Category Archives: Featured

This category is for featured articles that we want to include in the sidebars and other areas on our website.

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ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY – The Results are in!

The ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY contest results are in!  The N1FD multi-op team placed 1st in the Multi-Op Area 1 category.  We had the highest score in the contest by a landslide!   The contest was held on Sunday, August 20.  The final scores were just posted on the ARRL Website.

Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores

2017 ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores
2017 ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores

Congratulations to Aron, W1AKI, Tom, AB1NS, and Jim, K1BRM. They operated from AB1QB’s QTH in the ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY on Sunday, August 20.  The rules for the contest now allow any licensed Ham who had never made a QSO in the RTTY mode to participate.

Jim, K1BRM operating in the Rookie Roundup RTTY
Jim, K1BRM operating in the Rookie Roundup RTTY

With coaching from Aron, W1AKI a veteran of several previous Rookie Roundups, all team members quickly picked up RTTY operating.  The team made a total of 66 contacts to 30 states and 1 DX, including one with club member Mike, AB1YK.

Next Rookie Roundup is CW

The next Rookie Roundup will be held on December 17 and the mode will be CW.  Rookies licensed in 2015, 2016 or 2017 are invited to participate.  Also, anyone who has not made a CW QSO can join us as well.

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Ham Radio Desk Photos

We all know that Google indexes and provides searches for pages on the Internet. Also, Google indexes images on the pages it finds. Searching for Ham Radio images can produce some interesting results and is fun. I came across an interesting image search this morning. Try Google’ing “Ham Radio Desk” to see what you come up with.

Google Search - Ham Radio Desk
Google Search – Ham Radio Desk

There are some good station building and layout ideas here. Also, you can see some cool vintage equipment. Some of these Ham Radio Desk images are pretty impressive! Which one is your favorite?

Fred, AB1OC

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New Features On N1FD.org

We’ve added some new features to our website to make it easier to use. In addition, we have continued to work on our website to improve its performance and security.

Lightbox Image Displays and Slide Shows

New Features - Lightbox Image Display
Lightbox Image Display

Our website has many great photo images from our members and we wanted to make it easier to enjoy our photo content. We have added a lightbox capability to make viewing images easier and more fun.Simply click on an image in any page or post and a light box display will pop up. The lightbox will display the image at its highest resolution. Next, move your mouse outside the lightbox to start a slide show of all of the images on the page. Finally, when you are done, just click anywhere on the page outside of the lightbox and it will disappear.

Simply click on an image in any page or post and a light box display will pop up. The lightbox will display the image at its highest resolution. Next, move your mouse outside the lightbox to start a slide show of all of the images on the page. Finally, when you are done, just click anywhere on the page outside of the lightbox and it will disappear.

You can click on any image in this post to give the lightbox features a try!

New Uptime and Response Time Page

New Features - N1FD Internet Status Page
N1FD Internet Status Page

We have also added an Internet Status Page which shows up time and response time for Internet sites related to our club. You can reach this page from the HELP AND INFORMATION menu and then select UPTIME MONITOR.

New Features - Internet Status Details
Internet Status Details

Also, you can click on the link for any site to see what that site’s response time has been. The Internet Status pages are a members-only feature at this time and you need to log into n1fd.org to reach them.

Comments? Let us know what you think via an email to [email protected].

Fred, AB1OC

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