For planning our upcoming Indiana QSO Party activity, which will be run this coming Saturday, May 4th, at Dolnick Learing Center on the IPFW campus, noon to midnight, please join me tomorrow night for an on-the-air meeting.
We will be meeting at 7:00 pm on the 146.76 repeater in Fort Wayne. If you would like to join in on the operating for this event, but cannot make it to the meeting, please e-mail me at W9SAN@ARRL.NET and let me know if you plan to attend and what equipment you can bring along to help out.
Last year, we won two thorphies from the Hoosier DX club for best club in Indiana and highest Multi-Multi operation. Hopefully, we can do as well this year!
The Foxhunt Chronicles
The third foxhunt of the 2013 FWRC’s foxhunt season occurred on Sunday, the 7th of April on a beautiful warmish spring day. Just a perfect opportunity to be outside after a long winter.
April’s contingent of hunters included the team of Jim & Annie Pliett, K9OMA & KA9YYI plus Carole & Al Burke, WB9’s RUS & SSE; the team of Charles Ward, KC9MUT, accompanied by a blast-from-the-past, Phil Hooper, AB9IZ; the team of Linda & Steve Nardin, W9’s LAN & SAN plus their grandson Alex; and the team of Bob Dean, KC9UHU & Dave Spence, K9NDU. So there was a total of eleven hunters’ intent upon getting after their ever elusive prey (as long as it wasn’t in New Haven, although it turned out that it was).
Serving the role of the prey for this contest were Kim & Jim Machamer, KB9’s DOS & DOT. They hole-up at a single diamond baseball complex in Klotz Park, hidden in the Southwick Village neighborhood of New Haven, and a part of the New Haven Parks and Recreation System. This location was not on any of the maps, paper or electronic, possessed by the hunters, and I think a band of Navajo Trail Trackers would have had the same amount of trouble we did ferreting out their location. Why, it was almost like Jim and Kim planned it that way,…….hmmmm.
According to the ARRL Website, the winner of the March QST Cover Plaque Award is Fort Wayne resident Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA for his article “The Sun and the Ionosphere.” The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the best article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page.
Photos of vintage radios displayed at the March, 2013 FWRC general meeting are available in our online photo gallery, thanks to WB9SSE.
IMO SKYWARN will operate quadrant nets on 146.88 MHz today in conjunction with the statewide tornado drill (ca. 10 a.m. and ca. 7:30 p.m.). I understand that many Allen County ARES members will be busy with a siren test net on 146.94 MHz but I encourage anyone who is not tied up with that net to check into the SKYWARN net.
We went to the Toledo Hamfest on Sunday March 17, 2013, held at the Owens Community College in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Before we left I took this picture of 20+ me attending, mostly from Fort Wayne, Ind.
Link to Hamfest: www.tmrahamradio.org.
Seemed like a good hamfest this year, more vintage this year and lot of Hams attending.
The May 2013 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 on “Newsletters.”
The February/March 2013 issue of “Internet Genealogy” magazine included an article, “Can You Acknowledge Receipt?” by Fort Wayne author Carol Richey about QSL cards. The story quotes FWRC President Steve Nardin, W9SAN. Use the link below to download a copy as a PDF file.
The April 2013 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.”