Next meeting dates, Thursday May 1st at 10AM and Monday May 5th at 7PM

Welcome to the Madison County Amateur Radio Club of Central Indiana

At the last meeting, we talked about some more activities for the club. Susie Weaver, N9HJK our activities director mentioned having a rummage sale this spring. With a small group at the meeting, it's hard to know what the membership thinks on some issues. If you have any input about the rummage sale, email Susie, N9HJK so we can get an idea if this is something you would like to see the club do. Or any other activity you think the club would like to participate in.

I forgot to mention it at the last meeting, but the Indiana Qso Party is coming up Saturday May 3rd, starting at noon and ending at midnight (1600z-0400z). If there is any interest in operating this event from the club, please contact K9MI or N9HJK. This is good practice for Field Day, but not nearly as intense. I'll be there before noon, but that doesn't mean we have to operate the entire contest. And if you would like to come, but noon isn't a good time, let me know and I'll be sure to be out there. This is a single transmitter event, and we need at least 3 operators to qualify as a club entry. For SSB operation, one person can operate the rig while another logs contacts on the computer. This makes it easy on both people. The rules for the Indiana Qso Party are at the  Hoosier DX and Contest Club

73, Mike K9MI

Repeater problem again

The Mark IV repeater has developed the low output problem (2 watts) again. So the Icom repeater is back online. For the time being, if you are using tone-squelch again, it will need to be turned off. We'll discuss our options at the Monday night meeting.

Mike, K9MI

Upcoming Activities

Thursday Morning Meeting: May 1st at 10am 

Monday Evening Meeting: May 5th at 7pm

MCARC Club net every Wednesday evening at 8pm on the W9VCF 145.39 Repeater - Informal ragchew on 28.465 after the 2m net is over.

Firebird ARC net every Thursday at 8pm on the W9VCF 145.39 Repeater

May 3rd Indiana Qso Party (noon to midnight)

Breakfast every Saturday morning at Eva's  (old Waffle House on Broadway) at 9 AM

New Pictures

Chief Anderson VE schedule for 2008

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May 28th

June 18th

July None

August 27th

September 17th

October 22nd

November 22nd

December 17th

 

 

 

 

The Chief Anderson VE test sessions are held at the Anderson Dispatch and EMA center, 739 Gene Gustin Way (near 8th & Raible). Contact person, Al WB9AL (765) 642-7291

Madison County ARC

Welcome to the Madison County Amateur Radio Club of Central Indiana web site. We are a club of around 50 members who enjoy a variety of interest in the field of Amateur Radio. We own and operate the W9VCF repeater on 145.39 Mhz which may be on a PL tone 151.4 hz to keep out interference. The repeater is located on top of Community hospital in north Anderson and the tip of the antenna is probably around 145 feet. We have a group of amateurs that are always willing to help each other out. Our club's big events for year include Field Day, which is an operating event for amateurs in the US and Canada, to go to remote sites, and run off of generator, batteries, etc, to test our ability to setup our stations and communicate in adverse operating conditions. 

Corrections, additions, dead links, information, email:    Mike, K9MI (he doesn't know what he's doing, but he works cheap!)