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Wiregrass ARC Tailgate

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Beautiful Saturday morning and afternoon in South Alabama October 26 at the Wiregrass ARC tailgate at the city square in Headland.

Darrell, K9MUG; Bob, KA4PKB; and Cheryl, AA4YL travelled down for the event and then visited Jim, KC4HW at his home in Slocomb. Jim has a great station and antenna system.

Great to meet other Alabama Contest Group members Ed/KJ4LTA, Glen/K5WP, James/KE4GWW and Don/K1DC. . Great day overall.

Darrell, K9MUG; Cheryl, AA4YL and Bob, KA4PKB

Darrell, K9MUG; Cheryl, AA4YL and Bob, KA4PKB

 

Bob, KA4PKB won first prize!

 

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Wiregrass tailgate

 

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Beautiful fall day in Headland

 

2014 ARRL Centennial QSO Party

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In 2014 ARRL and its volunteers will activate W1AW/portable stations in each of the 50 states, territories and possessions. The goal is for the W1AW/ portable operations to be as active as possible during the Tuesday night local to Wednesday time frames 0000Z Weds to 2359Z Tuesday).  All bands and modes may be used. ARRL will offer Worked All States Awards for QSOs made with the W1AW/ portable operations and incentives to work each activation, even if the state has already been worked.

There will also be a points-gathering activity, during which W1AW/portable stations will be worth points. Each week there can be up to two W1AW/ portable operations from the states and one from a territory.

Alabama participation will be the week of the Alabama QSO party and again  the week of October 15.

More information coming soon.

 

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July Meeting

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Club member, Dick, K4IQJ has offered to do the program for July meeting. He found a new beverage antenna at this years Dayton hamfest and he will be presenting info on it.

BBQ supper in the meeting room before Dick’s presentation. $5.00 per person.

Date:   July 9th

Time: 6 pm to 8:30 pm

Place:  Dogwood Room, Health Resource Center across from EAMC.

Hope to see you there!

 

Field Day 2013

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Field Day 2013 was held at the QTH of club member Bob, KA4PKB.

Our class was 2E and we ran a CW station and a SSB station. We were going to run RTTY and CW, but we needed the Rigexpert on the CW station.

It was great fun and we had numerous members on site.

Mike, KI4TWB

John, KI4KUT

Stew, K4JOP

Gene, KI4EEY

Darrell, K9MUG

Dick, K4IQJ

Cheryl, AA4YL

Bob, KA4PKB

Next contest is the German DL-DX RTTY contest on the July 4th weekend. It is usually a great contest.

W4HOD 147.30 Repeater

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The 147.30 repeater has returned to the airwaves. Tone 123, the repeater is located on the water tower in Loachapoka, AL.

There is still some antenna work to do, but the repeater is operational now.

Many thanks to club members Frank, N4TKT and Ted, W4DUF for all of the hard work and contributions to this effort. We could not have done it without you.

 

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March Meeting

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Great turnout Tuesday evening for the presentation on Software Designed Radio by Dick, K4IQJ. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Mexican buffet and Dick did his usual outstanding job with the program.

We had some new visitors and an old member drop by. Good to see Larry, K4LRW back with us. Former member Mike, KF4OPX would have been there, but he is under the weather.

New members Terry, KA4Y and Frank, N4TKT were there. Also newcomers Mike, K4AIU and a friend of Ted, W4DUF was there also. Richard, AI4RY, who has a lot of experience with Whisper Radio (WSPR) was there too.

We had three students from Auburn University join us. I hope to see them often. Our club voted to offer membership to Auburn students at no charge.

I am working on a program for May meeting. Will update as it happens.

Possibility of two meetings in May. We need to discuss the Alabama QSO Party and Field Day operations.

 

HODARS By Laws and Constitution

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AA4YL is in process of edting the current club by laws and constitution. They are leftover from the previous incarnation of the club and very out of date.

SIMPLIFY!  KA4PKB is assisting me with proofreading and suggestions. Will present to the club members for their suggetions and approval when complete. I have been wanting to do this for a long time. Glad it is finally happening.

Birmingham Hamfest

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Great time at the BirmingHAMFEST this past weekend.  Great fellowship and conversation. Lunch afterward at the Golden Rule BBQ in Irondale.

HODARS members; Bob, KA4PKB; Don, KA4NDY and Cheryl, AA4YL were there. Also John, KI4KUT, Richard, WB4BYQ; Henry, K4HAL; Jerry, N4JF;

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Richard, WB4BYQ; Cheryl, AA4YL and Bob, KA4PKB

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Golden Rule BBQ after hamfest

Don, KA4NDY; Bob, KA4PKB; Henry’s wife; Henry, K4HAL; Cheryl, AA4YL

Henry’s sister is there, but not in view.

REMINDER: ARRL VE Test Session In February

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Heart of Dixie ARS – W4HOD is planning an ARRL VE test session on February 12th, 2013.

Location is the Dogwood Room at the Health Resource Center, located at 2027 Pepperell Parkway, across from EAMC in Opelika.

Session begins at 6 PM.

All three test levels will be offered.

Test Fee is $15.00, check or cash. (checks preferred)

We look forward to seeing you on February 12th. Please pass the word to anyone you know who might want to test.

For more info, please contact Cheryl, AA4YL at ch******@***il.com or 334-703-9781

January Meeting

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Excellent turnout for the meeting tonight. Three new members: Ted, W4DUF; Dale, WA4CQG and Terry, KA4Y.

Cheryl, AA4YL presented the program on classic videos on amateur radio through the years.

Supper before the meeting was at the Mandarin House in Opelika.

On a side note, one of our new members gave us the best compliment ever. He said we were nothing like other clubs in the area. We were fun. I could not agree more. We don’t tie up meeting time with minutes, boring business topics, etc. We have a program and then spend the remainder time in good conversation, discussing ideas.

 

2013 RTTY RU

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The RU went very well. Darrell, K9MUG; Gene, KI4EEY; Bob, KA4PKB and Cheryl, AA4YL participated, using the club call W4HOD.

Was great to have Gene at the keyboard. He operated about two hours.

 

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