Chart of our year over year results
Severe Storm Spotting Classes On-line April 2020
NWS Chicago will be offering live webinar spotter training sessions this
spring.
The first spotter training webinar will be held on Thursday April 9th.
The plan is to hold at least one additional live webinar at a later date to be determined.
General Information: https://www.weather.gov/lot/spottertraining2020
April 9th Session Registration Link (direct link also in Tickets section):
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8900383205613779726 Follow
Instructions at this link.
Posted in Ham Radio
WINLINK- RMS Station Gateway Update K9ESV-10
On November 24, 2020 the RMS gateway site has been updated to allow Digi directly through the TNC.
We will now beacon: IDEN Woodstock IL EN52si K9ESV-10 Digi DESV Node NESV BBS PESV McHenry County IL www.McRACES.Org
McHenry County 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 frequency information are all at this link. https://winlink.org/RMSChannels.
Posted in Ham Radio
2018 Field Day QSO Results
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% |
