Month: June 2016

Congratulation to our newest hams that passed the Tech test on Saturday during field day: KD9GNL Chris W KD9GNN Steven M KD9GNM Steven S KD9GNO Elizabeth M KD9GNP Jason A KD9GNQ is Clayton B We also had an upgrade to General: Chris KD9GHW Welcome to the hobby folks and we hope to hear you on the air! Special Thanks to the Hendricks County Amateur Radio Society for hosting the field…

Wires-x operates in a similar fashion to EchoLink or IRPL. You can connect to different rooms and chat around the world. One main difference is you must use a HRI-200 interface and with wires-x and a fusion radio you can access voice memos, text messages and photos. It does require a computer and internet for connecting. The antenna I chose is a arrow style JPole and only about 15 feet…

Although this was not a IEN sponsored event I had a ton of fun working the event with my friends at Hendricks County Amateur Radio Soceity. Our call sign was K9W. I arrived early in the morning and I was able to get my rope stuck in the tree. Tom WA9YI was able to help get the rope out of the tree using military grade portable antenna mast. We used…

IEN had a give-away on the facebook page. The results are here: Jim Curly — winner of the jpole Winners of the tester: Charles Phillips Donny Davis William Bill Ward Nicholas Shotwell Chuck Davis These items can be picked up at the Indiana elmer network table at the Indianapolis hamfest in July. If you can’t make the hamfest…… contact w9thr or ac9hp…. and the items can be shipped…… But the…