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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., Oct 2nd, 2016, 1:30pm Fort Wayne Radio Club Fox Hunt |
| Tue., Oct 11th, 2016, 7:00pm FWRC Board of Directors Meeting |
| Fri., Oct 21st, 2016, 7:00pm FWRC General Meeting |
| Sun., Nov 6th, 2016, 1:30pm Fort Wayne Radio Club Fox Hunt |
| Tue., Nov 8th, 2016, 7:00pm FWRC Board of Directors Meeting |
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.
August 2016 meeting minutes available
- Category: News
- Published on Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:06
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Minutes of the August, 2016 FWRC general meeting, at which president Charles Ward, KC9MUT signed a tower space agreement with a local broadcast radio station (see photo at left), are available for download using the link below.
 FWRC Aug. 2016 general meeting minutes
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W9I Indiana centennial special event station photos available
- Category: Uncategorised
- Published on Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:51
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Photos of our club's W9I special events station operation in celebration of Indiana's centennial are now available on this website, thanks to Al Burke, WB9SSE.
The September 2016 Issue of Allen County HamNews Is Now Available
- Category: News
- Published on Friday, 02 September 2016 12:48
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The September 2016 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."
September 2016 issue of the Allen County HamNews
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The September 2016 issue of the Allen County HamNews in PDF format. |
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IMO SKYWARN net activates for multiple tornadoes
- Category: SKYWARN
- Published on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:32
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August 24, 2016 storm damage near the intersection of State Road 101 And Notestine Road in northeastern Allen County, Indiana. W9SAN photo.
A tornado outbreak occurred in Indiana and Ohio August 24, 2016. Storms did considerable damage in several of the 11 counties covered by the IMO SKYWARN quadrant two net on the Allen County Amateur Radio Technical Society 146.88 MHz repeater in Fort Wayne. Below is a log of the net's operations that day.
All Times EDT
1510 Began standby mode operation on IMO SKYWARN quadrant two ham radio frequency.
1713 K9RFZ reports 6 inches of standing water in Fort Wayne on Washington Center Road, east of N. Clinton St.
1714 Invoked directed net due to tornado warning in northeastern Allen County, Indiana (During a directed net, all stations remain off the air unless they have severe weather to report.)
1723 W9SAN confirms wall cloud, I-469 at State Road 37.
1729 KC9CGN confirms tornado, near intersection of Doty Rd. and Ricker Rd.
Tailgate Hamfest 2016 photos available
- Category: News
- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 08:44
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WB9SSE's photos of the Aug. 19, 2016 Fort Wayne Radio Club Tailgate hamfest are available in this website's photo gallery.
July fox takes respite at former sanitarium
- Category: News
- Published on Friday, 05 August 2016 00:05
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July 10 arrived as a sunny Indiana summer day with birds singing, the sun shining and foxhunters twirling their yagis and quads. Three teams showed up at the starting point at Cobin Memorial Park near Lakeside Golf Course. The hunter teams were: Jason and Debbie, KB9UOQ & KK4QXC; Jim and Annie, K9OMA & KA9YYI plus Carole & Al, WB9’s RUS & SSE; and new fox hunters (and also newly minted hams) Jim & Brenda, KD9’s GDY & GDX who, despite participating in the June hunt as tag-alongs and thus rubbing elbows with the foxhunting motley crew, decided none-the-less to join our merry band.
Usual foxhunters Steve and Linda Nardin, W9’s SAN & LAN were not able to participate as they were somewhere up in the Upper Peninsula participating in a Mini-Cooper rally while foxhunters Jim & Kim Machamer, KB9’s DOS & DOT had to sit this one out as their foxhunting van was down (with a sick transmission, I believe).
Charles, KC9MUT, Fred, KC9EZP and Robert, KC9UHU served as the fox for this hunt. They found a place called the Blue Cast Springs Nature Preserve way out on old US 24 at Blue Cast Rd., north of Woodburn near the Indiana-Ohio border.
The Blue Cast Springs area was once the site of the Blue Cast Mineral Springs & Sanitarium, around the turn of the last century, where patrons could “find relief from the ills of rheumatism and stomach and kidney problems by sipping the waters from the natural mineral spring, and taking part in magnetic mud-baths.” The sanitarium is no longer there, but the springs and an ACRES Land Trust nature preserve are.
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