Per McHenry County Department of Health recommendations, the severe weather spotter training and outdoor weather exercise sessions at the McHenry County Mental Health Board has been CANCELLED.
If you signed up you will receive the email notice from the McHenry County EMA. We recommend you consider the online training that NWS provides.
McHenry County ihas established Winlink-RMS packet gateway on 145.610 Simplex No PL. More information on the Winlink system can be found at the link for the Live System Information. Stations, status and frequence information are all at this link. https://winlink.org/RMSChannels. Also these test stations are on HF:
- NC9IL will now be operating Winmor P2P indefinitely on CF 3571.5 for testing purposes.
- K9LJB will now be operating ARDOP P2P indefinitely on CF 3571.5 for testing purposes.
- W9DSR will operate as an PACTOR/ARDOP/Winmor RMS on CF 3595.0 during the day, most days.
Per Frits Bock (WD9FMB): As these are testing platforms, there will be times when they will be down for maintenance, resets, or re-purposing.
Here are the QSO results from Field Day 2018, including a comparison to the 2 previous years. Great job by everyone who participated! Lots of opportunity to improve even more next year. We’ll start discussing that at the August meeting.
| Points Category | Year | ||
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
| CW/DIGITAL QSOs | |||
| 160M | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80M | 112 | 41 | 65 |
| 40M | 256 | 216 | 363 |
| 20M | 465 | 366 | 405 |
| 15M | 130 | 126 | 100 |
| 10M | 9 | 88 | 54 |
| 6M | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2M | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70cm | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PHONE QSOs | |||
| 160M | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 80M | 22 | 24 | 50 |
| 40M | 52 | 122 | 54 |
| 20M | 57 | 94 | 34 |
| 15M | 10 | 32 | 10 |
| 10M | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6M | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2M | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 70cm | 0 | 0 | |
| SAT | 0 | 0 | |
| Total QSOs | 1114 | 1110 | 1135 |
| Year-to-Year | NA | -0.36% | 2.25% |
| CW/Digital QSOs | 972 | 837 | 987 |
| Year-to-Year | NA | -13.89% | 17.92% |
| Phone QSOs | 142 | 273 | 148 |
| Year-to-Year | NA | 92.25% | -45.79% |
