Field Day 2016 Locations & Info

Posted on 2016-06-14 by KF7LTT-Stan

Field Day is coming up (Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC (1100 our time) Saturday and running through 2059 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2016 is June 25-26)! This year we plan to set up at Hunter’s Field; just North of Shelton on Highway 101.

This Is The Place! (Where have I heard that before?)

Address is: 13399 U.S. 101. @47.2596344,-123.1494728 for the GPS inclined. North of Shelton on U.S. 101 for the Map Literate. Bout 1 mile North of the Airport for the Good-Ol-Boys. There’ll be a sign next to the road for the rest of us. (I hope!)

ALSO: K7TIT (Dan) & NX7ED (Ed) are setting up the GOTA Station in the Kneeland Park Picnic Shelter, Shelton, Wa. from 0800-1800 (8 am to 6 pm) Saturday, 25 June 2016.  If you ever thought you wanted to talk on the radio, this would be the place to give it a try!

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Visit the GOTA Station and get tickets for free hot dogs at the Hunter’s Field site!

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Next MC-ARC Meeting: 2016-06-11

Posted on 2016-06-06 by KF7LTT-Stan

The Mason County Amateur Radio Club will meet Saturday, June 11, 2016 @ 8:30 AM at the Alpine Way Continuing Care Community in Shelton, Washington. (Coffee provided) Y’all come join us. Everybody is welcome! Remember that Testing is immediately after the meeting. (See sidebar.) This is the last meeting before Field Day (25-26 June) so y’all come and help plan what we want to do as a Club.

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Dan Ransom (K7MM) gave a pretty good talk on HamWan at the last meeting. We really appreciate him driving all the way to Shelton to present to us! He’s welcome back anytime!

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Dan (K7TIT) got out and worked on Roland’s (KC7WNJ) antenna to get him back on the HF bands. (With a slight assist from Marlene (AE7VG) and Stan (KF7LTT).) Thanks, Y’all!

Don’t forget to check out our Forums & Pictures! (And that live lightning link is pretty cool too!)

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Next MC-ARC Meeting: 2016-05-14

Posted on 2016-05-11 by KF7LTT-Stan

(Sorry about that. Had a complete senior moment. May. I meant May. (Y’all should know that!))

The Mason County Amateur Radio Club will meet Saturday, May 14, 2016 @ 8:30 AM at the Alpine Way Continuing Care Community in Shelton, Washington. (Coffee provided) Y’all come join us. Everybody is welcome! Remember that Testing is immediately after the meeting. (See sidebar.)

Doug Wheelock, KF5BOC, Expedition 24 flight engineer, operates the NA1SS ham radio station in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

Reminder: Dan Ransom, PE, (K7MM & Secretary/Treasurer of the South Kitsap Amateur Radio Club (so he’s kind of important)) is going to give a presentation on HamWan. HamWAN is a non-profit organization (501c3) developing best practices for high speed amateur radio data networks. HamWAN also runs the Puget Sound Data Ring, which is a real-world network implementation of the proposed designs.

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CPRG April Classes Available.

Posted on 2016-04-11 by KF7LTT-Stan

capital peak repeater classes 4 2016

Echo Link Class, Evergreen Intertie Class, Capital Peak Repeater Class
30 April 2016 noon till done
see the attached flyer.
please send on to your ham friends.
Class is in Olympia.
Thank You
Lloyd K7WG

(You can click on the picture to see a bigger one.

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Next MC-ARC Meeting: 2016-04-09

Posted on 2016-04-04 by KF7LTT-Stan

The Mason County Amateur Radio Club will meet Saturday, April 9th, 2016 @ 8:30 AM at the Alpine Way Continuing Care Community in Shelton, Washington. (Coffee provided) Y’all come join us. Everybody is welcome! Remember that Testing is immediately after the meeting. (See sidebar.)

Updated MC-ARC Picture

Y’all be sure to check the “Blogroll” to the right. It contains links to some interesting sites (of probable interest to Hams) and the New MC-ARC Forums. (Forums are a place for one and all to engage in actual conversation instead of just reading “stuff.”) Check them out and get them to working the way you want them.

Note from the “Webmaster:” I sure could use someone to be a “backup” Webmaster just in case.

Field day is coming on fast! Plans are to have a GOTA Station at the Kneeland Park Picnic Shelter (run by K7TIT) and the usual gathering at the usual field north of town.

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