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{{:header_logo.jpg?direct&600|}} =====General Meetings===== UW-Fox Valley\\ 1478 Midway Road\\ Menasha, WI 54952\\ Room 1346\\ {{:ufvmap_1_.jpg?direct&400|}} **Meetings start at 7:00 PM every third Monday of the month.** =====Mailing Address===== {{:env1.jpg?nolink&100 |}}FCARC\\ P.O. Box 2346\\ Appleton, WI 54912\\ =====Membership dues for one year===== * Full - $15.00 * Associate (non ham) $15.00 * Student - $10.00 * Retired - $10.00 * Family Member dues plus $5.00 each additional family member residing at the same address. *// prerequisite to the family membership, see by-law’s Article IV section1// =====Board of Directors===== ^Board of Directors^^ |President: |Bernard Hengels, N9YMC| |Vice-President:|Andy Lawton, AJ9AL| |Treasurer: |Donna Mendyke, KC9THF| |Secretary:|Terry Schilling, N9AOT| |Membership Coordinator: |Andrew Skjoldager, KC9IZF| |Technical Director:|Larry Peterson, WA9TT| |Members at Large:  |Joel Kasper, WI4WD| |Members at Large:  |Roy Hinz, KC9VLP| |Members at Large:  |Rick Kosiorek, W9RIC| ===== History of Club ===== {{:people.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[past_officers|Past Officers]]\\ \\ {{:newsletter-1.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[Newsletters|Past Newsletters]] \\ \\ {{:gavel.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[Bylaws|Past By-Laws]] =====VE Testing===== VE Team Contact: [[rick@kosiorek.com|Rick Kosiorek, W9RIC]] Location:\\ Fox Valley Technical College\\ 1825 N Bluemound Dr\\ Appleton, WI 54914\\ room B142\\ entrance door 12 on the west side of the college, \\ {{:testingmap1080_3_.jpg?direct&400|}}\\ Start 8AM/walkins until 8:30AM\\ Cost is $15.00\\ 2 forms of identification are required.\\ Up-grades must bring a copy of their current license for the VE's to keep and send in to the FCC.\\ **//Please view the [[http://fcarc.us/?q=calendar/|FCARC calendar]] of events on this web site for current dates//**\\ [[VE Team|VE Team]] =====Repeater Information===== ^FCARC Repeaters^^^^ |W9ZL|145.330|PL 100.0| Yeasu System Fusion| |W9ZL|146.760|PL 100.0| |W9ZL|146.760|PL 107.2|Downtown rpt input| |W9ZL|443.650|PL 100.0| ^Other Repeaters in local area^^^^ |ECR LTD - |146.655 |PL 100.0| |WJ9K|224.500|PL 100.0| |W9RIC|442.175|Pl 100|System Fusion| [[local_repeaters| More Local Repeaters]]\\ [[http://www.wi-repeaters.org | Wisconsin Association of Repeaters]] =====FCARC Nets===== ^FCARC's Nets^^^^ ^Net Name^Date^Frequency^notes^ |Two Meter Net|Every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM|146.760 - 100.0|[[2mnet|2 Meter Net - Weekly]]| |Six Meter Net|3rd Tuesday of the month at 8:00 PM|52.550|[[6 Meter Net info|6 Meter Net info]]| |Two Meter SSTV Net|2nd Sunday monthly at 6:00 PM|145.330 - 100.0|[[SSTV Net|more info on sstv net]]| =====Club Events===== {{:eaa-logo.png?nolink&100 |}}[[http://fcarc.us/?q=node/44|EAA Airventure special event Station]]: one week each summer, EAA members and aviation enthusiasts totaling more than 500,000 from more than 60 countries attend EAA AirVenture at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where they rekindle friendships and celebrate the past, present and future in the world of flight. [[http://www.fcarc.club/node/39|Sign up]] [[Past Airventures|Past Airventures]] {{:field-day-sign.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[http://www.arrl.org/field-day|ARRL Field Day]] is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June of each year, more than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations. Field Day is a picnic, a campout, practice for emergencies, an informal contest and, most of all, FUN! [[Past Field Day|Past Field Day]] {{:hamfest-banner.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[http://www.fcarc.club/hamfest.php|FCARC HamFest]] is held the first Sunday in November. What is a Hamfests?, Hamfests are events organized by amateur radio enthusiasts, for social gathering and promotion of the amateur radio hobby. Typically annual events held on a weekend, they can last from several hours to several days. Most feature a flea market where the attendees buy and sell radio and related equipment. The equipment found at a hamfest can vary significantly from the newest high-tech gear to used, refurbished, or even antique equipment, and haggling or bargaining is the most common means of sale. Equipment that originally sold at great expense to commercial users (such as public safety agencies) can often be found at a fraction of the price. [[Past Hamfests|Past Hamfests]] {{:flagday.jpg??nolink&100 |}}[[http://applications.appleton.org/parades/flagday%202017/index.html| Appleton Flag Day Parade]]Appleton’s parade is recognized as the nation’s oldest Flag Day Parade. It has evolved into a huge event drawing upwards of 60,000 spectators from all over Northeastern Wisconsin. [[Flagday|FCARC Appleton Flag Day Parade]] =====Community Events===== {{:cropwalk.png?nolink&100 |}}[[http://hunger.cwsglobal.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_wi|Crop Walk]]: CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by [[http://www.cwsglobal.org/|CWS]] and organized by local volunteers to raise funds to end hunger. {{:jdrf.png?nolink&100 |}}[[http://walk.jdrf.org/|JDRF]]: The JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes is a fun-filled charity walk held in locations all around the world. The Walk raises funds for the millions of people living with and affected by type 1 diabetes (T1D). Participants, walking alone or in teams, raise money for JDRF—the largest nongovernmental funder of T1D research.[[http://www.fcarc.club/node/38|Sign Up]] {{:soleburner.png?nolink&100 |}}[[http://community.