General

A few quick things

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A few quick things, 1st congratulations to all who received the yearly awards for their volunteering in the club, and as Danny Said, some were long overdo, again congrats to all who won.

2nd, Right now, the repeater for 94 is offline till tomorrow 5/3, or maybe later. For some reason there is a carrier wave that is locking the repeater into loop mode. Basically the repeater is being kept live because of a open mike. So please check your HT’s to make sure it is not being locked in the on position.

3rd, Because of the Dayton Hamfest, the ARES meeting will be moved ahead 1 week. If anything changes, I will make sure it is posted on either site.

4th, If anyone is interested in learning CW, Please contact Mike WO8R, or Danny, and or Tom. let them know if you are interested in learning CW.

Thanks, Ray Buettner – N0MRB

HamSphere CW Sprint 2025

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HamSphere CW Sprint 2025

Begins: 6 Apr 2025 at 18:00 UTC Ends: 6 Apr 2025 at 22:00 UTC

Contest information

In this four hour sprint contest you work as many operators as you can using CW mode using 5 Watts maximum. You can enhance your final score by making band multipliers.

Mode: CW
Power limit: 5 Watts
Bands: HamSphere 10-160m
Rules: QSO with same station is counted once on each band. All contest contacts MUST be below 40kHz, for example: 7.040 and below or 14.240 and below. Power level set at 5 Watts max and will be checked for valid QSO. Please note that 5 minutes must have passed before you can contact the same op on a different band.
Points: 1 point per QSO
Exchange: RST + Serial
Multipliers: Band multipliers apply.
Score calculation: Total Points x Multipliers

Want to participate?

Fram2Ham SpaceX SSTV Event Starts March 31st

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Scheduled to launch on Monday March 31st, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry the Fram2 mission to space. Comprised of four astronauts, the mission is designed to take a polar orbit around Earth for a 3-5 day period. During that time, astronaut and amateur radio operator Rabea Rogge (LB9NJ/KD3AID) will be transmitting SSTV images from the Dragon spacecraft between 435 and 438 MHz. (A simulation conducted from the International Space Station in February occurred on 437.550 MHz utilizing mode PD-120.)

Fram2Ham is an experimental radio competition open to high school and university ages. Rogge will send pictures of three geographical locations via an onboard ham radio, but here’s the twist: they’ll be cut into pieces and mixed up! Participants will receive only fragments of the locations and need to guess where on Earth they are and what their role in polar history was.

Visit the Fram2Ham website for more information or join the Discord server.