Upcoming Presentations

Date	Title	Presenter
November 6, 2025	Things your XYL can get you for Christmas	Don (KI5AIU)
	The Jesse & Jerry POTA show	Jesse (W1BBT) & Jerry (N5SGM)
December 4, 2025	Christmas Party

Recent Presentations

Date	Title	Description
November 6, 2025	Things your XYL can get you for Christmas	Don (KI5AIU)
	THE POTA show	Jesse (W1BBT)
October 2, 2025	Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)	Jim (K5EWS)
	KARS ECOM Manual	Mark (KJ5CBL)
September 4, 2025	Geosynchronous Satellites	Fred (AB7IJ)
August 7, 2025	Operating Meteor Scatter 2m/6m/10m	Dave (N7RF)
August 6, 2025	Article featuring KARS in The Boerne Star	Rick (N5RCT)
July 29, 2025 Afternet	Finding Noise NA6O	Don (KI5AIU)
June 5, 2025	2025 KARS Field Day Plan	Jerry (N5SGM)
May 1, 2025	Solar for the Shack	Mark (K9YXF)
April 3, 2025	Show -and- Tell	Jesse (W1BBT) & Rick (N5RCT)
March 6, 2025	Signal Purity Testing of HTs	Don (KI5AIU)
February 6, 2025	Tower Road Update	Marsh (WA5UBO) gives a history of the tower project
February 6, 2025	Winter Field Day AAR	Jesse (W1BBT) goes over the results from Winter Field Day
December 5, 2024	Christmas 2024	Jesse (W1BBT) recaps the shennanigans from the Christmas party
November 7, 2024	Things your XYL can get you for Christmas	Don (KI5AIU)
October 3, 2024	Jim's Ham Shack	Jim (W6TIR)
September 2024	Surface Mount Technology	Marsh (WA5UBO)
August 1, 2024	Advanced WSJTX, JTAlert, GridTracker Setup	Jesse (W1BBT) goes through his FT8 setup and how using 2 computers makes FT8 life easier.
June 4, 2024	Soldering Techniques	Kelly (WB5MZT) showing some of the soldering "techniques" he has come across.
May 2, 2024	Bylaws Proposed Changes Revision 2	Updated proposed modifications to bylaws changes received March 7, 2024
May 2, 2024	UHF/VHF and HF "Go Boxes"	Mark (KJ5CBL) does a show and tell on his UHF/VHF and HF Go Boxes
Apr 4, 2024	Practical Propagation	Don (KI5AIU) explains tools available for determining propagation
Mar 7, 2024	Bylaws Proposed Changes	Changes received by Jesse (W1BBT) after proposed modifications
Mar 7, 2024	Bylaws Proposed Changes Comparison	Changes received by Jesse (W1BBT) presented in comparison format
Mar 7, 2024	Winlink for EmComm	Mark (K9YXF) does a deep dive into getting started with Winlink
Feb 1, 2024	San Antonio Digital Radio Club Infrastructure Update	Doug (N8IQT) presents updates from SADRC repeater network
	Radio Ops Off The Grid	Don (KI5AIU) shows off his off grid shack solution
	RACES, ARES and CERT	Greg (K5KYR) explains what RACES, ARES and CERT are
Dec 7, 2023	Christmas 2023	Marsh (WA5UBO) recaps the events at the Christmas party
Nov 2, 2023	Getting Antennae into Trees	Don (KI5AIU) presents techniques on getting your antennaes off the ground
Nov 2, 2023	Putting together a Radio Go Bag	Don (KI5AIU) breaks down the essentials for getting on the air on the road

As members find useful information, we try to aggregate that information here to make locating it easier. KARS has reached out to the following authors/publishers and have been granted rights to republish them. KARS would like to extend our gratitude to them for allowing us to make it easy for our members to find ths information:

Title	Author/Credits
Lightning Protection for the Amateur Radio Station Part 1	Ron Block (NR2B) and QST (June 2002)
Lightning Protection for the Amateur Radio Station Part 2	Ron Block (NR2B) and QST (July 2002)
Lightning Protection for the Amateur Radio Station Part 3	Ron Block (NR2B) and QST (August 2002)

Title	Description
An Easy to build HamClock	How to build a HamClock using a Raspberry Pi
DX Basics	Big file. Give it time to load. Talks to equipment, logging software, LoTW and Club Log.
HF Operating Part 1	Part 1 -- Offers suggestions how to commence on HF in general.
HF Operating Part, 2	Part 2 -- Software for HF Operating, LoTW and other pertinent information.
HF Operating, Part 3	Part 3 -- Contesting.
Antenna Line Tuners	KARS discussion about line turners used by various members.
NVIS	Many Sweepstakes contesters use NVIS to harvest contacts within 300 - 400 miles.
Membership Update	Committee discussions on club growth.
Repeater Roadmap 4/2018	KARS Repeater Strategy and Roadmap - 1
Repeater Report	Background information on our repeaters, tower and antennas a/o 2019.
Repeater Report 2021	Update on construction of the repeater building and current status of the KB5TX repeater site at Tower Road
Broadcastify comes to KARS	How to put audio feeds on the net, with KB5TX as an example.
Flex	Corky, WB5CIT tells you about Flex Radio.
Nano Low Cost VNA	N7RF tells you about a Vector Network Analyzer.
ARISS	Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.
Wires - X	How to information by Don Udel KI5AIU
Trouble Shooting	Barrel Connectors
Grounds and Grounding	By Corky Sarvis, WB5CIT. A saga of a lightning strike and then....
Winlink	What is Winlink (and why should I care) by Don Udel, KI5AIU
Echolink Comes to KARS	This software allows stations to communicate with one another over the Internet. By Don Udel, KI5AIU
Interfacing for Digital modes	Another excellent presentation by Don Udel KI5AIU to tell you about the hardware connections for various radios.
KB5TX Connectors	Ben Koerner talks about LMR400, LMR240, and how to install and waterproof crimp connectors.
Old website	Access to the previous website for various posts that did not transfer to the new website