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Hams Needed for Charity Event

CQ CQ CQ Calling All Hams
The Evanston Century Bike Ride is coming up.... September 12th.  There are still a few positions available for Hams to fill.  This is a great event and a lot of fun to work.  The ride starts and ends in Evanston and extends as far north as Kenosha, WI.
Please contact Rob Orr at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to find out more info and sign up for a slot.  This ride is also a good charity event so you can feel good about helping out!

International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend

Our amateur radio club had a great time participating in the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend on Saturday, August 21. Over a dozen club members came out to the Gross Point Lighthouse, located on Lake Michigan in Evanston. A big thank you goes out to everyone who helped make this a successful event.

To see a few pictures, please click here.

The objective of ILLW is stated as "to promote public awareness of lighthouses and lightships and their need for preservation and restoration, to promote amateur radio and to foster International goodwill"

From Wikipedia:

The event was started by the Ayr Amateur Radio Group in 1995 as the "Northern Lighthouse Activity Weekend", with stations being set up at Scottish lighthouses. In 1997, to reflect participation by Danish and German amateur radio groups the event took on its current name. The event now sees worldwide participation, in locales as diverse as Long Beach, Washington, USA, Liverpool, England and Boca Grande, Florida, USA. ILLW now coincides with the worldwide open day organized by the Association of Lighthouse Keepers, which sees public access to many of the featured lighthouses.


QRZ.com
Our club has updated it's QRZ page. After clicking on the link, type in W9LYA:  Check out the club's page here.

 

Join Us for our Next Club Meeting

If you are interested in Amateur Radio, then please join us at our next monthly meeting of the Metro Amateur Radio Club on September 7, at 7:30pm.

Meetings are held at the Lincolnwood Community Center located at 6900 N Lincoln Avenue, Lincolnwood, Illinois. For more info and a map click on the Club Info link.

 

Field Day 2010

Report about Field Day,

Our radio club participated in Field Day (June 26, 2010) by setting up a ham station at the EOC (Emergency Operations center) on Lincoln Avenue in Lincolnwood.

We operated for continuous 24 hours. Several club members stopped by all hours of the night. Henry (K9KDE) stayed until 4:00am and Steve (KC9MMW) stayed all night!!! All together, we logged 385 QSOs from many states, a few Canadians stations and one from Melbourne, Australia. Everyone had a great time.

More about Field Day:
Field Day is an annual amateur radio exercise, encouraging emergency communications preparedness among amateur radio operators. In the United States, it is typically the largest single emergency preparedness exercise in the country, with over 30,000 operators participating each year. Field Day is part educational event, part operating event, part public relations event – and ALL about FUN!

 

 
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The next monthly meeting will be on Tuesday September 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

We meet at the Lincolnwood Community Center (6900 N. Lincoln Avenue, at Lincoln & Morse in Lincolnwood).  It s just south of Touhy and Lincoln.  A program follows our short business meeting. Everyone is welcome.