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 A huge mahalo to a fellow club member Brett VR2BG (pictured above operating from the MARC Field Day location at Ho'okipa Point) for compiling and researching this history of Field Day results for the Maui Amateur Radio Club. Our club was established in 1936 and records indicate participation in the event dates back to 1939. See the attached document below for the complete list of results. 
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 Don’t forget Grid Madness, this Sunday 1 to 4 pm
Pull out your 2m or 70 cm radio and make some simplex contacts. Hope to hear you on the air. For more information click the link below: http://gridmadness.blogspot.com/ Here is everything you need to know to get on the air and participate in Hawaii's QSO Party. Scroll through the presentation above and contact us if you have any questions.
The FCC just came out with high resolution ground conductivity maps for the public. #arrl #Hamradio4/15/2017  Click the photo above to be taken to the FCC maps of the estimated effective ground conductivity in the United States. This data is used to predict the propagation of AM signals across the United States. A higher ground conductivity indicates better AM propagation characteristics. The map shows that the ground conductivity in the U.S. ranges between 0.5 and 30 millimhos (or millisiemens) per meter. The conductivity of seawater is 5,000 millimhos per meter, resulting in the best propagation of AM signals.
Mahalo to Jim KH6HTV for his talk about the many benefits and uses of Amateur TV for public safety. To see his presentation or find out more about Amateur Television visit his website at www.kh6htv.com
Congratulations to Mel (KH6H) for his 100th VECC EXam The Maui Amateur Radio Club would like to recognize Mel (KH6H) for his long term commitment to Maui hams as we celebrate his 100th ARRL exam session as Volunteer Examiner. If you received your license in Maui in the last 25 years or so, you most likely have tested with Mel. Mel also serves as a volunteer for the Maui County Civil Defense Agency. He has logged many hours in the back room of the Emergency Operations Center manning the Civil Defense radio. There he relays emergency communications to and from volunteers throughout Maui County. It is a thankless and often tiresome job sitting in the windowless radio room, listening through the static for important updates from the field. Please join us in thanking Mel for his many years of service. We truly appreciate all you do! You can catch Mel on the air every Monday night hosting the Maui Emergency Net by tuning your radio to the Hawaii State Civil Defense VHF Repeater Network at 7:00 pm HST. ARRL - the National Association for Amateur Radio Hamradio #arrl #Hamradio #vecc  Maui Amateur Radio Club – Aug 10 , 2016 Minutes – Maui EOC Wailuku, HI
President Tom Worthington called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. The treasurer’s report were approved, and accepted by acclamation. 18 members and guests attended. New Business: Next year for field day, Sun Belt rentals will need the cost of the equipment listed on the insurance policy. Need to follow-up on the thank you letters for Field Day. Talk Around: KC7ASJ-Dave: Monitoring repeaters, not much activity AH6AH: Anita yields her time again! AH6CU –Joe: 600 KHz offset not working on his home radio. WH7EZ – Everett: Getting back into radio, lots of new equipment offerings, interested in digital. WH6FAM – Tripp: Started studying for exam. WH6EX-Bill: CW course, lots of monitoring on hurricane watch. Passed general exam. AD6E-Alan: KH6TU. SOTR single operator, two radio. Hard to get going. NA QSO party, 400 Qs. CW class completed. K6GSS-John: DX maps, some 6M activity. KH6RSB-Shawn: Storm prep got me going again. David: Passed general exam KH6CJJ-Kent: Operated 6 hrs in NAQP CW contest. 100W, difference in antennas! SteppIR antenna vs G5RV. Big difference in receive. Phone Fray- worked a lot of contacts. 20M SSB. Won low power Oceania contest.as announced in QST. NH6Y-Tom: Worked a few contacts IOTA European stations. Worked above Artic circle. Islands on the Air. Purchased FerroResonant Transformer. Missed the 6M opening. AH0A-Joe: Section manager, looking for news, wants to inform clubs about amateur radio. KH7HO-Clem: Met with Anna from Maui CD. Have visited all islands. KH6JAY-Jay: Off island for a while. Going to Korea. Wants to go for CQWW RTTY contest.as HL2ZED. Riley-Took tech and general exam in August, Looking forward to learning Jeff- Passed tech exam, interested This months discussion: Clem Jung -KH7HO: ARES Presentation – Pacific Section Emergency Coordinator Works with Emergency Management, state Civil Defense. ARES started with the Big Island and began later in other islands. Offered to all amateur radio operators. Training available. Volunteers are needed.Items to cover: Equipment and skills. ICS213 messages. Disaster psychology, encouraged to take CERT. EMCOMM team courses are available. Skywarn and CERT. MT63 1KL digital format. FLDigi. Makani Pahili exercise July 10. Simulated Emergency Test Oct 1, 2016. 118 Hawaii hams are in ARES. HawaiiAres.info is the information site. 5 Maui hams are registered with ARES. Rick Ching state frequency coordinator has coordinated repeater list. CERT classes info through Maui CD Hawaii QSO party coming up later this month. Maui Amateur Radio Club – Jul 13 , 2016 Minutes – Maui EOC Wailuku, HI
