With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings

On Staurday June 21st Mancorad held  the main session & VE session for another of our modified Hamcram Classes.

We’ve adapted the W9PE Hamcram by adding a formal “Pre-Session” and a preparation Elmering Responsibility.

From our Club President (Why retype!!):

From: Carl KA9WYK
June 21, 2008

To: All ManCoRad members

 

Today Mancorad hosted its spring Ham Cram. I am happy to announce that there are 5 new Hams.We also had two upgrades.

 

I want to congratulate the following Hams:

 

Joel Nelson

Victor Weinert

Micaila Leigh

Candy Stauffer

Brent Wright

 

Upgrades

KB9YRC Travis - General

KB9VLS Chris - Extra

 

I also want to say Thank You to all of the members who worked so hard to make the Ham Cram a success.

 

See you all at Field day next weekend!!!

 

Carl KA9WYK

President Mancorad

My thanks to everyone who helps and congratulation to those who tested.  The passing new Amateurs were 5 of the 6 students, and with a bit more Elmering I am certain we’ll mentor the the group to a 100% new Ham result!  

A Special Thanks to the Sheboygan Amateur Radio Club’s VE Team, which made the VE Session possible!!

We will be watching for the FCC to post the new call signs, so the Elmering team can work to get the new Hams on the air!

Mancorad has enough Hamcram & Upgrade interest that another class is in planning for early Autumn.

 
73

 
Steve
K9ZW

Mancorad W9DK has announced a summer 2008 Hamcram with VE session.

The pre-session orientation is June 2nd and the Hamcram & VE session Saturday June 21st.

Here is the PDF announcement:  hamcram-summer-2008-announcement-v2

W9DK has sponsored several Hamcrams (check this blog - search on Hamcram) and this is the second session where the Sheboygan Radio Club has offered to provide massive support for the VE session.  

73

Steve
K9ZW
 

** USS Cobia Submarine MUSEUM SHIPS WEEKEND 2008

NB9QV ‘USS COBIA’ club and W9DK Mancorad club of Manitowoc, WI. will be
operating from aboard the WWII Memorial Submarine ‘USS COBIA AGSS-245
celebrating the Museum ships weekend June 7 & 8 when all current Museum
ships will be on the air with activity.

Dates: June 7th and 8th 2008

Time: 1400utc-2200utc (9am to 5pm CST)

Operating freq’s:+/-30khz: 3.900, 7.250, 14.260 SSB and some 20-40M CW using
the original radio equipment.

Echolink KC9JGE on the 145.110 repeater during this event.

Local Mancorad repeater 146.610 (-) pl 107.2

Web link: http://www.w9dk.com/html/uss_cobia.htm

Contact: Carl, KA9WYK, ka9wyk@hotmail.com

Mancorad W9DK is planning a Spring 2008 Hamcram.

Our first three Hamcrams were very successful and the word must be out. We already have a list of interested students for a Spring 2008 hamcram.

Dates are being finalized, as we try and balance the various calendars (instructors’, local schools’, contest and community events) when a date is selected.

Check out the Hamcram tab for links to articles where we explain how we’ve modified the Hamcram to make it work for us.

73

Steve

Wednesday night I had the opportunity to give a mini-seminar on QSL Card Best Practices for our local club.

Using an excellent handout from Club QSL Manager Fred W6BSF and suggestions from QSL Manager member John NZ9Z we covered pretty well all the basics in a quick 20 minute “speed QSLing” session.

Will get Fred W6BSF’s suggestions posted in the next few days.

Great time had by all!

73

Steve
K9ZW

Note just arrived from our club VP:  

Greetings Club Members

Thank You to all who participated in last months club meeting online, it was a big success.
We will be streaming the meeting again this Wednesday the 12th for your listening pleasure.

Skype will also be available for interactive participation.

There will be streaming audio of the Monthly Club Meeting available
starting about 7pm.

Go to www.w9dk.com and select the Club Meeting streaming audio link.
There is a 20-30 second buffering delay from realtime.

A webcam image that updates every minute is available on the Streaming
audio / Webcam Page

Select the yellow “LIVE Streaming Audio/WebCam” link from the main page.

The Webcam page should automatically refresh every 30 seconds.
http://www.w9dk.com/html/live_webcam___audio.htm
or
www.w9dk.com | Links | Live WebCam & Audio

Skype users are more than welcome to participate in the meeting.

There will be better quality audio this month and an FM transmitter will send the laptop speaker audio to a radio to amplify the audio for the entire room to listen to. Please use your mute microphone button on Skype while you are not talking, this will help prevent some feedback.

Just search for “W9DK Clubshack” and add as a Skype contact.

callto://w9dk.clubshack

Please call using Skype by 7:15-7:20pm and I will place anyone interested into a conference call about 7:25.

It’s FREE and easy to use.

There is a maximum of 9 participants for conference calls, first come first serve.

In the event of technical difficulties I will try to post any information available on the main www.w9dk.com page.

Anyone who does participate please email your call and any comments to msuetti (at) hotmail (dot) com so we can add you to the meeting count.

Thank You

KC9JGE - Marty
ManCoRad Vice President

Steve
K9ZW