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The Furry Hams will once again run a solar powered event station at Anthrocon on the rootftop of the Convention Center to demonstrate amateur radio. A full 102' dipole has been erected on the Terrace (rooftop) level of the DLCC and will be on the air on Sunday beginning at 2PM and running until 4PM or later. Please join us on the rooftop for a chance to get on the air and work the special event station!
If you would like to work the event station look for us on 20 meters phone and check THIS post for an update with the talk-in frequency. Any station that QSL's to the Furry Hams Event Station will receive a QSL card in return (postage paid to the US)!
Thanks, and I hope to hear you on the air or see you at the panel!
Oryx & Yappyfox
Radiosport fans are gearing up for the summer's biggest competition: The IARU HF World Championships. Calling the 24 hour long contest "an HF operator's delight," ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, explained that the contest will allow amateurs plenty of opportunity to work DX from all around the globe on CW and SSB, as well as make QSOs with many IARU Member-Society club stations and officials.
It's an event that some groups take very seriously, planning all year long for. Still, others just use the date to get together, make a few contacts and enjoy each other's company. No matter how you view it, ARRL Field Day is fun!
When Larry Prelog suffered a fatal fall from a radio tower Saturday at a ham radio demonstration in Watervliet, he was doing the routine task of installing an antenna.
It was something the 57-year-old Niles man had done time and time again as a professional installer of radio equipment and radio towers, said Matt Severin, spokesman for the Blossomland Amateur Radio Association (BARA).
Severin said Prelog was at the top of the radio tower, attached by a safety belt, when it fell down sideways, crashing him to the ground.
Joseph J. Phillips Jr., former Enquirer education reporter and amateur radio columnist, died June 20 of a pulmonary embolism at his home here. He was 68.
Mr. Phillips retired from a 28-year career as an English teacher for the Princeton Schools in 1999.
He reported on education for The Enquirer in 1970-1971. During the 1980s, he wrote a twice-monthly column for the paper called "Ham call."
An experienced installer of ham radio equipment has died after a 60-foot-high radio tower he was scaling during an antenna-installation competition collapsed beneath him.
Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey says 57-year-old Larry Prelog of Niles died Sunday, a day after falling during the event in Watervliet Township, about 60 miles south-southwest of Grand Rapids.
Visitors to Buxton's L.L. Stub Stewart State Park were greeted with a forest of a different kind Saturday and Sunday, as amateur radio operators from around the Northwest set up a tall stand of antennas to try to tune in as many friends as possible from around the world, part of a 24-hour "DX contest."
The Kodiak Island Amateur Radio Club had its annual field day of emergency ham radio demonstrations, Saturday afternoon, at the Kodiak Military History Museum at Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park's Miller Point.
The July 2009 issue of QST had a one page overview of some of the major pieces of equipment introduced at the Dayton Hamvention®. There is no way a single person can track down everything on display that's new in the time available, but QST Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR, did find quite a bit more -- much more than can be squeezed into the available QST page. "We reported on many other categories of interest, including new VHF and antenna-related equipment, as well as many categories of accessories," he said "When you click on the link, you'll find a description of the rest of the new items I tracked down during a very busy three days at Dayton."
This feature -- including convenient Web links to useful information -- is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of June.