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Hello Hams Please come and help with our Work Day Saturday October 19th starting at 11am. Yes the needed truck has been taken care of and also needed supplies have been purchased. Hope to see you there. Thank You Pat, KE0TGA Vice President, VFW Post 3115 Amateur Radio Club

ANNOUNCEMENT Winlink Development Team All-- The Winlink Development Team is requesting that all non-essential Winlink traffic (weekly nets, testing, etc.) be postponed until after hurricane Milton has moved on and response efforts have turned to recovery. There is still a lot of traffic in the aftermath of Helene, and we expect Milton will add significantly to that. We need to keep the gateways clear for that traffic. Thank you! -Scott, NS7C Please pass this information on to operators on your teams so we can maximize the entire winlink system for those in need. We rarely send out additional emails to this list, but figured this one was worth pushing out to everyone. Thanks for your understanding. We will update you later in the week about this Sunday's show. 73! Chris Mattia de W6AH Relayed Via Chuck KB0TOT

ARRL membership is NOT a requirement. Elderly hams have been singled out as socially isolated..who knew??? 58 years as a licensed ham, social problems abound with in the group... loaners, nerds, wacko's, just attend a hamfest and look around.. Sarcastically, Larry W8LM ARRL Life Member- Licensed 58 years. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: ARRL <membership@...>To: "larmac17@..." <larmac17@...>Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 02:53:06 PM CDTSubject: Are You Next? Hundreds of ARRL Members Have Joined Grouper! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dear ARRL Member, Did you know that since the ARRL partnered with Grouper just a few weeks ago, over 315 of our members have already joined Grouper and will soon be receiving checks to help offset the costs of their ARRL membership and ham radio activities?! In case you missed our previous communication, Grouper provides benefits to ARRL members aged 65+ with eligible Medicare Advantage or Medicare Supplement plans for staying active in group activities. Maintaining social connections through group activities - like ARRL Affiliated Club meetings, hamfests, or helping other members put up an antenna - has proven health benefits, and these connections are especially important for older adults, who have above-average risks of social isolation. Here is what Grouper offers eligible ARRL members: - Easy sign-up with two simple questions and no personal information needed - $50 initial payment just for having an eligible plan - $20 every three months for reporting your in-person activities Redeem your benefit here. | | | | | | | | Joining groups like ARRL improves mental, physical, and social health. Through Grouper, your health plan encourages you to benefit from those social connections by staying connected in your community. You can use your Grouper benefits to help cover the cost of any group activities that keep you socially connected and healthy. Participating in events and contests, engaging in public service training, building equipment, mentoring or being an instructor, or just having lunch with friends - any ARRL group activities that form friendships and connections qualify you for Grouper. If you’re 65+, you probably have these benefits available through your current health plan. And don’t worry—Grouper isn’t a health insurance company and will never try to sell you anything. To see if you qualify for Grouper's benefits, simply visit the Grouper website and sign up. | | | | | | Grouper does not have access to ARRL member information (name, call sign, email), unless you provide it to them to take advantage of the paid benefit. And Grouper does not share your information except to service your benefit. Have Questions? Need help signing up or have other questions? Call us at (833) 445-2400 or email info@.... ARRL members with additional questions about the benefit can visit the FAQ from Grouper orcontact ARRL Member Services. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | About this Email: You are receiving this email because you are a member of the ARRL?. To manage the notifications you receive from us, please visit www.arrl.org/opt-in-out. You must be logged in to the ARRL website to edit your email subscriptions. Copyright ? 2024 American Radio Relay League, Incorporated. Use and distribution of this publication, or any portion thereof, is permitted for non-commercial or educational purposes, with attribution. All other purposes require written permission. | | | | | | |

A BIG NEW SUN-GRAZING COMET Astronomers are monitoring a new sun-grazing comet discovered just a few days ago by the ATLAS survey. It appears to be unusually big, and could become a significant naked-eye object by the end of October. Experts say if it survives its close encounter with the sun -- a big IF - -it could rival Comet Lovejoy in 2011 Updates @ Spaceweather.com.

i build kits-homebrew, integrate items into Ham Radio..I've built the BITX 40 kit out of India, the uSDX 8 band all mode QRP transceiver by DL2MAN, and numerous kits over the years.. even when I lived in New Hampshire. This kit looks real interesting. It is a semi kit, not all parts supplied.. i think the touch screen you buy on your own because it the big ticket item and the company gives no discount till you order 1000 and a ham that's knitting kits in has basement isn't going to front 1000 displays to save 5%.. So I'm looking for a winter project.. and this looks interesting... https://github.com/WB2CBA/DX-FT8-FT8-MULTIBAND-TABLET-TRANSCEIVER If others show interest we can coordinate a build.. Larry W8LM

Greetings: Our September meeting is next week on the 24th at the post. We will be approving or disapproving the change to our by laws that will let us change the day of the week we meet at the post. This change I think will help us keep more of our members and hopefully add more members, I ask you all plan to attend and help us pass this change and hopefully get more members. Tracie Walsh President 2024

