SPOTTER TRAINING (FREE COURSE)
June 23, 2018

Lake County Skywarn is again offering a National Weather Service spotter training class to be held at 3 PM, Saturday, June 23, 2018. The training session lasts about 90 minutes to 2 hours. This is same course taught during the spring by the NWS and accredited teachers.

The class will be held again at the Lake County Government Campus classroom, 1303 N Milwaukee Ave. Libertyville, IL

ARRL Field Day 2018
June 23-24

Last day of May, Today and 23 days until Field Day! How are you planning to participate?

- Saturday 23 June -

-Breakfast at 6:45 AM at the Liberty Restaurant,419 S Milwaukee Ave, Libertyville, IL -self pay

-Setup starts at West Tower 8:00 AM; sign in, military tower setup, including CW wire antenna, EOC class room setup, Digital station setup.

-Official start of Field Day active operations 1:00 PM -
- Voice station in EOC
- CW station in trailer next to West tower
- Digital station in popcorn trailer in Winchester House North parking lot
- Get-On-The-Air(GOTA) station in trailer next to West tower(extra points)
- VHF/UHF station in trailer next to West tower(space available)
- Satellite station near the Digital station (when satellite pass is available)
- 5 contacts from battery charged by solar power(extra points)
- Youth making contacts(extra points)

- Dinner - at West tower about 6;00 PM (need coordinator), operation will continue through the night.

- Sunday 24 June -

- Breakfast - at West tower about 7:00 AM

- continue operating until 1:00 PM

- Restored site and stored equipment about 2:00 PM

Wow, lots of activities, and needs;

- need setup, and restore members
- need CW, Voice, and Digital operators
- need a person to coordinate Dinner

- want to have good weather, and safe weekend
- want members to challenge themselves in learning new things
- want members to invite family and friends to FD site
- want members to take pictures and send the best to me, kc9hhb

For more information contact Les KC9HHB

Lake Zurich Triathlon
Sunday, July 8, 2018

After Field Day, our next event is the Lake Zurich Triathlon. Our group has supported this event for many years and it's always a good time. Support is needed for safety checkpoints, SAG, Start/Finish
and other positions along the course. Please sign up to help.

Event info can be found here.

Sign up to  help here.
 

Amateur License Testing

Members and the public are reminded that our VE Team conducts license testing every second Monday at 7PM at the Lake County EOC in Libertyville. Watch this website for exact dates as some may be offset due to holidays. Walk ins are welcome however pre-registration is available.

More details about our VE program are available here and Pre registration is available here.

Vietnam Vet's Last QSO

 John Nugent WA2EQJ and family

Photo courtesy of Don Whitney K9DRW

On Tuesday December 5, 2017, members Donald Whitney K9DRW, James Nelson K9QF, Harry Hahn WB9R, Scott Campbell and Dave Hartnett K9DRH deployed an HF station on 20 meters to help John Nugent WA2EQJ accomplish one more check off his Bucket List.

John (75 years old) is terminally ill and wanted to make some 20-meter radio contacts one last time. He has been in the Captain James A Lovell Federal Health Care, Community Living Center for more than 3 years.

Our members with the help of the amateur radio community made that happen. The stations John talked to were W6LG (CA), AB9PR (IL), W9QL (IL), K9QF (IL), NY9X (IL) and WL7OU (TX).

See Tribune Article here.

Watch Video here.           Watch W6LG Video here