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November 3rd is the 68th anniversary of Godzilla coming to the big screen in the original Japanese film classic. Some QRPer’s from Central Indiana are going to be operating Special Event Station W9G from November 3rd to November 13th, along with other operators in the 7th region. Modes to be used will be CW, SSB, and a few digital modes like PSK, RTTY and FT8. This special event is being…

Titanic – Jack Phillips memorial N9Q Operating June 2nd through June 13th 2022   Jack Philips was the Marconi telegraphist on board Titanic along with his assistant Harold Bride.   You may find many different accounts of the specifics of what happened to Jack Phillips but in any case he gave his life in service of the wireless telegram.  calling CQD SOS and providing location information to help save lives.…

You can copy the list of call signs into the clipboard and click on Paste to get them into the list or type them one at a time. When done if any are bad call signs they will show up in error list. You can select any image but I would not go too large.  I used 50/44 Pixels for my labels. It prints to the default printer right now…

I had an idea that people may want to download the entire inbox and put them into a folder so the PC they love can display the eQSL cards for them as a screen saver.   This started the eQSL Downloader software. Two versions exist and I recommend the Java version. I have taken it a step version. I am going to outline some manual steps to setup a PI…

Many amateurs come across QRZ when they start or when they get into working HF to help with logging.  QRZ has a great logging system that many people consider to be their LOG of contacts.  QRZ’s logging system is really meant to help make confirmations similar to LOTW or the original online QSL site eQSL.cc.    Not that long ago QRZ redid the logging system and it became a very…

During our general class we help a practice test like no other.   It was an actual VE session for the students to get a feel for the real test coming in 4 week. We had 3 amateurs upgrade to General (Jeff KD9FTA, Jay K9NDY and Todd KC9NEG)  during this practice test and we also had a guest visitor Grzegorz from Poland stop in to visit.  Grzegorz took his US Tech…

The long trek was made to Ransberg scout camp to expose the scouts to the digital HF world. I arrived about noon and the setup of the antennas began. This went relatively easily and after about 30 minutes, the coax hook up to the radio was ready. There were several scouts, Steve-W9THR and Barry-KC9MWZ helping in the installation of the antenna. At this point, this is where the gremlins crept…

We have concluded our testing for the year and I wanted to share some of our stats with our members. We had 4 exams. We had 14 VEs help with exams. We tested 25 individuals and passed 19 individuals. New technicians 16 New generals 4 New Extras 1 I would like to personally thank each of the VEs that helped administer the tests: Brian KB9BVN Steve W9THR Gary KA9ZYL Erik…

The Laurel VE Teams will now be setup for testing on the Third Thursday of each month starting in January of 2017. Jason N9IMU help gain permission to use the facility for Classes and Amateur Radio testing. The classrooms are located at 7251 West McCarty Street in Indianapolis. The plan right now is to share the testing dates with the IEN VE group and the WD9BSA VE group.   Other groups…

On 6/28/2016 a group of elmer’s from the group pack up there gear and headed out to Andrew’s (KC5DOT) in attempt to make a 10 meter wire dipole. Gary (KA9ZYL) was the first to arrive. Andrew and Gary started right to work the measured off the wire and soldered the pieces in and ran the wires out. The only thing was they were having struggle tuning the antenna. That’s when…