The September, 2020 issue of Allen County HamNews is available for download, using the link below.
Volunteer examiners plan an amateur radio license exam session Saturday, September 5 at the St. Paul of the Cross Deacon Joe Bldg. gymnasium, 215 S Line St, Columbia City, IN. They plan to administers tests from 9 a.m. and noon.
The exam team requires advanced registration for this session and will accept no walk-ins. Persons may register in advance via the email address or phone number below.
rlmcen@embarqmail.com
(260) 503-9008
The annual, FWRC Tailgate Hamfest is scheduled for Friday, August 21, in the parking lot of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 4700 Vance Ave, Fort Wayne. Starting time is 6:30 p.m.
Access to the church building will not be available, including for restroom use, due to pandemic-related restrictions. Even though the tailgate hamfest is an outdoor event, the FWRC board of directors encourages face mask use by all who attend.
In related news, the club learned in early August that the church, in whose building we normally meet, has decided that no groups, other than service organizations and its own ministry groups will meet inside its building until further notice.
The weather threatened to be wet, wet, and wet all day on the 2nd of August when two fox-hunter teams coalesced at the foxhunting starting point at Cobin Memorial Park near Lakeside Golf Course. Team #1 consisted of Charles Ward, KC9MUT, and newbie, and enthusiastic fox hunter Brian Kibiger, KD9OOC. The 2nd team included Linda and Steve Nardin, W9’s LAN & SAN plus veteran fox hunter Alex, their grandson.
The role of the fox was provided by Carole & Al Burke, WB9’s RUS & SSE plus Annie & Jim Pliett, KA9YYI & K9OMA. They had conducted a little scouting and settled on a spot at the very end of the southern portion of Schwartz Rd. where I-469 bisects this former north-south thru-way just to the east of the Chapel Ridge Shopping Center. On the other side of I-469 the northern section of Schwartz Rd. started up again, and the Burke-Pliett team considered locating the high power fox on the southern portion of Schwarz while hiding the microfox on the northern portion. But we have some morals, so we decided not to do that and thus located the microfox near us on the southern terminus of Schwarz close to the high power fox. (Actually, we couldn’t see the northern portion of Schwartz because of the elevated I-469, and thus would not have been able to observe the fox hunters searching for the micro-fox, once they had figured out what we had done to them).
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The Fort Wayne Radio Club will hold its August fox (hidden transmitter) hunt Sunday, August 2 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Hunter meet at in the parking lot of 24/30 Surplus (formerly K-Mart), 820 N Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne.
The fox will transmit on 146.430 FM simplex with one minute out of every five minutes. At the fox site, a micro-fox of approx 50 milliwatts will transmit every 2.5 minutes. Intercom for the event is on the 146.76 repeater in Fort Wayne.
All are welcome! You can even help out from home if you have a directional antenna.
Some ride along space might be available. Those who participate in a hunt can receive a free three- element tape measure yagi antenna.
We always have a great time, so please plan on joining the FWRC Fox Hunt Team!
The August, 2020 issue of the Allen Counyt HamNews is available for download, following the link below. Past issues are available via the “Newletter” link in the main menu, above.
Minutes of the July, 2020 general meeting of the Fort Wayne Radio Club are available for download by following the link below.
From the ARRL website:
ARRL Contest Program Manager Paul Bourque, N1SFE, reported that ARRL has received more than 8,700 online Field Day entries by mid-week, and paper-only entries have started arriving too.
“As many participants chose to operate from home this year — and given the 2020 rules waivers, we have seen a tremendous increase in entries over last year’s event,” Bourque said. “Most of the entries received have been through the online web app, and Headquarters staffers have begun processing the paper entries this week. The 2020 waivers allowed individual club members to attribute their scores to their clubs.
Participants who submitted entries online are encouraged to check the Field Day entries received page to verify that their entries are marked as complete, and that the club name entered is correct. Entries with a status of “pending” are incomplete entries that are missing one or more items, and these need to be completed for an official entry. Share your stories and photos using the ARRL soapbox or via social media, such as on the ARRL Field Day Facebook group.