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W1BUR repeater range tests

Notes on which repeaters W1BUR VHF/UHF control station could reach from Boston University.

W1BUR Shack Build Feb 2012

Members of W1BUR - Boston University Amateur Radio Club gathered on February 12, 2012 to build a cabinet for the new shack.

2018 North American Collegiate Championship contest

Jan 20, 2018 from 1PM-1AM Boston time, college stations compete in a ham radio contest.

WPX 2012 contest results

W1BUR, Boston University Amateur Radio Club operated on Saturday, March 25, 2012 in CQ World-Wide WPX Contest from the Photonics Center, Boston University. ...

W1BUR Open Operation March 25 2012

Boston University Amateur Radio Club operated amateur radio station W1BUR on Sunday, March 25, 2012 for one of the world’s largest amateur radio competition,...

6800 mile contact

BU Amateur Radio Club joined the ARRL DX Contest on Saturday, March 3 2012 from 10AM to 8PM.

Echolink system preparation

Where we’re at with getting Echolink back up.

Welcome Fall 2016

Welcome to the students, staff, alumni, and friends of W1BUR amateur radio station at Boston University this Fall 2016 semester! We have our Echolink service...

W1BUR-L online

We have at least the internet portion of W1BUR-L online. As we get increasing access to the original Photonics Center shack, I can get the RF transmit porti...

Spring Break 2015 plans

We plan to put a simplex Echolink W1BUR-L on the air from a temporary antenna until we can get access to the rooftop antenna connection in the early summer. ...

Fall 2017 Boston University Amateur Radio Wireless Club kickoff

We’ve turned on facebook.com/groups/w1bur and the station is in operation. Come for our first meeting of the semester.

Net Results Sept 20 2015

We had approximately 11 checkins on the net, via W1BUR-L on Echolink. We connected with W8UM-R, the University of Michigan ham radio club, which is quite ac...

Biweekly Net Fall 2015

We will be having nets approximately twice a month on Sunday nights at 7:30pm. This time is chosen to precede joint university nets at 8:00pm Sundays. The d...

WSPR report from Australia

WSPR’s high effectiveness in distance / watt is shown by a contact reported from Australia.

WSPR signal report from Holland

W1BUR was heard on WSPR in Holland using 20 m band.

Icom IC-756 power connection repair

The Icom IC-756 crimp ring terminals are better replaced with Anderson Powerpole.

W1BUR antenna farm damaged by weather

Damaging weather over the past year was discovered to have taken a toll at W1BUR.

W1BUR is still here

We lost access to our main ham shack room due to exciting research that needed the space. We haven’t forgotten about ham radio and are looking for intereste...

WSPR receive enabled for W1BUR

WSPR enables repeatable performance testing of antenna systems vs. propagation.