Promoting Amateur Radio in Cincinnati
For sale from one of our members, David Layman (KD8DL):
$825 – Yaesu FT-857D with Separation Kit
$165 – LDG YT-100 antenna tuner $165.00
$55 – LDG FT-Meter
Total $1045, will accept $900, other offers will be considered.
All items were purchased new from Gigaparts in 2015. The radio was used on 2 meters but not on any other bands. The items are being sold after purchasing an Elecraft KX3 in 2015. Usage time was only for a few months.
Contact: David Layman – kd8dl@arrl.net
By: Denny KC8RPV
These are some of the Contests scheduled during the month of August. It’s an opportunity to make some new contacts, round out your Worked All States or just have fun getting on the air. The NAQP SSB contest has a team competition and I will be registering the team, in Bill’s absence, as indicated below.
1. NAQP SSB
The North American QSO Party is August 19 and 20, 2017. The contest starts at 2:00 PM local time an Saturday and ends at 2:00 AM Sunday morning.
The contest has a Team Competition, teams need to registered prior to the contest.
Send Denny KC8RPV and email at: dhutson@cinci.rr.com
Deadline for registering for a MARC team is 10:00 AM, Saturday August 19.
Rules can be found on the National Contest Journal website at: www.ncjweb.com
2. Rookie Roundup RTTY
Rookie Roundup RTTY is August 20, 2017. The contest starts at 2:00 PM and runs until midnight.
The is no entry class for non-rookies, however non-rookies can participate by working rookies.
Rules can be found on the ARRL website: www.arrl.org
3. Ohio QSO Party
The Ohio QSO Party is August 26, 2017. The contest runs from noon until midnight local time.
The Ohio QSO Party has a Club Competition, include the following line in your entry to have your score added to the MARC total.
CLUB: Milford Ohio ARC
Last year only two stations in Clermont County and two stations in Hamilton County submitted logs. Get on the air, you could be a rare one.
73
Denny KC8RPV
By the time you read this we will be into July and summer just seems to be passing us by. This past month has proved to be extremely busy for the Milford Amateur Radio Club with holding our annual hamfest followed just one week later by ARRL Field Day.
June club meeting was very well attended and Joe W8GEX gave a great presentation on K9W “DXpedition to Wake Island”. Feedback has been very positive and we appreciate Joe and his wife Janet W8CAA coming out and visiting us at our June MARC meeting.
Hamfest was a huge hit with very good attendance and large flea market (boneyard) area. This year the weather stayed on our side although a little hot for some there were blue skies and most important no rain. My hats off to Jim WB8RRR as hamfest chairman in doing a great job once again in pulling it altogether. I would like to also thank all the volunteers from the club who helped out and were there when needed.
Field Day (FD) Chairmen, Erik AC8VK and Mike W8BEI working with Bill WS6K on FD made the event a complete success! According to Bill WS6K this was the first time in a lot of years the club made over a 1000 contacts. There was a number of visitors to the site and everyone did their best to make them welcome and a give them a chance to operate if they wanted. I again thank the FD committee as well as those who came out and helped with the setup, operating and tear down afterwards.
As we look into 2017 we will have several interesting presentations coming up:
As you know we introduced a new segment to the monthly meetings called “Jack’s Shack”. Feedback so far has been positive, so we will keep it going. I know that for July Jack will have another interesting installment of Jack’s Shack.
If you have an idea for Jack’s Shack you can submit your ideas to either Jack or me at one of the below email addresses:
If you have not been to a meeting in a while, I ask that you try and attend in 2017 and get involved as the club is only what you make of it.
73,
Dave K8DV
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