Radio Happenings July 1, 2026

  Green Bay Mike & Key Club 

JULY 1, 2026

“CQ CQ CQ Field Day” .. that is still echoing in my ears. And it takes days to remember my own call sign instead of the Club call when on the air. The entry form to the ARRL has been put together and sent in with just one more bonus item to get documented.

The event started well with breakfast at the Village Grill on Hoffman Road. Then out to Osprey Point for setting up.. Thanks to the group that came to help, it went well and all was ready in good time. We had two OCF dipoles, a Hustler vertical, a Wolf River style vertical and an experimental dipole with a vertical leg.

The stations operated on 40, 20 and 15 meters. The site was ready for operating 4 A but we only had three stations operating at one time.

It was a big year for CW with Chuck K0VSH racking up 171 contacts on Saturday.  There were 119 voice contacts even with everything shut down from 10:30 Sat to 7AM Sunday. The past couple of years we do not have the overnighters like before.

We had the traditional Pot Luck dinner with lots of food and camaraderie. It was good to see families as well. 

After breaking camp, we went to end the event with lunch at the Graystone. %%

Looking ahead

(Mark your calendars Now)

July 8^th .. Siren Test Net (if no storms)

July 9^th 6:30 Tech talk/build an antenna

July 9^th 7pm Club Meeting St Norbert

July 11^th Kewaunee lighthouse 10-4 (time - not the CB OK)

July 11^th Brat Barn DePere??

July 13^th Club Net on .360 repeater 7:15

July 15^th. Hamfest review 6PM St. N…

July 18^th FOX HUNT 5:30 147.555 smplx

July 18^th Kewuanee Lighthouse 10-4

July 21^st CQ Tuesday Bay Family Rest. 11:30

Aug. 15^th Club Picnic.. 

Something new.. The membership said they were interested in a Club discussion net.. talking about equipment, events, and general Ham related items.. this will be a directed net with a net control.. This will begin with a 4 week trial.  On Mondays at 7:15 starting on the 13^th.. on the new 147.360 repeater..                                                                                                                  

  The Tech Talk for the July meeting will be building an antenna. You just need to bring the wire. The SO 239 and end insulators will be furnished. Be sure to have enough wire in case it has to be shortened or be longer than your original design…  Members will have the testing equipment for verification which may have to be done outside of the building.   

Don’t forget that in the August Tech Talk meeting, there will be a “Show and Tell”. Please bring a project of yours whether it is a “home brew” or a “Kit”. These are the two categories  that will be voted on to see which has the most interest to the members present.

% There will be one more Brat Barn Fund Raiser  this month.. if you can help, it will be appreciated.. 

%  Interesting articles in the “REFLECTOR”

magazine@eastcoastreflector.com

 %As we have more  radio events, we find that we have not had a QSL card update. There were a number of messages sent to the Club as Bonus Points and we need  to respond confirming those. The latest one still has  the Red Cross address. Got a design idea?

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2026 Hamfest was another success with a great addition
to the club’s treasury, as well as record attendance.What more could we ask? Well, that’s what we’re goingto do.

Please join us for a post review of Hamfest number five.
July 15 th at the St. Norbert Tower room 6:00PM (1800) to
8:00PM (2000).Looking for comments, suggestions and improvements.
Can we make it better? How? What’s on your mind?    Hope to see you there. 

Hamfest Co-chairs

Todd Clausen W9GRB  David Ziesmer KD9HJJ   

Hamfest Follow UP

 Members

  2026 Hamfest was another success with a great addition
to the club’s treasury, as well as record attendance.

What more could we ask? Well, that’s what we’re going
to do.

Please join us for a post review of Hamfest number five.
July 15 th at the St. Norbert Tower room 6:00PM (1800) to
8:00PM (2000).

Looking for comments, suggestions and improvements.
Can we make it better? How? What’s on your mind?

Hope to see you there.
Hamfest Co-chairs
Todd Clausen W9GRB
Dave Ziesmer KD9HJJ

A Hamfest Report for the event on May 30th 2026

 

 

   Greetings,

If you were at the Hamfest on Saturday you know it was a great time!

Our guests came early and most stayed much longer than usual so they

could be eligible for the Grand Prize and 50/50 drawings. The perfect

weather was a key factor in the packed tail gate area and the food was

another big part of our overall success. Our attendee count was the

highest ever at 295! (Last year the number was 265.) The club profit

totaled $2,425!

This outstanding event came as a result of a lot of dedication and hard

work put in by many volunteers. Parking, ticket sales, dessert baking,

food sales, ticket printing, set-up, clean-up, PA system, club sales,

50/50 ticket sales, front table operations, prize solicitation, testing,

facility rental, publicity, and members who donated equipment for sale

at the club table. Other important factors are the annual Hamfest

button, controlling cash, table sales, and door prize management.

If that sounded like a long list…it’s because it takes all of these

components to make our Hamfest an enjoyable experience for our

guests and a profitable one for our club. A BIG thank you to everybody

who worked to make this Hamfest so special. Particular thanks to the

two club members who volunteered to manage all of this …Todd,

W9GRB and Dave, KD9HJJ.

Another super job! We’ll talk about it the club meeting on June 11.

Hope to see you there.

73,

Bill

Editor's Note.: Fox Hunt will be on June 21st.   5:30.. 147.555

A Message From the Radio Club President .. 5/12/26

 Dear Members,

Our meeting is this Thursday at 7:00 with the Tech Talk at 6:30. If you haven’t been at a meeting for a while, this will be a good one to attend.  We’ll be talking about important upcoming activities like the Hamfest on May 30 and Field Day June 27/28 and learning how we can all participate and fully enjoy these key events.

Speaking of key events, we had our first Brat Barn on May 3 and it was a BIG success, earning over $1,300 for the club.  Sincere thanks to Keith, KS9WI and the many other volunteers who spent part of their Sunday working the “barn”. 

A major project that directly benefited from our fund raising was the recent installation of the 147.360 repeater in Champion.  After several months of work, the repeater went live on May 6.  Please give the repeater a try. It’s both an analog FM as well as a Yaesu System Fusion machine and has so far proven to cover Kewaunee, Appleton, and throughout Green Bay. (Please check out the latest issue of Radio Happenings to learn how to set your radio so you won’t hear the Fusion noise bursts on your analog receiver.) As with all our achievements, this was a team effort and the club is most grateful to Sam, KN9SAM; Todd, W9GRB; Paul, K9ARF; Nick, KB9UAE; Paul, KB0P; Tim, N4GBP; Sam, W9SJR; and, John, W0LFE.  (I’m proud to say that I was also part of this team!)

If you made it to the Multi Club Picnic on Saturday, I’m sure you enjoyed the food, the door prizes, and the very informative presentation by Bob Ronk, W9AP on his recent Bouvet Island DXpedition.  Bob will be at the Hamfest so please stop at his table and say hello.  The picnic was another great event organized by Connie, KE9ALV!

I hope you can make it Thursday evening.  Be there at 6:30 to enjoy Walt’s, KE9TT Tech Talk on the “Grey Line”.

See you at the meeting.

73,

Bill, KB3KYH