At the club meeting on 11/7 we decided to go ahead with a Christmas party this year to be held again @ Mi Toro’s in Columbus on December 2 @ 1830 hours.
To participate in a rollicking game of Stingy Santa, you need to bring a small gift…suggested retail value of $10.00. If you don’t care to play, that is fine too.
We need to have an approximate head count, so please respond and let us know if you are attending and how many will be in your party!
Thanks and hope to see y’all on 12/2
Attached is the flyer describing the changes.
Fellow Hams in the coverage of the Lowndes County ARC’s 146.625 Repeater will notice an outage in service right now. Local 2 meter traffic, including our scheduled Tuesday night Net Call, will be conducted on our alternate Repeater at 147.000 (136.5 Tone).
Let your friends know, and we’ll talk to you all on 147.000!
Get your radios and field equipment ready, we’re having a Day in the Park on the 16th. The location is Old Waverly, where we’ve been to a few times before, at 0800 in the morning.
Hope to see everyone next Saturday in the park!
We have been granted the permission to republish The Sumter Co ARC’s newsletter. Enjoy, always some good stuff here.
This is a cool little application that I’ve recently found that scratches an itch that I’ve had for a while. I compiled this code on my Linux desktop, and it works great. I haven’t tried for the Raspberry Pi yet, but it should be just as easy.
You can find it here: https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock/
Saw this mentioned somewhere on the ‘net and thought this was interesting. Perhaps some of you may find it interesting as well.
Radio astronomy is always interesting! Here’s a really cool article from sciencenews.org.
Thanks to K5DDT for the contribution:
Hello to everyone. This is a reminder to those who know and a heads up to those who don’t know. There is a gathering planned for this Saturday, March 20th at the clubhouse at 9:00 am for an antenna build. There will be a 2 meter antenna and a 40 meter dipole constructed.. If you want to build a different antenna or one of these for yourself, that will be fine also. Please get in touch with Rick Swiney WB5TZN @ 662-322-7784 or send him an email to confirm attendance. Hope to see you there.
You can find Rick’s email address on QRZ.
Thanks to K5FY for the contribution:
This weekend is the ARRL DX International SSB contest. Starting 0000Z, 6 March to 2400Z 7 March. It will be a great time to work on DXCC during the contest or catch the occasional rare DX stations practicing prior to the contest.
Rules and details can be found here: http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx
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