Hello Foxhunt Enthusiast Foxhunt Jun 13th, 2024 has ended Congratulations and thank you to to those who got out and hunted, found the fox or just got close.

End Date: Tue Jun 18th, 2024 @ 9:18 am

Foxhunt results can be found Again, congratulations.? Hope you all had fun. John, KE5RS _._ . ..... ._. ...

With Field Day coming up, maybe someone needs one of these and doesnt want to wait for delivery...

Comet CF-706 Duplexer for Transceivers - HF-VHF/UHF

About this item

• Great for HF/VHF/UHF Radios with Dual Antenna Outputs to 1 MultiBand Antenna.
• For Icom IC-706, Yaesu FT-857D, FT-897D, Ft-100, IC-7000 ect
• For Xmit: Coax Lead 1 accepts 1.3-57Mhz , Lead 2 accepts 75-550Mhz
• Handles 350W P.E.P, Less than 0.4dB insertion loss.
• So-239 Input, 2 PL-259 lead Outputs.

$70? (my cost)
New In Bag (they dont do boxes much anymore).
When I pulled it out of the Amazon bag, I noticed I screwed up.

I need one to split VHF and UHF, was looking more at the Delivery Tomorrow instead of what freq's it splits. *smacks forehead*
The CORRECT ONE (verified THREE TIMES)? is being delivered tomorrow

If anyone needs this one, CALL my cell phone, 512-563-9437, else Ill be doing an Amazon return tomorrow (Monday 17 June)
First one to call with cash (I can do credit card with Square too) gets it.

I can meet part way during the week after 5pm (that nasty word called a job...) or you can come on out to lovely west Cedar Park :-)
I work from home, so Im here all day every day...

73 and GL w/ FD !
Jim
K5KTF

Hello Foxhunt Enthusiast There's a hidden fox in the area. Let's get out those yagis, loops, attenuators and all your other favorite signal tracking, direction finding gear and get it dusted off, get outside and exercise those signal tracking skills. Fox hunting is a lot of fun so let's get out there and have some fun.

Start Date: Thu Jun 13th, 2024 @ 9:47 pm

End Date: Tue Jun 18th, 2024 ~ 12:00 am

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Location Hint: Correction. Got turned around. The fox is hidden in East Central Leander

Picture is optional, no need to submit a picture of the fox. When you find the fox, locate the colored tag hanging with it, submit the tag color, your name and any comments you may have More details of the foxhunt can be found here Happy hunting and keep safe. John, KE5RS _._ . ..... ._. ...

Hi, Hambuds!

?? ARRL Field Day is coming soon! It's June 22-23. ? Hope everyone is getting ready.? Here are a few items with updated information.

?? Marc, WA6HBR, will not be able to attend due to family matters.? We will miss him, but family always comes first!? Marc would have been providing a generator for our power.? So, we will be using grid power for our radios and laptops.? Those bringing stations, please bring an electric extension cord and DC power supply as well as the rest of your gear.? If anyone who is operating has a generator, please bring it so we can be operating on emergency power.? Before anyone else speaks up, I am uncomfortable with someone providing a generator and not being on site to operate it. Especially for liability issues.

?? Those who are operating, please bring a laptop for logging, with an up-to-date version of N3FJP's ARRL Field Day Context Log (ver. 6.6.8 is latest). Mike will be bring his laptop for logging along with networking equipment so all our contacts will be logged into the main database.? Thanks, Mike!

?? When I sent out an initial announcement of who is interested in operating, one person responded about activating the Get-On-The-Air station.? I have not heard anything since.? Would that person reply stating whether he will be operating the GOTA station or not, please?

?? To all those attending, please bring your own water (chilled) and other drinks, and snacks for your family.? Please, everyone stay hydrated!

?? Tommy has volunteered to be our Safety Officer.? Thanks, Tommy!

?? We will be using Mike's call sign for the club's activities: AF5M.? Thanks, Mike!? We are in the South Texas section, so our exchange will be: "?A STX", or spoken: "? Alpha South Texas (Sierra Tango Xray)".? Those operating can go ahead and put this exchange into N3FJP's program.

?? Personally, I am planning on putting up my antenna Saturday morning after breakfast, say starting around 10:00 or so.? The "contest" starts at 1:00 pm CDT and runs until 1:00pm CDT Sunday.? Even if you are not operating, please come out and help us set up Saturday morning and take down Sunday afternoon.

?? If you are planning on staying at the park overnight, please let me know immediately so I can inform the park personnel.? So far, no one has committed to being at the park overnight (at least that I know of).

Anything else I need to mention?

Thanks, and 73,
Tim L.
N5TML

Hello Foxhunt Enthusiast There's a hidden fox in the area. Let's get out those yagis, loops, attenuators and all your other favorite signal tracking, direction finding gear and get it dusted off, get outside and exercise those signal tracking skills. Fox hunting is a lot of fun so let's get out there and have some fun.

