Normally we take donations for the Cedaredge Repeater during Tail Gate in June. Unfortunately it was cancelled this year.

If you’d like to make a donation checks should be made out to Cedaredge Repeater Association. Checks or cash can be dropped off at field day to Steve Schroder.

Also the Olathe Community Center is still closed for the month of June. We will provide updates as they become available.

Thank you, be well and hope to see you you at Field Day.

73s

Kathy

Survey about Field Day 2020 – if you already responded please disregard

The club application was approved, so we’ll be at Sunset Mesa for Field Day June 27-28.
1) Will you help with set up and or take down on Saturday or Sunday?
2) Do you wish to operate from Field Day station on Sunset Mesa?
3) Do you plan to participate from home and submit a log noting your MARC affiliation?

Please send me an email kathy.joslin77@gmail.com and let us know your questions or how much you plan to participate so we can plan accordingly.

Thanks!
Kathy

Good evening. Thank you Chris for taking tonight’s net, I know it went long and at times it was a little chaotic, but it really meant a lot to Oliver! He really enjoyed hearing all the well wishes and congratulations. Thank you to everyone that participated!

Tonight we made him an honorary lifetime member and presented with a plaque for being our oldest living club member. He was also given a 80 years of service certificate from QCWA and Centurion award from ARRL. I have included a few pics from this evening.

After presenting the awards, Oliver showed us his ham shack. He is active in CW everyday,  and today he was even on 6 meters.

He really enjoyed talking with everyone on the net tonight and afterwards we enjoyed a homemade apple pie and ice cream courtesy of Deborah Johnson KD0WVV who some of you may know.

In case you’d like to know a little more about Oliver Lee, he has self published his memoirs which you can be found at https://w9ziy.com/#p=1

Good evening to everyone. Thanks Lew for taking the net.

This weekend was our USS Montrose Special Event Station Weekend. I didn’t get to participate however I did stop by and got a great report. It turns out the club made 403 contacts including stations in New Brunswick Canada, mobile Martine station off the coast of FL and even Japan. A great big Thank you to all that participated!

VE test is June 13^th, there are two people registered. Registration is officially closed for this session. The next test session will be Sept 19th.

Sunday June 14^th our club will be celebrating W0LCI – Oliver Lee’s 100^th birthday. Due to COVID we can’t have a party and be there to celebrate with him, so we are going to open up the net for anyone that would like to extend any birthday congrats and well wishes.

A small group will be at his house to present; a plaque from the club, (thank you John KB0RUD for making the plaque), a framed certificate from QCWA and hopefully the Centurion plaque from ARRL, if it arrives in time.

Thank you again to everyone that has helped with the repairs and to Bill KC0QXX for donating the new antenna and Dick KC0JEA who will purchase a new battery for the Cedaredge repeater.

I will get an email out this week to see if anyone will be operating home stations this year, so we can get a head start on field day.

Reminders – 15^th is our board call at 7 pm and 19^th is our club meeting, both which will be held via Zoom, so look for those emails as well.

Have a great week!

Kathy

Next weekend June 6 and 7 join us for the USS Montrose Special Event.

We will operate station N0P on 20 and 40 meters. Station setup starts at 0800 Saturday at the Montrose County EOC. Operations will continue into the night as band conditions allow.

On Sunday we will start again as operator availability allows and continue to 1700 hours local time. The last couple of years lightning has chased us off the air by 1500 hrs.

We will have access to the interior of the EOC. I will bring the coffee! Royce has brewed up a Delta Loop antenna for 40 meters. Help us set up it up and learn a thing or two. Operators and setup help are needed.

Come join us for our first face to face get together in a while.

K0LMF

Good evening to everyone. Thanks Bill for taking the net.

Yesterday we did NVIS HF test and it went pretty well. We had 16 participants that started on the Cedaredge repeater; we went to 80 meters, then 60 and finally 40. Stan and I were thrilled that we were able to get out on all the bands and to hear that others were able to as well. Thanks to Dick KD0ESZ and Steve KI0KY for coordinating.

Speaking of repeaters I have good news, the repeater on Log Hill is back up. Barthold wrote:

Finally got the repeater back up and running. TS1 now has Talkgroup 93 (North America) and TS2 still has Talkgroup 31086 (Western Colorado) by default. You can still dynamically add another talk group to each time slot, of course.

This Saturday will be doing USS Montrose Special Event Station Weekend June 6^th-7^th. If you are interested please sign up with Lew.

Reminder next VE test June 13th please preregister via the website, there will be a 10 person limitation including VE testers.

Dick KD0ESZ let us know, that Jerry Dennison KD0CDA passed away last Sunday. Thank you Stan AD0ST for getting a condolence card out on behalf of the club.

Thanks all I have for now.

Kathy

The VE team has decided to proceed with the June 13th exam session, taking prudent precautions. We are limiting candidates to 5. So far one has signed up and two are pending.

I would appreciate it if you could pass the word to anyone who may be interested in testing, and make sure Steve makes the announcement Sunday evening.

Pre-registration will close once we have 5 signed up, or on June 6th, whichever comes first.

Thanks, Art Phillips NN7A, VE liaison.

May 30th HF test info

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