The next members meeting will be on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 7:30PM. The meeting will be held at the Hopes Point Baptist Church, 1703 South Miller Avenue
Shelbyville, IN 46176. Hope to see you all there.
Technician License Class and Test. An Amateur (HAM) radio Technician License class will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Saints, located at 201 N. Eastview Drive, State Road 44, Franklin, Indiana on Saturday April 13, and Saturday April 27, 2024. The class and test are free. Classes start at 9 AM to around 4 pm with a 1-hour lunch break. On the 27th the morning class will go from 9 to noon. Testing will commence at 12:30. The course will be taught by our premier teacher, Brother Gordon Cotton. After you pass the test, you will have to pay the FCC $ 35 for your license which is good for 10 years. To sign up or if you have any questions, please contact bruceenz@gmail.com or call him at 317 201-8299 and he will get you registered for the course and answer questions. The course is open to the public so if you know someone who is interested, they can contact him and get signed up to take the class and/or to take the test. Anyone with a Technician license who has self-studied and wants to take the General or EXTRA license test can sign up for the testing. The class will be capped at 35 people.
Ham Breakfast with the Hams: Breakfasts are always held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month at 8:30AM at the Shelbyville Denny’s restaurant located on the East side of Shelbyville at the I-74 and SR44 interchange. See you there.
The Rush County Net is held every Monday evening at 7:00 PM on the 147.00 MHz repeater located in Rush County. The repeater has a 127.3 Hz PL tone. All check-ins are welcome.
The Indiana Statewide DStar Net is held every Thursday evening at 8:00 PM on Reflector 24B. Our local DStar repeater is always on Reflector 24B on Thursday evenings.
SSTV/CW NET You can catch up on your CW and Digital Slow Scan TV on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 8:50 AM on 144.36 MHz. If you are not fluent in CW, then we invite you to cheat a little and fire up FLDIGI and join on in. After CW we then fire up the Digital SSTV program EasyPal and send pictures back and forth over the airwaves.