President Tom Worthington called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. The treasurer’s report and meeting minutes were approved, and accepted by acclamation. 16 members and guests attended. New Business: Talk Around: KC7ASJ-Dave: Repeaters working in Lahaina AH6AH-Anita: Yielded her time to Joe. AH6CU –Joe: Can use UH classroom to do ham training. UHMC will be scheduling. VR2BG- Brett: IARU contest, will be on island for a while. WH7EZ – Everett: Lahaina, getting back into ham radio, WH6FAM – Tripp: working on next exam session for upgrading. KH6REO – Ed: Off island for a while WH6EX-Bill: Lots of family activities, haven’t been on radio much. Stephen : Interested in electronics and working on getting a license AD6E-Alan: IARU contest, worked with Brett, on a European centric contest. Lousy conditions, 1640 QSOs. Top 15 worldwide. 24 Hr contest, 100% CW. Still working CW academy. Students doing well. K6GSS-John: Busy since Field Day, haven’t unpacked from it yet. KH6RSB-Shawn: Had a good time at Field Day David: Interested in getting a license. Tara and & Kiara : Interested in getting a license. KH6CJJ-Kent: Operated in IARU contest, made 500 Qs, NH6Y-Tom: Worked IARU, made contacts for 2 hours. KH6H-Mel: Makana Pahili, this Saturday, emphasis on digital communications. Practicing messages with CSV values. See Mel for ARES signup. Next exam Aug 6. This month’s discussion: Joe Speroni is offered a presentation on how ARES should be operated, accepted by the club. WEBEOC is a new piece of software that could be used by RACES and ARES. Amateur radio operators would be registered as a resource to WEBEOC. Field Day Results: 2018 Total Q’s 3332 points score. VR2BG 1033 Qs Night time operations were quite good this year. 20 M at 6PM suddenly got very good. 20M was the only active band, SSB: we weren’t heard very much, until later in the day. SSB had a much larger density. CW contacts were less crowded, easier to work. Discussion on antenna performance : Did the ground mounted 40M vertical work well? 15M was only active for a couple of hours, midday. A discussion on operator scheduling and potential alternatives were discussed Comments about helping operators with radios they are unfamiliar to them. Desire to have coffee! Power was an issue this year, it was difficult to diagnose during the Field Day event. An oscilloscope would have helped figure this out. Maui Amateur Radio Club – Jun 8, 2016 Minutes – Maui EOC Wailuku, HI
President Tom Worthington called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. The minutes and treasurer’s report were approved, and accepted by acclamation. 15 members and guests attended. New Business: Talk Around: K6GSS-John: How to work Europe! Wait till sun goes down on 20M. Talked about interview with DON W6AM. Sunbelt is new owner of I&L rentals. Discovered TR4s and TR7s in the house! NH6Y-Tom: Struggled in WPX CW contest. Replaced rotator on tower. Took Beverage antenna. N0DQD-Bob: Working on CW, trying to get ready for Field Day. KH6H-Mel: 702 repeater, transmitter broken, expected for a long rep air AD6E-Alan: WPX CW contest, close to 2000 Q’s, 15M good, 20 good all day and night. Start CW academy, couple more months, got FD station running. KH6AH-Ron: Bands not too good. Lots of time working on remote in California. Loosing RX audio over the Flex. Thinks it’s the sound card. KH6RSB-Shawn: Trying to get internet at camp IMUA. Gets reception on Verizon phone, trying to get internet. Curious about some commercial use close to amateur radio frequencies. KH6JAY- Jay: Haven’t been on the air much, 15M pretty dead, 20M OK on PSK31. Strong QSO to Michigan. Looking forward to Field Day. WH6EXE-Bill: On Skype with CW training, studying for General Test. Looking forward to Field Day. WH6FAM-Trip: Missed a couple of the last meetings. WH6DUB-Amanda: Doing Twitter account for the club. WA1GOV . Invited people for FD. Press releases for Maui News and Maui Times. Operating PSK31. Fun! WH6DUE-Devin: Using HF radio occasionally, tribander with no tuner working well. KH6CJJ-Kent: Brought Alan WPX CW contest, 300 Q’s, conditions not too good. KA5CJJ – Alan: Visiting from Texas Presentation: Field Day Prep 3A – Review of stations and antenna positions Review of each individual station, modes, antennas, Stations captains Alan, Kent and Bob Discussion of quality of power, and UPS units We must start early Friday morning. 6AM. Setup antennas, stations, Test stations, interference, software and networking Compare antennas Review of other duties: dinner, contacts, generator, security, social media, hospitality, Friday pizza. Everyone bring: hat, sunscreen, bug spray, closed toe shoes, gloves, water, lunch, chair, some way to stay dry, tools, 7/16,1/2,9/16 wrenches Become familiar with section names Find out about using last year’s log to preload the class and section Foreign contacts log as 1D DX Consider for next year a man-lift donated by MECO |
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