{"id":7354,"date":"2014-11-13T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2014-11-13T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:12:13","slug":"the-hamster-weak-signal-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=7354","title":{"rendered":"THE HAMster Weak Signal Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The HAMster Weak Signal Group was founded Spring of 2013<\/strong> and is based on the same UNCLUB PRINCIPLES\u00a0that\u00a0the Unusual Suspects operate under. Where the Unusual Suspects are a diverse group of individuals who have many key interest and the group caters to those interest and encourage activity in many areas, the HAMsters Weak Signal Group is a dedicated group with a sole devotion to PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING WEAK SIGNAL OPERATION ON VHF\/UHF\/SHF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We as a group promote and encourage SSB activity on 50MHz through 1296MHZ<\/strong>. We encourage SSB activity on those bands, contesting and chasing grids and QSL Cards on these bands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If as a HAM you have never experienced the thrill<\/strong> of working a station on VHF\/UHF\/SHF 1,100 miles or more, you do not know what you are missing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are fortunate to have some very seasoned experienced operators<\/strong> such as <strong>Bill W3XO<\/strong> who has forgotten more than most of us will every learn about VHF\/UHF operating, Marshall who when they defined Elmer had his photograph in the dictionary and who runs one of the finest VHF\/UHF\/SHF Multi-operator contest stations I have every seen as members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We hold a weekly net on 144.205 SSB<\/strong> Horizontally\u00a0polarized every Sunday Evening at 7:PM, we also hold daily conversations on 144.205 starting in the morning and running off and on through out the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We sponsor and promote Roving during contest<\/strong>, Remote operations to rare Grids to activate them along with a host of other activities. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have an interest in learning how to build a station<\/strong> to work as far away as Florida, Mexico and other points of interest on 2 meters, 23 cm, \u00a070cm, etc\u2026..this is the group for you. METEOR SCATTER, EME, TROPO AND A HOST OF DIGITAL MODES.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking part \u00a0in a VHF\/UHF contest<\/strong> will open up as much excitement as working that rare DX country on HF. JOIN US ON OUR SUNDAY EVENING NET: 144.205 SSB @ 7:PM<\/p>\n<p>Check us out at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.144200.net\/\">www.144200.net<\/a> Greg Lewis N5XO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HAMster Weak Signal Group was founded Spring of 2013 and is based on the same UNCLUB PRINCIPLES\u00a0that\u00a0the Unusual Suspects operate under. Where the Unusual Suspects are a diverse group of individuals who have many key interest and the group caters to those interest and encourage activity in many areas, the HAMsters Weak Signal Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[764],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}