Greetings Ham Family Our Saturday September 21st work day has been canceled. We will reschedule for a date in October. Please do not show up Saturday for the work day. Details will be released at the September club meeting about a rescheduling of the work day. Thank You Pat, KE0TGA

I wanted to let you all know that Grove Oklahoma has a growing large numbers of licensed ham operators that actively runs a post radio club. You can look them up on QRZ and easly find most of the club. Your not that far apart. I also made some 6M/FM simplex contacts during the middle of the week, mostly 80mile away all Q5. Something to consider testing out. I know this isn't radio news but it is post information to talk about. I have run across this activity between members and quest of members taking place inside the post. I don't know if anything taking place between post and government but LEO does have a way of sharing information..... BILO..... https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/local/missouri/2024/09/13/missouri-vfw-raided-inspectors-crack-down-hemp-products/75205082007/ ? 73's Chuck KB0TOT Lenexa KS Post Member

https://search.app/8oiCW6WPbV8ay7VX8 Yes Route 66 time has come again. Above I have posted where you can get the contest info. It all begins on September 7th so on your marks, get set, make contacts! Have fun. 73 Pat, KE0TGA

Greetings Ham Family On Tuesday August 27th we will hold our August club meeting. Just wanted to remind you so we can see you at the meeting. Also a couple of reminders. First a few folks who perhaps want to be members have yet to pay their annual dues. As we don't want to leave anyone out please be sure to take care of this if you still need to pay. See treasurer Jennifer about this. September 21st is on the schedule as a work day, a day to fix radio room and antenna stuff at the post. Please mark your calendars so you don't forget. Enjoy your weekend. Pat, KE0TGA Vice President, VFW Post 3115 Amateur Radio Club

Worked all day. Relaxed about 3pm because of the heat. Made a salad for dinner. then about 6pm decided to go to the barn and finish adding the bracket to my rohn 25 repeater tower to the top of the barn just under the roof line. I had to move the bracket 1-1/2 inch and re bolt it to the reinforcement inside the barn. I had ladders both outside and inside. so th ebracket is now centered 12-15 feet in the air with the tower. THe tower will fold down and I have assemble another 30 feet on top of the 20, then a Comet GP 9 for the 442.00-447.00 fusion repeater I have.. I will also b eputting up a GMRS under that and a high powered ALLSTAR 2 meter node.. through a diplexer for the GP 9. Anyhow I came in and got ice water and realized it was 7:15 and I was 25 miles from the meeting a 3115.. So I was thinking HamRadio but not W0VFW meeting night.. Maybe next time... I've probably been to more meetings than anyone else --been a member since 2007... Regards, Larry W8LM .

Hello Ham Family Our July club meeting will be held on Tuesday July 23rd at 7pm at the post. Weather permitting we will meet on the patio for the benefit of those who don't do well with the smoke. A few reminders I share with you. 1. Membership dues are payable this month. Regular membership is $20. An Associate Membership, for those who don't want to be able to vote or who cannot attend the monthly meetings, is $10. Please see treasurer Jennifer to take care of this. 2. August is when the Kansas QSO Party is held annually. Thank you for being a part of our ham community. 73 Patricia Hawkins, KE0TGA Vice President VFW Post 3115 Amateur Radio Club

Hello Board Members Due to several board members not being available to attend the board will not meet before the July general meeting. Just wanted to let you all know. 73 Pat

Attention W0VFW Members Our VHF repeater has been taken off the Blind Hams node due to conduct unbecoming a ham who uses our repeater. This was brought to my attention by leadership from Blind Hams and via W8LM and I have confirmed some information by speaking with others. KC0VYJ has been addressed by others about proper on air conduct and now we are forced to take action. The complaint involves being on air while drunk, making racist remarks, and using language not appropriate for this group. As your Repeater Trustee it falls to me to enforce repeater rules and so the VHF repeater has been taken down from the Blind Hams node while we deal with this matter. While the club cannot prevent all bad conduct we can dictate what we permit on our repeater. Because of our affiliation with VFW Post 3115 we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racism and disrespect of our members and friends. If you have any questions please contact me and I will answer promptly. The repeater may be brought back up for nets or when W8LM or KE0TGA can monitor conduct. Otherwise it will be down until I am convinced the problem is resolved. 73 KE0TGA Repeater Trustee, VFW-ARC

Greetings Ham Family Please join us on Tuesday June 25th for our monthly membership meeting. Gaylen will be our guest speaker and he will speak about how radio use to be. He will also bring examples so come on out and enjoy the fun. Also because of the heat we will likely meet inside rather than on the patio unless something changes. Dues must be paid for the new year. Yes the post views the year as from July to July, thus dues come due in July. Jennifer, our current treasurer, will accept dues at our June meeting in order to keep folks current. If you cannot do that you can also pay at the July meeting. Note that Patricia will also be updating the membership information. So when you pay your dues check with Pat to make sure she has all your current information. See you soon. 73 Pat Hawkins, KE0TGA Vice President VFW Post 3115 Amateur Radio Club

