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My 160M Home-Brew Antenna

As we are at the beginning of the 160M season in the Northern hemisphere, the time has come to build an antenna for 160M. The antenna I decided to build came from www.DJ0IP.de and was initially designed to be used with an 18M Spiderbeam fiberglass pole for portable operating. I didn’t have the Spiderbeam pole laying around, but I did […]

The Association of Senile, Senior Hams on Life Support.

This is a fun group of older hams in the Maricopa area. The primary goal of this bunch is as follows. HAVE FUN!! Assist new hams in getting started in the hobby and having fun. Introduce new and old hams alike to the technical side of amateur radio. HAVE FUN! We are not affiliated with any club or organization, nor […]

Maricopa ARA MESH Luncheon

On December 5, 2020, the MARA MESH group held a luncheon meeting at Raceway to discuss MESH layout, channels, applications and general MESH usage. Do to the constraints of the equipment (and bandwidth on 2.4 Ghz), we will strive to limit nodes to six for each group. There will possibly be some exceptions. This is to provide the best performance […]

Maricopa, AZ area Amateur and GMRS repeaters.

Repeaters owned by the Maricopa Amateur Radio Association. 449.125 – 5 Mhz PL 136.5 Located at the Maricopa CAC Campus. 145.210 – 600Khz RX pl 162.2 TX CSQ Located at the Maricopa CAC Campus. 446.300 -5 Mhz PL 100.0 Located in Thunderbird Farms SW of Maricopa. Member Repeaters 146.780 – 600 Khz PL 100.0 Located at the Maricopa CAC Campus. […]