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The Fort Wayne Radio Club is an organization of amateur (ham) radio operators in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Use the menu above to learn more or scroll down for the latest news!
Upcoming Events
| Sun., Jul 8th, 2018, 1:30pm JULY THREE RIVERS FOX HUNT |
| Tue., Jul 10th, 2018, 7:00pm JULY BOD MTG |
| Fri., Jul 20th, 2018, 7:00pm JULY GENERAL MEETING |
| Sun., Aug 5th, 2018, 1:30pm AUGUST HEAT STROKE FOX HUNT |
| Sun., Aug 5th, 2018, 1:30pm AUGUST HEAT STROKE FOX HUNT |
FWRC participates in the annual ARRL Field Day event every June.
FWRC conducts a monthly fox (hidden transmitter) hunt from March through November.
FWRC members bring test eqiupment to one meeting per year for the club's annual "rig clinic."
Every August, FWRC hosts a free tailgate hamfest.
FWRC members participate in the ARRL VHF QSO Party from an upper level of a parking structure.
The June 2018 Issue of Allen County HamNews Is Now Available
- Category: News
- Published on Friday, 01 June 2018 10:54
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The June 2018 Issue of the Allen County HamNews newsletter is now available for download using the link below. This and previous issues are also available for download by clicking the "Files" link in the main menu and then clicking "Newsletters."
 June 2018 issue of the Allen County HamNews
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The June 2018 issue of the Allen County HamNews in PDF format. |
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Dayton 2018 photos available
- Category: News
- Published on Thursday, 24 May 2018 09:04
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Photos from the 2018 Dayton Hamvention are now available in the photo gallery of this website.
May fox hides along Fort Wayne's trail system
- Category: News
- Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 08:37
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The fourth fox (hidden transmitter) hunt of 2018 occurred on 6 May, 2018, a slightly overcast but otherwise simply gorgeous spring afternoon. Two teams arrived at the starting point at Cobin Memorial Park in anticipation of the hunt beginning at 13:30 hours. The first team consisted of Charles Ward, KC9MUT and Fred Gengnagel, KC9EZP. The second team included Steve and Linda Nardin W9’s SAN & LAN and their grandson Alex (who celebrated his 20th birthday the day before).
The fox function was provided by Carole & Al Burke, WB9’s RUS & SSE. (Their usual partners, Sir Jim & Lady Ann Pliett could not attend as they were on a cruise experiencing the British Isles. Jim said if they had time they were going to stop by and check out the new Prince Louie).
Al & Carole decided to locate the fox on the Puffer-Belly jogging trail about half-way between DuPont Rd. and Carroll Rd. in La Cabreah. So they set up the high power fox in a little clearing just off the trail. They planted a five element yagi on a mast at about ten feet, pointed south, and drove it with a 20 watt mobile rig.
2018 spring banquet photos available
- Category: News
- Published on Thursday, 26 April 2018 23:24
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Photos of the 2018 Fort Wayne Radio Club spring banquet are now awvailable in the photo gallery of this website.
April fox hides in tree
- Category: News
- Published on Sunday, 15 April 2018 20:51
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The third foxhunt of 2018 occurred on 8 April, 2018, a beautiful sunny afternoon. Two teams arrived at the starting point at Cobin Memorial Park in anticipation of the hunt beginning at 13:30 hours. The first team included Jim Pliett, K9OMA, Carole Burke, WB9RUS and Al Burke, WB9SSE. The second team included Steve and Linda Nardin W9’s SAN & LAN and their grandson Alex.
The fox function was provided by Charles Ward, KC9MUT, Fred Gengnagel, KC9EP, Bob Dean, KC9UHU, and Kevin Loughin, KB9RLW. They chose a little patch of woods just south of Pro Bowl West (on Goshen Rd.) and north of Glen Park, to hide the microfox. It was squirreled into the cleft of a tree branch about six feet off the ground wrapped in camo and almost impossible to see, even when you were a foot or so away from it.Prior to the foxhunt, Jim, K9OMA had been trying to diagnose the cause of 30 degree error in indicated direction of signal arrival exhibited by the horizontally polarized cubical quad foxhunting antenna mounted on the roof of his van. When he changed to vertical polarization, the bearing error was eliminated so he decided to try vertical polarization for this hunt. That proved to be problematic as it turned out.
March fox hides under bleachers
- Category: News
- Published on Wednesday, 07 March 2018 22:47
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The second foxhunt of 2018 occurred on 4 March, 2018 on a brisk but sunny afternoon. Three teams arrived at the starting point at Cobin Memorial Park in anticipation of the hunt beginning at 13:30 hours. The first team included Charles Ward, KC9MUT, Fred Gengnagel, KC9EP and Kevin Loughin, KB9RLW. The second team included Steve and Linda Nardin W9’s SAN & LAN. And the third team consisted of Don Glick, W9LI and newcomer Rudy Wilfong.
The fox function was provided by Jim and Annie Pliett, K9OMA & KA9YYI plus Carole and Al Burke, WB9’s RUS & SSE. They located the high-power fox on the grounds of Carroll High School off Carroll Rd. just west of the Carroll High School Natatorium. It pumped about 30 watts into a cubicle quad mounted on the roof of Jim’s van.
The microfox was the standard microprocessor-driven CW transmitter producing about 10 milliwatts into a monopole. Ultimately, the microfox was hidden under one of the seats in the tennis court’s aluminum bleacher stands in such a way that it was almost impossible to see.
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