Eastern Washington Amateur Radio Group

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Jay WS7I will be giving an ARES/RACES presentation at   the July meeting.

WS7I will be checking cards along with several other's at the August NW DX Convention being held in Spokane.

EWARG is the sponsor of the ARRL RTTY Roundup Plaque for W/VE Single Operator High Power.  This is the W7RM Plaque named in honor of Rush Drake who along with EWARG members K7IRA (WA7EGA) and WS7I were the creators of the Roundup Contest.  EWARG members WS7I, WA7EGA now K7IRA, WB7AVD now W7RY would have won this plaque.

EWARG members have won seven (7) overall first place finishes SOHP, SOLP, MSLP, MSHP awards over the last 20 years in the RTTY Roundup.

Recently EWARG's Contest Territory has been spotted on the map.  Our mapping expert expects to have the map up on the site before too much longer.  According to the ARRL rules this is a 175 mile circle.  It will include nearly all of Eastern Washington as well as into the Portland and Vancouver area.  You can see our circle at: EWARG 175 Mile Contest Circle   EWARG's contest area.   We will also have a 35 mile circle up soon.

EWARG members has requested that we become a lot more active in contesting and we will be urging all members to submit scores to the club designator.  EWARG. 

Link to Eddie's G0AZT "How to work a RTTY Pileup http://www.ewarg.org/g0azt.htm

K7PKT the EWARG ARES/RACES coordinator has the K7PKT cluster up and running on 144.93.This will be primarily for support of ARES/RACES in Eastern Washington.  Todd is also running a RMS Packet Station K7PKT-10.

Also K7TJ is active as an Internet only Cluster running DXSpider.  It is linked to K3LR in Ohio.  Internet only access.

Link to Guidelines for WS7I checking http://www.ewarg.org/dxcc.htm

EWARG takes over hosting of RJCDROMS for K7WM.   Link to RJCDROMs http://www.ewarg.org/rjcdroms/index.htm

If you're not sure if you are an EWARG member just drop a note to WS7I and I will check the membership rolls.

We are also expecting to perhaps again start hosting meetings if the membership desires.  I will have more about that up on the website soon.