July Meeting Re-Cap

WOW. With 41 in attendance for the meeting we set a record. What a great group of members we have. We discussed several things at the meeting. We had several good ideas brought up by our members regarding upcoming training opportunities for future meetings. The ECOM Trailer is going to be gone through to make sure that all the wiring is grounded and in good shape. For the 1st time in club history all of our 2m Sunday Night Nets will be run by our clubs YL’s, thank you ladies. We had a report on this years Field Day, many thanks go out to the committee and members who participated. We will be operatering a POTA event at Bothwell State Park on July 23rd beginning at 10am, all members are encouraged to attend. We will put our ECOM TRAILER in this years Christmas parade and a committee will be working on ideas to decorate the trailer for it. SPARKFEST is growing leaps and bounds. We have already sold the same amount of tables as we did last year. We have acquired 30 more tables that we can sell to vendors thanks to Brad (kf0gsx) and Duke Manufacturing. We will be looking at moving SPARKFEST to the fairgrounds next year. We will have a information table at Warrensburg’s Hamfest on June 16th promoting SPARKFEST.

Lots of exciting things are happening in SPARK. We are blessed to have such a strong group of members who exemplify what Ham Radio is all about. Our next scheduled meeting will be held at Sedalia-Pettis County EMA Headquarters located at 1511 N. Ohio on August 6th beginning at 8:30am. Look forward to seeing everyone there. 73’s

Mystery Comms

This was overheard on the 147.03 repeater Saturday evening. The recording is from 6:42 – 7:12pm (silent periods are removed).

I don’t know if this is legitimate repeater use or not, I don’t speak Spanish, but at times I heard numbers which I guess could be part of a call sign. However, I also heard curse words which leads me to think this was unauthorized use.

If any of you speak Spanish well enough to translate, or know someone who can, give it a listen and email admin@wa0sdo.org and I will post your findings.

There are more times this was heard on Saturday afternoon. Anyone with a premium Broadcastify account can search the archives and listen to more of it.

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July Meeting

JULY MEETING DATE & LOCATION

Our July meeting will be held on the 9th due to the Independence Day Holiday. The meeting will be held at Our Savior Lutheran Church located at 3700 West Broadway in Sedalia beginning at 8:30am at the shelter house (across from Lowes). We have several items to discuss including Sparkfest and Special Event and Field Day wrap ups. If you would like to bring a lawn chair please do so if you don’t want to sit on the picnic tables for your comfort. Those locals who are testing please contact Bret (WOVK) at hota2@hotmail.com to pre-register. Testing will begin directly after the meeting. See everyone on the 9th.

Field Day 2022 Update

Field Day 2022 Update

Saturday June 25th is approaching fast. We will have at least 7 stations scheduled to operate during the day. This will give all of our members the opportunity to hang out, make contacts, and fellowship with friends. We will begin setting up around 10:30am, if you would like to help we would like you to be there. We will have a meeting for our members to discuss the bands that we will be operatering on and the points schedule at 12:30pm. At 1pm the fun begins. Around 6pm we are going to grill hamburgers and hot dogs. We ask that if you are planning to eat with us please bring a covered dish. We will operate until around 8pm.

We encourage all members to join us for fun and fellowship during the day. We will be at Our Savior Lutheran Church located at 3700 West Broadway in Sedalia. The location is in the shelter house so you might want to bring your lawn chairs so you will have a comfortable place to sit.

See everyone on the 25th.