New officers elected

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If you were not present for the 2014 Club Elections this past Friday night, here are the results:

President: Steve Nardin, W9SAN
Vice Pres: Carole Burke, WB9RUS
Secretary: Al Burke, WB9SSE
Treasurer: Bob Streeter, W8ST
Communications Manager: Charles Ward, KC9MUT
BOD: Tom Baker, N9TB
BOD: Tom Rupp, KU8T
BOD: Kim Machemer, KB9DOS
BOD: Linda Nardin, W9LAN

Special thanks to :

Rich Gilson, KC9PUX
Jon Preble, AD9DX

who were also running for BOD positions. We appreciate your participation!!

I am looking forward to a great 2014, which will be the centennial year for the ARRL.

Next month’s meeting will be a video of Fox Hunting fun, by Charles, KC9MUT. This should be great!

Club meeting & elections this Friday night

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Join us this Friday night, October 18th, for the monthly meeting of the Fort Wayne Radio Club. We gather at 7:00 pm at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, at 4700 Vance Avenue in Fort Wayne, near the intersection of Vance Ave and Reed Road, just south of Snider High School.

The main business task of this meeting is the election of club officers for next year. Although nominations are still open, the following is the slate as it now stands:

PRESIDENT: W9SAN Steve
VICE PRES: WB9RUS Carole
SECRETARY: WB9SSE Al
TREASURER: W8ST Bob
COMM MGR: KC9MUT Charles

For the BOD, we must choose 4 of the following 6:
W9LAN Linda
KB9DOS Kim
KU8T Tom
N9TB Tom
KC9PUX Rich
AD9DX Jon

The presentation for the evening will be on Antenna Analyzers, and we will be comparing several different ones to see which is more accurate! Bring yours if you like!

Members welcome at board of directors meeting

This Tuesday night, October 8, at 7 p.m. please join us in room 138 of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, at 4700 Vance Ave in Fort Wayne, for our board of directors meeting.

All are welcome! We will be discussing the upcoming meeting and election, as well as the Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) operation, and possible running of the CQ WW DX contest!

October fox found in Metea Park

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October 2013 foxhunt fox siteSunday, October 6, 2013. The sun sorta came up, the birds stay in bed, and the skies opened up with rain, rain, rain. But none-the-less, a stalwart crew of foxhunters assembled in the Off-Track Betting Parlor at Lima and Washington Center roads for the October foxhunt. This enthusiastic (if damp) crew consisted of the team of Linda and Steve Nardin, W9’s LAN and SAN, the team of Annie and Jim Pliett, KA9YYI and K9OMA plus Carole and Al Burke, WB9’s RUS and SSE, and single hunter Robert Dean, KC9UHU.

While the foxhunters were contemplating the wet slogging ahead, the foxes, Charles Ward, KC9MUT and Fred Gengnagel, KC9EZP, luxuriated under a nice, dry, warm tent fly out in the piney-woods of Matea Park near Cedar Creek off Hursh Rd. (A photo of this bourgeoisie encampment taken surreptitiously by an RPV cleverly engaged by the Pliett-Burke team is possibly included in the Ham news version of this article, or on the club web page). During the fly-by the RPV’s microphone picked up audio, reportedly from Charles, stating “We doon need no stinking umbrellas,….hee, hee, hee”. They were utilizing a yagi fed by about 150 watts for the high power signal, and a camouflaged microfox radiating about 150 miliwatts of cw, and cleverly secreted in a tree, as the actual fox.

Promptly at 13:30 the fox began squawking on the 146.76 machines input.

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State ARRL official invites participation in simulated emergency

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ARRL Indiana Section Emergency Coordinator Larry Jones, WB9FHP sent the following email message to Indiana ARRL members:

The month of October 2013 has been designated as the official month for the ARRL Indiana Section ARES teams, to complete their yearly Simulated Emergency Test (S.E.T.). Each county team should have it’s SET completed by October 31st, 2013 unless extenuating circumstances causing a later date are cleared and approved by the SEC.

The ARES teams can use any scenario they choose which will test their readiness for disasters that may happen in their jurisdictions. There are certain items that do need to be sent to the SEC and the Section Manager. Each team needs to, at the start of their SET, send a “SITREP” or Situation Report to the SEC, and then, within a week of the end of their SET they need to submit an “AAR” or After-Action Report to the SEC.

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September foxhunt chronicles

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foxhunt cartoonSunday, September 8, 2013. The sun came up, the birds sang, and the weather was pleasant as an early fall day should be. And in the parking lot of the Off-Track Betting Parlor at Lima and Washington Center roads, there gathered a group of eleven foxhunters, intent for the activities that would occur that afternoon. The hunters consisted of the team of Jim and Annie Pliett, K9OMA and KA9YYI plus Carole and Al Burke, WB9RUS and WB9SSE, the team of Linda and Steve Nardin, W9LAN and W9SAN plus their grandson Alex, the team of Charles Ward, KC9MUT plus Fred Gengnagel, KC9EZP, and the team of Dave Spence, K9NDU plus Bob Dean, KC9UHU.

It should be noted that as competitive as foxhunters tend to be, a new piece of (old) technology was introduced into this hunt by KC9MUT. Charles mounted a two element vertically polarized switched dipole antenna on the front of his truck (out front of his grill), part of a so-called “Pickle Fork” DF system, and used it to get “right-left” signal direction steering cues. He told me that it gave him helpful information as he drove down the road when the fox was up.

(Jim Pliett and I are researching the fine print in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) to determine if that switched dipole DF system that Charles added to his foxhunting suite is legal. We’re hoping it isn’t, but if it turns out that it is, then it looks like we may have another building project. Seems like our work is never done. We are considering the use of UAV’s).

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2013 SKYWARN Recognition Day set

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For your planning purposes, the date for the 2013 SKYWARN Recognition Day has been finalized.

This years event well be held on December 7, 2013.

More information on the event will be coming as the date approaches.

Details about the 2012 SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) can be found online at: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/hamradio/

Now is the time to begin promoting and planning for SRD 2013 –

Let’s be heard and be seen in 2013!