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August Hootenanny and Cookout
In place of the August meeting which would normally be on Wednesday August 11th there will be a Hootenanny and Cookout on Saturday August 14th from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Where? Signal Hill — Domino Farms. Bring your instruments, bring your voice, and bring something to grill.
REMEMBER — This event replaces the regular meeting for the month of August ONLY. The normal meeting schedule will be resumed in September 2010
Arrow General Meeting
July 14th, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the Red Cross Chapter, 4624 Packard Rd., Ann Arbor
The top prize at Dayton this was a D-Star repeater system. The country of France thinks that it should be illegal!
What is it all about? What is the controversy? Find out at the next meeting.
Jim Kvochick, WB8AZP will be giving a presentation on the D-Star system. Don’t miss it
One Helluva Ride
(Apologies to the AABTS for stealing most of this from their website www.aabts.org).
The Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society (AABTS) presents the 34th Annual One Helluva Ride (OHR) on Saturday, July 10, 2010. Join us for a day of scenic bicycle touring over tree-lined, paved roads in Washtenaw, Ingham, Jackson and Livingston counties. The routes wind through rural and recreation areas on beautiful rolling terrain, and vary enough to appeal to a broad range of bicyclists.
OHR riders can choose from six great loop routes this year. Four will start and end at Chelsea Fairgrounds in Chelsea, Michigan. The two Fun Rides will start and end at Portage Lake State Park. All the routes share the same central lunch stop at Portage Lake State Park, so that family members and friends who decide to take different routes can meet.
SAG vehicles will be making continuous circuits of all routes throughout ride hours. THIS IS WHERE ARROW COMES IN. Their help is available to all riders with problems. Priority will be given to those riders with serious medical problems, followed by those with irreparable mechanical difficulties, and lastly to those who simply “tire” or need to fix a flat one!
Mechanics will be available at the Fairgrounds and at some of the rest stops to aid in making bicycle repairs.
About 16 – 20 hams with mobile rigs/antennae (HTs rarely work) are needed throughout the day. Stay a few hours or stay all day.
Contact James W8ISS (w8iss@amsat.org) or George K9TRV (ghbyrkit@chartermi.net) to sign up. (George can give all the gory details if you want).
2010 Fourth of July Run and Parade information
Greets everyone.
Here’s what I have for the 2010 Ann Arbor Fourth of July parade:
Date: July 4th, 2010
Time: 9am
Location: Downtown Ann Arbor
Meeting place: South State St. and East Williams St.
Talk-in: W8UM repeater then going simplex for event
There is also the Firecracker 5k run that starts at 8am in the UofM Diag area. There is no actual need for COMMUNICATIONS but they have asked for support as Course Marshalls this year if anyone is interested in coming out before the parade. Please sign up on the Volunteer page for the Firecracker 5k if you can provide support:
http://www.a2firecracker5k.com/
and follow the link on the side for VOLUNTEERS
I know its a little late……..
Well, a little late is better than never…:)
Just to post here about last weekends 2010 June VHF QSO Party operation out at Signal Hill.
Final count for this weekend:
6m – 97
2m – 26
1 1/4cm – 9
70cm – 10
23cm – 1
6m was wide open a good majority of the time this contest.
You can view a few pictures at:
http://www.nuge.com/~wb8tkl/vhfuhf-June2010/
Field Day!!
Field Day this year takes place on Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27. As all of us old-timers know, Field Day is the quintessential ham radio event. It’s a combination of the following:
- emergency-preparedness exercise. We operate out of tents, using power NOT supplied by the power grid.
- contest. The goal of the contest is to make as many contacts as you can over a 24-hour period.
- club get-together.
- PR event. We invite the public, served agencies, and elected officials to come out and see what ham radio is all about.
This year, as we have for the last six or seven years, ARROW will be setting up at Domino’s Farms, near the Petting Zoo, the so-called “Signal Hill.” Basically, the chain of events is:
- Friday evening: setup begins
- Saturday morning ~ 9am: final setup
- Saturday, 2pm: operating starts
- Saturday, 6pm-ish: dinner
- Saturday night: more operating
- Sunday morning: more operating. We also usually have some kind of breakfast.
- Sunday 2pm: operating ends, teardown begins
I would strongly encourage you all to come out to Field Day. It is really a blast and a great introduction to ham radio, if you’re a newcomer or even have just a passing interest. One of the five stations that we will have on the air is the “Get on the Air” station, and its purpose is to get newcomers and the general public on the air.
If you feel more comfortable making contacts, we’d love to have you sit down and make some contacts at one of the other stations. We will have two CW stations, two phone stations, and a VHF/UHF station in addition to the Get on the Air station. I’ll be captain of one of the CW stations, and if you’ve mastered the art of Morse Code, I want you as one of my operators!
For more information about Field Day in general, go to http://www.arrl.org/field-day. If you have any questions about ARROW’s Field Day operation, contact, Michelle, KD8GWX, at michelle.roderick@wc-redcross.org or 734-260-7893.
73!
Dan KB6NU
May Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Arrow will be held on Wednesday May 12th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Washtenaw County Red Cross Chapter, 4624 Packard Rd., Ann Arbor, MI. There will be last minute information on the Dayton Bus Trip scheduled for Saturday May 15th. The presentation will be on the mini-Maker Fair and its larger cousin.
7:00 – 7:30 PM Face to Face QSOs
7:30 – 8:00 PM The “boring” Business Meeting with the “exciting” Dayton Bus Trip Update
8:00 – 9:00 PM The mini-Maker Faire
ARROW’s 8th Annual Dayton Hamvention Bus Trip – Time’s Running Out!!!
All seats are full!!! The bus has sold out. Please contact the Activities Coordinator at activities@w8pgw.org with any questions.
The ARROW Communications Association, once again, is proud to sponsor a motor coach trip to the 2010 Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio. Started in 2002, this annual club activity has grown in size and reputation with Hams across Michigan. We have been host to over 300 Hams for this event. Last year was a sell out and based on early interest, we expect to sell out again this year!
Join us Saturday, May 15, 2010, when we depart from Ann Arbor at 4:30 am, arriving in Dayton around 8:00 am. On board, you can stretch out, relax, chat with other Hams and enjoy a continental breakfast with coffee as the coach takes you directly to the door of the country’s largest amateur radio event!
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Welcome to the new W8PGW.ORG!!!
Welcome to our new site. We have re-designed the site in order to make it easy to find the information you need, and to include some of the more modern tools available in web design.
Whenever a new site is released, there may be an item or two out of place. Please feel free to take a look at the site, and tell me what you think.
Thank you,
Ken – kd8ipn
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