Posted in Classes on Oct 18th, 2012
DMS Members Mike Eber (KD5QLN) and Pat Hykkonen (NT5PH) will be teaching an Amateur Radio class for the Technician class license at the Dallas Makerspace. Classes start on Nov 5th at 7:30pm and run each Monday until the 26th when we will have VE’s from the W5YI Group come and administer the tests. Classes are Free, [...]
Posted in Meetup on Jun 13th, 2012
The newly formed DMS Amatuer Radio Club KD5MS will be participating in the Annual ARRL Field Day. Field Day according to Wikipedia: Field Day is an annual amateur radio exercise, widely sponsored by IARU regions and member organizations, encouraging emergency communications preparedness among amateur radio operators. In the United States, it is typically the largest single emergency preparedness exercise in the country, with [...]
Posted in Classes on Mar 16th, 2012
Well it is now officially springtime. And with spring comes severe weather across North Texas as we reside in “Tornado Alley”. Did you ever wonder how the National Weather Service gets its information to issue weather alerts? The NWS enlists volunteers in a program called SkyWarn, usually Amateur Radio Operators, to be their eyes on [...]
