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General Meeting of the TCFMC
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- Category: Meetings
- Published on Thursday, 10 May 2012 01:14
- Written by A.J. Hirman
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The Monday, May 14 meeting of the Twin City FM Club will present researcher, scientist and amateur KS0J, Skip Jackson on his fascinating talk "The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart" You will see some important facts about the flight; the equipment (aircraft, radios etc), the People Involved, Radio Propagation, Planning Problems, The State of World Politics in 1937 and the continuing search today. Meeting time is 7PM at the Ridgedale Library. The library is located just behind the Ridgedale Shopping Center, in Minnetonka.
Field Day 2012 - More than just the usual contest.
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- Category: Field Day
- Published on Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:28
- Written by Jay (Rusty) Curry
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In case you haven't heard, the 2012 Field day contest has even more on the line than normal for the Twin Cities FM club.
After we won the Dakota division for 3A this last year, the Rochester Amateur Radio Club stepped up and challenged us to a head to head points contest this next year.
The TCFMC needs all of our club members to step up and take on this challenge. While it is early in the year, it really is time to start looking at what you need to do to get ready for the contest.
I've scheduled time off from work to get on the air, or at the very least help log or monitor how the station is doing, set things up, and help tear things down. We've got people working on improving our power situation over what we saw last year. We have models being put together of our antenna setup. But we still need more.
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Hey Minnesota, would you like to run a Hamfest?
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- Category: Club Business
- Published on Monday, 20 February 2012 11:00
- Written by Rusty - KC0VCU
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I'm putting this in Club Business, because it really is the business of the Twin Cities FM club. For years the TCFMC derived most of it's operating funds from the Minnesota Hamfest. I have it on good authority that it's also known as 'The Big One!'
At one of the very first TCMFC meetings I attended, the decision had been made that the club was not going to run the convention that year. I'm not going to go into why, or whether it was a good decision. Neither of those really matter. At the time it was the decision that the board made based on what they saw happening in the Amateur radio community.
Software Defined Radio - A Project
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- Category: Equipment
- Published on Friday, 29 April 2011 06:58
- Written by Rusty - kc0vcu
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Article initially appeared in the November 2010 edition of the Quarterwave. You can read the article in the QW and more articles by downloading the original QW at http://qw.tcfmc.org/QW-2010-November.pdf
The project has been put in the background as a result of my moving in with my fiancé, and I'll be following up as the project progresses, but to get things started:
If you haven’t heard of Software Defined Radio (SDR), I won’t ask what rock you’ve been living under. We each have our own set of interests in any activity, and Amateur Radio covers a wide variety of different interests, of which SDR is only a small part.
