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W0ZOK’s New Tower and Beam
Received an email from W0ZOK, our host for the NAQP. Gene has finished installing the second tower and beam for the contest. The first contact he made was UY2UA in the Ukraine.
A photo of the new installation is shown below.
Heart of Dixie ARS in the Heartland
Work continues on finalizing travel plans to North Dakota.
Club members will gather in Fargo on Thursday, July 14. Setup will begin on Friday morning and if necessary, finish up on Saturday morning. Check back here for any further updates.
Work has begun on the QSL card for the expedition, but won’t be finalized until after the contest is over. It looks very good. It is being printed by KB3IFH. Randy has printed several different cards for the club. Club member AA4YL, also used Randy for her personal cards. Great service and excellent quality.
HODARS members will be presenting a forum of the expedition at the 2011 Huntsville, AL hamfest. Drop by if you can.
North Dakota Update
Making final plans and lists for the RTTY Expedition to North Dakota for the NAQP. We will do our best to make some contacts outside the contest hours, including RTTY and SSB. We are setting up on Friday, so look for us on the bands then.
We will be operating during the practice session Friday evening. We will work as many stations as possible.
Our host, Gene, W0ZOK was on the cover of the February 2005 issue of CQ magazine.
Countdown Is Underway
The countdown to Heart of Dixie RTTY in North Dakota has begun.
Air travel plans made, check.
Hotel rooms booked, check.
Writelog programmed on laptop and contest set up, check.
RigExpert installed on laptop and working, check.
W0ZOK has promised us a cookout while we are there. He said he likes brats and beer. Sounds fine to me. We told him to save some 60 degree days for us. We don’t want any 90 degrees. We have that here at home.
We will arrive on Thursday, July 14, set up the station on the 15th and be ready to go on Saturday in the NAQP.
2011 Field Day
One of our club members has offered his home as a Field Day site. He has plenty of land and trees for antennas. We will be operating from two travel trailers.
We are operating in 2A category. One station is full time CW. The second station is part time SSB and RTTY.
Happy Flag Day!
HAPPY FLAG DAY!
It was on this day in 1777 that the original 13-star version of our flag was adopted.
Long May She Wave!
June Meeting
The June meeting of HODARS is Tuesday, June 14th. Location is the Health Resource Center on Pepperell Parkway, across from the East Alabama Medical Center. The meeting is in the first room on the right. The meeting begins at 7 PM CT. Meeting will cover Field Day preparation at the home of KI4KUT. We will also continue work on spud guns.
In honor of the 4th birthday of HODARS, we will be having cake at the meeting. HODARS is 4 years old this month.
The pre meeting supper will be held at Golden Corral, which is diagonal across from the meeting location. Supper begins at 6 PM CT.
Hope to see you there.
Happy 4th Birthday to HODARS!
2007-2011
