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Willmar Area Emergency Amateur Radio Club Constitution, By-Laws and Membership Fees

Updated 9/10/2023

Following the nets on the 146.910 MHz and the 147.030 MHz repeaters, I will run a net on the 444.800 MHz 70 cm repeater. That repeater has a CTCSS (PL) tone of 146.2. Please check in if you are able to. Thanks. 73s WD0HXV

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Provided are two links, the first link will be to the ARRL article outlining the FCC's new ruling regarding amateur radio operators, and the second link is to the ARRL exposure calculator. The RF Exposure calculator makes easy work of determining the minimum safe distance from antennas that are in use. https://www.arrl.org/news/updated-radio-frequency-exposure-rules-become-effective-on-may-3 https://www.arrl.org/rf-exposure-calculator

Amateur radio licensing information with links to the FCC CORES/ULS, Hamstudy.org and ARRL have been added to the OPERATING tab on the W0SW club website.

On Saturday, June 3rd, from 10am to noon, I plan to activate Sibley State Park K-2522 for Parks On The Air. I will be operating QRP at or around 10 watts on either 40, 20 or 17 meters. Anyone interested is more than welcome to show up and join the activation. 73 W0AYE

ARRL Kids Day Saturday June 17: ARRL Kids Day is on Saturday, June 17, and will run from 1800 UTC through 2359 UTC. It's the perfect opportunity to introduce youngsters to the excitement of amateur radio. The exchange is the participant's name, age, location, and favorite color. Sponsored by the Boring, (Oregon) Amateur Radio Club, Kids Day is held every year on the first Saturday in January and the third Saturday in June. More information is available at www.arrl.org/kids-day.

The yearlong ARRL Volunteers On the Air event, recognizing the support and contributions of ARRL volunteers, continues. Get on the air and make contacts with as many ARRL volunteers or members as possible. There will be week-long activations of portable W1AW/# stations in all 50 states, and in several US Possessions/Territories. For a schedule of W1AW/# portable operations, see the W1AW Portable Activations Schedule. Be sure to upload your logs to LoTW and check your score online. Check out the full details at http://vota.arrl.org.

Hello members, In the next 30-60 days we will be enabling a 100hz ctcss tone on the 146.910 repeater in efforts to help cut out or reduce interference and noise. Programming the 100hz ctcss tone into your radios now will ensure uninterrupted use of the repeater when the change goes into effect. Having the tone pre programmed into your radio early will not effect use of the .91 before the change happens. If you would like help programming the tone into you radios, we will try to help at the next scheduled club meeting at 6:30pm on Tuesday, July 25th located at the Kandiyohi Rescue Squad Building. Address 213 Lakeland Drive SE. I will also set up a time to help any CERT members with radios that need programming at a future CERT meeting.

The next quarterly meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Tuesday July 25th. Quarterly meetings unless noted otherwise are held at the Kandiyohi Rescue Squad Building located at 213 Lakeland Drive NE, Willmar MN, 56201 There will assistance available for anyone that might need help programming the upcomimg 100hz tone for access to the 146.910- repeater

Hello Gang! I finally got everything submitted to the ARRL website tonight! Here is the confirmation email with the confirmation #25nd24yf. I want to thank Paul KC?HST for all those 54 PSK31 digital contacts! Don KC?QNA for jumping around the bands like myself. And to Dave KB?WJP, for his expertise in getting the digital logging to connect up to his laptop with internet access for us to check and verify callsigns. And everyone helping others setting up equipment. I know we had some bad weather, but we were in a good place… though I read in the field day packet… this might not be “In the spirt of FD.” But think any shelter is a good shelter. We used emergency generator power and not commercial power. Some hams even do field day from EOC which can be in a mobile home setup or in a building within the city. I had a hard time with setting up my big dipole due to the dew point and temps were a bad combination for me this year. But I persevered by resting and taking a few breaks. I would of liked to of been on the air more than I did. But I was very excited to work the South Cook Islands with a few other DX stations. I will try to get a QSL card for both me and the for the club callsign at some point. I will be logging that as our 1st contact in Logbook Of the World for the club! After doing field day again after a few years hiatus, It was both hard and still fun to do. Now with this experience of coordinating FD, I think I will be better prepared for next years FD event! Cause I will have reference material to fall back on. I hope we can get more people to volunteer to help us make a few more bonus points for next years event. The more we do it…. Hopefully the easier it gets! I would like to see us hams get more familiar with the NTS 2.0. (National Traffic System) For this being field day, sending messages should be apart of it too. And is something we should practice how to do. Myself… I’ve only forwarded one message some years ago. And to me, that is not enough. I ran across a YouTube zoom meeting video about it. I will post something about it to everyone at a later time. I know we did some traffic handling with help from Lee WB?TRA some years ago. I do not think it is that hard to do… but am willing to learn again as I hope most of you do to. So here’s our results from our attempt to get back in the swing of things in some time… I am proud that we were able to do field day this year and looking forward to next years! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ARRL <noreply@...> Date: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 8:36 PM Subject: ARRL FD 2023 Entry - W0CRC To: <kb0dco@...> Congratulations! You've successfully submitted your Field Day entry, as well as uploaded all required documentation. Your confirmation number is 25nd24yf. A summary of your submission is provided below for your review. If you have any questions about your log, please contact the Contest section at contests@.... If you need to update your entry, enter soapbox comments or upload photos of your Field Day activities, please use the appropriate link below. Links: Update entry/upload documents https://field-day.arrl.org/fdentry.php?call=w0crc&id=25nd24yf Soapbox comments/photos https://contests.arrl.org/contestsoapbox.php?call=w0crc&id=25nd24yf Summary: Entry received at: 2023-07-25 01:36:06 Call Used: W0CRC GOTA Station Call: (NONE) ARRL/RAC Section: MN Class: 3A Participants: 9 Club/Group Name: Crow River Amateur Radio Club Power Source(s): Generator Power Multiplier: 2X Preliminary Total Score: 1,242 Bonus Points: 100% emergency power 300 Media Publicity 100 - Documented by 2023 CRARC FD Press Release.pdf Public location 100 Formal messages handled (1 x 10, max of 100) 10 - Documented by 2023 FD NTS Message Received.png Site visit by invited served agency 100 Safety officer 100 - Documented by W0CRC FD Report 2023 (L).pdf Social media 100 Satellite QSO 100 Entry submitted via web 50 Total bonus points 960 Score Summary: (Cabrillo log/dupe sheet file: W0CRC.dup) CW Digital Phone Total Total QSOs 0 54 33 Total Points 0 108 33 141 Claimed Score = (QSO points x power

