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LHARG Monthly News – January, 2024

For 2024 we posted the Net Control Operator schedule, ARRL Contests and State QSO Parties.  The Club participated in the ARRL RTTY Contest. RTTY also known as radio teletype typewriter was very popular in the 60-70’s and a main method of networked typed remote communications of that day. It uses a 5 bit frequency-shifted “Baudot” scheme of “1” and “0”. With shifting, capable of 2×32 combinations of letters, numbers and carriage control characters. John, NQ6Q contributed 141 QSO’s covering 38 States, 10 Canadian and 3 foreign entities. Dan, KN6DRN had 25 QSO’s including 12 States, 2 Canadian Provinces. The East Coast was hot with 29 total contacts made. Meetings are held at the South Tower every Monday night at 6:30 PM. Our club conducts a weekly radio network at 7:00 PM every Monday on the W6LHR Repeater at 147.030 MHz, 167.9 PL. If you are looking for a way to engage in the community and have an interest in amateur radio, please check out the LHARG. We can help with programming handheld radios. For more LHARG information visit our Website, the URL is: lharg.us or email dlehrer72@gmail.com

LHARG Monthly News – December, 2023

We are excited to welcome new member, Ken, W6KDS. Our Club participated in the ARRL Sweepstakes Contest and contacted 33 States including 6 on the East Coast, as well as Hawaii & Alaska. This contest required a complicated exchange, therefore a logging demo by Dan, KN6DRN provided useful tips and tricks. Our Hams & Coffee get together was a blast. Art, KI6GYY provided delicious home baked cookies and the conversations covered a wide range of topics.

We are all looking forward to a new year of Ham events such as Winter Field Day, POTA and of course Field Day in June. Meetings are held at the South Tower every Monday night at 6:30 PM. Our club conducts a weekly radio network at 7:00 PM every Monday on the W6LHR Repeater at 147.030 MHz, 167.9 PL. If you are looking for a way to engage in the community and have an interest in amateur radio, please check out the LHARG. We can help with programming handheld radios. For more LHARG information visit our Website, the URL is: lharg.us or email dlehrer72@gmail.com