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We had six folks join the MI QRP Zoom Chat on 17 April. Please join us Thursday April 24 (and every Thursday) at 4PM Eastern for the Michigan QRP Club weekly QRP Chat where the main topics will be QRP and other ham interests. New hams are encouraged to participate and ask questions. It's fun, it's easy, and it's free. You only need a computer, a smart phone, or a tablet that can connect to the Internet. OR if you can't be close to any of those you can join by audio with any standard phone. Just follow the directions below. No software needs to be loaded or installed. Anyone can join and non members are welcome. Details are here: https://www.miqrp.net/zoom Zoom ID: 811 0835 6229 The topic for Thursday, 24 April will be an OPEN FORUM. Pete WK8S Ed AB8DF Ernie N3ETE Tony W8CDC Stan WB8QJZ Casey KC9IH The bands have been crummy lately. TAXES! Pete is getting an old National five tube receiver. The weather is improving and we are all getting antsy to do some POTA. Stan is still playing with SSTV and the ISS. He had a good pass yesterday but got sidetracked with a ham radio zoom meeting. Another satellite starts in a couple of days so he may try it. He is also working on the DMR Net Michigan One Net https://www.michiganonedmr.net. This sounds very interesting and several of us will be checking it out. Tony is still trying to fix his TenTec. Ed got some color burst crystals to bring to Hamvention and the Michigan Mighty Mite Revival at club night. He also got some non inductive 250 watt resistors. He will build a high power dummy load with them. Pete is working with his Zbitx https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/zbitx/. The recent firmware updates have improved the rigs performance. Need to look at 40 meters for the CW practice sessions and maybe even for the clubs net. We talked about the FCC issuing callsigns to stations and the ability to get a call sign outside of the station's area. Like a Michigan station being able to get a AB6XX callsign. We talked about tariffs and what they may mean for us QRPers. We are all in a wait and see mode on the tariffs. Pete is trying multiple elevated radials with POTA verticals. He is also looking at towers including a ALM-31 - US Tower. The agenda for the 24 April QRP Chat: Ernie to do a short introduction and acknowledge any new folks to the Zoom chat. The topic for next week will be an open forum. During the open forum anyone can take the floor. We will go one by one until all have had a chance to have the floor. Files, pictures and presentations can be shared if you have any. Please try to stay muted when someone has the floor. Thanks Ed AB8DF

If you can't pre-register for FDIM, you can register at the Hotel. Wednesday May 14th, registration will be open near the ballroom from 7:30PM EDT to 9:30PM EDT. Thursday May 15th, in the morning before the Symposium, registration will be open at 7:30AM EDT until 8:00AM EDT. Symposium starts at 8:00AM on Thursday May 15th. SEATING is LIMITED to 300. As of today that means we have a little over 50 Walk in seats available. 73 de KB9BVN Brian Murrey -- 72 de KB9BVN

I have just updated the FDIM attendee list. https://qrparci.org/fdim I got many change requests yesterday. They have all been made. PLEASE look at the list and make sure you name is right, and your call sign is correct. To those that have ordered Zoom Access, the Zoom link typically comes to you via email the day before the event. Please watch your email for this code. Those who have ordered books and no symposium, we typically get those shipped out about a week after FDIM. 73 de KB9BVN Brian Murrey Membership Manager -- 72 de KB9BVN

I have just updated the FDIM attendee list. This list will be used to make your name tags. Please look at it. https://qrparci.org/fdim Is the name what you want? Is the call sign correct? Send all corrections to membership@... de KB9BVN Brian Murrey -- 72 de KB9BVN

Registration for Four Days In May ends on April 25. This is the WORLDS LARGEST QRP convention, held on May 15 - 19 at the Fairborn Ohio Holiday Inn. Do not miss this opportunity to meet the leading innovators and operators in the world of QRP, enjoy good food, fellowship and conversation with friends from around the world. Register at QRPARCI.org

The 29th annual Four Days in May is less than a month away. Registration will end on April 25th. Please get your registration in before the deadline. Event Schedule is listed below, subject to change. All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4) Wednesday May 14 - Registration from 7:30PM to 9:30PM Thursday May 15 - Registration starts at 7:30AM Outside the Ballroom Make sure you pick up your FDIM badge from the registration table Thursday May 15 - Seminars Beginning at 8AM and breaking at 10:45AM Restarting at 11:00AM Lunch is from Noon to 1:00PM - Lunch will be provided by QRP-ARCI Restarting at 1:00PM and ending at 5:00PM 7PM to 8PM - Vendor registration and setup - Main Ballroom, no public access 8PM to 10PM - Vendor Night Friday May 16th Afternoon - W1REX Buildathon! 7PM to 8PM - Club Registration and setup in the Main Ballroom, no public access 7PM to 8PM - Show and Tell Homebrew Contest Registration and setup in Ballroom 8PM to 9PM - Homebrew Contest Judging in the Ballroom 8PM to 10PM - IC Transmitter Challenge! 8PM to 10PM - Radio Show and Tell in the Ballroom 8PM to 10PM - Club Night in the Ballroom - The Michigan QRP Club will be hosting a Michigan Mity Mite Revival! Saturday May 17th 7PM - Awards Ceremony and Grand Banquet in Ballroom 9PM - Post Banquet Chat Sessions, bring your QSL cards to trade Sunday May 18th Hamvention and head back home If you have any questions please let us know ! -- 72 de KB9BVN

