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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
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I've been looking into using Twitter as a notification tool for the club web page, and other club information such as weather net activations, emergency services, meeting announcements etc. It seems to be a useful tool for this application, without a lot of the overhead or privacy issues found on other social media applications.
So what is Twitter?
Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. It's a new and easy way to discover the latest news (“what’s happening”) related to subjects you care about.
How is it useful?
Twitter contains information you will find valuable. Messages from users you choose to follow will show up on your homepage for you to read. It’s like being delivered a newspaper whose headlines you’ll always find interesting – you can discover news as it’s happening, learn more about topics that are important to you, and get the inside scoop in real time.
You can learn more about Twitter, and sign up for an account here.
I'm currently looking into a way that we can have multiple members able to post messages to Twitter so that we can keep the information up to the minute. I'll get back to everyone on this soon.
If you need some more information, email me and I'll do my best to point you in the right direction.
Thanks & 73,
Jim Scott, AD5YU
Field Day Results 2011
Call Used: W5ANR
GOTA Station Call: (none)
ARRL/RAC Section: AR
Class: 4A
Participants: 35
Club/Group Name: FORT SMITH (AR) AREA ARC
Power Source(s): Generator
Power Multiplier: 2X
Bonus Points:
| 100% Emergency Power | 400 |
| Media Publicity | 100 |
| Set-Up in Public Place | 100 |
| Information Booth | 100 |
| W1AW Field Day Message | 100 |
| Site visit by invited elected official | 100 |
| Site visit by invited served agency official | 100 |
| Submitted via the WWW | 50 |
| Total | 1050 |
Score Summary:
| CW | Digital | Phone | Total | |
| Total QSO | 1004 | 78 | 1396 | 2478 |
| Total Points | 2008 | 156 | 1396 | 3560 |
Claimed Score with Power Multiplier: 7,120
Submitted by:
Charles H. Floyd, W5JE
2309 Dove Lane
Mountainburg, AR 72901
E-mail: w5je@yahoo.com
Comments:
VERY HOT!!!!!!!!!!Near heat exhaustion. Four of members had to leave the site due to heat.
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.
Field Day 2011
The Fort Smith Area Amateur Radio Club will be conducting it's annual ARRL Field Day operations at Bell Park in Greenwood, Arkansas on Saturday June 25th and Sunday June 26th 2011.
Operations will commence at 1:00pm on Saturday and conclude on 1:00pm Sunday.
Setup will be from 1:00pm Friday, June 24th. Dinner will be provided for those that assist with the set up Friday night.
