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Blaine Festival
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- Last Updated on Monday, June 01 2026 20:24
The Anoka County Radio Club anticipates participating in two Blaine events this year. More details will be posted as they are available..
June 27: Blaine BB4 Parade, meet at 113 & Jefferson at Elementary school at 10:00am. Parade is at noon
July 4: Blane BB4 pot-luck begins at 5:30. Deploy to locations by 8:00 PM and fireworks start at 10:00
Both events should be great opportunities to have fun and operate our radios.
Baofeng
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- Last Updated on Wednesday, April 12 2023 17:04
Some of my fellow ACRC'ers own Baofeng HTs. Before I bought my F8HP unit, I watched Youtube installments mentioning how the squelch was really BAD on Baofengs. After setting up my radio I found that it, too, exhibited awful squelch characteristics, namely, OPEN squelch, and CLOSED squelch. The problem lies in the squelch curve settings. It is my SWAG (Scientific Wild A@@ Guess) that these factory settings were due to too much electromagnetic interference at the factory. Just my thoughts. As you may know, audio control is non-linear, rather (somewhat) semi logarithmic in nature. After re-writing the squelch settings in CHIRP's SERVICE SETTINGS page, I believe this to be about "as good as it gets" for these critters. The revised settings are as follows: VHF - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 26, 33 UHF - 0. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 19, 22 This really helped my little radio. I hope it works as well for yours, too. 73 Russ Emerson - AEØPX
Hams in the park
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- Last Updated on Wednesday, May 13 2026 18:54
On the second Saturday of each month, local ham radio operators normally meet at the Long Lake Regional Park in New Brighton at the lower parking lot to operate, show off their gear and test ham radio related equipment. The event starts at noon. This is an event of interest to ACRC members, but is not an ACRC event. Hope to see you there!
