March 2019 minutes available

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Published on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 22:52

Written by Jay Farlow, W9LW

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Minutes of the March, 2019 FWRC general meeting are now available for download.

March 2019 General Meeting Minutes
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Sly fox hides in Waynedale playground

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Published on Tuesday, 05 March 2019 13:08

Written by Al Burke, WB9SSE

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The March fox (hidden transmitter) hunt occurred on Sunday the 3rd of March, a cold, windy, slightly overcast day that featured a bit of blowing snow. (C’mon Spring Training). The foxhunting teams consisted of the team of Jim Pliett, K9OMA and Al Burke, WB9SSE, the team of Steve and Linda Nardin, WB9’s SAN and LAN plus their grandson Alex, and the team of Don Glick, K9LI and his wife Julie.

The role of the fox in this little drama was provided by Charles Ward, KC9MUT, Fred Gengnagel, KC9EZP and Phil Hooper, AB9IZ. (This crew is widely referred to as “the Unholy Three” in God fearing foxhunting circles throughout the Midwest, and internationally, through Interpol, are known as der schlaue Fuchs).

They hid out at Waynedale Memorial Park, south of Lower Huntington Rd., across the street from Waynedale Elementary School. A nice little park.

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Feb. 2019 meeting minutes available

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Published on Monday, 18 February 2019 17:19

Written by Jay Farlow, W9LW

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Minutes of the February 2019 general meeting of the Fort Wayne Radio Club are available for download from the files section of this website or by clicking the link below:

February 2019 General Meeting Minutes
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Weather improves in time for 2019's first fox hunt

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Published on Wednesday, 06 February 2019 16:44

Written by Steve Nardin, W9SAN

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The last week of January was a real struggle! Temperatures hit near record lows, pipes burst, water mains broke, and the Interstates were littered with semis that had their diesel fuel gel up. Schools missed up to four days. All this bad weather had us all wondering if having our first Fox Hunt of the year on February 3rd was going to be a bad idea! As it turns out, the weather was just great! Temps heading up into the low 50's, and the sun was shining with a gentle breeze blowing.

The 'Fox' team of Linda and Steve, W9LAN & W9SAN, had chosen to hide out on the eastern side of Allen County at Woodlan K-12 school, just to the west of Woodburn.

At 1:30pm the foxes started transmitting. During the first transmission the fox was accidently set to low power. So although the fox signal was weak at the Cobin Memorial Park start point, the assembled hunters (the team of KC9MUT & KC9EZP, the team of K9OMA, KA9YYI, WB9SSE and ride along hunter Brian Mockenhaupt, and the team of K9LI and his wife Julie plus ride along hunter KD9ITZ) heard it and started heading to the east. Progress was halted for some (more than a half hour for the K9OMA team) by a Norfolk and Southern freight train that came to a halt across several of the grade crossings on roads heading east. (Accusations that the fox team had conspired with N&S engineer Phil Hooper, AB9IZ, to use his company’s trains to impede the hunters was later proved to be fake news!)

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2018 Christmas banquet photos available

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Published on Monday, 17 December 2018 13:50

Written by Jay Farlow, W9LW

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Al Burke, WB9SSE has uploaded photos from this month's Christmas banquet to this website's photo gallery.