We are still looking for radio operators in the New London area for Saturday and Sunday. W0SV will be heading up communication efforts in the Brooten area using the 146.910- repeater. The 147.030- will be used in the Spicer/New London area for communications. For everyone else interested, please come to the New London Fire Hall at 9am to Volunteer. For more information, please email w0aye.mn@...

To help clean up efforts in the Brooten and New London areas, the W0SW and W0SV amateur radio clubs will be providing emergency communications on the W0SW 146.910- (primary) and 147.030- (secondary) repeaters starting on Saturday, July 29th at 9am. This will be a directed net for the volunteers assisting workers and relaying information back to net control and emergency command centers. Please refrain from using the repeaters during the daytime hours while traffic is being passed. The scope of the clean up project is currently unknown and may extend into early next week. If there are any club or non-club members interested in volunteering for communications operators please contact me at w0aye.mn@...

Hello members, On Saturday, August 12th from 6:30 am to 1pm, the Maple Grove Radio Club will be using the 146.910- repeater for communications through our area during the 2023 Antique Car Run. Please be aware that there will be directed traffic on the 91 repeater and to refrain from use untill after 1pm on Saturday.

On Saturday, Aug 5th from 9am to 1pm(?) I will be operating Parks On The Air at Sibley State Park by New London to coincide with the International 10-10 contest on the 10 meter band. I'd like to invite anyone interested in operating POTA, HF and/or with a technicians license to come out and join the activity. *I will be logging contacts as a POTA activation as I'm not a member of the 10-10 *Ten Ten International Summer QSO Party* The Ten Ten (10-10) International QSO Party is this weekend, beginning at 0000 UTC on Saturday, August 5, and concluding at 2359 UTC on Sunday, August 6. The 10-10 QSO parties are a great way for anyone interested in operating on 10 meters to get on the air. All amateurs with operating privileges on the 10-meter band may participate. For rules and other information about Ten Ten International, visit www.ten-ten.org ( https://www.ten-ten.org/ ).

Hello Willmar, Meeker Co. & Crow River Club Members, I am putting the word out for a new ham radio Satellite Facebook Group. My friend W8CPT, Don and myself have started to organizing this group together. I have invited some of you directly already. We also will be inviting other hams who we have been heard on the satellites via their emails posted on QRZ to get things rolling. This message is for the the rest of you for a place to discuss more about the ham radio satellite topic. And for those who would might like to possibly try working other hams stations through some of the FM satellites. Mainly the easiest satellite to use is the International Space Station. Here is the link for those of you that are on Facebook. We are looking forward in you in joining us there. https://m.facebook.com/groups/105323775840799/?ref=share I will also make the note here that…. All of you can do this right now with the equipment you already have! You can start with a simple 5/8th wave dual band mag mount antenna with a dual band vhf/uhf radio. The freqs are: 145.990 FM with a tone of 67.0 Hz for the uplink. And listen starting at 437.810 to 437.790 as it flys over you. Generally from the west towards the east. Looking forward in see all of you there! -- KB?DCO Thomas Gagnon Sent from my IPAD 4th Gen. Air Touch