A VERY HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY W4HOD

Despite the naysayers predictions that we would not make it one year, here we are celebrating our 1st anniversary. Congratulations to a great bunch of hams who I am pleased to call my friends.

CONTEST RESULTS

Field Day - June 2008

Operated 2A
QSOs - 231
GOTA QSOs - 20 
Claimed Score - 572
Total Bonus Points 790

Members : KA4PKB, W4KDS, KA4NDY, AA4YL, KI4TWB, KG4NYW, KI4KUT, KD4FD, KG4CQZ, KF4OPX, and  K4ANU.

Visitors: Loachapoka Mayor Larry Justice; Lee County Revenue Commissioner, Oline W. Price; Woody Ross, KI4NLW; John Pratt, KC4RSN and his wife Gail.

W4HOD 147.300 REPEATER

The W4HOD 147.300 repeater is on the air. We are getting very good coverage into Auburn, Opelika and west into the Prattville area.

Many thanks to Mike Parmer, KF4OPX, Jeff Mitcham, KG4NYW, and Don Huey, KA4NDY for a great job of getting it on the air..

W4HOD 147.300 REPEATER

Well, it is finally happening. The tower climber mounted our Diamond X500HNA  repeater antenna on April 10th. The antenna is located on the Loachapoka water tower. All that is left to do is some minor tweaking on the controller. We are hoping the repeater will be on the air in a few days.

We were very lucky to have a professional family owned company to climb for us. They have handled many projects for a local engineer and came highly recommended. They have been in business for 50 years and really know their stuff!

JIM JOHNSON - KC4HW

Jim presented our program for the April meeting on the upcoming Alabama QSO Party. The program was aided by a Power Point presentation and was very interesting. The state of Alabama and amateur radio are very fortunate to have Jim and his energy and enthusiasm. The Alabama QSO Party participation has multiplied many times since Jim took over. For information on the AQP, check out their site.  Jim was made an honorary member of the Heart of Dixie ARS and a donation was made to the Alabama Contest Group by W4HOD.

APRIL VE TEST SESSION

The first VE test session for W4HOD was a big success. We had two people test for Technician and and had 100% passing. Congrats to Carmen Wegner and Jason Ward on passing their tests and becoming radio amateurs.

Calls Issued:

Carmen - KJ4DHU

Jason - KJ4DHT

EA RTTY CONTEST

Club members KA4PKB, KF4OPX and AA4YL worked the EA RTTY Contest the weekend of April 5-6, 2008. As of Saturday evening, they had 161 contacts including several Spanish provinces. (Update: 201 contacts as of contest close on Sunday morning) KA4PKB finished up the contest Sunday morning and KF4OPX will calculate the score on Monday.

There were two visitors to the clubhouse for the contest. John Pratt, KC4RSN and his lovely wife Gail visited the clubhouse Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. John worked several stations and made contacts for the log. John is mainly a CW operator, but he really enjoyed the RTTY contest. We hope to see them more often at the clubhouse.

KC4RSN is contemplating purchasing a Cushcraft R8, and he really liked how the club's R8 performed. That is three R8s that have come from the formation of our club. Perhaps Cushcraft should pay us commission.

Call: W4HOD
Operator(s): KA4PKB,KF4OPX,AA4YL,KC4RSN
Station: W4HOD

Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  80:
  40:   84    31
  20:  115    75
  15:    2     2
  10:
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Total:  201   108  Total Score = 39,780

Club: Alabama Contest Group

Comments:

Great Contest, Thanks to John KC4RSN for helping us in the contest.

NA RTTY SPRINT

  MARCH 8-9, 2008

Call: W4HOD
Operator(s): W4HOD
Station: W4HOD

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 4

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Op Time
---------------------
   80:            
   40:  70      3.5
   20:   5       .5
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Total:  75     Mults = 18  Total Score = 1,350

Club: Alabama Contest Group

Team: KA4PKB, KF4OPX, AA4YL 

Comments:

GOOD CONTEST!

Preliminary Score: 55 out of field of 74. We'll take it!

CQ WW RTTY Contest

Six members of HODARS worked the CQ WW RTTY contest over the weekend of February 9-10. They made a total of 412 contacts. More details later.

2008 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest, RTTY

             Callsign: W4HOD
          Operator(s): KA4NDY KA4PKB KF4OPX KG4NYW KI4KUT KI4TWB
    Category-Operator: MULTI-OP
 Category-Transmitter: ONE
        Category-Band: ALL
       Category-Power: LOW
    Category-Assisted: ASSISTED
                 Name: Heart of Dixie Amateur Radio Society
       Postal Address: PO BOX 407
                       Lochapoka, AL 36865-0407
         Log Deadline: 2008-03-09 23:59:59 UTC
          Received at: 2008-02-11 17:47:35 UTC
        Reported QSOs: 412
       Confirmation #: 1060383.cq-wpx-rtty

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format.  Please review the information listed above and, if necessary,
resubmit the log to make any corrections.  

73.

M. Glenn Vinson, W6OTC
Contest Director

Click here to see our contest log for the CQ RTTY contest.

W4HOD 147.30 Repeater

The W4HOD repeater continues to take shape. We have the repeater in our possession and the duplexers are being tuned as this is written. The location of the repeater will be on the Loachapoka water tower. The antenna will be a Diamond X500HNA; the antenna has been ordered and will arrive shortly.

The repeater will be located at 147.300+ with PL Tone 123 and a CTCSS squelch of 123.