Coyote Amateur Radio Club

It’s behind us now; but some things remain unsaid.

But first: here’s a photo that Jim AB5JK made, testing out the panoramic feature on his camera phone (or phone camera?):

Panoramic image of the CARC shack during the CQ WPX RTTY contest, made by Jim AB5JK. Warning, click at your own risk: it’s HUGE!! Don’t blame me!

The unshaven, balding dude to the left is NOT the one who did all the work.

No, our mighty president did all the work, and what a magnificent job it was!! After a long day at work on Friday and a sleepless night on Sunday he simply told me “have to get more QSOs in the log“, and went back to the shack. With sleepy eyes and the help of about 2 gallons of strong coffee he pushed the total to 539 QSOs, good for 247,086 points. Absolutely fabulous!!

CQ WPX RTTY 2014 claimed score

Thanks to all of that hard work Jason logged half a dozen new DXCC entities and several new states on various bands. Most of which have been confirmed via the Logbook of The World already. I wonder which award is going to be next: the basic DXCC, or the 5 band WAS?

WAS award totals as of February 18, 2014

We’re still missing a few states on 80 meters; but Jim AB5JK is working hard on that B-I-G 40/80 meters dipole so we should be able to work those missing states in no time at all!

DXCC award totals as of February 18, 2014

And the DXCC totals you see above (58) are off by one; because we have one DXCC entity that was confirmed by a paper card. So the real total is 59. Only 41 left to go!

And yes, mister president: congratulations, you are now a confirmed contest addict! 😉

Some of our members seem to be awfully shy when it comes to visiting the club’s website. It’s perfectly safe, folks!

An email subscription will bring you to our latest update right away. No need to go to Facebook and get bombarded with their #%$&$&$%^$&%#@&%^*%!!! ads…

To make it a little more easy for you I have signed up a few of you tonight. A password should have been emailed to you. With that password you can adjust your website settings, or even unsubscribe. But don’t you dare! 😉

Enjoy!

Oops: in the North American continent 😉

A handful of CARC members participated in the JARTS RTTY contest back in October. Didn’t make a million QSOs; but the score was good enough to claim the second place! Yeah, yeah, multi operator North America. Small detail…

Second place, North American continent! Make sure you click the image.

Whoever said you need a big station to score good is a liar! Well done, troops! 🙂

Y’all better hurry!!

Good stuff! 😉

(by Jason KF5EJX)

The meeting was called to order at 7:15 PM.   In attendance were CiCi AA5EK, Jimi AB5JK, Jason KF5EJX, Roger K0YY, and our newest Member Marilyn KB0LJW.

The treasurer’s report: Cici reported that the club has $216 in the dues column and $254 in the general column to make a grand total of $470

Business (Old and New):

Jason KF5EJX has finished the inventory list for the club ham shack.  It is an impressive list.  Roger added that the list should have an as of date to the list to date it.  Jason says he would add that to the list.

The club set a date of March 22 for the open house at the club shack.  Plans are to have the shack up and running and to show off what we are capable of working in the different modes.  Also a presentation by Roger on exploring South Africa and Zimbabwe and a Dxpedition from Zimbabwe.

Also reviewed the welcome letter add made a few changes. Jason will be doing the editing and emailing the revised letter to the members for further review before printing.  Also a letter stuffing party is planned for mid-February to get the letters ready to be mailed but no date is set.

The rockous group called it a night a 8:20 PM.

Will be on Tuesday the 28th. Everyone’s invited!

Those operators in Arkansas. Maybe.

Fact is that Jason KF5EJX and Erik K5WW were active in the ARRL RTTY Roundup and made QSOs with every state in the contiguous 48; but not with Arkansas. What’s up with those guys??

Or maybe we’re just “too close for comfort”?

Disregard DC. That’s not even a state – although it does count as a multiplier. And our Canadian buddies were surprisingly absent…

Erik operated on Saturday and Jason on Sunday; but that doesn’t make it less of a team effort – and the totals show it!

KN5S 2014 ARRL RTTY RU score

Thanks to all of our supporters, cheerleaders and onlookers. So many of them showed up that some people had to park across the street!!

This is the first thing I saw when I arrived at the shack this afternoon:

Big Bird?

We’re gonna need a new one, Mister President! 😉

Interesting box I got in the mail on December 31! Addressed to me, but with the club’s call on the address label, hmm…

Click for the much larger version.

Hohoho and Merry Happies! 😉

And by popular demand of our (popular!) president:

… 998, 999, 1.000!

Ho-ho-ho!

The meeting was called to order at 7:10 PM, December 17, 2013. Attending: Jason KF5EJX, Jim AB5JK, Cici AA5EK, Richard N5YPJ, Roger K0YY, Gary K5QOW and Erik K5WW.

The shack inventory hasn’t been completed yet; it’s going to be a formidable task. Jason says he’s going to do all of that.

Gary, on behalf of his fire department, has donated an Eaton 9130 uninterruptable power supply to the club. It is large and heavy! It’s up and running in the shack; but it does not have a dedicated space yet. It comes with a secondary battery; and the pair should power the shack equipment for quite some time in case of a power failure. Thank you, Gary! Jim recorded Gary’s donation statement; so this will be the first item on the inventory list! 🙂

Jason paid for the new KN5S QSL cards; but states that he doesn’t want to be reimbursed for them. He also doesn’t want to be reimbursed for that (undisclosed) piece of computer hardware he purchased a few weeks ago. He said that the club’s money would be better used for when we get the tower up, and will have to buy an antenna. Thank you, mister president!

Treasurer Cici reports we currently have $470 in our old sock, which should go a long way towards the purchase of that antenna.

Ever since the November meeting Jim has been listening to the new frequencies that were suggested to us for the repeater, after it gets moved. He said that 147.240 was the cleanest of them all, and that 147.220 and 147.320 suffer from birdies and all kinds of various interference. We decided on 147.240 based on his report; and will get the repeater reprogrammed and up and running as soon as possible. Thanks Jim!

Jason also reports that he has plans to create a list of the “local” amateur radio operators, within a radius of 75 or 80 miles. Operators in that area may not even be aware of our existence. The whole idea behind this is to send them a letter, inviting them to our meetings, or even hold an “open shack” event in March. Seriously, what would we do without Jason? 😉

 The next meeting will be January 28, 2014. Six weeks from now, sigh…

Oh, Jim’s birthday’s on Christmas day! Ho-ho-ho 🙂

Meeting adjourned at 7:50 PM.