It’s no secret that recruiting a new generation into our essential avocation is a challenge these days. Technological innovations can diminish the wow factor of amateur radio and the time constraints college students face make it tough for them to get actively involved in ham clubs. But it turns out that…
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Matthew Beiz recently asked the members of the Collegiate Ham Radio Operators Facebook page for ideas on how to build interest in our essential avocation among a young audience dealing with lots of technological distractions. Here are a few thoughts from our work to rebuild the Michigan State University Amateur…
Memories of the 2015 football season. MSUARC offered commemorative QSL cards for contacts made during our virtual tailgate parties prior to each home game, complete with a suitable-for-framing poster to display them. Thanks to Gregg WB8LZG for organizing the event and to Francie at the Michigan State University College of…
Bruce, K2BET and Ed, W8EO at AA07 near St. Ignace, Michigan. Learn more about The ARRL’s National Parks on the Air here.
We had a good turnout with a good mixture of both students and alumni for this weekend’s Michigan QSO Party. Ed Oxer and I opened up the shack to find that our primary radio was on the fritz. Good thing we had a back up rig. We also had several…
Here are some of the links we’ve posted recently on the MSUARC Facebook page: Check out this homemade vertical for 7 MHz as constructed by Sergio Valente, PY1BEK. 5 Ham Radio Maker Projects with Diana Eng. How a ham discovered an American satellite that started transmitting 46 years after being abandoned…
This week WY7YL and KX9X visited MSU to talk public relations with the MSU Alumni Association team. Katie Allen is the chair of the American Radio Relay League’s PR Committee, while Sean Kutzko is the staffer who heads up the League’s social media and public relations activities. In addition to…
K2BSA/8 QRV at Michigan State University. Shouts to MSUARC’s NF8M, WB8LZG, W8JRK, K8GVK & KA7MMM for getting things going. From Dale’s Tales: To celebrate this unique event the Michigan State University Amateur Radio Club, (MSUARC) W8MSU will be sponsoring a special event Amateur Radio station, K2BSA/8. The station will be…
An early reminder for the Michigan QSO Party coming up April 18th. The contest starts at Noon local time and runs through Midnight. We recently changed out all of our shack computers, so I’m working on installing computer logging programs right now. Hoping to have them all talking to each other and…
Here are the meeting minutes for 3/19/15: The meeting came to order at 7:05p. Present were: Scott KB8VWM, Forest KD8NKI, Reece KD8VNY, Teng (no license yet), Andrew KE7ESD, Gregg WB8LZG, Ed W8EO, Bob W8RSJ, Dennis KB8ZQZ, Steve WB8WSF, John KD8BQX, Dave, K8GVK. Reece accepted the role of Club President for the following…