All Ham Radio operators are invited to the Ham Radio Dinner on November 21,2011 at 6pm at the Coney Island Bar & Restaurant in Sparks. Have your choice of several entries including wine. Click here for additional information and to RSVP to the event. The dinner is 20.00 per person.

As of Sept 18th Pat reports the GSR repeater is now fully functioning. The 420 hub repeater had a blown fuse in the RC-85 repeater controller. "Don't know what caused it, but a new fuse solved the problem" Pat said.

As a result of the 420 hub repeater being back on the air you will again hear Amateur Radio Newsline, ARRL Audio news and use the IRLP node.

This month's WADG meeting will be a combined general membership and board of director meeting. The meeting will be held at Round Table Pizza in Reno Town Mall across from the Atlantis Casino, September 27th at 6pm. We will be in the back room. We will have lots to talk about. Hope to see you there.

Talk in frequency is 147.300 if you have any issues finding the meeting location.

Pat, W7DED reports he has replaced the 147.030 with a new Telewave ANT150F6-2, 6 dB gain omni directional antenna. This replaces the Telewave folded dipole that only had about 2 dB of gain and was somewhat directional (offset pattern) that was oriented East.  We lost our coverage to Winnemucca, Susanville, and the Black Rock Desert as a result.

The new antenna was one that the club had in it's inventory but was broken. "I managed to repair it so it could be put back in service.  It's rated to 150 mph, so I hope it will survive the hostile environment at Virginia Peak" Pat said. Coverage should be greatly improved with this new antenna. Thanks Pat!