Starting on Monday July 22 through Sunday July 29 2018 the W9ZL EAA Airventure Special Event Station will be on the air. We will be operating from 1300 UTC to 2030 UTC Monday through Saturday, and 1300 UTC to 1700 UTC on Sunday July 29 2018. We will be operating on 14,270, 7,250 and 50,150.

Certificates are available by sending a QSL & SASE (certificate size 8 1/2x11, certificates are printed on premium 90# stock) to:

W9ZL Special Event
PO Box 2346
Appleton, WI 54912

Jon Oldenburg AB9AH
W9ZL Special Event Chairman

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, August 4th.

FCARC will be providing communications support for a 50 mile, family, biking event that runs from Radio Road on Appleton's east side to De Pere.

It starts a 7:00 am.

We need more operators for this event. You only need to be available for a few hours. It should be lots of fun. We will be given T Shirts, food at the event, and an invitation to their post party.

Please contact Donna Mendyke, KC9THF to sign up and for more information.

73

Field Day 2018 is coming up the weekend of June 23-24. Our Field Day Co-Chairs Terry-N9AOT and Bruce-W9BDO have planned a great weekend for the club and it's guests.

We will be at the Valley Aero Modelers site at W5007 Quarry Rd in Appleton. In reality this is a couple miles west of Mackville and Rte 47. Our set-up crew starts at 8am on Saturday June 23. The club will have a HF station for voice/fone, a HF station for CW, a VHF/ UHF station and a GOTA station. Plenty of opportunities to come out and operate.

The weather is finally nice and with it summertime events like CommunityFest are fast approaching! This event is a great way to enjoy the summer sun, festivities, and company of other hams.

Please join me in welcoming our newly elected officers to the Board of Directors of the FCARC.

Vice President
Andy Lawton - AJ9AL

Treasurer
Donna Mendyke - KC9THF

Members at Large
Joel Kasper - WI4WD
Roy Hinz - KC9VLP
Rick Kosiorek - W9RIC

Many thanks to those who have served the club in various capacities over the years. I truly believe that you get out of the club what you put into the club.

73,

Bernie - N9YMC

The next FCARC VE Exam will be Saturday, June 2, 2018 at Fox Valley Technical College, 1825 N. Bluemound Drive, Appleton, 54912-2277.
The room number is C171 and the closest entrance is door 14 located on the North side of the building. You can view a floor plan of the College at the following website.
http://www.fvtc.edu/appleton. Walk-ins are welcome. Registration is from 8 to 9 am. We only have the room until 11 am so we will not be able to accommodate late arrivals.

W9ZL and The Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club is getting some good press due to the diligent efforts of our own Jon - AB9AH and our ARRL Central Division Director Kermit - W9XA as ARRL are setting up a working amateur station at EAA this year for the first time. Nice effort Jon.

Here is a link to the ARRL article http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-to-show-off-ham-radio-at-eaa-airventure-os...

See you on the grounds of EAA or "on the air".

73,

The EAA 2018 Special Event Station sign up had been scheduled to close on
5/07/2018. It is an unpublished fact that for 2018 the ARRL will have a presence
in Hanger "B" at Airventure 2018. We will have a 70cm radio link established
between the two sites, and personal interaction between them is anticipated also.

To accommodate the ARRL I am letting sign up stay open until 5/14/2018
accordingly, as there are currently a few shift openings still left open. This
will allow any additional ARRL members to sign on.

There has been a couple of changes made to the 146.76 and 145.33 repeaters.
Both have been updated to DR-2X Yaesu System Fusion. The reason is it will give greater remote control of both systems.

The Repeater Committee recently proposed that the 145.33 repeater be operated in Fusion digital only to promote the technology. The FCARC Board agreed and it was voted on during the March meeting.

Greetings all,

The American Cancer 5k Walk/ Run is in need of communication and logistic operators on May 12th from approx 8:30 am till 10:00 am.

Your event coordinator, Brian Long - LB9LRD, will also be hosting a cookout the week before (May 5) with Gary Akulian and his wife as guests. Gary is the Soleburner event coordinator and would love to thank you in person for your time and effort. So sign up and come out to the cookout. Signups are at kb9lrd@gmail.com