It is the future – 1968. Another day at the old grind. Dr. Robert Morgan starts his day with coffee, a little breakfast, some early grayline ham radio contacts and, of course, killing off the rapidly expanding zombie population in the neighborhood.
Month: June 2016
Field Day Radio Sign Up
The Radio Sign up Sheet is up and active go check out this page for the details.
Tuning Up For Field Day 2016
June 19, 2016, White Rock Lake Park Dallas Texas – Club President Tony – NT5TM and Vice President Bill – KF5ZBL working on the portable HexBeam from foldingantennas.com fine tuning the elements – should be all set for 6M-20M work for Field Day 2016 all bands 2.0 SWR or better. Bill talked to NPOTA activators and then DX from Italy, Belgium and more.
AfterGlow Movie – June 25, 2016
The AfterGlow Net SiFi movie choice for next week Saturday June 25, 2016 will be the 1953 classic “Cat-Women Of The Moon”
Skynet Tonight! The Cincinnati Observatory & Tour of the Constellation Centaurus 9PM CT
SKYNET!!!! June 18, 2016 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Cincinnati Observatory” and “Tour of the Constellation Centaurus”
Net Control: Kelley K5KTX
Afterglow Movie at 10:30: “Mars Attacks!”
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
Hamfixin’ Potato Salad
I decided to take an evening and try an new recipe for Hamfixin’s to share with the group Monday, June 20th, at 7 PM on the 146.880 repeater. Try making it yourself, and let’s compare notes during the net.
New Potato Salad with Cucumber and Jalapeño
Medium Wave and Long Wave for Field Day!
I’d like to share this news from our favorite longwave experimenter, KB5NJD/WG2XIQ:
Several amateurs with Part 5 experimental licenses in addition to a few Part-15 operators will be transmitting Field Day greetings on medium wave and long wave throughout the ARRL’s Field Day, June 25 and 26. These station include but are not limited to:
| Callsign | State | kHz | Mode | ERP | Amateur Call sign | Comments |
| WG2XIQ | TX | 474.5 | CW | 5-7W | KB5NJD | |
| WH2XHA | PA | 476.6 | QRSS3 | 1W | K3DZ | |
| WG2XSV | WA | 475.5 | CW | 1W | W0YSE/7 | |
| WG2XKA | VT | 472.5 | CW | 1W | WA3ETD | |
| WM | IL | 185.301 | QRSS + CW | 6 mW | N8OOU | *see note below |
| VO1MRC | NL Canada | 477.7 | CW | 2W | VO1NA | |
| WH2XAR | AZ | 474.9 | CW | 500 mW | NR5O | Fri/Sat 0300-1200z |
| WE2XPQ | AK | 474 | CW | 3W | KL7L | |
| WD2XSH/26 | WA | 475.7 | WSPR (+CW) | TBD | W7WKR | Tx: hh02,hh12,hh22 |
Participants updates and status will be posted at http://njdtechnologies.net/field-day-2016-mflfvlf-messagebeacon-demonstration-opportunity/
Raspberry Pi Meeting this Saturday, June 18th
Our next RPi meeting is this coming Saturday.
All our presenters are volunteers and have real jobs Monday through Friday. These topics are tentative and may be subject to change due to scheduling conflicts. Some may be rescheduled for a later (or earlier) date.
NPOTA At The Whitehouse
The Whitehouse is a National Park – June 18, 2016 you will be able to “chase” the park since the HacDC Amateur Radio Club will be celebrating ARRL Kids day and the 100th Centennial of the National Park Service. (what NPOTA is all about).
HacDC Amateur Radio Club is celebrating Arrl Kids Day and the 100th centennial of the National Park Service. This event takes place June 18th, 2016. Look for us on 14270, 7270, 14042 and 7042 khz from 1800 to 2300 utc (2 -7 pm) January 18th, 2016. NPOTA activation #DZ10. Contact us at w3hac.hacdc@gmail.com if you want to be part of the fun! Bring you kids!
See this post from the W3HAC – HaDC Amateure Radio Club for more details.
Reminder AfterGlow
Get a jump on the next movie for AfterGlow for this Sat June 18, 2016 the movie this week is the 1996 comedy “Mars Attacks!” The AfterGlow is an on-air net dedicated to discussion of good and bad science fiction films. Each week we agree on a movie to watch, individually take notes and then, on Saturday night, comment about the film on the air. Will be using the 146.880 W5FC repeater for the discussion. Hope you can join us.
This movie is not in the public domain so you are on your own – but you could use your Amazon account and Amazon Smile to buy or rent Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks! is also over on iTunes and/or rent it on your AppleTV
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