Special shout out to Christi, KG5NQP. Christi is a new ham and graciously accepted a quick turnaround need to serve as Net Control for the JSCARC weekly 2m FM Tuesday net. With no experience, nor practice, she bravely accepted the challenge. With a standard script in-hand, she did an awesome job from the W5RRR VHF station.
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2/8 Monthly Meeting Information
Brown Bag Lunch Meeting: 12:00pm–1:00pm CT in Building 30, Room 3090.
Evening Meeting: 6:30pm–8:30pm CT at the Gilruth Center Inspiration Room.
Observations from a 1st time VHF contester
What I learned for my 1st exposure to the VHF weekend conte
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- VHF/UHF/Microwavers are serious hams.
– They communicate and take these operations very seriously
– They operate strange expensive radios and antennas from their cars
– They pre-arrange operating times and coordinate with others
– They operate big signals and hunt out the little guys
- The W5RRR satellite antennas are not fun equipment for this type of contest
Winter Field Day
This weekend from Saturday at 1pm to Sunday at 1pm will be Winter Field Day at the W5RRR shack.
Brrr…Winter Field Day @ W5RRR Jan 27/28 anyone?
Yep, this is last minute, but one of our NOTA sister stations announced their intent to participate in this less popular operating event. So in the interests of partnership, competition, NOTA presence, and plain good ol’ fun, a modest setup will be made in support of this event. We’re not going for any big scores nor 24 hour ops, but just to kick the tires and make a few QSOs. Note: we will NOT operate using any W5RRR shack equipment and we’ll be operating outside of the shack.
John’s CW Decoder Kit – Taking Orders Soon!
As reported in recent 2m Tuesday net traffic, John AB5SS is nearly complete with a nano arduino based CW Decoder project board kit. Many thanks to John for his countless hours in development along with assistance from Stu W4STU, and Mike, N8MTV. John brought the finished kit and demonstrated it at the last club meeting. This is an excellent project for hams who are just learning how to send and copy morse code, or for those who hate CW but want to decode the messages thru this device. Standby for how the club prefers to handle order requests.
January Monthly Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
Starting in January, there will be two options to attend the monthly meeting again.
12/26 2 Meter Net 50th Year Celebration / NOTA
On December 26th at 7:00pm CT, JSCARC will continue to celebrate its 50th anniversary in conjuction with our weekly informational net on the W5RRR repeater (146.64r/.04t – no tone).
2017 Field Day Rewind de EC1AME
Can’t wait for Field Day 2018? Well, I’ll admit I can’t either!
2m Net Control Operators Needed
We are looking to establish a net control schedule for 2018.
If you’re interested in being net control for a month, please contact Keith Grimm (KG5HOK).