Formidable Amateur Radio Team

Formidable Amateur Radio Team The Formidable Amateur Radio Team was formed in Mooresville, Indiana in 2012 by three long time "ham All visitors are welcome, however.

The Formidable Amateur Radio Team was formed in Mooresville, Indiana in 2012 by three long time "hams" who wanted to form a group that was "pure fun", without all of the drama and politics and hurt feelings so often found in other ham radio clubs. What began as three hams enjoying breakfast and the sounds of their own voice quickly turned into much more. Members of The Formidable Amateur Radio Tea

m are still in it for the fun, but our group is proud to provide several services to the local amateur radio community at large. The group meets bi-weekly at a local restaurant, and membership is open to all interested parties upon approval of the club membership and the executive committee. Stop by for breakfast or contact one of the club members on our local repeater. We won't ask you for club ID before talking your ear off (in fact we have no club ID's to speak of). The club operates a Laurel VEC affiliated Volunteer Examiner (VE) team, offering no-cost amateur radio testing to the community on demand. Additionally, informal meetings are held on a variety of topics, including packet radio, SSTV, and Field Day Exercises. Our group maintains a VHF repeater located in Mooresville on top of a 50 foot tower. The repeater can be found on 145.110 MHz and uses a tone of 114.8 Hz for access. The repeater is open and available for all legally licensed amateur radio operators. We're proud to operate the undisputed twenty-seventh most powerful 2 meter repeater in the Mooresville area! In addition to amateur radio, club members dabble in other electronic projects, including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, RFID, computer programming, etc. We're not JUST about amateur radio, although we're dedicated hams to be sure! Stop by for some breakfast, a chat, or just to see what we've got cooking! We'd love to spend time making new friends!

04/20/2016

It’s a full-sized half wave on 20 metres and a loaded half wave on 40 metres. The antenna also works on 10 metres. It’s not recommended for use on other bands.

I've been using this app on my android for the past month or so, and it's really great! I echo this reviewer's comments...
03/27/2016

I've been using this app on my android for the past month or so, and it's really great! I echo this reviewer's comments and experiences.

Way back when I was first licensed in 1993 to use a HAM Radio, the first thing I wanted to do was to get on the 2m band and hop on a local repeater. How did I find them back then? Well I went to the local radio store and bought the latest edition of the ARRL Repeater Book.

03/24/2016

MEF-330-1K Multi Band End Fed Half Wave Antenna March 10, 2015 No comments Product Description MEF-330-1K Multi Band End Fed Half Wave Antenna This is an End-Fed Half Wave antenna (EFHW) resonant on 8 amateur bands. ... Read more

03/22/2016

Tonight's VE session was a rip-roaring success! Five attendees, with two going directly to General, one General upgrade, one Extra upgrade and one new Tech.

Congratulations, and welcome to the hobby for the three new hams!!!!

Skype convo with FART member Bill Spann KC9DCA at the FART southern command base in Florida for our bi-weekly meeting.
02/15/2016

Skype convo with FART member Bill Spann KC9DCA at the FART southern command base in Florida for our bi-weekly meeting.

02/13/2016

Formidable Amateur Radio Team just checked into the Morgan County RACES net.

FART Members hold no ill-will towards or colleagues on the eleven-meter band. This would fit nicely in our FART Doomsda...
02/05/2016

FART Members hold no ill-will towards or colleagues on the eleven-meter band. This would fit nicely in our FART Doomsday vehicle....

FCC Announces Enforcement Bureau Field Office Reorganization Plans July 17, 2015 in: News No comments Forced under political pressure to take a few steps back from its initial proposal to eliminate two-thirds of its Enforcement Bureau field offices, the FCC has announced its final, scaled-down plan…

Great idea, although the original branding caused some consternation. Here's to keeping the bands radio-active!!!
02/04/2016

Great idea, although the original branding caused some consternation. Here's to keeping the bands radio-active!!!

By K5KVN, on the scene LAZY COVE, CALIFORNIA — A local radio club’s idea to encourage inactive members to get back on the air is making waves in the amateur radio hobby. The club first started publishing their new “silent key” section in their newsletter last month. Since then, newsletter editor Pau…

01/31/2016
01/20/2016

From our fellow hams over at Putnam County Auxiliary Communications....

The local Amateur Radio Emergency Service / Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service radio group is offering free Ham Radio classes starting on Feb 9, 2016 (6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.), every Tuesday and Thursday through March 24, 2016. The test will be given on March 24, 2016. No cost for the class and no cost for the test. We will be using the American Radio Relay League course of study. Classes and testing will take place at the Putnam County Emergency Operation Center (1600 West County Road 225 South, Greencastle, Indiana). We offer classes for Technician, General and Extra licenses. Please contact George Edenfield @ 765-653-5327 or Nancy Knapp @ 765-532-5244 if you are interested. Facebook users may also send a message to the Putnam County Auxiliary Communication page.

01/17/2016

Formidable Amateur Radio Team member (and certified Snowbird) Bob KD9DCA found something interesting going on with his breakers. We'll let him explain.

Gentlemen:

An interesting thing happened when I arrived at our Florida Home; there were a couple of our circuit breakers that had been tripped. We thought is was strange but reset them and went on with our unpacking. One of our neighbors mentioned that there has been a problem with the breakers tripping and I should contact the Warranty Claim department (even though our home is out of warranty) to let them know.

So what does this have to do with HAM Radio you ask? I was looking up on the internet on causes and found several chat groups near my home claiming it was due to HAM Radio Signals. My first reaction was "No Way". It seems I was wrong and there are circumstances where certain signals can trip a breaker. Also found that ARRL has been working with the manufactures to resolve the issue.

http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-helps-manufacturer-to-resolve-arc-fault-circuit-interrupter-rfi-problems

The good news is that they have a new breaker that is not susceptible to HAM radio signals and they are replacing mine today; at no cost.

There are two take-a-ways from this story. There are a lot of HAM radio enthusiast near where I live and second, never "assume" anything as I was about to change the breakers myself as I thought they had gone bad and were out of warranty.

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

EchoLink is now running from a dedicated computer inside the W9WWV lair. Connect to what is rapidly becoming the ninete...
01/08/2016

EchoLink is now running from a dedicated computer inside the W9WWV lair. Connect to what is rapidly becoming the nineteenth most popular 2 meter repeater in Morgan County, Indiana!!!

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