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Technician Licensing Class
There will be a FREE Technician Licensing Classthru the month of March being held in the main conference room at Health South Rehabilitation Hospital located at 1401 South J Street in Fort Smith. The classes will be on each Tuesday and Thursday evening March 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28 from 6pm to 8:30 p.m. Please call to reserve your seat. For any questions about this FREE activity please contact Mike Cole at 918 427 1431 or Jay Bromley at 479 646 5380. We look forward to seeing you there.
73, Mike W5TMC
2012 Fall Picnic/Club Meeting
The Fort Smith Area Amateur Radio Club will have it's annual fall picnic and club meeting Saturday October 13th in the Rose room at Creekmore Park in Ft. Smith. Doors open at 1pm and this activity will end at 5pm.
ALL club members wishing to attend this annual event is asked to bring something picnic related with a drink of your choice. The club will furnish the main meal which consists of Pull Pork Sandwiches and will also have all the plates and cups as well as ice. There will be a $5.00 cover charge per person.
There will also be a club meeting immediatly following the picnic along with club officer nominations for the 2013 calendar year. We look forward to seeing everyone there.
If you have any questions about this activity please feel free to contact Mike ( W5TMC ) ON THE 146.640 REPEATER OR CALL HIM AT 918 427 1431.
VHF QSO PARTY HIGHLIGHTS
The FSAARC VHF QSO Party at Rich Mountain State Park was an overall success with several fine contesters in attendance. Hugh; WA5R, John; W5ATW and the gang got the antennas assembled and the towers up in short order Saturday morning. Royce, KE5TC and Levi, WA5WRN were present for the tower raising party and Levi got some great photos! Once the stations were on the air we had time to take a breather and test the stations, confirm our output power and get computers set up for logging. The highlights include a contact with J69MV; a good 2,526 mile double hop to Saint Lucia Island on Saturday made by Roy, K6CKS on 6M. Another good contact was made to ZF1EJ on Cayman Is. at 1,345 miles one hour later on 6M with Cory, K5GTO at the mic. Within minutes Cory nailed XE3N in EL60 on the Isla de Cozumel, a very rare six meter contact! On Sunday morning 6M came alive and Gary, WQ5R took a shift at the six meter station and was immediately pounded. Gary logged a nice haul to VE2TK in FN25 east of Ottawa racking up a 1,297 mile hop. Gary continued to rack up really great 1200 mile hops into VE2 and VE3, W1 and W2 all morning. Jimmy, W5JNL served lunch to the crew and Jeff, K5KDX took over as operator and Rory K6CKS logged and the team cranked out a total of 374 contacts on all three bands before going QRT. There was a lot of good fun, good conversation and good food all weekend.
submitted by Rory Bowers, K6CKS
FSAARC Meeting August 20
Club meeting Monday evening August 20th at 7pm in the main conference room at Health South Rehabilitation Hospital located at 1401 South J Street in Ft. Smith.
This months program will be about ARRL's Log Book of The World ( LoTW) presented by Jay Bromley ( W5JAY ) . If you like QSLing working towards your DXCC or Work All State and working CQ WPX or Triple Play awards bring your questions and spend a little time and join us this evening with one of many of our programs we have scheduled with our monthly club meetings.
I want to remind everyone that the FSAARC has an open door policy which means that you don't have to be a Ham or a club member to attend these meetings.
If you have any questions about this or any other activity the FSAARC holds please feel free to contacct Mike W5TMC on the 146.640 repeater or call him at 918 427 1431.
We hope to see you there!!!
Mike Cole
W5TMC
Field Day Photos
Photos from the 2011 Field Day in Greenwood have been posted on the web gallery.
Thanks to Gloria Fitzgerald, KE5EJR, for the excellent pictures.
Local Weather
Fort Smith Radar
Fort Smith Regional Airport, AR
May 21 2013, 12:53 am CDT
Thunderstorm in Vicinity
Temp: 66.0 F (18.9 C)
Wind: Northeast 9.2
Barometer: 29.81"
Dewpoint: 63.0°
Humidity: 90%
Visibility: 10.00miSunrise: 6:10 Sunset: 20:19
Solar Data
21 May 2013 0751 GMT
SFI: 130
SN: 113
A Index : 7
K Index : 2 / No Report
X-Ray : B6.1
304A : 165.7 @ SEM
Ptn Flx : 9.64e-01
Elc Flx : 8.75e+00
Aurora : 5 / N = 1.16
Mag (Bz) : 2.3
Solar Wind : 398.0 km/s
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80M - 40M
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Good
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17M - 15M
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12M - 10M
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Geo-Magnetic Field : QUIET
Noise : S1-S2
foF2 : 4.00
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