The Forx Amateur Radio Club will present the Grand Forks Hamfest 2024 on Saturday April 20, 2024 at Heritage Village, 219 20^th St NE in East Grand Forks, MN from 8am til 1pm. Setup begins at 7am. More details at wa0jxt.org and the Hamfest 2024 tab.

The Brainerd Area Hamfest will be held on Saturday, April 27^th, from  9 am to 1 pm at the Brainerd National Guard Armory, 1115 Wright St. in Brainerd. Tables $15, Buyers $5.00, free parking. All the info at magicrepeater.net/bard.pdf.

Further north, the Arrowhead Radio Amateur club will be holding their 2024 Hamfest on Saturday, May 4^th from 9 am to 1 pm at the Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds multi-purpose building, 4700 Tower Ave. (Wisconsin Hwy 35) in Superior, WI. next to the Superior Airport. Check out thearac.org/hamfest.htm.

Help the Courage Handiham Program celebrate it’s 57th Anniversary from 7 pm CDT (1900 UTC) Friday April 26^th thru 7 pm CDT (1900 UTC) Sunday April 28^th

by working the Handiham Radio Club Station, WØZSW. All bands and modes will be in operation including digital and VOIP modes. Full details at handiham.net/

The MS Society needs volunteers for coming events this summer. They need:

• SAG drivers for the Walk MS: Twin Cities – Sunday May 5.
• SAG drivers and navigators for
  • Bike MS: Twin Cities Ride – Saturday May 11
  • Bike MS: MS 150 – June 8 and 9
  • Bike MS: Ride Across Minnesota, Northfield Start – July 22-26

Contact AJ N0PVC at n0pvc@outlook.com or call 763-412-9014 for details.

It’s never too early to mark your Fall Calendar for Saturday, October 5^th, for the NorthStar Radio Convention, a unique ham radio educational experience and an ARRL sanctioned event, at the Hennepin Technical College Brooklyn Park Campus in Brooklyn Park. As well, it’s also not too soon to volunteer to share some of your own ham radio experience, technical or otherwise, to help bring that knowledge to the Minnesota and surrounding area ham radio community. Check out mnconvention.org.

Casual Get-Togethers

                Hams in the Park will hold its last session of the season on Saturday, October 7th at Long Lake Regional Park in New Brighton, starting at noon. Talk-in will be on 146.52 simplex. Come on over and set up your radio gear one more time and enjoy the company of like-minded friends.

                  A DMR Radio Class will be hosted by Dan, KDØTGF, on September 16^th, at the Owatonna VFW, 135 Oakdale St. in Owatonna, beginning with DMR101 from 9 am to noon and Advanced DMR (bring your computer and radio to be programmed) from 1 pm to 7 pm. More details at dmr.kd0tgf.com.

The Twin City FM Club is holding their Friday morning Breakfast starting at 6 am at Perkins, 6920 Wayzata Blvd. in Golden Valley just off the Louisiana Avenue exit on I-394.

The Minnesota DMR community hasn’t announced an in-person breakfast schedule for the new year.  But you can also join them for an online Virtual breakfast.  Check out the Where’s Breakfast page on the www.minnesotadmr.com website for more details.

The Northern Lights Radio Society is holding breakfast on each second Saturday of the month at the Golden Corral, 3000 White Bear Ave. #4, in Maplewood starting at 8:30 am. The restaurant is located in the small strip mall just across White Bear Ave on the north end of the Maplewood  Mall, in the SE corner of  White Bear Ave and Woodlyn Ave.

The Bakken Amateur Radio Society Fusion Technical Net is held on Monday nights at 7:30 pm local time in WIRES-X Room #21493 and on the MNWIS repeaters. The net is open to anyone interested in System Fusion, Yaesu and so on. For more details, check out their website: www.wØmdt.com.

The Minnesota DMR community also has a weekly net on Wednesday nights from 7 – 8pm on the DMR Minnesota State Talkgroup # 3127