Start Date: Thu Jun 13th, 2024 @ 7:23 pm

End Date: Mon Jun 17th, 2024 ~ 9:00 pm

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Location Hint: The fox is hidden in West Central Leander

Picture is optional, no need to submit a picture of the fox. When you find the fox, locate the colored tag hanging with it, submit the tag color, your name and any comments you may have More details of the foxhunt can be found here Happy hunting and keep safe. John, KE5RS _._ . ..... ._. ...

THE WOUFF-HONG
The Meaning of the Wouff-Hong

"The Wouff-Hong is amateur radio's most sacred symbol and stands for the enforcement of law and order in amateur operation."

The Radio Amateur's Handbook, 1930, page 1

My Wouff-Hong -KG2IC
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I checked my backpack once again; just to be sure it was still there. It was, and its finish though now dull, still bespoke of a proud past. Of my radio purchases over the past 5 years, this simple item, purchased for less than one would spend on a lunch, had eclipsed them all. Let me explain.

On August 14, 1999 Bill K2LNU and I attended the moving sale of our friend, Fred Hammond VE3HC in Guelph, Ontario. I had first met Fred 4 years ago, when I was still quite new to the hobby. Fred, licensed since 1929, had established and maintained the outstanding Hammond Museum of Radio in his hometown of Guelph.? Bill and I, along with many others, had become frequent visitors to his museum.? His warm "V.. E.. 3.. H-Henry..C-Charlie" had greeted me several times on 75 meter AM as a return to my call of "CQ". However, in 1998 Fred sadly suffered a stroke, and although recovering, has been absent from the air.

At the sale, much of the gear was quickly snapped up, but a garage full of cardboard boxes containing radio parts was left largely untouched. You know the type of the boxes I am speaking about, the kind found under the tables at many a hamfest, covered with alternate layers of dust and grime, so often overlooked by those in quest of more "glamorous" finds. I have always found such boxes truly the proverbial diamonds in the rough, time capsules of radios rich legacy.?? Needless to say, I was soon busy rooting around in the parts boxes in the garage, boxes that had caught the attention of only a few other amateurs.?

I saw a nearby ham pickup, examine curiously and then return to the box an odd shaped metal object. The size and shape certainly looked familiar, but I discounted it, as I would never expect to find such in a box of radio parts.? Still, my own curiosity now peaked, I walked over, bent down, and picked up the item for myself. Yes, I thought, as I carefully turned it over in my hands, it really is. Although the once shiny finish was now discolored with age, and caked with decades of dust, there was no mistaking the classic form; it was a "Wouff-Hong".?

Beginning in 1917, stories by an anonymous writer using the pseudonym "The Old Man", or "T.O.M." began to appear in the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL) monthly publication QST. Titled the "Rotten Radio" series, they harshly assailed and exposed the poor operating practices of the day with caustic satire and humor. It was in one of these stories, entitled "Rotten QRM", that T.O.M. blasted the gibberish he'd overheard in one particular QSO, citing as an example the words "wouff hong", which apparently was either a concocted abbreviation, or someone's poor attempt at sending.

At the time of the articles T.O.M. did not know what a Wouff-Hong was, but he later adopted it as a disciplinary object with which to both flail bad operating practices and inflict punishment on the perpetrators. It is said that in the following era he had, tongue in cheek, proposed its use as an instrument of torture and discipline, to maintain decency and order in the ham radio community.?

It was early in the year 1919 that T.O.M. contributed an article to QST called "Rotten Starting", criticizing the slow progress of the United States government to allow hams to operate again after World War I. It finished with "I am sending you a specimen of a real live Wouff-Hong which came to light when we started to get our junk out of cold storage. Keep it in the editorial sanctum where you can lay your hands on it quickly in an emergency. We will soon be allowed to transmit, and then you will need it." Accompanying this article was a misshapen, wooden, wire-bound two-pronged tuning fork-like object. Yes, the Wouff-Hong.

It was in the July 1919 issue of QST that the portrait of the Wouff-Hong first appeared. At each meeting of the Leagues Board, the Wouff-Hong stood on display, to the humbled looks of the Directors."

Hiram Percy Maxim 1917

Only after his death, was it was revealed to all that T.O.M. had actually been Hiram Percy Maxim, the founder and first President of the ARRL. It is said that he took the secret of the origin of the first Wouff-Hong to his grave.

And here, in my hands, was a Wouff-Hong, long considered amateur radios most sacred symbol of law and order. Cast into its base were the words "ARRL National Convention Chicago, IL Sept 3 4 5 1938". I was holding an artifact from the Golden Age of Radio, made some 61 years ago. I found myself thinking back, wondering about the person that had brought this back from the Convention, now some six decades into the past.

What were the concerns and thoughts of this fellow radio amateur a few short years after the Great Depression? Would he even recognize the hobby today, and what would he think about radio signals now being passed through satellites, computers, and even the Internet? Had radio fulfilled its once bright promise?
Would he find today's amateur holding to the high principles of the past? I had to wonder if he would be pleased by what he found, or somehow sadly disappointed? Indeed, how would T.O.M himself see things? Would his famous "Rotten Radio" articles still be written, and if so, who or what would be the targets? Had we won the technology battle, only to lose the war for the spirit of the hobby?

