Photos of Fort Wayne Radio Club members participating in the 2015 Three Rivers Festival parade are now available in the photo gallery of this website, thanks to Al Burke, WB9SSE and Tom Rupp, KU8T.
The July FWRC board Of directors meeting is this Tuesday night, July 7th, at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church at 4700 Vance Avenue in Fort Wayne.
We will meet at 7 p.m. in room 138 at the church.
73, Steve, W9SAN
P.S. The Allen County HamNews has our meeting for the 17th of July listed at the Salvation Army. We will in fact be meeting at Good Shepherd Church.
The July 2015 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.”
Minutes of the June, 2015 general meeting of the FWRC are now available for download, using the link below.
FWRC officers have confirmed that our annual ARRL Field Day operation will take place on the IPFW north campus, near the Dolnick Learning Center (DLC, building 31 on the map above), northeast of the intersection of Stellhorn Road and St. Joe Road.
For visitors unfamiliar with the location, the DLC has no address to plug into a GPS unit. The best option for GPS users is probably to enter 3210 Stellhorn Road (the address of the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center, building 17 on the map above) and then follow the map above to travel the remainder of the way to the Field Day site.
Alternatively, the GPS coordinates of the DLC are >41.126104, -85.092767.
Fred Gengnagel, KC9EZP has prepared a Field Day poster in PDF form that’s suitable for downloading and printing. Use the link below to get your copy:
Bradd Davidson, KA9LCF informed our club webmaster that his repeater on 442.45 MHz, Auburn now requires a 141.3 Hz continuous tone-coded squelch system tone. The KA9LCF repeater also transmits the 141.3 Hz tone. Previously, the repeater’s receiver operated on carrier squelch only and the transmitter sent a tone of 131.8 Hz.
The June foxhunt occurred as scheduled on 7 June after a little suspense regarding its actual date. The suspense occurred because, as it worked out on that date, neither the Pliett/Burke team, who were to be the Fox, nor the Nardin team, could participate in the hunt on the 7th. This meant that one of the other foxhunt teams would need to act as the Fox, and likely only two remaining teams would be available to hunt. So the alternative of moving the hunt to the following Sunday was considered.
Ultimately it was decided to carry on with the hunt on the 7th. Jason Eicholtz, KC9UOQ & Debbie Romine, KK4QXC graciously agreed to serve as the Fox in place of the Pliett/Burke team, which left the crew of Charles Ward, KC9MUT, Fred Gengnagle, KC9EZP & Robert Dean, KC9UHU, and the team of Jim & Kim Machamer, KB9’s DOS & DOT as the two hunting groups for the June event.