Thank You for Making Our Hamfest a Success
Thank-you to the sponsors, attendees, seminar speakers, vendors, volunteers, and our hosts: the Minnesota National Guard. Your support and involvement made this event a great success!
See you next year ‼️
Chasing Satellites
Ever wonder about amateur radio in space? Learn all about it here with this great presentation by Doug Tabor - N6UA explaining all about chasing satellites at the 2018 Winter Hamfest hosted by Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club. 1
Consider Running for Office
Officers and a Board of Directors are essential to the operation of the Red River Radio Amateurs and our club owes a debt of gratitude to those who have stepped forward to fill these leadership positions.
But, for the health of our organization, we can not continue to depend upon the same few individuals in perpetuity. It is, therefore, well past time for new Officers to step forward from within our membership.
As specified in Article III of the RRRA Bylaws, a leadership election will be conducted during the February Meeting.
First D-Star Satellite Successfully Launched
On February 1, 2018, the D-Star ONE cube sat was part of the payload successfully launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket.
3Y0Z Bouvet Island DXpedition Aborted
From the bouvetdx.org News, Updates & Information page:
February 3, 2018, 2000 UTC: During the last 72 hours, we continued to experience the high winds, low clouds, fog and rough seas that have prevented helicopter operations since our arrival at Bouvet. No improvement was predicted in the weather forecast for the next four days. Then, last night, an issue developed in one of the ship’s engines.
This morning, the captain of the vessel declared it unsafe to continue with our project and aborted the DXpedition. We are now on our long voyage back to Punta Arenas. As you might imagine, the team is deeply disappointed, but safe. There is already talk about rescheduling the DXpedition 1
The Doctor is In: Automatic Gain Control
Learn how to improve your radio listening experience in the Automatic Gain Control episode of the ARRL The Doctor is in podcast.
