KDØCL
West Bloomington 147.090+ Tone: None Central Bloomington Analog/Fusion 443.175+ DCS: 165
Special Event Station: Edmund Fitzgerald
The Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald Special Events stations will be on the air Friday afternoon from about 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday the stations will be on the air from about 10:00 AM to about 5:30 PM each day. All times are Central Time. Published frequencies are 3.860, 7.260, 14.260, 21.360, 28.360 MHz (+/- QRM). Midwest/local stations should look for us on the 75m and 40m bands in the early morning and late afternoon. Plans are to also run a digital station on PSK31 as will as demonstrating FT-8. Watch the waterfall for WØJH.
October President’s meeting slides available
Club president Matt Holden K0BBC meeting slides are available for review here 2017 October BARA meeting slides
VHF+ Rover Slides from Dave, W0ZF/R
Dave, W0ZF, has made his slides on VHF+ Rover operations that he presented at our September meeting available. It was great to hear a lot of activity on the air this weekend for the September VHF contest, and it’s not too early to start planning your rover adventures for June. You could make plans for January, too, but that often involves extra challenges here in Minnesota.
Lake Elmo Tailgate Swapfest September 16th
HAMFEST/CONVENTION
09/16/2017Location: Bob’s, K0IKV
8247 27th Street North
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
Website: http://www.stpaulradioclub.org/
Sponsor: St. Paul Radio Club (SPRC)
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Talk-In: 146.25/85
Public Contact: John Faughn , KD0CAC
PO Box 14182 St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 651-402-6482
Email: johnfaughn@gmail.com
8247 27th Street North
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
Website: http://www.stpaulradioclub.org/
Sponsor: St. Paul Radio Club (SPRC)
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Talk-In: 146.25/85
Public Contact: John Faughn , KD0CAC
PO Box 14182 St. Paul, MN 55114
Phone: 651-402-6482
Email: johnfaughn@gmail.com
ARRL September VHF Contest
Starts Saturday September 9th at 1 P.M. CDT and runs until Sunday September 10th at 10 P.M. CDT
Consider entering in the FM only category if you want to try contesting.
Click here for the ARRL website for complete details
Click here to check 2 meter propagation by monitoring the distance APRS packets travel
Click here to see Midwest stations and rovers on air schedule
Rush City Radio Rendezvous September 9th
HAMFEST/CONVENTION
09/09/2017
Location: Rush City High School
51001 Fairfield Avenue
Rush City, MN 55069
Website: http://www.qrz.com/db/k0ecm
Sponsor: East Central Minnesota Amateur Radio Club (ECMARC)
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Talk-In: 145.330 -600 (PL 146.2)
Public Contact: Larry Jilek , KA0MEN
51835 Belle Isle Drive Rush City, MN 55069
Phone: 320-358-4205
Email: lj@ecenet.com
http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/ecmarc-radio-rendezvous-3
Nearby Special Event Station Air Mail Marker Memorial
Concrete arrows used to guide airmail planes to their destination. We have a little bit of that history still pointing the way in Minnesota. You can click here to read about it and work the special event station on September 9th.
09/09/2017 | Air Mail Marker Memorial
Sep 9, 1400Z-2000Z, K0A, St. Paul, MN. South East Metro Amateur Radio Club. 14.265 7.265. Certificate. Dick Roberts, 1655 68th St W, Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077. www.semarc.org
Radios in the Park Aug 26th Update: Cancelled
With the weather forecast for tomorrow looking very wet, the radios in the park event is canceled—although you’re welcome to tough it out if you want.
With luck, Saturday September 9th will be conducive to park-based radio events. If you’re interested in helping to organize things for that, please let me know as I could really use the help (AE0EE arrl net).
Solar Eclipse QSO Party Grid Maps
Grid map of the continental US, showing the eclipse path. Image credit: Bill Mitchell (CC-BY).
With the solar eclipse QSO party coming up, here are grid maps for the continental US which you can use to track stations you have heard during the eclipse: 8.5″x11″, 11″x17″.
ARRL 222 MHz and Up Distance Contest
This coming weekend is the ARRL 222 MHz and Up Distance Contest. Taking place on the VHF, UHF, and microwave bands, all licensed US amateurs have full privileges for frequencies in this contest. Most of the action will take place on weak-signal modes (single sideband, Morse code, and various digital modes), but there is still room to play on FM!
All it takes to get started is a dual-band FM handheld. Under the rules of the contest, you can coordinate contacts (i.e. plan frequency, mode, and time with another station) via internet, cell phone, or other amateur band. For FM on 70 cm, set your radio to 446.000 MHz and make sure that the radio is set to simplex (no repeater offset). You will also need to know your 6-digit gridsquare.
If you’re interested in getting into VHF/UHF contesting, there are two guides under the Membership | Resources tab. One is a two-page quick-start guide to VHF/UHF contests, and the other is a more comprehensive introduction to the subject.
With FM contesting, it helps to target a specific time to get on. I’d encourage everyone to try to be on from 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM local (2100-2130z) on Saturday, and 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM local (1700-1730z) on Sunday. I hope to hear you on the air, and don’t forget to submit your log after the contest!