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The 3905 Century Club will host its Eyeball QSO at Lake Tiak O’ Khata in Louisiville, MS July 15-18, 2021

The MFJ-3905 Century Club will be hosting its Eyeball QSO at Lake Tiak O’ khata in Louisville, Mississippi July 15-18, 2021. They will also be visiting MFJ headquarters in Starkville, Mississippi to tour the factories.  Martin F. Jue, K5FLU, Founder and President of MFJ Enterprises, Inc. will be the keynote speaker on Saturday, July 17 for the meeting for hams all over the country.

The 3905 Century Club in an international amateur radio club founded in 1977. For over 40 years the club has operated the premier Worked All States, DX and awards nets on the amateur bands and has thousands of members across the globe.

If you want to earn your WAS award or other fun awards this is the place to do it. We run nets on 20m, 40, 80, and 160m in SSB, RTTY, PSK and CW modes. We also offer over 40 awards.

Thee will be a lot of ham radio activity in Mississippi over that weekend. The Magnolia ARC, Lowndes County ARC and W5YD (Mississippi State University) clubs will be active on-the-air during the event.

Copied via MFJ email on July 12, 2021

We have been granted the permission to republish The Sumter Co ARC’s newsletter. Enjoy, always some good stuff here.

Click this link for details – RFI Presentation

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

A good find from K5DDT:

Indeed it does. When searching for signals from Mars, anyway. This is an interesting article that I think we all can gain some interest from. From spaceweatherarchive.com: