Greetings from north Texas!

Thanks for visiting our web site.  We're the Dunbar family, and 4 of us (so far!) are licensed.  We should have 2 more added sometime in 2012.  We hope you find something here of interest.  Links are below.
73, Dave N0RQ

Here are some articles or notes on various subjects.  Perhaps a few of them may be of interest to you...

TECHNICAL (at least a little) in nature:

• I was pleased to have an article about JT65-HF published on eham.net
• Here is more info & links on JT65-HF, a really fun and unique digital mode
• setting up a remote HF station -- running remote HF/6m 900 miles away with a Kenwood TS-480SAT
• how to Bury Radials for a vertical antenna -- the easy and effective way!
• how I make a Big Ugly Balun -- how to decouple your feedline for a vertical or dipole
• how to mod the 6BTV for 12m & 17m -- take a 4BTV, 5BTV, or 6BTV, and add 12m and/or 17m -- cheap!
• APRS digipeater & I-gate project (N0RQ-15 & N0RQ-14, in Huron, SD)
• Our APRS page (with notes on what we used to get mobile trackers up and running)
• GE MVS radios (VHF FM) are very useful for APRS, Winlink, and even general 2m FM use
• info on programming the GE MVS radios, with pictures and step-by-step instructions
• running Winlink 2000 (on VHF) for Collin County ARES emergency communications support
• Writelog settings for an ICOM IC-746 and Kenwood TS-480
• Our TOWER PROJECT pages! How a Trylon 64' tower went up. (Sept 2002) -- sorry, most of the pics were trashed somehow; I have been able to replace some of them, but not all -- still working on it....
• a bit of info on the Kenwood TS-480 radios, with links
• the frustrations of Power Line Noise  (horrible-sounding, and trashes all but strongest signals)

HAM (but non-technical) in nature:

• QSL cards:  our rarest QSL cards (page 1), and some more that are rare, pretty, or special (page 2)
• we put grid DM86 on the air on 6m, May 2011 -- more info here
• Dave as a new ham in 1978 (old newspaper picture/article, Huron, SD)
• Repeater Installation 2004  (pictures of the W5MRC/W5MRA UHF & APRS digi)
• Field Day 2004 at the McKinney ARC (pictures of the W5MRC operation)
• Dave went mobile for the Texas QSO Party (Sept 2003, with 2 pictures)
• A history and links page (history of our licenses/callsigns, not that anyone cares ;-), and some links)
• We met someone famous in ham circles, from a far-away land! (2005 & 2007)
• Our shack & equipment page, including antennas

non-HAM, family, fun, etc:

• a few facts about Texas  (not related to ham radio, but very important stuff!)
• Our Baby project page -- welcome baby Noah! (Aug 2003)