N7KE - Radio Club of Redmond » RTKCC http://n7ke.net tnx fer cl OM es YL = hope to see you on the air = 73 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:48:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Next RTKCC breakfast – Sat 9/13 http://n7ke.net/2008/09/08/next-rtkcc-breakfast-sat-913/ http://n7ke.net/2008/09/08/next-rtkcc-breakfast-sat-913/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:55:52 +0000 W7CF Dave http://n7ke.net/?p=23 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.
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the Panera Bakery
17262 Redmond Way

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?
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the Panera Bakery
17262 Redmond Way

Here’s the Agenda Mark has in store for us:

1. Around the table. Visitor introductions.
2.  ARRL Field Day (June 28-29).
   Join the RedmondARES/RTKCC/Microhams FD at Redmond’s Farrel McWhirter Park
   or: FD from you home station: Give that new generator a test by operating as “1E”.
4.  Where is the DX?
5. How did you do in the CW WPX, ANARTS RTTY, and the ARRL June VHF contest?
6.  Coming operating events:
   * ARRL Field Day 1800Z, Jun 28 to 2100Z, Jun 29 
   * RAC Canada Day Contest    0000Z-2359Z, Jul 1
   * FISTS Summer Sprint          0000Z-0400Z, Jul 12
   * North American QSO Party, RTTY   1800Z, Jul 19 to 0600Z, Jul 20
7. who is interested in teaming for the NAQP RTTY contest?

]]> http://n7ke.net/2008/06/18/next-rtkcc-breakfast-sat-0621-8am/feed/ 0 Hello world! http://n7ke.net/2008/01/27/hello-world/ http://n7ke.net/2008/01/27/hello-world/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:48:09 +0000 W7CF Dave http://n7ke.net/wordpress/?p=1 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.

]]> http://n7ke.net/2008/01/27/hello-world/feed/ 0 Online practice exams, call sign history http://n7ke.net/2008/01/19/online-practice-exams-call-sign-history/ http://n7ke.net/2008/01/19/online-practice-exams-call-sign-history/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:17:58 +0000 W7CF Dave http://n7ke.net/?p=4 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/

]]> http://n7ke.net/2008/01/19/online-practice-exams-call-sign-history/feed/ 0 RTKCC January breakfast Sat 01/19 @8am http://n7ke.net/2008/01/15/rtkcc-january-breakfast-sat-0119-8am/ http://n7ke.net/2008/01/15/rtkcc-january-breakfast-sat-0119-8am/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:15:37 +0000 W7CF Dave http://n7ke.net/?p=9 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
                   

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