Minutes of the June 2021 meeting of the Fort Wayne Radio Club Board of Directors are available by clicking the link below.
The June, 2021 issue of Allen County HamNews is available for download from this website, using the link below or the “Newsletters” menu item above.
(Updated June 2, 2021)
The Fort Wayne Radio Club announces a new, short, monthly VHF SSB/CW contest, the 30-minute, Two-Meter Classic Sprint. Read on for details and rules.
Continue readingSaturday, April 24 was a blustery, rainy day. But no amount of wet weather could dampen the intentions of many regional VHF enthusiasts, as they geared up for the first annual VHF SSB/CW 2M Sprint Classic contest.
The Sprint Classic is a contest that encourages VHF weak signal operations, using the traditional modes of SSB and CW. Stations were awarded points based upon the number of contacts made and the total number of grid squares worked (each grid square was a unique multiplier).
The action started at 1300Z (9 a.m. Eastern time) with the contest ending nine hours later at 2300Z. Band conditions were not favorable, due to a lack of wide-spread tropo. openings. However, band conditions aside, contest entrants reported working stations as far as Hamilton, Indiana; Lemont, Illinois; Cecil, Ohio, and all the way to Rudolph, Wisconsin! (Maybe Santa’s sleigh brought some good propagation to Wisconsin?)
Continue readingThe Fort Wayne Radio Club May meeting will be next Wednesday, May the 19th. We had mistakenly listed the meeting as May 12 in the editorial of this month’s Hamsplatter. The correct date was listed further down in the newsletter, so there was obvious confusion there!
We apologize to anyone that made the trip downtown to find an empty meeting! We will do our best to make sure these kinds of errors do not happen in the future!
Please join us on Wednesday, May 19th, for our club meeting at 6:00pm and our speaker from the Fort Wayne Police Department. Stay tuned for more club activity including Field Day at the Fort and the Tail Gate Hamfest in August.
The May, 2021 issue of Allen County HamNews, the newsletter of the FWRC and two other ham radio clubs, is available for download from this website, using the link below or the “Newsletters” menu item above.
The minutes of the April 2021 general meeting of the Fort Wayne Radio Club are available for download from this website using the link below or the “Files” link in the menu bar above.
The FCC has announced that rule changes that require amateur radio stations to be evaluated against RF exposure limits go into effect on May 3, 2021. Read more on the ARRL website.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of MFJ Enterprises and DX Engineering as award sponsors for the VHF SSB/CW 2m Sprint Classic contest. These two ham radio-focused organizations have graciously donated several items that will be awarded to various category winners of the VHF SSB/CW 2m Sprint Classic contest. Thank you to MFJ Enterprises and DX Engineering for your generosity!
The following category winners will receive a special recognition award for their winning achievement from MFJ Enterprises.
Base Station:
High Power first place
Low Power first place
QRP first place
Basic Rover:
High Power first place
Low Power first place
Multi-Op Rover:
First Place
The top scoring “Rookie” station (a station licensed in the past 3 years) and “Legacy” station (a station licensed for 25+ years) will receive a special recognition award from DX Engineering.
The April 2021 issue of Allen County HamNews is available for download, using the link below or the newsletters link in the menu above.