WØRRC REPEATERS
2-meters
Analog/C4FM
145.3900-, DCS 047
70-centimeters
Analog/C4FM
444.4750+, Tone 118.8
RPG or Role Playing Games on the radio
Hi Everyone!
Iam looking for some days & times we can get together to plan a ham radio RPG. I am looking at using the new Star Trek Adventures system for the game. A PDF copy of the game rules can be purchased at drivethrurpg.com or a hard copy can likely be found on Amazon.com. I would like to make up characters and discuss how this will work out. Thanks everyone for your attention!
Chris Haukoos
KEØCAL
Club Elections are coming!
Greetings members..
Dec meeting is the 3rd Wed of Dec. at Richfield community center 70th and nic. richfield Mn.
we have officers to get in the running for the Jan meeting voting.I would also make it a pot luck for the Dec meeting. We also have winter field day to talk about. We have changed the Thurs round table net to 18:30 and need net control operators to sign up.would like to get the net covered for 2 months net control operators and keep it going from there. The Gota Event went well thank you to all who helped.
Yours In service
Tom KEØKTD
RARC’s 2nd GOTA event is coming on Oct 28th!!!
Flyer by SouL R,
GOTA event is…
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Get hands using the radios
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To encourage good radio values
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Learn more about HF
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Meeting with others
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Having fun
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Swapping stories
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Ask others for help
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Encourage to get a new ham license and upgrades
(no alcohol allowed!)
Please email for more information Tom at: KE0KTD@gmail.com
Battleship over-the-air
Sunday’s is our club’s Role Play Game and Battleship Game Day!
This is to be always a kid friendly net.
Role Playing Game information, Battleship Game instructions, and Battleship Game Card
Call for Chris KEØCAL
Field Day 2017
To All,
June 24th to 25th at 7000 Nicollet Ave S.
Starts at 9am on Saturday for setup & cleanup ends about 2pm on Sunday.
Talk-in Frequencies 145.390- DCS047N (Anolog / Fusion), 444.475+ Tone 118.8, 147.090+, & 146.520 simplex
Field Day is the biggest ham radio event of the year. We need more than people talking on the radio. We need people to log contacts and anyone can do that without getting stage fright. We have loads of activities that never requires a microphone. Today we have already 22 people coming.
Sign up here to join us we need RSVP
Please remember no tobacco or alcohol on location.
If you only stop for 5 mins that would appreciated.
I wanted to answer some questions about Field Day.
Can I bring anything to help?
Yes, we will need refreshments and coolers (but no alcoholic drinks allowed at any time.) We prefer bottled drinks with lids, & not cans. Any snacks that you want to share or just for yourself. We don’t have any formal Saturday lunch or Sunday breakfast plans. If you want to bring your personal equipment RARC, BARA, and(OR) the City of Richfield is not responsible at any time. We may elect to use or not use your personal equipment if you plan to share it. Recovery or return of your equipment is not the responsibility of RARC, BARA, and(or) the City of Richfield.
Coffee and Tea?
We need someone to take charge on this. Please email me at
What is a Gamer in the FD survey?
We had last year invited a couple (board game meetup groups) that had help us get additional people during the thin hours. This was suggested by a couple of our members. The gamer’s knew that FD was the 1st priority, and they invited anyone to play with them. We will continue to invite them to run in the background this year. I think we had 6 gamers last year. We will keep it to a small group of players.
How many stations will be there?
We will have 3 HF stations and 1 GOTA station. (See Bill’s presentation for the GOTA station)
What HF bands are we doing?
Station 1 will be doing 75 meters.
Station 2 will be doing 20 and 10 meters.
Station 3 will be doing 40 and 15 meters.
Why these bands?
- 20m is the busiest HF band and is the most open.
- 15m uses the same antenna as 40m with no tuning, and is the closest to 20m for being open
- 40m is the best when 20m goes dead and the best after sunset and during the night.
- 75m is for the regional areas of MN, IA, SD, ND, & WI this band can be noisy if storms are around during the night.
- 10m we can work the whole USA and Canada when it opens. (Side Note… This band was open the last 2 days and I worked 25 stations in a couple hours)
What things are we doing besides talking on the radio? (Again I am not guaranteeing everything listed below but we will try!)
Please look at Bill’s presentation http://71.195.48.160/~bill/20170606_bara_presentation.pdf.
- A lot of digital mode communications that requires no microphone
- Meteor Scatter (This is one I am look forward for to seeing)
- CW operation (Yes, this it is digital but I classify it differently than a PC mode)
- Hidden transmitter finding or a fox hunting. (Every ham should learn how to do this!)
- Satellite communication (We don’t know when this will happen)
- Basic antenna building and tuning (through 2m)
- Go Boxes show and tell
- DMR Radio
- Fusion Radio
- D-Star Radio
- Improving my handheld radio’s range
- Help programing or figuring out how to use my radio
- Ham radio study group
- Playing board games
Again, all Field Day activities are kid & family friendly….
