QSY Society Amateur Radio Club: Get on the Air!

The QSY Society Amateur Radio Club demonstrates an amateur radio station at the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum (MHCM) on Saturday, September 26. The club is promoting awareness of Henry Hudson’s 400th anniversary voyage of discovery, as well as encouraging others to try amateur radio and foster goodwill.

We expect to be on 40m CW, SSB + 20M CW, SSB, PSK31 + expect to also be on 2m SSB & FM intermittently from 11AM to 5PM

Special Event Call sign N2H and K2QS our club station.

Our club station will be operating to get “Kids on The Air” so if you hear them calling CQ K2QS please return their call. QSL to KC2QFR for the K2QS call.

QSL info on N2H.us and additional details on qrz special events forum.

More Details & Flyer

30 meter fun activity this weekend.

Here is the flyer: tinyurl.com/mjkb6f

Also visit the 30M Digital Group at www.30meterdigital.org

73 de Fred KC2QFR

At the QSY meeting on Tuesday I will be doing a presentation and demo of WSPR Weak Signal Propagation reporter. Runs QRP so it is good for all. I will explain how to use it for your own propagation and antenna studies/evaluation.

See http://wsprnet.org and http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/ for some reading before the meeting.

If someone has a portable MP-1 vertical, hamstick or buddipole, anything else thats a quick setup (for 30m QRP) I can have it running live on 30m where most activity occurs, otherwise I will run on 20m with my hamsticks.

To see the propagation reporter database go here:

http://wsprnet.org/meptspots.php?mode=html&band=all&limit=50&findcall=kc2qfr&findreporter=kc2qfr&sort=date

It should come up live for my call but if not put my call in as follows then push go to see how the system works for reporting.

Search for call:
Show spots heard by:

You can also go to wsprnet.org and do the same thing (database link).
Click activity to see who is on what band.

73 de Fred KC2QFR

Friday, June 26th was a test to see that everyone could find the Field Day site. I am pleased to say that everyone passed! Now that the storms are gone, it’s time to kick things into high gear and get ourselves ready for Field Day! See you at 8:00.

I saw this super compact power supply mentioned in the Elecraft forum. Sounds interesting but is not cheap. Good for portable ops.

See www.gammaresearch.net