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The episode discusses the challenges and techniques of operating amateur radio stations in close proximity to each other.
Foundations of Amateur Radio Over the years I've had the opportunity to operate my station with other amateurs in close proximity. From a community perspective, this is loads of fun; from a radio perspective it's been frustrating to put it mildly. For example if you're operating on say 40m and your friends are playing on 20m or 15m, if you're not careful, you'll all end up hating each other at the end of the weekend due to the harmonic nature of the amateur bands. Imagine my surprise when Keith W6KME mentioned in passing that together with the other members of the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club, callsign AA6CV, managed to operate 25 stations within a 300 meter circle from each other, without commercial electricity. Oh, did I mention, the antennas have to be within the circle and they operated on 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m and 6m, no doubt there were other bands that I'm not aware of, and if that wasn't impressive enough, about a third of the space was allocated to public information. You can see their efforts at cvarc.org Mind. Blown. Given my less than exciting experiences to date, my first question to Keith was about inter station interference and Keith pointed me at a freely…
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