Seven Three Newsletter December 2017

Seven Three Newsletter Amateur Radio Newsletter For December 2017 December is always a busy month and if you have young kids and tons of things going on I hope you get time to go down in the shack and get some on air time. I know for me it’s been challenging with everything I have…

Seven Three Newsletter November 2017

Seven Three Newsletter Amateur Radio Newsletter For November 2017 Welcome to the November edition of the seven three newsletter! To say we are a bit late getting this edition out is a bit of an understatement. We normally shoot for sending out the newsletter at the beginning of the month but November has been very…

Seven Three Newsletter October 2017

Seven Three Newsletter Amateur Radio Newsletter For October 2017 Welcome again to the Seven Three Amateur Radio Newsletter! We received some very positive feedback from the last newsletter and it’s greatly appreciated. I’d like to start right off with reminding our readers that this newsletter is a community newsletter, if you have something to share…

Seven Three Newsletter September 2017

Seven Three Newsletter Amateur Radio Newsletter For September 2017 Welcome to the first ever Seven Three Newsletter! The intentions of this newsletter is to provide amateur radio news and information to hams in Minnesota and Wisconsin with the possibility of branching out from there. My name is Mike Shelby (K9MLS) and I have been in…

Field Day 2017

Field Day 2017 All, Field Day is Saturday and I hope to see you all there everything is ready to go the lawn is nice and clean the porta potty is in place, food is ready to go, radios will be over Friday and antennas should be up as well by Friday night ( we…

Skywarn Training

The Barron County Sheriff’s Department will be hosting 2 Skywarn Classes that will be conducted by the National Weather Service in Chanhassen MN. When: May 2nd from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m Where: EOC at the Barron County Justice Center. 1420 STH 25 N, Barron WI 54812 There is…

444.4500 Repeater On The Air

On a cold, snowy morning the 444.4500 repeater was moved to a new location east of Rice Lake and placed on the air. The repeater is a Motorola MSF5000 repeater with 80 watts coming out of the duplexer into a DB420B antenna at 1800 feet above sea level.  The repeater is analog only and requires…