W4HOD will have a special guest at the October meeting. Dick Jaeger, K4IQJ will present our program, the subject being 160 meter DX operation. The meeting will be held on October 13 at Golden Corral located on Pepperell Parkway in Opelika. We will gather at 6:00 PM for supper and the program will commence immediately […]

The W4HOD VE team held a special testing session for the Auburn University High Altitude Balloon club on the AU campus. The session was a great success with 11 of 13 applicants passing their test. There were 10 Technicians and 1 General who passed. Congrats to all of them. Considering the study load they have […]

W4HOD received our Certificate of Affiliation from the ARRL last week. This is a very important document to us, as it shows how far this club has come in 2 years. We have pulled together as a team and achieved all we set out to do. The future does look bright! Several members stand out […]

KA4PKB, KA4NDY and I had breakfast as Hardees on Wire Road in Auburn this morning. We had a good breakfast and then discussed the world’s problems and solved a good many of them. Afterwards we went to the clubhouse and started working on the 80 meter dipole that KI4KUT loaned us for the Alabma QSO […]

The April meeting is on the 14th. The meal begins around 6:15 PM and the meeting begins at 7:00 PM. The menu this month begins the grilling season for 2009. We will have burgers, dogs, and the fixins. Tea, soft drinks, and dessert too. Join us if you can. Meal is $5.00 per person. Please […]

Trees are down and light to moderate damage to some buildings from the storms that passed through Lee County on Friday evening. The clubhouse survived nicely, which is good.  The covered bandstand/shelter was destroyed though. Some of the club members will be helping clean up today.

W4HOD had a special guest at our March meeting. After dining on spaghetti, manicotti, lasagna, salad and dessert, we were treated to an antenna program by Darrell Penrod, K9MUG. Darrell presented several different wire antennas that will perform well and are easy to build. Darrell Penrod, K9MUG Thanks to Gene Harlin, KI4EEY for the photo

Jim Reisert-AD1C I discovered a very good web site created by AD1C. of Colorado. The main page URL is http://ad1c.us/ . It is a combination personal page, ham radio page, and a great page on RTTY. He has written some very good, useful software programs and there is a link to them as well. One […]

Thanks to a benevolent club member, W4HOD is the proud recipient of two WAS certificates. Both certificates were done 100% LOTW. Mixed number 53,519 Date 09 March 2009 Digital (RTTY) number 734 Date 09 March 2009

I operated the BARTG RTTY Contest this past weekend. I used the club callsign W4HOD. Usually I have the pleasure of  the company of  members KF4OPX and KA4PKB, but they were not able to make this one. I had fun and made a few points. Call: W4HOD Operator(s): AA4YL Station: W4HOD Class: SOAB LP QTH: […]

Some of the following text is my words, but most are the words of Brian Flindt, a fourth generation native of Manchester, South Dakota. I didn’t think I could do any better than him. Manchester was a small unincorporated community located on US Highway 14, in Kingsbury County, in the east-central part of the state […]

W4HOD will operate the club station in the CQ RTTY contest this weekend. KA4PKB, KF4OPX and AA4YL will be operating. Our goal is to be on the air most of the weekend and work as many stations as possible. As usual, our operation will be part of the Alabama Contest Group. style=”font-size:12pt;”> UPDATE 2/16/2009 The […]

KI4KUT, KF4OPX, KA4PKB and AA4YL are operating the XE RTTY contest this weekend. So far we have had a lot of fun and I am headed back to the clubhouse to join KA4PKB in an hour to finish up the contest. A super thank you to member John, KI4KUT for the use of the 80 […]