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Operated with the HCRCSG for winter field day. Chris KD9BIX, Barry KC9WMS and Tom WA9YI where all eager to participate and help out.  We had several other hams show up including Ron KB9DJA,  John KD9ECH and Denis K9JZZ and Wayne KE9P   More info here: k9w-hcrcsg What is Winter Field Day (from winterfieldday.com) We believe as do those entities of ARRL Organizations like ARES & RACES that maintaining your operational…

Setup HF station to work with Signal Link and an Icom 718 for Chuck KD9DHT. Configured his JT65HF, Ham Radio Deluxe to work together using a CAT cable for radio control from HRD. Since Chuck has already worked some DX on 80 meters and many made many other contacts at about 20 watts. More training will be scheduled down the road.

Added a Packet BBS to the local Indy area on the west side. 145.050 AC9HP-1 and if you want to use the digitpeater it would be AC9HP.

Met at the McDonalds in Avon and helped hams program HT radios. We used RT Systems and Chirp to program the radios and discussed some of the local repeaters. In attendance was AL WA6SRP, Gary KA9ZYL, Bob KC9PGG, Steve W9THR, Wayne AC9HP and Chuck KD9DHT. 5 Radios where programmed and updated. Next event will be at the Browsnburg Hamfest. See you then!   

   With the help of Steve N9UIB we were able to operate with 2 G5RV antennas.    We had one station running psk and jt65 and another station running ssb.  The digital station was provided by KD9BIX and it is an Icom 7200 with a ldg auto tuner and connected to a G5RV inverted V antenna.   The Antenna was provided by Wayne KE9P.  The Coax was provided by Tom…

Chris-KD9BIX and Steve-N9UIB installed a G5RV and a pole to hang the antenna off of it. The weather was cool and the installation took about two hours. The installation probably would would have went a little faster, but Chris keep setting things down and not remembering where it was !! (Sorry Chris ). We also had Chris’s daughter that helped us and made things pretty fun and kept us laughing.…

At the hill top contest in Hendricks County were 16 Participants.   We operated 2m FM, 2m SSB, 10m SSB, 6M FM and we may have had 6m SSB but I am not certain of that.   Weakly hill was at 1030 feet and I created a  home brew 2m SSB antenna.  After failing to keep it in a tree we moved it to a tripod at maybe 1045 ft…

AC9HP Created a 2m dipole for SSB use.   Put it vertical into the front window and worked like a champ with the  5 watt wouxun radio on FM as well.                       

Steve N9UIB, Jacob N9MAN and Alex KD9EJS were able to install a new antenna rotor on an exisitng antenna system to replace one that had froze up for Eric N9KDB. The install took about an hour and a half and was a very hot experence.   No amateurs were actually injured during this exercise.                                                    

Chris KD9BIX helped verify the Antenna at troop 306 is operational for JOTA in October.  Chris was able to help teach scout Alex KD9EJS how to use the analyzer.