Wanting to take your first Amateur Radio Exam (Technician Class) or upgrade your current License? Amateur Radio Exams are given twice a month in Yuma County,Arizona or Imperial County, California. The second (2) saturday of the month tests are given in Yuma County, Arizona at the Yuma Sheriff’s Office 141 S. 3rd Avenue at 9:00 AM by appointment. Contact Robert Spencer KE8DM or Robert Sidebottom K0LQB. The forth Saturday of the month in Imperial County, California at the Imperial County EOC, Heber, California by appointment only. Contact Will Tomas K6WST.
YDXA hosting Field Day 2012 at Yuma East Country Club, 11357 E. 35th Place Yuma Foothills 23 – 25 June. Location of the site is at the Yuma East Country Club, 11357 E. 35th Place in the Yuma Foothills Club House. Come join the fun experience field day. All are welcome to attend and operate. YDXA will operate the full event, 24 hours
This is Field Day 2011 in the Yuma Palms Mall. It was over 108 degrees on Saturday. We ran as a 3A AZ station with a Get On The Air (GOTA) station. We used Single Side Band, Morse Code, and PSK31. We were on the the bands from 75 meters to 6 meters. We were allowed use of the Yuma County Sheriffs Mobile Command Trailer for our main operating stations. We had for antennas a TH3 (10-20m), a Hustler 6BTV (10-75m), a 10m beam, a 6m beam, other antennas were available, but were not deployed. We had problems with our networking so the radios/computers all ran independent. Also had issues with radio to computer interfacing.
More to come.
Stephen, K7ACS
