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An informal face-to-face meeting of DRC members meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. The location is at the Sunrise Sunset, 1424 S Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood, CO 80232. No reservations are required. If you are interested in meeting and talking about radio, or other topics, don’t hesitate in coming by.
What: Building upon his last presentation, Orlen (WW0LF) is this evening’s presenter. He will talk about the equipment used for bug (spy hardware) detection. Orlen talks about the target of bugs, bug technologies, devices, power options, common techniques, ways of detecting bugs, and agents. Where:For remote, please go to https://w0tx.org/meet or https://meet.google.com/bsq-zrpv-jpj/, both links go […]
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What: Low Earth Orbit Satellite Comms – David Cherba – WZ8T– 5/20David will give us primer on his experience with low earth satellite communications.From amsat.org:One of the great features of amateur radio is that it is several hobbies rolled into one. If you become bored with one aspect of the hobby, there is always something […]
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What: NanoVNA – a Dozen Uses for the Average Ham – Bob Mesenbrink – NB0BN – 4/15 Bob will use the nanaVNA to measure everything from antennas, coax, passive components, filters, coax switches, samplers, etc.https://www.qrz.com/db/NB0BNhttps://nanovna.com/NanoVNA is a handheld Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) with small outline, originally designed by edy555. It is a low cost yet […]
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What: 33cm License Free Fun with Meshtastic – Ryan Frederick – WR7F – 3/18 An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. No cell towers. No internet. Just pure peer-to-peer connectivity. https://meshtastic.org/https://meshmap.net/https://denvermesh.org/ IntroductionMeshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid […]
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What: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jammer-terrestrial-navigation-in-the-baltic-sea-regionhttps://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/who-cares-about-the-baltic-jammer-terrestrial-navigation-in-the-baltic-sea-regionReports of GNSS interference in the Baltic Sea have become almost routine — airplanes losing GPS, ships drifting off course, and timing systems failing. But what happens when a group of engineers decides to build a navigation system that simply doesn’t care about the jammer? Since 2017, we’ve been developing **R-Mode**, a terrestrial navigation […]
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