Minutes of the July FWRC general meeting are available using the link below.
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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 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.”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!
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AUCTION RESULTS
FWRC ON LINE AUCTION FINAL RESULTS:
Thanks to everyone for making our first on line auction a great success!
Special thanks to Al Burke, WB9SSE, Tom Rupp, KU8T, and Jim Pliett, K9OMA,
for their help with the cataloging and retrieval of the following items:
ITEM DESCRIPTION WINNER BID DELIVERED(“X”)
1 HEATHKIT K9UWA $25 X
2 HEATHKIT K9UWA $25 X
3 HEATHKIT K9UWA $30 X
4 HEATHKIT K9UWA $50 X
5 HEATHKIT K9UWA $50 X
6 HEATHKIT W9SAN $20 X
7 HEATHKIT KC9YVT $110 X
8 KENWOOD N9QCL $150 X
9 KENWOOD KC9YVT $352 X
10 KENWOOD KC9UHU $100 X
11 KENWOOD K9WJ $110 X
12 KENWOOD WB9AA $13 X
13 KENWOOD WB9SSE $80 X
14 ICOM WB9AA $23 X
15 KEY N9NBA $45 X
16 FM TUNER WD9CVI $15 X
17 PRE AMP WD9CVI $15 X
18 AMP WD9CVI $15 X
19 POWER SUP KC9JMK $25 X
20 BIRD LOAD WB9SSE $125 X
21 EQUALIZER W9SAN $5 X
22 EICO N9NBA $40 X
23 SCOPE N9NBA $65 X
24 SCALE K3HZP $3 X
25 SIMPSON 260 AD9ZA $25 X
26 HP PWR SUP K9EA $50 X
27 LAFAYETTE WD9CVI $15 X
28 PHILMORE K9UWA $50 X
29 MERCURY WB9FTW $35 X
30 GEN RAD W8ST $30 X
31 MAGNAVOX N9TB $25
32 UNKNOWN K9UWA $5 X
33 UNKNOWN K9OMA $10 X
34 RADIO SHK K3HZP $2 X
35 GARRARD WD9CVI $25 X
36 BATT CHRGR WD9DLC $5 X
37 ALINCO HT WB9SSE $55 X
38 AUTEK KEYR KU8T $25 X
39 EIKI PROJ W9TE $20 X
40 SHURE 44 KC9YVT $21 X
41 PC ELECTR K9OMA $35 X
42 AEA PCKRAT KB9MW $50 X
43 HY-GAIN KC9ZUO $75 X
44 DELTA K3HZP $20 X
45 DELTA K3HZP $20 X
46 TEAC N9TB $5 X
47 AC VOLTMTR K3HZP $5 X
48 DREMEL W9QHY $15 X
49 TEXSCAN K3HZP $5 X
50 HOME BREW W9NUZ $1 X
51 ROOF TOWER KC9UHU $20
Please join us tonight for a Field Day planning meeting, a demonstration of the FD wireless networking system, and to pick up and pay for your auction items!
It all starts at 7:00 PM EDT at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church at 4700 Vance Ave in Fort Wayne (46815). Let’s get into the Field Day Spirit! This is going to be a good one!
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To be held Saturday June 21st at his residence at 5204 Gehring Lane, Fort Wayne, IN 46818
The following is a partial listing of items:
Heathkit SB 200 Linear Amplifier
Kenwood TL-922A Linear Amplifier
VJ 90 2 Meter Linear Amplifier
Gonset Communicator AM Transceiver w/crystal (I think it was for 6 Meters)
Hallicrafters SX42 Receiver with stand and R46 Speaker
Multi-Band Radio
3 Element Mosley Beam Antenna for 15 Meters
Mosley Classic 33 Tri Band Yagi on an 18′ boom
Mosley Classic 36 Tri Band Yagi on a 24′ boom
Hy Gain 6 Element 6 Meter Antenna on a 24′ boom
Pirod 100′ Commercial self-supporting Tower (5 sections of 20′) You take down and move
High Voltage power supply (pair of 866A mercury vapor tubes) 0-2000Vdc at 500mA with Variac
Metal 12 Drawer Cabinet with parts (screws, nuts, bolts, tube sockets, etc.)