. The Elmer Session and Tech Meeting start at 6:30 pm. followed by the Regular Meeting and Program at 7:30 pm.

For a map to the Club meeting location click here.
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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