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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. KD0CEN

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.

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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!

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!

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.

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!!

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!!

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.

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

Thanks to Roger, KB0FUL for sharing! https://youtu.be/b9cIr_B478w?si=EWVTGBOTtx-mBwNR

The new 444.425 is online! Positive offset with a 110.9hz tone. Give it a try! Currently, it’s working stand-alone with nothing linked to it, but we plan to link the 145.250 and 146.940 to it in the new future which will provide great coverage throughout the county!

At the September meeting, the club voted to change the start time for our monthly meetings to 6pm. So moving forward, we will meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 6pm, at the Howell County EOC.

We’ll be at the Farmers Market Saturday morning. Please come join us. We will be monitoring the 444.425 Repeater and hope to hear some local traffic!

We will be having a fox hunt October 14th at 2pm in West Plains. The fox will be transmitting at 145.300mhz for those wishing to fine tune their precision antennas. We will iron out any remaining details at the meeting next week (October 10, 6pm) and be sure to post them. We hope everyone can join in the fun with us!!

Monthly meeting is at 6pm Tomorrow (Tuesday). We're gearing up for a fox hunt this Saturday, so bring your questions and your equipment if you need help and we'll try to make sure everyone is squared away and ready to go for Saturday!! Look forward to seeing everyone!

Fox Hunt Details Saturday October 14th at 2:00pm Fox will be hidden inside the city limits of West Plains. It will be transmitting on 145.300mhz. As demonstrated at the meeting Tuesday night, the audio tone will transmit for approximately 15 seconds, followed by our club call sign identifier. After approximately 45 seconds of silence, the transmitter will start again. So around 15 seconds of transmitting every minute. It doesn’t sound like much, but lasts longer than you might expect. Check-in with Sierena (KF0LQB) on the 444.425+ (110.9) repeater sometime prior to the 2:00pm start time so we have an idea of how many hunters are participating. Sierena is our “Hunt Master” for this hunt and will announce on the repeater when she has activated the fox. Start the hunt from wherever you want once the announcement has been made. Sierena will be within a close proximity of the fox, so she’ll know when it’s been located. Once the fox has been located, try not to give away its location so that others can continue the search. We can coordinate via radio on the repeater channel, but we might meet up once you’re done hunting at Galloway Park. This will allow me to gloat as the 1st place hunter, and give you an opportunity to congratulate me! A small gift card to the spring dipper will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. This event should be fun and the weather should be great! If you know someone that is unlicensed or might enjoy participating… maybe a child or grandchild… load them up and get them involved!! It might be a great opportunity to raise up some more hams!! Looking forward to a great day! Eric, KD0CEN

Farmer's Market this Saturday, October 21. We'll be there around 8. We'll be talking Ham Radio and sweeping antennas!