Our next club meeting will be next Tuesday September 12th, 7:00pm at the Howell County EOC. We’ll be discussing fox hunts and hopefully putting one on the calendar. I asked everyone at last month’s meeting to bring their fox hunt equipment, so I hope everyone has given some thought to building an antenna or at least what they might use. If not, come and see what everyone else is engineering!?

We will be doing our next farmers market public relations event on September 23rd. This will be the 4th Saturday in September instead of the 3rd that we normally set up. This is due to an event that will be taking place at the church that will cause an issue for us to set up when we normally would.?

Work on the new UHF repeater continues. We were recently granted a frequency of 444.425 MHz by the Missouri Repeater Council, the tone will be 110.9hz. Bill, KF0BFD and I built a stand off bracket for the antenna a couple weeks ago, so that’s ready to go. Mike, KD0AIZ has been coordinating the installation of the antenna, which we hope to be completed in the next couple weeks. I have tuned the duplexer, and mounted it in a box that will house the duplexer and repeater, and purchased the cables to connect it all together. Next, we start gathering parts to make the UHF links at both 2 meter repeaters.

Exciting things are happening and we hope everyone will get involved!

Eric, KD0CEN

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On August 27, 2023, at 6:04 PM, Eric Presser - KD0CEN <eric.presser@...> wrote:

Simplex net on 146.52 this Tuesday evening starting around 7:15pm. Tell your friends and make an announcement on any other nets you participate in over the next couple days. Be sure to listen for a little while as you might not hear net control, but may hear other stations calling throughout the net.?

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You’re missing out if you’re not playing around on simplex on this hot mornings. Just worked a station on 146.52 that was 90 miles west of Chicago!!?

The new UHF repeater in West Plains will have an output frequency of 444.425 (+) 110.9hz. It’s not on the air yet, but you’ll have some time to get your radios programmed!!

Join us at the farmers market tomorrow from 8 - 1. Last week was basically a washout, so this week is a redo. If you’re unable to join us but have the ability to use echolink or allstar, connect to EchoLink node KD0CEN-L or allstar node 57004. If all goes well, we’ll have the node up and running by 8am.?

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I can’t believe it’s August already! Our August meeting will be tomorrow night, 7pm at the Howell County EOC. Lots to discuss and I’ll be giving a demonstration on tuning the uhf repeater duplexer that will be used when we get our next repeater up and operational!

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Our regular net will be at 7pm tonight. Round one will be on the 145.250 as usual, but round 2 will be on 146.940 to test that repeater. Following that… around 7:30, we’re going to try a simplex net on 146.520 and test our ability to communicate should repeaters not be an option. I’m not sure how it will will go, but be patient and fire your radios up to test them with us!

This looks neat… something to look into.

For anyone that loves a cheap radio, you might check out this prime day deal on a TYT handheld. They’re typically around $40 or a two pack for $60, today they’re $32. I think they’re a better performing radio than a baofeng, just my opinion.?

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This months meeting will be held at 7:00pm Tuesday evening, July 11th at the Howell County EOC, located in the basement of the Howell County Health Department on Kentucky Avenue in West Plains. Tell your friends and come join us.?

The 146.940 is online at its new home 8 miles south of West Plains. I worked it mobile all the way to the south end of Willow Springs before I had problems but still able to get into it with my base antenna from Willow (29 air miles away). So give it a try and give us your signal reports.?

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Thanks to everyone that turned out for the meeting Tuesday evening! I think it went great and we’ll be able to make lots of progress going forward.

Our Farmers Market display last Saturday turned out great. We made some HF contacts, and several new friends that will join our club on a regular basis. Because of the success, we’re going to do it again this Saturday and every 3rd Saturday for a while from 8-1 at Endurance Church in West Plains. Come be with us if you can, but we understand if you can’t. If you have radios you need help programming, bring them by and we’ll try to help you out. This has proven to be a great opportunity for us to reach out to our community and grow some interest. We can also use it as time to get together and help each other out and talk shop!!?

Hope to see everyone Saturday.?

This month’s club meeting will be held Tuesday, June 13th, 7:00pm at the Howell County Emergency Operations Center, located in the basement of the Howell County Health Department on Kentucky Avenue. Use the basement door on the North side of the building.

There is a lot to discuss and Craig KE0TKC will show us a nice end-fed antenna he built that we’ve been testing in a somewhat NVIS environment. It tunes up nicely on 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters.

Look forward to seeing everyone.

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Amateur Radio will be on display at the Farmers Market, this Saturday, June 10th from 8:00am to around noon at Endurance Church in West Plains. Come to our booth, bring your radios and play along. Last go around, we had several come by and express interest in our hobby. We’re hoping for more of the same this time. Come join in the fun before we hopefully get some much needed rain!

Freddie is improving a mask is no longer needed for vistord

Freddie, KB0LTL is in the hospital with meningitis, possibly as a result of a recent surgery. He’s not up for visitors currently, but your thoughts and prayers are certainly appreciated. Posted with permission from the family.?