As per usual, everything planned did not come into being.. Grand prize was NOT a Tesla.... Police were not called because of the parking problem Not a single potential ham passed the written exam.. No one was shot.. I did notice red or green laser dots on my chest from time to time. However we did have good weather, and some interesting conversations. Everyone left before the 1pm strip show started... Next time we need to have Russel bring his guitar Patricia and Hazel sing more Christian songs.. That we did need. The 50/50 brought $74 and payout was $37... i believe based on that we had about 14-16 people buy tickets. i suspect from a car count of 25 cars in the lot, there were about 50 total people.. I had hoped for 100... But the last State convention I attended in Salina they had 40 people.. 2 years ago.. I did not buy any tickets.. I supplied the Penny's and eggs. And the hot dog buns... I bought more than we sold. my actual costs to the club is as follows. 3 Dozen eggs $1.72 * 3 = $5.16 4 packages hot dog buns... $1.46 * 4.= $5.843 eight packs of hot dogs.. $1.29 * 3.= $3.87 TOTAL = $14.78 I bought the canopy, made signs, brought 2 rolls of paper towels, mustard, catsup, personal hand held radios.. table and folding chair..and a sales lady to hawk raffle tickets. I believed others spent more money that I did, I did spend more but the extra's I'm keeping for my own personal use and Therefore I am donating all my real expense... $14.78 to the club.. Mark at Radio shack donated that Clock... it had a $20 price tag on it.. Our big loss-expense was that porta-potty... You know for $125 we could buy 2-3 tarps, some PVC tubing for a frame and a couple of 5 gallon buckets... put it at the base of the tower... doesn't even need a roof, just let it exhaust up into the tower.. and get it to disappear at 1pm. Lesson learned... Hopefully next year, I think we'll do better... I am suggesting we post on Facebook:520 CrewKansas Ham RadioKansas Preppers Some sort of "official" thank you to all that attended, good food, beautiful day, lots of treasures for sale, Thanks to Mark and Shawn at B&H sales -the old Derby Radio Shack... Let it be known to those that didn't attend that it was a "success" and we'll be seeing more people next year... Larry W8LM

Robert and I will be at the Post at 5:30 AM Saturday morning so the patio will be opened. I have the large coffee pot from the Post and will get coffee tonight or tomorrow. I have a commitment to play parking attendant at the Wichita Open Saturday and need to be there at 1045. Gaylen W. Klein, USN (Ret)

Just in case someone is not receiving this information. Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* "Terrence Laurendine (K5TBO)" <k5tbo@...> > *Date:* May 30, 2024 at 11:53:38 PM CDT > *To:* greaterwichitafieldday@... > *Subject:* *[GWFD] Field Day 2024 Meeting - June 1st* > > > > > ? > > > Updates for everyone that couldn't make the last couple of meetings. > > > - We have the Fire Training center near Boeing/Spirit reserved for the > event this year. We are trying to schedule a walk through soon just so we > can verify in advance which room will be available to us in the building. > > > - Our encroachment request to the City parks department has been approved > so we may use the extended area north of the building up to the ball > fields. > > > - Callsign for the event we have reserved is W0W. > > > - Our initial plan is to run either 3A or 4A plus the GOTA station. > > > - Food plans have been finaled for Saturday evening dinner and Sunday > morning breakfast. > > > > > > We will be meeting again this Saturday June 1st at Spangles at the normal > 1pm time. > > > > -- > Terrence Laurendine - K5TBO > WARC Vice President > k5tbo@... > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Greater Wichita Field Day" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to greaterwichitafieldday+unsubscribe@.... > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greaterwichitafieldday/CAFGx%3DPcYPTiQdamahMtP-CEQBXEC%3D2bf3Pxz8_S77Z%3Df7yNRdg%40mail.gmail.com > ( > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greaterwichitafieldday/CAFGx%3DPcYPTiQdamahMtP-CEQBXEC%3D2bf3Pxz8_S77Z%3Df7yNRdg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > ). > > -- Michael Moore KF0BFU Sergeant of Arms

Hello VFW Ham Family Yes it is time again for our monthly club meeting. Tuesday night at 7pm we meet at the Post. We hope to meet on the patio this time weather permitting. That should keep us out of the smoke. We do have some events to discuss, so please come and take part. It came to my attention that many of you would like the meeting to be more about amateur radio and less about business. I am working on this. In June, for example, Gaylen plans to talk about crystal radios. As you may know Gaylen enjoys older radios and will in June share his vast knowledge. That gives you an idea for our future plans, but first we must have our May meeting. Would love to see you on Tuesday night. Dates To Remember June 15: Sidewalk Sale June 16: Father's Day June 27: June Monthly Meeting Also weekly net is held at 7pm each Thursday. See you Tuesday night friends. 73 Pat Hawkins, KE0TGA Vice President, VFW-ARC