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 We're glad you found us. Please take the time to explore what we have to offer. We encourage you to become a Registered User (we suggest using your call sign as your login name) and to submit your favorite web links, questions for our FAQs, etc. |
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What Do Amateur Radio Operators Do? |
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Ham radio operators use two-way radio stations from their homes, cars, boats and outdoors to make hundreds of friends around town and around the world. They communicate with each other using voice, computers, and Morse code. Some hams bounce their signals off the upper regions of the atmosphere, so they can talk with hams on the other side of the world. Other hams use satellites. Many use hand-held radios that fit in their pockets. Hams exchange pictures of each other using television. Some also like to work on electronic circuits, building their own radios and antennas. A few pioneers in Amateur Radio have even contributed to advances in technology that we all enjoy today. There are even ham-astronauts who take radios with them on space shuttle missions and thrill thousands of hams on earth with a call from space! Using even the simplest of radio setups and antennas, amateurs communicate with each other for fun, during emergencies, and even in contests. They handle messages for police and other public service organizations during all kinds of emergencies including hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and floods, motorist accidents, fires and chemical spills, and search and rescues. They help organize parades and other local events... the list goes on and on. The above was adapted from "Hello Radio " on the ARRL web site. Give them a visit... there's lots of interesting stuff there. |
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Executive Board — Thursday, August 7
The Executive Board will meet at 7:30 PM, at the Elmhurst Public House (note the change in venue). Due to the fact that the 1st fell on a Friday, the second Thursday and the third Friday are only 24 hours apart; in this case we meet on the FIRST Thursday. (My head hurts.) All Executive Board members are requested to attend; any interested club member may attend. Click the "Maps" link in the top menus for a map to the meeting place.  Regular Meeting — Friday, August 15 — WHERE'S THE FOX?!
The club will have its regular monthly meeting at 6:00 PM (note the earlier time!) at the Elmhurst Fire Department's Training Center, 910 N. Addison Rd. Click the "Maps" link, above, for directions. We will not have a business meeting — instead, we will have our annual fox hunt, followed by a cookout at the Training Center. You can bring food or pop if you wish. We'll set up some radios and make some QSOs at the cookout; ALL interested hams are invited to attend this event. This is one you won't want to miss. See you there, and KEEP TALKING! As usual, we will hold a VE testing session for all license elements. If you need information, please contact KB9TVD. |
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Technician Class Now Enrolling |
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 The York Radio Club will hold a 2-day Technician Class license class, including the giving of the Technician Class examination, on Saturday and Sunday, October 18th and 19th. Details and a registration form are available on this site: hover your mouse over the "Classes-Training" link on the top menu and slide down to "Technician."
Club members who know of good places to put 8.5" x 11" flyers can download a PDF version and print as many as they need: just click HERE. Our classes are intensive over the two days, but we also have a better than 98% success rate when students take the examination on Sunday afternoon! |
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 From The President
Greetings Fellow Amateurs, Let me start out by saying if you missed last Friday’s, July 18, General Meeting, you missed a lot of FUN!! There were hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages from Serbia, and brats, chips, and nuts, cookies and s’mores! OH my! The new club-purchased radio, a Yaesu FT-450AT, was set up and instruction on its use was given and contacts were made. A computer was set up to run digital and contacts were made on it as well. 
Food, fun, and ham radio, how much more fun can anyone ask for??? Listening for you on the repeater and looking forward to seeing all of you at the August 15 meeting. Keep talking! 73,
Joyce, W9JO |
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New Menu Item: Coming Events |
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The web site has a new item in the main menu: called "Coming Events," it contains a listing of hamfests and other events of interest to the amateur radio community for the coming / current month. This feature will continue as long as somebody else keeps sending the webmaster the list of such items in a timely manner (hint, hint)! (And thanks to W9YK for sending the first list.)
Anyway, enjoy this new convenience for our web site visitors! K9PLX, webmaster |
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Well, Field Day 2008 is now in the history books and by all accounts things went very well for York Radio Club again this year. Several members have sent photographs of the activities; watch for them to appear in the Photo Gallery shortly. As soon as your friendly neighborhood webmaster has the details of scoring, they will be published here. (Help? Anybody? Please?) Thanks to everyone who participated in Field Day 2008 — and special thanks to Marv, KB9ZGR who once again headed up the Field Day committee.
As a sidebar, K9PLX missed his first Field Day with the club since joining, so he could participate in a special Field Day team made up of old (REALLY old) friends who were all licensed with him in the late 1950's and he reports that the best-performing portable antenna they had was one made by K9QLL out of two river fishing poles, some PVC pipe, and two large Slinkies. The Slinkies loaded on both 80 Meters and 40 Meters and provided their own musical accompanyment when the winds got over 40 MPH. Very cool. 
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Membership List Now Available |
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The Elmer List is back! This list includes all active (paid-up) club members with their phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, call signs, etc. The list is in PDF format and is available to any active club member who wants it. Just use the CONTACT YRC link in the main menu at the left side of the page to request yours. Include your name and call sign in the request, and MAKE SURE YOU ACCURATELY ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS! You will receive your Elmer List in your in-box shortly after you request it. Why not just make it download-able? For security reasons this information is restricted to club members and this seemed to easiest way to make sure it stays that way. |
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In the edition of "This Week In Amateur Radio" which airs on our repeater net Wednesday, April 30th, Bill Continelli W2XOY discusses his radio bag; what's in it and why. This is of interest to all hams who have ever thought about doing emergency service work and, in fact, might just spur interest in others as well. At the end of the article he details the contents of his bag. Our first thought was to reproduce that list here for our readers, but then we found the original of his article on line — "why reinvent the wheel?" we wondered. "Not worth it," we replied to ourselves. So here is the link to the article. We hope you find it helpful. http://www.qsl.net/ecara/radiobag.html |
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 Here are the latest statistics from our nets: 6 Meter roundtable net (Monday following 2 M net, 50.150 MHz, upper sideband) Check-ins on 8/18: 5
Check-ins so far in 2008: 195
2 Meter traffic and information net (Monday @ 8 PM, 147.420 MHz simplex) Check-ins on 8/18: 23
Check-ins so far in 2008: 663
70 Centimeter traffic and information net (Wednesday @ 8 PM, 442.875 MHz, + Duplex, PL 114.8 Hz Check-ins on 8/13: 33
Check-ins so far in 2008: 923
We can ALWAYS use a few more Net Control Operators! Contact K9PLX. |
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