Bloomington High School South
Amateur Radio Club

K9SOU

Celebrating 4 straight state championships!


Activities

Spring Semester School Club Roundup 2008 is February 11 - 15
Listen for us between 14.250 and 14.280 - probably near 14.258
or 7.225 and 7.255, or PSK 31 (14.070), or 146.58 simplex

Anticipated Operating Hours:
Monday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm eastern
Tuesday and Wednesday 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm eastern
Thursday: 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm eastern
Friday 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm eastern

Click here for more pictures from February 2008 SCR!
Click here for our daily log (shows who we have contacted, score, etc.)
Click here for the complete report

Check Yahoo ID neilrapp on Yahoo! messenger for our current HF operating frequency

Some of the Fall 2007 School Club Roundup Team!

Cassie, Jenny, Kaitlin, Jason, Emily, Michael
Logan, Shannon, Sammy, and Jared
(Joseph, Sara, Sarah, Amy, Josh, Brady, and Quentin are not pictured)

SCHOOL CLUB ROUNDUP HISTORY

Winter 2007 Indiana K-12 State Champs
4th Nationally (High School Division)

Fall 2006 Indiana K-12 State Champs
3rd Nationally (High School Division)
*first additional fall SCR

2006 Indiana K-12 State Champs
4th Nationally (High School Division)

2005 Indiana K-12 State Champs
8th Nationally (High School Division)

Meetings for the rest of school year 2007-08 will be on Thursdays from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in A317. Contact Mr. Rapp for more information! Everyone is welcome!

The K9SOU/W9EAR Repeater is on the air on 442.925 +, and transmitting on 224.64. Give it a listen. Bloomington ARC has graciously donated the funds to purchase the repeater antenna for the top of the school. We will add a receiver for 224.64 - and a HF/VHF/UHF remote base to the repeater this year.

K9SOU in the news...

Here are some helpful links for getting a ham radio license:

The complete list of Technician class questions is at: http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/pools.html

Online practice exams that offer explanations of the answers are available at http://www.hamtestonline.com (subscription required)

To take a free practice exam (without explanations), go to: http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/ or http://www.qrz.com/p/testing.pl

The study guide books should be available at Radio Shack, Stansifer Radio, or http://www.w5yi.org/Technic.htm. You can get all the tapes and software, but the book itself is really all you need.

The local ham radio club's web site is http://www.bloomingtonradio.org Their club meetings are on the first Friday of the month at 7 pm in the auditorium at the hospital. They sponsor license exams, normally on the first Saturday of the month. Check their web site for details.

When you take a license exam, you shoud take with you: pencils, calculator, 2 forms of ID (one with a photo... a school ID is fine), $14 test fee (as of 1/1/05). Also take copies and originals of your license and CSCE's if you have any. You will also need to know your social security number (or FCC FRN). You should submit the copies, but keep the originals. Bring along the originals to verify the copies.

Places to contact other young hams around the world

Indianapolis Radio Club has a kids net and youth web page at: http://www.indyradioclub.org/ircyhams.htm

ARRL database of youth nets/scheduled contacts (skeds)

Some of the major youth/school nets:

  • Check into the EchoLink Link Connecticut Amateur Radio League of Youth (CARLY) Net--Sundays, 7:30 PM Eastern, on the K3KID link.

  • Visit the North American Youth Net (NAYN) on Mondays and Fridays at 2300 to 2330 UTC on 14. 329 MHz.

  • Check into the Onondaga County Youth Radio Amateur Net on the 145.350 MHz WW2N EchoLink repeater (Node 64224) in Pompey, New York. Stop by and say hello Sundays, 7 PM Eastern Time.

  • Visit the IRLP New Ham Trivia Net, which takes place on a linked 440 repeater system in Southern California and on IRLP Node 3500. Check in with NCS Brandon Umbarger, KG6NMQ, Fridays. 7 PM Pacific Time.

  • Try checking into the IRLP 4 Kids Net, which meets on IRLP Reflector 2, Channel 5, Node 9206, Saturdays at 0100 UTC. http://geocities.com/irlp4kids
  • G4DWP David Mackinder's school group in Lincoln, England meets Wednesdays at 1900z on EchoLink node 268511 (GB3LS repeater)

Useful Reference Links

Area radio dealers: The Ham Station, R and L Electronics, Amateur Electronic Supply

National Amateur Radio Organization: ARRL

Ham Radio Scholarships/Awards: Dayton Hamvention, Foundation for Amateur Radio, Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award, ARRL

Ham Radio in Space: SAREX, ARISS, AMSAT

Ham Radio News: Newsline, ARRL Letter

Callsign Locator: QRZ, FCC (updated sooner)

Central Indiana SKYWARN (Weather spotters)

EchoLink (internet repeater linking)

APRS locator - www.findu.com or Form-based version

EARS (Mr. Rapp's repeater group) - W9EAR.org

Bloomington Repeaters (for more information, click here)

Frequency
Offset
Tone (if needed)
Sponsor
146.640 - 136.5 Monroe Co. Repeater Assn.
443.775 + 136.5 W9WIN
146.940 - 136.5 IU ARC
147.180 +   WB9HZX
442.925 + 107.2 EARS / Bloomington HS South

Here is a spreadsheet of Bloomington, IN commercial frequencies that I'm working on.
Here is a spreadsheet showing my mobile radio's memory channels (shows a lot of repeaters outside of Bloomington)

Thanks!!!

A big thank you to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and all those who have donated to the "Big Project" (ARRL Amateur Radio Education and Technology Program) which made our club station possible.

Our "Big Project" station includes:

Additional Donations:

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