During this month’s DCARC meeting last Monday, the club celebrated with Paul in his recent achievement of passing of both the General and Extra exams. While we’re all eager to welcome him to the full spectrum of HF radio, the group was just as eager to partake in the cake!
Congrats again, Paul!
The Blackswamp Council of the Boy Scouts is hosting the 2024 Klondike Derby this year at Camp Lakota. It will be held on Saturday, January 20th. This is an outdoor event that runs from 8:00am till 2:00pm.
They are asking for Amateur Radio support for this event. The Van Wert club will be coordinating the event and supplying the base radio equipment. What will be needed is for Hams to be at each of the 8 locations on the event route to provide any communications back to the base. No one knows what the weather will be like that day so plan for cold and blustery. We should get a time to be there soon. Also any frequencies that you might have to program into your handheld.
Please let me know if you can help out all or part of the day. I have to get a head count back to the planners pretty quick. Thanks.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
73 John
Paul and his wife were kind enough to send over this fantastic collection of photos capturing our members hard at work (or in some cases, hardly working!) for everyone to enjoy!
This morning, the work day went very well. The 147.090 is operating from a temporary enclosure. The existing building is unhooked all items removed, ready to leave the repeater site. Paul reported to me early this afternoon that the existing repeater building will be removed tomorrow morning. There is another work day scheduled for tomorrow morning. The new building will be installed tomorrow providing everything goes well. Helping today was:
Paul N8RLB
John KD8JSP
Bob KB8UPA
Stan W8SRD
Ed WD8JVV
Ed Ballard WD8JVV
On Wednesday there were lots of people present for the work day. A list of names will be at the end of the update. The roof of the existing building is clear (I am purposely skipping lots of details) a TV tower on the back of the building was taken down (to be used later). A lot of stuff was cleaned out of the building, not everything but a lot. The solar panel is at my house to undergo a modification.
Next work day is scheduled for Monday Oct. 9th at 9AM.
We will be switching over to the temporary repeater enclosure.
Removing everything from the old building, in preparation of installing the new building.
Present at the Wednesday work day (not in any order)
John KD8JSP
Terry W8UY
Kevin W8NI
Stan W8SRD
Paul & Kathy N8RLB
Dan N8KPQ
Ed WD8JVV
Thank all of you for the support.
Ed Ballard WD8JVV
After several days of work the latest was Friday, Saturday September 29 and 30th. In attendance were Paul N8RLB, Stan W8SRD, Ed WD8JVV, on these work days, wall studs, insulation was installed, wiring and outlets were installed. Finally wallboard was put up to cover up all internal workings. I need Stan to take a few pictures inside and outside the building, if you will please Stan. To be accomplished yet, we must remove the electrical entrance panel from the old repeater building and install it in the new building. Remove the repeaters from the existing building and relocate the 147.090 repeater in the temporary enclosure which is already installed at the site. I am leaving out lots of details that must be accomplished to complete these tasks, but you get the idea.
This is it for the update we are getting closer to being done.
Ed Ballard WD8JVV
P.S. others helping on this project were Bob Rambo, John and Barb St. Peter and I am sure more! Thank you all for supporting the effort.
Welcome to the updated website for the Defiance County Amateur Radio Club!
We are in the process of completing the setup for our calendar, resource links, news, and design, so please bear with us for the next few days while we get everything in order.
In the meantime, please have a look around! If you’re a club member and have items to contribute (pictures, articles, calendar events, or links to essential resources), please reach out to Randall (WZ8Q)!