Red River Radio Amateurs

These events have been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 situation:

• May Meetings Changed and Testing Session Canceled

• Meeting took place on the W0ILO Repeater system instead of in-person in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Meeting called to order by President Jarod W0JPJ at 19:02
• 18 stations checked in

In this episode of ARRL’s biweekly Eclectic Tech podcast: “aeronautical radio on HF; the NCDXF/IARU beacon system; SpaceX’s Starlink network; putting your computer to work to search for a COVID-19 cure.”¹

Effective Sunday, May 3^rd, the Goose River 160 meter net will change to its summer hours. The net will meet at 7:00 AM local time on a frequency of 1.925 MHz and will continue throughout the summer.

Thanks to everyone who has been getting up to participate in the net. Our numbers are up and we enjoy having all the stations check in. Please join us and be a part of one of the oldest nets in the Red River Valley.

Please contact if you have questions or comments about this net.

In episode 255 of the Foundations of Amateur Radio podcast, Onno VK6FLAB, discusses a fundamental aspect of out hobby.

The activities that our community places under the banner of amateur radio are many and varied. I’ve referred to this as a thousand hobbies in one. If you look at the surface, you’ll find all manner of activities that readily attach to our hobby.

Activations for example are invented at any opportunity, from parks to peaks, light houses, bridges, trains, boats, lakes, roads, locators and countries. We pursue contesting, making contacts using different modes, different power levels, we pick the frequencies on which we operate.

If you dig a little deeper you might consider investigating propagation, or antenna builds, electronics, physics and more.

It occurs to me that there is an underlying activity, one that any amateur can participate in and most do at what ever level they choose.

It’s the act of being curious. ¹