There will be a W5YI test session this coming Saturday, August 2, from 9 a.m. to 11 am at the Boy Scout office, 8315 W. Jefferson Blvd.
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The August FWRC fox hunt will be this coming Sunday, August 3rd, at 1:30 pm. The hunt will start from the parking lot of the former Marsh Supermarket, 7231 Maplecrest Road at the intersection of Maplecrest Road and Rothman Road on the northeast side of Fort Wayne. The Fox frequency will be the input to the 146.76 repeater (146.16) and the Foxes are Jim and Kim, KB9DOT & KB9DOS. The 146.76 will also serve as the intercom for the event.
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On Tuesday, August 5th, the FWRC will have its board of directors meeting, at 7 p.m. at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 4700 Vance Ave in Fort Wayne, room 138.
On July 18th, Friday night, at 7:00 pm at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church we will have the July meeting of the Fort Wayne Radio Club. The church is at 4700 Vance Ave in Fort Wayne, just south of Snider High School. The meeting will be a wrap up for the VHF QSO Party and the Field Day. Also, we will have some info on the next FWRC On-Line Auction!
See you at the meeting!
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Well, halfway through this beautiful summer, on a clear and muggy 13th of July, three foxhunt teams gathered at the Ft. Wayne Safety Academy as the starting point for this month’s contest. The three teams consisted of Jim & Kim Machamer, KB9’s DOT & DOS plus their nephew Brandon, the team of Steve & Linda Nardin, W9’s SAN & LAN plus grandson Alex, and a team consisting of Charles Ward, KC9MUT, Fred Gengnagel, KC9EZP and Ben Myers, N9IRX.
Robert Dean, KC9UHU single-handedly served as this month’s fox and he was hidden out at the Little Cedar Creek Wildlife Sanctuary at the end of Sunlight Lane off East Fitch Rd. in extreme northern Allen County. He injected 50 watts into a quad at about 16′ as the high power fox, and employed the microprocessor based micro fox rig, running around 10 milliwatts, ensconced in a tree trunk, as the low power fox. Both emitted on 146.430 MHz.
The fox commenced transmitting promptly at 13:30 hours and produced extremely weak, but readable signals at the Safety Academy site indicating that the action was to the north, so to the north everyone proceeded. The Nardin team was following Kim & Jim up Coldwater Rd. way north of Dupont when it spotted Charles and crew buzzing rapidly south on Coldwater as if the Cap-N-Cork were passing out free cold beer samples.
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette provided print and video coverage of the Fort Wayne Radio Club’s 2014 ARRL Field Day operation.
Here’s a link to the items on their website.
Photos from the FWRC’s operation in both the ARRL June VHF/UHF QSO Party and Field day are now available in our photo gallery.
It is finally here: Field Day weekend! We start tonight with QRP night at Dolnick Learning Center. Run what you brung, bring out your QRP rigs and antennas, see what you can do.
This Saturday morning, there is an optional breakfast, at Cosmos’ restaurant, 3232 St. Joe Ctr Rd., in the Marketplace of Canterbury starting at 7:30 am. This place fills up pretty fast!
At 9:00 am, we start finishing the setup for the event that begun on Friday night.
At 1:30 pm, we will have a pre-start meeting to discuss important features of the event
At 2:00 pm, the Field Day begins!
At 5:30 pm, the Hog Roast gets underway. Cost is $7.00 Bring a side dish or desert.
At 10:00 am Sunday, we have the Field Day Breakfast. Cost is $3.00. Bring your appetite!
At 2:00 pm, the event ends and we start the tear down, take a group picture, and go home and take a shower!
It promises to be a great time! We hope to see all club members come on out!
The July 2014 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.”