BSA – Frontier District Ham-o-Ree

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When: October 5, 2019; 1:00 PM – 5:00PM
Where: ??

14.250 MHz
7.220 MHz
147.090 MHz
146.880 MHz (Backup 2m)
REF063 (DSTAR)

The Scouts in attendance will be looking for ~10minute QSOs each. We will be operating under the callsign K2BSA/3 for those that would like to call and request a QSL card after the event, they can email me treed593 {at} gmail {dit} com

We will also be on the air starting at around 6:00 PM on October 4 until around 9:00 AM on the 6th monitoring for contacts.

Steel City Members:  Lets help the scouts out.

Hurricane Watch Net

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The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) has announced tentative plans to activate on 14.325 MHz on Wednesday, September 18, at 1800 UTC. The net will switch to 7.268 MHz at 2100 UTC on Wednesday.

“Today has been a busy day in the tropics,” Net Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, said. “Since 1500 UTC, four new systems have been identified — two already named. At present, the storm we are most interested in is Hurricane Humberto.” The Category 2 Atlantic storm is forecast to affect Bermuda late Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning, with the eye forecast to remain north of Bermuda. Graves said any deviation to the right of the forecast track could bring the eye closer or even onshore.

The Hurricane Watch Net will remain active on 14.325 MHz for as long as propagation allows, switching to 7.268.00 MHz at 2100 UTC and remaining in operation until Humberto is no longer a threat.

“This activation plan is subject to change,” Graves advised. “As with any net activation, we request observed ground-truth data from those in the affected area (wind speed, wind gust, wind direction, barometric pressure — if available, rainfall, damage, and storm surge). Measured weather data is always appreciated but we do accept estimates.”

Graves said other Atlantic storms include Tropical Depression (TD) 10 and Tropical Storm (TS) Imelda, while on the Eastern Pacific side are TD 14-E, TS Lorena, and the Category 1 Hurricane Kiko.

Minutes Sept. 17, 2019

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This information is for Steel City Members only via the web. For public access please go to the club house on any monthly business meetings for access.


Celebrating 100 years of WWV

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WW0WWV – 1919-2019

We’re glad you’ve joined us to help celebrate the World’s oldest continually operating radio station, WWV, as it turns 100 on October 1, 2019 –  less than 5 months!

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club (NCARC) have reached an agreement and are working together to organize the event.

NIST will focus on the plans for Tuesday, October 1, 2019, when they will host a recognition ceremony and an open house at the radio station north of Fort Collins.

NCARC will operate a special event amateur radio station, call sign WW0WWV, on the WWV property starting September 28 and going 24-hours a day through October 2, 2019.  The goal is to make as many U.S. and world-wide contacts during the 120-hour period as possible, using multiple bands and multiple modes on at least 4 simultaneous transmitters.  The effort will require hundreds of volunteer operators.

For more info on the special event:
http://wwv100.com/

For more info on WWV @ 100 years:
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/10/nist-radio-station-wwv-100-year-anniversary

Steel City @ Science Center

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Steel City ARC was invited down to the Carnegie Science Center for there Adult 21+ night program on Sept 13th 2019.  There was 1500 adults attending that adult only program which we had an estimated 200 of them enter our room to talk about how amateur radio is alive an well in 2019.  We showed them Go Box for how ham radio helps out in emergencies along with a digital station working Europe all night long. We even had them try out an Morse code key while explaining why we still love that form of communication.

Here is Christine N3LRG working all the Europe FT-8 stations. While explaining to people that we use Morse, Digital, and voice for communications.
Here is Christine N3LRG working all the Europe FT-8 stations. While explaining to people that we use Morse, Digital, and voice for communications.
Close up of two of the static demo we had The Icom 756 Pro III and 7300. Karl was using his radio as a morse code oscillator. Our guest really enjoyed that.
Close up of two of the static demo we had The Icom 756 Pro III and 7300. Karl was using his radio as a morse code oscillator. Our guest really enjoyed that.
Here Karl WA3VXJ checking in on the remote
Here Karl WA3VXJ checking in on the remote
Here is our new banner that will be shown at all the hamfest.
Here is our new banner that will be shown at all the hamfest.
Getting all set up here and powered up.
Getting all set up here and powered up.
You cant beat the view of the city from the science center. We had a great view from the 4th floor
You cant beat the view of the city from the science center. We had a great view from the 4th floor
Here is Chris K3PQ
Here is Chris K3PQ
Here Bob trying to get his wife from work to the science center and we had a lot of the center staff checking in with us and asking questions too.
Here Bob trying to get his wife from work to the science center and we had a lot of the center staff checking in with us and asking questions too.
Got get all the Europe station, I worked Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Slovenia all from the center by login into the remote station
Got get all the Europe station, I worked Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Slovenia all from the center by login into the remote station
Here is Jacob KC3MRA
Here is Jacob KC3MRA
Were open come on in!
Were open come on in!
The public starting to come in and ask questions.
The public starting to come in and ask questions.
Set up the 7300 as a code practise oscillator.
Set up the 7300 as a code practise oscillator.
Here Chris working the crowd
Here Chris working the crowd
Just some of the people we had an estimated 200 people out of the 1500 that stop in to check out ham radio
Just some of the people we had an estimated 200 people out of the 1500 that stop in to check out ham radio
There was a lot of interest in the QSL card we brought down to the show
There was a lot of interest in the QSL card we brought down to the show
Here is Jacob working the crowd
Here is Jacob working the crowd
Yep we had a lot of ladies asking questions also.
Yep we had a lot of ladies asking questions also.
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IMG 20190913 180720580 (1)
FT-8 flowing across the digital station
FT-8 flowing across the digital station
Again a great view of the city the night time view was just as good
Again a great view of the city the night time view was just as good
Steel City ARC @ The Carnegie Science Center
Steel City ARC @ The Carnegie Science Center

SUNDAY NIGHT DIGITAL NET

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Try out the area wide digital net on the Keystone-West network. Local users can access it on the W3KWH 444.450 repeater or any of Pittsburgh area C4FM repeaters, we are going to have a area wide digital net on the system fusion KEYSTONE-WEST room.  Room number #60328.  With the Yaesu Fusion getting more popular we thought it would help out operators just getting into the Fusion System somewhere to go to for information.  If your club has an Yaesu System Fusion repeater talk the leadership into connecting it to room #60328 for at least one hour a week.