Sign up here to join us we need RSVP
Thanks,
Don
Feb Meeting Minutes
Richfield ARC people Attending meeting Feb 15,2017
Avery Finn, K0HLA
Matt ? No call yet
Jason C. No call yet
Ray Obryan, KC0VSX
Tom Schneider, KE0KTD
Dan Lundwall, KD7DJL
Mike Hohmany, KE0GZT
Paul Dieteler, W0HWY
Tom Simuta, KD0 DFG
Don Clay, KC0TJ
Herm Saul, W0HJS
Chris Houkous, KC0CAL
Jeff Bekz, KG7ONF
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Richfield ARC minutes Feb 15, 2017
– my tape recorder stopped working when it was hit by the sliding clip board so I may have missed some things –
Old business was first:
Minutes from December meeting approved .Meeting adjourned 2019 CST.
Report from Herm on QCWA meeting with program on cyber security.
Report from Don on Tech & General Study groups.
Lucas had a baby girl.
Repeater up-date…..
A) Needed net controls
B) Monday call-up net on UHF machine at 6:00 pm CST.
New business:
Richfield ARC showing CERT & ARC appeared in newsletter with 3 people related to the club in the news.
Field Day ( June 24-25 ) 2017 was mentioned.
A) Question on location – possibly library location.
B) Make it a family affair – video games , etc for kids
C) Make arrangements for a press release. ( 100 extra points for it )
D) Who can bring equipment ?
E) Invite Bloomington ARC, Boy Scouts, and possibility others.
F) Beginners station – Hands on
Talked about an on the air event possibly in September like last year.
Special event station maybe ?
CERT member class – see Don
“T” Shirts – 3 or 4 possible vendors but only one can do the slash mark on the zero….. Still waiting on more information.
Meeting closed at 7:53 pm CST ( 1953 CST ).
Respectively
Avery Finn, K0HLA
Richfield ARC Club Secretary
Monthly Meeting Tonight 7pm
Just a reminder the Richfield Amateur Radio Club will be holding it’s monthly meeting at the Richfield Community Center at 7pm.
All are welcome: Club Members, other Hams and Non Hams interested in the hobby or just emergency communications.
Tonight’s After meeting Activities:
Experienced Solderers Bring your Soldering Kits and any projects you want to demo
Experienced Radio Programmers bring your programing computers, cables, etc (we will be helping newer Hams program Radios)
Newer Hams please also bring the above or just your Radios (Prefer you bring at least a programing cable also just in case)
Tonight’s meeting will be short and to the point to allow for more time on the activities.
RARC Study Groups
Please invite anyone and join the rarcstudy@googlegroups.com if you want to be a new ham or get your General license or to help others to study. We don’t charge any fees.
We will have 2 gathering and both will be at 70th and Nicollet (Richfield Community Center) first day is March 1st Wed 7-9pm. 2nd is March 5th Sunday 2-5pm. Both days will be reviewing the same questions and anyone can go-to both. we will be covering T1, T2, G1, & G2 (This will be explained below.)
At all gatherings member’s are encouraged to take their own notes & bring a study guide to use as a reference. Anyone may ask questions to the group or any of the Elmer’s at anytime.
I am using www.hamstudy.org to sub group the questions. Questions are marked as T1A, T2B, or G1A, G12A (first letter equals Tech or Gen, the number relates to the test number in a group, & last letter defines the group of a type of questions.) All test guides use this same numbering.
If you need help to understanding of a question or an idea to share please email it to rarcstudy@googlegroups.com and we will get back to you. We have Elemers in this group ready to help you.
This study group is for anyone to learn how to get their new ham radio license (Technician license) &/or to help anyone to learn their General license regardless of affiliations. This is sponsored primarily by Richfield Amateur Radio Club and Richfield CERT team.
Sub organizations we support are: Bloomington Communications Group, Bloomington Amateur Radio Association, & Minnesota Emergency Preparedness Meetup.
We encourage everyone to support the Bloomington Amateur Radio VE Team for the official testing location per their location to our gathering locations. We don’t require people to take their test to anyone testing group, but we will track Bloomington’s VE’s testing times and fees.
Finally our study group is asking everyone to spend 20mins a day to study 14 or less questions by hamstudy.org‘s sub group sets under “Read Questions” the series of G1A, or T1A, and then use the “flash cards” of G1, or T1 under its study sub set. Then work on G2A or T2A series and repeat.
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Presentation at SRRRMN Meeting 25 FEB ~1200
For full details please go to:
http://www.srrrmn.org/current-events.html
Presentation: “What were they thinking?”
Analyzing what the pilot was attempting when something went wrong.
From a CAP/Search managers point of view.
Presented by Major Tom Fitzhenry
Director of Emergency Services Minnesota Wing CAP
Interested parties from other organizations are welcome to attend.