We had six folks join the MI QRP Zoom Chat on 10 April. Please join us Thursday April 17 (and every Thursday) at 4PM Eastern for the Michigan QRP Club weekly QRP Chat where the main topics will be QRP and other ham interests. New hams are encouraged to participate and ask questions. It's fun, it's easy, and it's free. You only need a computer, a smart phone, or a tablet that can connect to the Internet. OR if you can't be close to any of those you can join by audio with any standard phone. Just follow the directions below. No software needs be loaded or installed. Anyone can join and non members are welcome. Details are here: https://www.miqrp.net/zoom Zoom ID: 811 0835 6229 The topic for Thursday, 17 April will be TBD. Ed AB8DF Ernie NE3TE Tony W8CDC Stan WB8QJZ Casey KC9IH Stuart M0SGV Started out talking about cars. Ernie just got a new one. Ed showed this new paddles. https://www.ur5cdx.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21&products_id=52 Northern Michigan ice storm caused major damage. It has been over a week and there are still major power outages. Stan played with satellites during the week but did not have any luck with the ISS and slow scan. Tony used to work the OSCAR 7 and 10 back in the day. Stan has a handheld that automatically tracks birds and the upcoming passes. DM1701 with open GD77 firmware is the way to go https://www.amazon.com/Baofeng-DM-1701-Channels-Programming-Earpiece/dp/B07R7QM63X?th=1 Stuart is still working on his Michigan Mighty Mite and wants to see how it looks with his new Tiny SA. Casey is playing with antennas and some hamsticks. Spending a lot of time on FM nets. We talked about the 80 meter nets and swap meets. The agenda for the 10 April QRP Chat: Ernie to do a short introduction and acknowledge any new folks to the Zoom chat. The topic for next week will be an open forum. During the open forum anyone can take the floor. We will go one by one until all have had a chance to have the floor. Files, pictures and presentations can be shared if you have any. Please try to stay muted when someone has the floor. Thanks Ed AB8DF

George Can you please send me your email address to w2ljqrp@...? I have a certificate to send Larry W2LJ

20m WFTB runs on the third Wednesday and Thursday of every month. Speed Limit 13 wpm. The Wednesday night sprint begins at 00:00Z Wednesday evening for 1 hour from 00:00Z to 01:00Z, then it continues Thursday night from 02:00Z to 03:00Z. All logging is done on the autologger. Evening of Wednesday April 16th at 00:00Z to 01:00Z on 20m 14061 Khz to 14065 Khz. Evening of Thursday April 17th at 02:00Z to 03:00Z on 20m 14061Khz to 14065 Khz LOG HERE: https://qrpcontest.com/pigwalk20 See you on the air! OINK OINK ! de KB9BVN FP -57 -- 72 de KB9BVN

Alan Jones N8WQ has just published the latest copy of the April BBQ. The BBQ is the quarterly newsletter of the Flying Pigs QRP Club International. It's a great issue and it's free. Just go to https://fpqrp.org and click on Bacon Bits on the left. de KB9BVN Brian Murrey FP -57 -- 72 de KB9BVN

Starts at 00:00Z tonight and runs until 06:00Z That's 8PM EDT to 2AM EDT Use the autologger at https://qrpcontest.com/qrparci_spring/ Rules can be found here: https://qrparci.org/contest/spring-qso-party 72 de KB9BVN Brian Murrey ARCI 10223 -- 72 de KB9BVN

Man...I got on 20m at 00:00Z and it was dreadful. At about 00:15Z I moved to 40m and found the QRPers! I had to QRT at 02:00z...the Party runs until 06:00 so maybe I get back on in a while. So far I have worked: 17 ARCI Members 15 Non ARCI QRPers 20 SPC's All but one on 40m. The band is operating...get on the air! KUDOS to Larry W2LJ for doing a great job promoting the QSO Party. I hope to see a bunch of logs tomorrow. de KB9BVN Brian Murrey -- 72 de KB9BVN

The QRP-ARCI Spring QSO Party starts tomorrow evening on Aprll 12th at 0000 UTC That's 8:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM CDT, 6:00 PM MDT, 5:00 PM PDT - the Sprint Runs for 6 hours. All the details can be found at: https://www.qrparci.org/contest/spring-qso-party Spend as little or as much time as you can, but please try to get on the air and participate. These events are always much, much more fun when the bands are buzzing - so let's all have some fun! AND you don't need to be a QRP-ARCI member to participate. All QRP'ers are more than welcome! When you're done, please make sure to enter your score at http://www.qrpcontest.com/ Hope to hear you on the bands, making QRP QSOs this weekend. 72 de Larry W2LJ - QRP-ARCI Contest Manager