Tonight’s Meeting Location

The XWARN Meeting for May will be held in the Buckeye Room in the 4-H Extension Office at the Fairgrounds. If you are not familiar with the building, just look for the antenna! It is behind the grandstand. If you pull into the Fairgrounds at the entrance right past the horse racing track, keep going forward past where the previous meetings were and take a right. Hope to see you there!

Hamvention QSO Party 2021

Hamvention QSO Party will be held as a 12 hour event on Saturday of what would have been the Hamvention weekend: May 22, 2021 8am to 8pm EDST W8BI, the club call of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association Bonus station, will be a bonus station scored at 10 points per band and mode: Typical call will be: CQ CQ HVQP (HamVention QSO Party) W8XX (Your call) Typical exchange will be signal report and first year you attended Hamvention; eg on CW: KB8XXX 599 1998 W4XX If you have never attended Hamvention, please send 2021 in place of the year. Modes…

XWARN May Meeting

The XWARN Meeting for May will be held in the Buckeye Room in the 4-H Extension Office at the Fairgrounds. If you are not familiar with the building, just look for the antenna! It is behind the grandstand. If you pull into the Fairgrounds at the entrance right past the horse racing track, keep going forward past where the previous meetings were and take a right. Hope to see you there!

ARC-EmComm-Training Excercise Scenario – May 8th, 2021

http://arc-emcomm-training.org The spring Red Cross nationwide emergency communications drill will be held on Saturday, May 8th, with Red Cross, ARES and other operators asked to demonstrate the ability to deliver digital messages using Red Cross forms to specific addresses via Winlink. For this exercise, participants are tasked with sending two messages to the Red Cross Divisional Clearinghouse for their geographic area. The exercise scenario and guidelines attached to this message provide details and instructions for operators desiring to participate. This exercise draws on lessons learned in the previous Winlink Thursday sessions. For those who have been following along, this scenario…