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=54446&pg=entry|Sole Burner - American Cancer Society]]: The Sole Burner is both a serious and social event. The event is designed to rally community support for the American Cancer Society, recognize cancer survivors, and promote the value of a 5K run or walk. The event is also designed to raise money for American Cancer Society programs of research, education, advocacy, and patient and family services. [[http://www.fcarc.club/node/36|Sign Up]] {{:walk_ms.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[http://walkwig.nationalmssociety.org|Walk MS]]: What if we could connect every person living with MS? Every person who cares about someone with MS. Every family affected by MS. Everyone who has seen what this disease can do. What if we could come together, even one day a year, to show the power of those connections? We can – and we will – at Walk MS, a day when our connections become more powerful than the disease that is bringing us together. [[http://www.fcarc.club/node/14|Sign Up]] [[Walk MS|**Past Walk MS**]] {{:communityfest.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[http://www.nmcommunityfest.org/|Communityfest]]: A community event in Neenah and Menasha at Riverside Park in Neenah and Jefferson Park in Menasha on July 3 and July 4 celebrating the Fourth of July. =====Tech Corner===== {{:handsolder.gif?nolink&100 |}}[[Tech Corner]] A selection of technical papers and notes from club meeting presentations \\ =====General Amateur Radio INFO===== {{:radio1.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[Basic Communication Skills]] The Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club provides communication support for many public service events in our community. Examples of information being exchanged between the FCARC and event coordinators includes medical emergencies, welfare checks, status reports on participants, or a request for the sag wagon. In order for effective and efficient radio traffic to be passed from the event operators to event officials, the FCARC is asking all participants read the following guidelines before transmitting on your radio for an FCARC communication event. {{:aprs_world_6in.gif?nolink&100 |}}[[APRS|Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)]] is an amateur radio-based system for real time tactical digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area.[1] In addition, all such data is ingested into the APRS Internet System (APRS-IS) and distributed globally for ubiquitous and immediate access. Along with messages, alerts, announcements and bulletins, the most visible aspect of APRS is its map display. Anyone may place any object or information on his or her map, and it is distributed to all maps of all users in the local RF network or monitoring the area via the Internet. Any station, radio or object that has an attached GPS is automatically tracked. Other prominent map features are weather stations, alerts and objects and other map-related amateur radio volunteer activities including Search and Rescue and signal direction finding. {{:world_communication_tower_lg_thm.jpg?nolink&100 |}}[[tiki-index.php?page=dx|DXing]] is the hobby of receiving and identifying distant radio or television signals, or making two way radio contact with distant stations in amateur radio, or other two way radio communications. Many DXers also attempt to obtain written verifications of reception or contact, sometimes referred to as "QSLs". The name of the hobby comes from DX, telegraphic shorthand fores" "distance" or "distant". The practice of DXing arose during the early days of radio broadcasting. Listeners would mail "reception reports" to radio broadcasting stations in hopes of getting a written acknowledgement or a QSL card that served to officially verify they had heard a distant station. Collecting these cards became popular with radio listeners in the 1920s and 1930s, and reception reports were often used by early broadcasters to gauge the effectiveness of their transmissions. Although international shortwave broadcasts are on the decline, DXing remains popular among dedicated shortwave listeners. The pursuit of two-way contact between distant amateur radio operators is also a significant activity within the amateur radio hobby. =====History===== The Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club was established on October 21, 1985. The Neenah-Menasha Amateur Radio Club membership voted on this date to CHANGE THE NAME of the club and to revise the BY-LAWS to better represent the Amateur Radio Community of this local area. On November 26th 2003 the Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club became incorporated in the State of Wisconsin as a nonprofit. ====Founding Members==== ^ Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club charter members ^^^ |Baker, Don NB9J|Ballinger, Ralph N9ECS|Banks, Gary N9ER| |Bayer, Dan WB9QFX|Bieglow, Jack KA9JOL|Boland, David W9NWY| |Borree, Bob WD9CYX|Borree, Hellen WD9CYW|Clusen, Jerry N9AYN| |Croy, George W9MDP|De Groot, Dan N9DCW |Fafnis, Ron WD9DFH| |Flenz, Mike WB9ANR|Hewitt, Virginia N9CSG|Hoyer, Roy WB9QKW| |Keating, Gary ND9Z|Kimbal, Dave KA9NNI|Kirsling, Dave KD9GM| |Kosiorek, Rick N9ALF|Loehning, Dick N9ACP |Mead, Maury W9FBC | |Michel, Mark W9OP|Michel, Joan WD9YDT|Neiling, Tom KA9QKD| |O'kane, Bill WD9HLN|Pardee, Lester KA9MMP|Pickett, Bruce K9VSY| |Roll, Dick W9TA|Ronk, Bob KB9IE|Saler, James NK9D| |Schreiber, Kathy KA9JDV|Schreiber, Ron KA9JDU|Sheetz, Jim K9OQO| |Seibers, Larry KD9IA|Thorne, Bob K9DAF|Thorne, Karen WB9ZNA| |Thorne, Tony KA9HYD|Van Dyn Hoven, Gus K9GXR|Van Ryzin, Gary KB9XG| |Van Der Burgt, Ade K9DHR|Van Der Burgt, Jay KA9MSR|Weingartner, Al KA9RKV| |Weyenberg, Mark WB9CQG|Wickert, Keith W9DKY|Yost, Donald WD9GOR | |Zuiker, Paul KA9GOU||| This is a Wiki containing information about the Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club (FCARC) and Ham Radio.\\ © 2018 Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club All rights Reserved

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