Great to see Dick, K4IQJ; John, WB4LNM; Tom, KE4KW; Reta; Darrell, K9MUG; Bob, KD4PK; Richard, AI4RU; Bob, KA4PKB; Gene, KI4EEY; John, KI4KUT and guest, Scott, KC4Z.
Good meal at Outback prior to meeting, with a fascinating program later with Dick, K4IQJ at the Health Resource Center building.
We briefly discussed the W1AW/4 operation and future club meeting programs.
Dick, K4IQJ is presenting the program this month. He will be discussing the improvements to his beverage antennas at KA4PKB’s QTH in Loachapoka. Also improvements to the club antenna system over the last few months.
The current beverage length is 500 feet and mounted above ground. Dick plans on installing a beverage on ground in the future. It will be 1000 feet.
With 3 elements on 40 meters with our beam, we are putting out a powerful signal now and the results show in our contest operations. Dick has connected our tower to 80 meters also.
Due to schedule conflict with Dick, K4IQJ, our meeting is on February 18th.
Location: Dogwood Room at Health Resource Center on Pepperell Parkway, across from EAMC.
Time: 7 pm…supper at 6 pm at Outback, which is about 2 blocks from HRC.
Program: K4IQJ on antenna projects in Loachapoka.
The Alabama Contest Group has asked HODARS to use the W1AW/4 callsign during the Alabama QSO Party this year. This is indeed a great honor for our club and we are looking forward to the event.
We will be operating CW, SSB and RTTY and in process of lining up members to operate.
More updates as they become available.
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
Bob, KA4PKB won first prize!
Wiregrass tailgate
Beautiful fall day in Headland
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.
Richard C. Jaeger, K4IQJ
As promised, Dick, K4IQJ presented a great program on “Advanced Beverage Antenna Designs”. Dick covered the origin of the Beverage antenna and the design and operation of various models.
A PDF of his program can be printed from the link below.
http://w4hod.org/K4IQJ Beverage Talk.pdf
Dick has presented several programs on antennas at Dayton and Huntsville. You can read about them and print them at Dick’s web page.
http://www.k4iqj.com/2101.html
A VERY HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO ALL!
LET US NOT FORGET THE REAL MEANING OF THIS DAY.
2013 DL-DX RTTY contest is July 4 weekend. 6 am local time Saturday morning to 6 am Sunday morning.
http://drcg.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=36&lang=en
Glad to have another contest coming up. It has been a few weeks and we are READY!
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!
6 years and counting! It has been a fun ride…looking forward to many more years.
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.
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.
