46 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | OCTOBER 2020
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In the early days of Amateur Radio, the
basic equipment required to get on the air
was big, bulky, heavy, and generated a large
amount of heat via vacuum tubes when
operating. Often an entire room had to be
dedicated to housing it all and the output
power was usually quite limited. Today,
solid state electronics and surface-mount
components have changed all that. Radios
and support equipment are now small
enough to fit on a shelf; they perform much
better, and are much less expensive to buy (adjusting for inflation)
than ever before.
The accompanying photo shows the author's station installed
in a small section of a bedroom closet. The radios pictured allow
communication on the VHF and UHF bands with up to 50 watts of
output power and on eight HF bands at up to 100 watts of power.
Listen for or join us on Family Radio Service (FRS) channel 3 every
Wednesday at 5:15 pm or email me if you are interested in sitting in
on our monthly Zoom meeting held the last Friday of each month at
10 am. ~ 73, jim.k6jwp@gmail.com
Radio Club
A small Amateur Radio station
Seasoned Solos
If you are single and enjoy a variety of activities, then Seasoned Solos just might be the group for you. At each meeting we discuss what is
going on in the Inland Empire and plan activities, from local lunches and dinners to excursions to presidential libraries, the Redlands Bowl,
Metro Link trips into LA, and the beach train to San Juan Capistrano. There's not much that we won't consider doing. We meet on the first
Friday of each month in The Lodge Arts & Crafts Room at 6 pm. For further information, call Joyce at (951) 850-3055. ~ Joyce Olson
