Don’t miss our June membership meeting, where we welcome Tim Duffy, K3LR who will speak about the K3LR Super Station.
Tim’s station is one of the top Multi-Multi Contest Stations in the world. He is also the CEO of DX Engineering. Tim’s accomplishments in Amateur Radio include the following and more:
Founder and Chairman of Contest University
President of the Mercer County Amateur Radio Club
Active in RACES, ACS and ARES
Hosted Youth Contest teams at the K3LR Super Station for major contests
Member of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame
Was on Team USA for the World Radio Team Championship (WRTC) five times.
Chairman of the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF)
Recipient of the 2015 Amateur of the Year Award presented by the Dayton Hamvention® Awards Committee and the 2016 YASME Excellence Award.
K3LR Super Station Photo from QRZ.com
The meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 2nd starting at 7:00 pm and will be held online via a Zoom Conference. You can find the Zoom link on our main page, n1fd.org. Scroll down to the meeting announcement to see the link. If you have not been on a Zoom meeting before, I would recommend joining at least 15 minutes early.
Join us on Tuesday, June 2nd to hear all about the K3LR Super Station. Hope to see you on Zoom!
ARRL has announced two rule changes for Field Day 2020 only. The first rule change is that stations operating in class D can contact other class D stations for points. The second change is that an aggregate club score will be published, which will be the sum of all individual entries indicating a specific club.
Plan to join our June Tech Night on Tuesday, June 9th at 7:00 pm Eastern Time. Fred, AB1OC, Anita, AB1QB, Jamey, AC1DC, and Jon, AC1EV will provide a how-to presentation on Field Day From Home – Base, Portable, and Mobile Setup & Operating. You can find the link to the Zoom conference at https://www.n1fd.org/. Scroll down on that page to see the meeting information.
I’ve had a chance to operate on the 6m Band this past week. We are approaching the prime time for the summer Es (E-Skip) season here in the Northeastern United States. I was fortunate to catch a typical limited DX opening on the 6m band between our location here in New England and Europe…
The spring 6m Es season is well underway here in New England. We are beginning to see some DX opening to Europe daily. As a result, I thought that it might be a good time to share some information about 6m DX openings using some examples captured during a recent operating session here at AB1OC-AB1QB. The link above contains the details.
The article illustrates what a typical 6m opening to Europe from here in New England is like. It also includes some information about how to monitor the 6m band to spot short-lived DX openings when they occur.
FT8 mode, JTDX software, and PSKReporter are described in the article at the link above. These are useful tools for monitoring propagation and working contacts on the 6m Band.
I hope that you’ll give the 6m Magic Band a try this Es season!
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