Startled back to reality by the crash of a carelessly dropped metal panel upon the garage floor, I again considered my find. Possibly this "Wouff-Hong" was some sort of souvenir, or perhaps an award handed out at the Convention, I still have to research the exact origin. Delighted, I paid the requested $5 for the item, and carefully placed it with in my backpack for safe keeping until the sale was over. $5 was indeed a cheap price for a journey back into radios past, affording me the opportunity to examine my own beliefs and hopes for the hobby.

Did this "Wouff-Hong" at one time belong to Fred VE3HC, or was it simply a museum piece carelessly discarded into one of the boxes, discarded and forgotten by a generation that often pays little tribute to past? That question has yet to be answered, but to me, the origin of the piece is not as important as the meaning attached to it, the rich, proud legacy of a magical hobby and the remembrance of a friend.

Bruce?W1UJR (ex?KG2IC)

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MEMBER BULLETIN ? June 6, 2024 ? Dear ARRL member, ? We are writing to inform you of a serious incident that has impacted ARRL’s operations. On or around May 12, 2024, ARRL was the victim of a sophisticated network attack by a malicious international cyber group. We immediately involved the FBI and engaged with third party experts to investigate. ? On May 16, on the eve of the ARRL National Convention in Ohio, we posted a notice on our website to inform members about the incident. Since then, we have made substantial progress to mitigate the impact of this attack on our organization. We have been posting regular updates, including the status of restored services. Please refer to our dedicated news post at . ? We are aware that certain members believe we should be openly communicating everything associated with this incident. We are working with industry experts, including cyber crime attorneys and the authorities, who have directed us to be conservative and cautious with our communications while restoring the ARRL network. ? Many of our services and programs have been impacted by this attack. We have been diligently assessing each system to ascertain the extent of compromise. For example, while the Logbook of The World? server and related user data were unaffected, we have taken the precautionary measure of keeping the service offline until we can ensure the security and integrity of our networks. Similarly, access to Online DXCC is unavailable, although individual award data remains secure. ? Fortunately, some of our key systems, such as the ARRL website and our association membership system, were unaffected. Despite the severity of the attack, no personal information was compromised. Additionally, ARRL does not store credit card information anywhere on our systems, and we do not collect social security numbers. ? Our Directors have heard from some members who are concerned about managing their membership renewals. Members can renew online at or by phoning ARRL. ? We understand the frustration and inconvenience this incident has caused, and we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding as our dedicated staff and partners continue to work tirelessly to restore affected systems and services. ? Thank you for your ongoing support. ? ?

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Yes, 8am at Los Reyes at Lake Creek and US HWY 183.

Lester...
WD4IFU

Hello all. I’ve been out of the loop for a few months. Long story. Do yall still meet Saturday mornings for breakfast?

thanks !!

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Hi Guys,

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Hi everyone,

I will not be able to participate for this Field Day.?? My wife is still not doing well.

Have a blast and I hope someone works some CW on FD!

73,

Marc

WA6HBR

Greetings, Hambuds!

?? Hope everyone is doing well, and getting beneficial rain.?

?? At breakfast last week, someone raised a question about antennas at Field Day.? So, if you are planning on bringing and operating a station, please reply to this thread and tell us on what band(s) your antenna(s) will work.? Also, please state which modes you are planning on operating.? Thanks!

Have a good week.
73,
Tim L.
N5TML

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Yes, that really is my last name.

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Hi there,

We will be there for support; part-time, food, drinks, logging, etc.

Greg - WB5GM and Kathy - KG5GK

Hello Foxhunt Enthusiast Foxhunt May 24th, 2024 has ended Congratulations and thank you to to those who got out and hunted, found the fox or just got close.

End Date: Tue May 28th, 2024 @ 4:30 pm

Foxhunt results can be found Again, congratulations.? Hope you all had fun. John, KE5RS _._ . ..... ._. ...

Hello Foxhunt Enthusiast There's a hidden fox in the area. Let's get out those yagis, loops, attenuators and all your other favorite signal tracking, direction finding gear and get it dusted off, get outside and exercise those signal tracking skills. Fox hunting is a lot of fun so let's get out there and have some fun.

Start Date: Fri May 24th, 2024 @ 2:05 pm

End Date: Tue May 28th, 2024 ~ 4:00 pm

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Location Hint: Special tag situation this time. The fox is located somewhere in the area of East Central Leander but not actually in the city limits.

Picture is optional, no need to submit a picture of the fox. When you find the fox, locate the colored tag hanging with it, submit the tag color, your name and any comments you may have More details of the foxhunt can be found here Happy hunting and keep safe. John, KE5RS _._ . ..... ._. ...

It's amazing what telescoping rabbit ears can do!