Articles by W7CF Dave

as last year, RTKCC is joining RedmondARES and Microhams in this year’s ARRL Field Day, a weekend full of operating radio outdoors & off the grid, trying new modes and certainly visiting with fellow and future OMs.

More details and location: http://www.microhams.com/fieldday

Paul NG7Z introduced us to the annual QRP Fox Hunt at our last Saturday breakfast. The QRP Fox Hunt Comittee is recruiting foxes for 40m and 80m.

A QRP Fox Hunt is a series of 90 minute Amateur Radio events during which low-power (QRP) stations, or “Hounds,” attempt to make contact with specific QRP stations designated as “The Fox.”

See http://www.qrpfoxhunt.org/ for more details

next meeting, one week early!!, this Saturday 9/13, same place, same time (8am), see you all at:
the Panera Bakery
17262 Redmond Way

Agenda:

1. Around the table. Visitor introductions.
2. How about operating at N7KE during the Salmon Run?.
3. NAQP SSB Results? How did our RTKCC team do?
4. What is the best band for summer time DX? Work any DX on 40M lately? How about 30M?
5. Up coming operating events:
   • WA Salmon Run: Sep 20 (1600-0700UTC) & Sep 21 (1600-2400UTC).
     Rules see WWDX site; also see “WACYA Award - Worked All CountY Award”
     Spend all your time on 75 M to work all 39 counties over the weekend. Be sure to work N7KE on all bands. Be sure to put “Redmond Top Key Contest Club” (RTKCC) on your SR entry.

next meeting this Saturday 8/16, same place, same time (8am), see you all at:
the Panera Bakery
17262 Redmond Way

Agenda:  

1. Around the table. Visitor introductions.
2. How about joining the RTKCC NAQP SSB Team this weekend? We can sign you up at the meeting, using WiFi. Bill, W7GKF, is the team leader. Up to 5 members. Do we need a second RTKCC SSB team?
3. NAQP CW Results? How did our RTKCC team do?
4. What is the best band for summer time DX?
5. Up coming operating events:
   * NAQP SSB this weekend. 1800Z 08/16 to 0600Z 08/17, 2008  (11am to 11pm PDT)
   * WA Salmon Run in September, 9/20-9/21.

Agenda:

1. Around the table. Visitor introductions.
2. Where is the DX?
3. Field Day reports. What did you do for Field Day?
4. Really, where is the DX?
5. How did you do in the RAC Canada Day Contest, FISTS Summer Sprint, and the IARU HF World Championship?  Did you send in your log yet?
6. Coming operating events:
   • North American QSO Party, RTTY   1800Z, Jul 19 to 0600Z, Jul 20 (this saturday)
   • North American QSO Party, CW 1800Z, Aug 2 to 0600Z, Aug 3
   • WAE DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Aug 9 to 2359Z, Aug 10
   • North American QSO Party, SSB 1800Z, Aug 16 to 0600Z, Aug 17
7. Anyone interested in teaming for the NAQP contests? How about RTTy, CW, and SSB?

next meeting this Saturday 2/16, same place, same time, see you all at:

the Panera Bakery
17262 Redmond Way
Redmond, WA 98052

Welcome to the new N7KE site of the Redmond Top Key Contest Club!

The site is mostly ready and it has the content we had on our previous site. Please add comments and suggestions by adding comments to this post.

Here the links I mentioned at today’s breakfast:

Practice exams online:
http://www.qrz.com/testing.html
http://www.eham.net/exams/
http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/

call sign lookup with some history; note that both sites have a database that only includes ULS system history, reaching back to mid/late 80s only
http://www.ae7q.com
http://www.vanityhq.com/

This year’s first breakfast will be this Saturday Jan 19 at 8am.

as usual, see you all at:
the Panera Bakery
17262 Redmond Way
Redmond, WA 98052