On Saturday, November 18th at 3pm CT the ARRL Sweepstakes Phone contest kicked off.
11/9 Monthly Meeting D-STAR Presentation
At the 11/9 monthly meeting, Keith Brandt (WD9GET) made a presentation on D-STAR.
Annual Banquet/50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
In lieu of our monthly meeting, we will have our Annual Banquet and 50th Year Celebration dinner on Thursday, December 14th, at 6:30pm.
Introduction into Contesting – November 18th
If you’d like to try out contesting, on November 18th, the ARRL Sweepstakes kicks off the SSB segment (CW just concluded last weekend). Never contested? No problem. For this event, you can’t operate for more than 24 hours for the duration of the event and can only have one transmitter on the air. It’s a perfect time … Read more…
Shack Static Bulletin – November
Here’s an outlook of activities coming up at the shack:
Happy Ham Halloween
Sorry, I couldn’t resist…
Weekly CW Practice
Every Tuesday and Thursday there will be CW practice transmissions on our 2m repeater. 12:00-12:15 CT will be sent at 5 WPM and 12:15-12:30 CT will be sent at ~15-18 WPM. The 5 WPM will be sent using the Farnsworth method which sends the characters at ~18 WPM but uses longer than usual spaces. This method is designed to force … Read more…
2017 Jamboree-on-the-Air at W5RRR
On October 22nd, scouts visited the W5RRR shack to participate in Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA) – the largest Scouting event in the world!
By my count, 18 scouts visited the station and each scout made multiple contacts with other scouts!
Traffic Handling Training
On Tuesday, October 17th, a mini-training session was held on the repeater by David Fanelli (KB5PGY) on handling and passing traffic.
If you’d like to learn more or practice passing traffic, here are a few links from David and Fred Shetz (AD5FS).
STS-35 QSL Card Returns to JSCARC!
Recently we received one of our QSL cards back that was sent out for a QSO made during the STS-35 mission.