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 ‼️
Amateur Radio Meetings Ought To Be About ... Radio
I’m an accidental Board member of the Mount Baker Amateur Radio Club and thus I’m part of the planning for future meetings of the club, so now I’m paying a bit more attention to the relevance of Amateur Radio clubs and their meetings.
Zero Retries on "Saving" Amateur Radio
In Zero Retries newsletter 135, Editor Steve Stroh N8GNJ inaugurated a series of articles about the future of Amateur Radio with one titled Techies, Data Communications, and Experimentation with New Radio Technologies Could “Save” Amateur Radio which starts with:
February Contest Corral
The February 2024 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.
Maintaining a Junk Box
In this episode of ARRL’s monthly On The Air podcast: “Maintaining a junk box—a collection of odds and ends that can be used in future projects and repairs—is a time-honored practice among hams. Every ham radio junk box has to start somewhere, though. The cover story of the January/February 2024 issue of On the Air, A Fine Mess: Starting Your Junk Box, by Eric P. Nichols, KL7AJ, offers advice about how to do just that. The January 2024 episode of the On the Air podcast digs deeper by going on location to the workshop of W1AW, ARRL’s Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station. Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, welcomes us into this working space to show us some real-life junk boxes and discuss how they come in handy. “1
January Meeting Arrival Time
We do not have access to the West Fargo Fire Department HQ Building for our January Activity (AKA January Meeting) until 6:45 PM.
⚠️ Please do not arrive before 6:45 PM.
