Jul 23

100_2037At the July membership meeting of the Hill Country REACT Team held up in Bulverde, TX at the Bulverde VFD on Cougar Bend Rd & FM 1863, Wednesday night (07/22), the guest speaker was GVARC member Skip WB4DAD talking and demonstrating ways to learn CW and encouraging the members to give CW a try on the air.

You could tell by watching Skip, that he really enjoys his CW.   He demonstrated three different types of keyers, a couple of paddles and a straight key.

For more info about Hill Country REACT Team or their upcoming events, please visit their website at www.hillcountryreact.org or join their yahoo group “hillcountryreact”.

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Jul 23

For all amateur operators: 

The maiden voyage of the Iowa QSO Party will occur on Saturday, October 17th running nine hours from 1400Z (9AM CDT) to 2300Z (6PM CDT). Prizes and certificates will be awarded to top scorers for instate mobile, instate fixed, and out of state fixed stations. Logs and summary sheets must be received on or before November 17th,2009.  Rules are available on the web page: http://www.wa0dx.org/iaqsoparty.html

Sponsoring the event will be the Ottumwa Amateur Radio Club. Working their club call, WA0DX, will earn a 100 point bonus. Special multipliers will be earned for working the three present or past Section Managers who live in the state (SM1, SM2, and SM3). Questions go to N0SM at ARRL.NET.

Note: While the website is live now, there may be some minor changes yet.  We should have things settled by August 15th.  

Joe Hoepfner, KE0J
ARRL Iowa Section ACC

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