Upcoming Events
Upcoming events¡. This Saturday, October 12 at 3pm, Parks on the Air activation at White Ranch, Trail 6 Saturday October 19th, Farmers Market from 9 - 1 Every Thursday Night, 8pm ARES net on 145.250.
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Club Meeting Tonight
Club meeting tonight at 6pm at the Howell County EOC. Hope everyone can join us. Should be a good meeting!!
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Interested in a DIY LiFePO4 Battery Tester Project?
Does this project look interesting to anyone else? https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/11bvibl/i_made_a_battery_capacity_tester_with/ Wiring Diagram. I can't speak to the safety or credibility of the site, but none of the alarms in LibreWolfe or uBlock Origin went off. https://imgur.com/a/Lul6v1J RELATED: working my way through this Ham Radio Workbench podcast. https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast/hrwb-218-18650-battery-tester-project-with-rick-kc6uft https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/articles.html Steve
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ARES Net 8PM
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ARES Net tonight at 8pm. I think our schedule has run out, and I¡¯ll be out of town at a volleyball game tonight, unlikely to be done in time. Any volunteers for net control?
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FW: NC Amateur Radio Emergency Traffic
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Just thought you might like to know about this if you want to hear some of what the ham operators are doing in NC Mike Coldiron Howell County Emergency Management Director 180 Kentucky Ave. West Plains Mo. 65775 Phone 417-255-0515 Fax 417-255-0514 Email howellcountyemd@... Secure email: Mike.coldiron@... From: Chris Gaut <cpgaut@...> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2024 8:55 AM To: Gaut, Chris <Chris.Gaut@...> Subject: This is what amateur radio is all about. Shared from discord. Sharing a message I was sharing in other venues because I think this group might find it interesting: > As I think most of you know, Western North Carolina is....really bad right now. No power and phones to most of the area. There's a lot of health and welfare traffic going over ham radio, because there really isn't anything else. > > A lot of this is being funneled through a repeater on Mt. Mitchell. There's a web stream of this repeater at https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/43107 (this is normally a different repeater, but they remapped it). > > Here's your chance to listen to emergency communications live. I'm tuned in as I send this mail, and they have incoming requests coming in and net control is trying to find hams in specific areas to do welfare checks requested by family outside of the area. > > > Benjamin, WY2K Chris Flinn w8wot
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APRS and Foxhunts
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Not trying to horn in on anything - just a thought. . . . Using APRS for "search and rescue" or foxhunting. A team of foxhunters (searcher) would be around town (or search area), transmitting their location via APRS. The "mapper" would locate them on a map of the search area. When the searcher hears the beacon they would take a compass bearing and report that to the "mapper" who would draw a line on the map from the searchers location showing the reported bearing. When each searcher reports and their bearing are drawn on the map, where the lines cross would be the location of the beacon (or at least very close). (Disclaimer: I have never personally been foxhunting.) This would be an application of radio, communication and land-navigation skills. A WIN-WIN-WIN. We could have a "scavenger hunt" for beacons. Team that finds the most beacons in an allotted time wins. When my sister was in Civil Air Patrol they sometimes did search and rescue for downed aircraft. I have also seen APRS used to monitor cross country or marathon events. -
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ARES Net tonight at 8PM
ARES Net tonight at 8PM! Join us via the 145.250 (-) 110.9Hz repeater, 444.425 (+) 110.9Hz repeater, EchoLink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749 and the 146.940 (-) 110.9 Hz Repeater.
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Club Meeting Tuesday at 6pm
Club Meeting Tuesday night at 6pm. Please join if you can. Vice President, Craig AE0WA will moderate this meeting as I'll be out of town for training this week. Chris KC0F will have an ARES meeting following and I believe he plans on talking about an APRS Digipeater he has set up at his residence, which I'm sorry I'm going to miss. APRS can be a lot fun and very useful in an emergency, so be sure attend his presentation. I'd love to see us use it in the future!! Eric
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ARES Net tonight 8PM
With the Holiday this last Monday the fact that it¡¯s already Thursday snuck up on me, which means there is a net tonight at 8pm, Chris is net control. Hope everyone can make it. Eric
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ARES Net Tonight 8PM
ARES Net tonight at 8PM! Join us via the 145.250 (-) 110.9Hz repeater, 444.425 (+) 110.9Hz repeater, EchoLink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749 and the 146.940 (-) 110.9 Hz Repeater. I believe Ray is Net Control.
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Club Meeting Minutes for August 2024
Also available in the repository.
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New Yaesu All Mode QRP Radio
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Word of a new Yaesu QRP all mode radio has hit the internet. Thought I¡¯d share. Chris, this looks like the 817/818 killer¡ https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015781
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Updated ARES Net Control schedule
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ARES Net every Thursday evening @ 8:00 pm on repeaters 145.250Mhz (-)110.9 tone, 444.425 (+) 110.9 tone and 146.940Mhz ,(-)110.9 tone. Echolink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749. ARES Net Control Schedule August thru September 19th as follows: August 22nd Steve August 29th Ray September 5th Chris September 12th Eric September 19th Craig If Net Control times don't work swap with others on the schedule. 73 Chris KC0F
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ARES Net Control schedule
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ARES Net every Thursday evening @ 8:00 pm on repeaters 145.250Mhz (-)110.9 tone and 444.425 (+) 110.9 tone. Echolink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749. ARES Net Control Schedule August thru September 19th as follows: August 22nd Chris August 29th Ray September 5th Steve September 12th Eric September 19th Craig If Net Control times don't work swap with others on the schedule. 73 Chris KC0F
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ARES Net Tonight 8PM
ARES Net tonight at a new time of 8PM! Join us via the 145.250 (-) 110.9Hz repeater, 444.425 (+) 110.9Hz repeater, EchoLink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749 and the 146.940 (-) 110.9 Hz Repeater.
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Joplin Hamfest
I deleted my previous message as it had 2023 dates. Sorry. The correct dates for the Joplin Hamfest are August 23 & 24 for 2024. For more info, visit http://joplinhamfest.org
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Welcome message update
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It appears to me that the welcome message may need to be updated. According to the messge: The Howell County (MO) Amateur Radio Club meets at 7:00pm the second Tuesday of each month at the Victory Family Worship Center, 904 West Main St, West Plains, MO. It's as the corner of Main Street and Preacher Roe Blvd.
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Monthly Meeting Tonight 6PM
Our monthly club meeting will be tonight at 6pm at the Howell County EOC. We¡¯ll have a short meeting followed by a Winlink Presentation and ARES Meeting. Hope to see you there!
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ARES Net tonight 8PM
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ARES Net tonight at a new time of 8PM! Join us via the 145.250 (-) 110.9Hz repeater, 444.425 (+) 110.9Hz repeater, EchoLink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749 and the 146.940 (-) 110.9 Hz Repeater.
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ARES Net Tonight 8PM
ARES Net tonight at a new time of 8PM! Join us via the 145.250 (-) 110.9Hz repeater, 444.425 (+) 110.9Hz repeater, EchoLink node W0HCA-R, or AllStar node 61749 and as of today, the 146.940 (-) 110.9 Hz Repeater. We have to make some audio adjustments yet, but it¡¯s working so give it a try.
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