Author: Richard - KE0QYA

Join SPARK on Saturday July 15th at Knob Noster State Park for Parks On The Air. We will be setting up at 9am and activate the park. Joel (KE0WJX) will be in charge of the event. If you would like to bring your portable station and set up that would be great as well. We will be operatering under our club call sign of Wa0sdo. If you would like to bring refreshments for afterwards that would be awesome.

Directions to the park are:
50 Hiway to 23 Highway
South on 23 Highway to the park entrance
Turn west at the entrance and follow to the end
You have arrived for some fun and fellowship

We look forward to seeing you there

July Net Control Operators
2nd Richard ke0qya
9th Joel ke0wjx
16th John ki7cmv
23rd Paul kd0etl
30th Russ k6hu

August 6th
Richard ke0qya

Our August meeting has been moved to the 12th so our members can attend the Warrensburg Hamfest.

EMA planning on conducting a siren test this Wednesday July 5th at noon. Following the test at approximately 12:10 pm we will have a Weather Net Exercise. Forecast is calling for rain, so stay tuned test might be canceled.

Just worked the original 13 colonies. Now going for the 3 extra stations. At least will get a certificate for the 13. Happy hunting everyone. KE0QYA

http://www.13colonies.us/

Fun way to work some hf and get a nice certificate

Join SPARK on Saturday June 24th for ARRL Field Day. This years location will be at EMA Headquarters located at 1511 N. Ohio in Sedalia. Set up for the radios will begin around 10am. We will start operating at 1pm local time and hopefully do it for 24 hours. This is a great opportunity for members to work HF radio. We are planning to have a potluck dinner around 6pm. Club will provide burgers, hot dogs, plates,bowls, and utensils. Just bring your favorite covered dish. Great opportunity to hang out, invite a friend who might be interested in ham radio, and hopefully make contacts all around the world. We will cease operating on Sunday June 25th at 1pm. Hope to see everyone there.

Had a great time visiting my friend Philip (KJ5ZW) in Texas this past weekend. Although the trip was a short one, I did make some lasting memories. And yes I did deliver his brownies that he won because nobody guessed that he was the “Who’s It” in a past newsletter.

Here’s the link to the article on KSIS,s website
https://ksisradio.com/spark-makes-contact-with-the-rest-of-the-world-from-liberty-island/

As we discussed at our May meeting, we will be conducting a special net. Our 1st Safe Space Net will be held on Tuesday May 16th beginning at 7:00 pm. The net will be held on our 2m repeater (147.030 – (179.9) ). The purpose of this net is to check out our radios in our storm ready safe space. What we want each of you to find out in the event of a major weather event if you can reach the repeater in your safe place. We want everybody to be able to communicate in their safe space in event that power, cell service, etc are disrupted. This could be a safety issue and we want to make sure that you are prepared. The check in process is simple:

1) you will give your call sign and location
2) you will be asked what type of radio your using (ht–base)
3) your power source (battery–conventional)

We will have a short preamble to get things started. There will be no in & outs, just a regular check in and providing the information above. Once you check in, net control will provide you with how well your signal is reaching our repeater. It’s that simple. We hope that you will take advantage of this special net. We look forward to hearing from you on May 16th. Richard ke0qya 73’s