Club News

The Motor City Radio Fox Hunt 2015 season got off to an exciting start On Saturday, May 30th. The fox, Dave KC8ODH and Linda KC8PKY chose a park in Taylor to operate from, which on paper would appear to be a straight forward, relative easy location, however their low power transmission and unexpected propagation patterns seemed to confuse the hunters and cause them to scatter hither and yon. When the dust settled only 2 teams out of 4 managed to home in on the fox’s location. The team of N8MWQ , N8FNC, and AC8KD found them first and with the winning distance of 15.2 miles. The team of K8SB and WB8AFO were the second to arrive and with the second place distance of 17 miles. The other 2 teams, N8TDF, N8SLJ, KB8TOO; and K8HV, JERRY failed to find the fox within the designated time limit.

After the hunt many of the participants resigned to a local restaurant for lunch and swapping of hunting tales.

The next hunt will be on Saturday June 20th.  We meet at Leo's Coney Island at 19230 Fort Street in Riverview at 9:00 a.m. for breakfast. Then at 10:30 a.m. people group up and begin the hunt for the Fox. If you don't have any directional finding equipment, don't worry. There will be someone there that you can ride with. It's sure to be a fun time for all!

Online registration is up and running. (http://motorcityradioclub.roundtablelive.org/event-1767978?CalendarViewType=0&SelectedDate=5/20/2015) 

Please sign up for your desired operating time and place your order for T-shirts ($15) and Friday night steaks ($5).  You can also register at the June meeting.  At the June meeting the presentation will be all about Field Day and finalizing our operating plan for this year. A sign-up sheet will be circulated at the June meeting for those who are willing to bring a dish to pass both for the Friday evening steak dinner and though out the weekend. Please contribute where you can.

What to bring to Field Day:

·         Yourselves. Our success on Field Day depends on club participation. Please sign up and come join us.

·         Tables and chairs. As we are not at a regular park, we will not have an abundance of picnic tables to use at our food tent. If you have access to a multitude of table and chairs that can be brought to the site let me know.

Note our new location this year; Community Bible Church, 3700 Benson , Trenton, MI 48183.

Bruce AC8KD

2015 Field Day Chair

Dust off the Yagi and fire up the attenuator, it’s time to start the 2015 MCRC Fox Hunting season. The first hunt is Saturday, May 30th. We meet at Leo's Coney Island at 19230 Fort Street in Riverview at 9:00 a.m. for breakfast. Then at 10:30 a.m. people group up and begin the hunt for the Fox. If you don't have any directional finding equipment, don't worry. There will be someone there that you can ride with. It's sure to be a fun time for all!

The season schedule is:

May 30th

June 20th

July 18th

August 15th

September 19th

October 17th

Come out and challenge the 2014 season champions Woody N8MWQ and Bruce AC8KD, and the rest of the Fox Hunting teams for the coveted MCRC Fox hunting trophy and your very own Fox hunt Champion Coffee mug.

See you there!

The MGST is soon upon us.  John K8DHH is working hard at rounding up volunteers for this event.  

There are couple of changes this year. The meeting place has changed as well as the routes. 

Sunday, May 3, 2015 Huron High School • 32044 Huron River Drive New Boston, MI  48164 Meet at 06:15 if you want breakfast. If you decide to skip the most important meal of the day you can be there at 07:00

Routes

Belleview Loop - RED

Crosswindos Loop - GREEN

Family Trail Loop - ORANGE

Lake Erie Road Loop - PURPLE

Lake Erie Trail Loop - PINK

Willow Run Loop (unofficial)

Due to the Dayton Hamvention, the first Fox Hunt of the 2015 season has been moved to Saturday, May 30th, 2015 at 10:00 AM.

Because of this change, there will be two breakfasts in May.  The original breakfast scheduled for May 16th will still be held and a second club breakfast will be held preceding the hunt on May 30. Both breakfasts will be located at Leo's Coney Island, 19230 Fort Street in Riverview at 9:00 AM.

Happy Hunting!!!

Here is the in formation on  Marv's Funeral

Visitations:

Saturday, April 04, 2015
2:00 ~ 5:00 PM
Michigan Memorial Funeral Home

Services:

Saturday, April 04, 2015
5:00 PM
Michigan Memorial Funeral Home Chapel

Hi Everyone,

World Amateur Radio Day is April 18, 2015 (IARU).  This is the same day as our club sponsored MI QSO Party.  So Get On The Air and have some fun with your club! 

73,

Bill AC8KO         

Hi Everyone,

The ARRL Centennial Points Challenge and W1AW WAS Award applications are on line at the ARRL website! 

73,

Bill AC8KO   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxU1ZhINaHk  

Hi Everyone,

Please don't forget that this Sunday at 2:00 A.M. Daylight Savings Time begins.  It will be time to change local clocks but not "UTC".  Please check the ARRL web site for full details.  The only thing that changes is the relationship between local time and UTC.

It will be important to keep this in mind as this weekend is the 2015 ARRL DX Phone Contest! 

73,

Bill AC8KO