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27th Annual Tour de Forts Classic – Events – North Florida Bicycle Club – 04/29/2018

Event Information From NFBC

When: Sunday, April 29, 2018
Where:
St. Augustine High School
3205 Varella Avenue
St. Augustine, FL 32084

We have a request to have 6 volunteers to ride in a vehicle. You will need a portable mobile radio and external antenna. If you are interested and don’t have a radio we can provide one if needed.
We only have 2 rest stops and they are already filled.

Please contact me at k4mkh ‘at’ arrl.net if you have any question not addressed on the form.

Please register using the form.
Link To Registration Form

DV4MINI Hotspot

This is a really neat device that runs on Windows and Linux.  The DV4MINI is a USB stick containing 70 cm data transceiver. Works with D-Star, DMR, Fusion, APCO25, DPMR and other digital modes which are based on GMSK, 2FSK or 4FSK.

http://wirelesshold.com/

This ham has a great blog and has tons of fun projects you can do with this dongle.

DV4mini ham radio digital hotspot C4FM, DMR and D-Star

2015 ARRL Field Day Results

The 2015 Field Day was a success. The event went very smooth and everyone had a great time. We had visitors from press and local government officials. There was a also a nice competition between the CW and Phone operators this year. The Phone operators had 11 more contacts.

Here are stats for the current year
1. 254 additional contacts
2. There was 637 CW contacts and 648 Phone contacts
3. There was 15% improvement in the overall score from 2014 for 4,794 points

 

YEAR SCORE CONTACTS PARTICIPANTS CATEGORY
2014 4,168 1,020 46 4A
2015 4,794 1,274 57 4A

 

NFBC: 24th Annual Tour De Forts – 04/26/2015

NFBC: 24th Annual Tour de Forts Classic

When: Sunday, Apr 26, 2015
Time: 7AM – 4PM

Where:
Bartram Trail High School
7399 Longleaf Pine Parkway
St. Johns, FL  32259

It is time for the Tour De Forts again.  We are looking for volunteers to support this event.  We are requested to have volunteers ride in the SAG vehicles and cover rest stops.

If you are interested please let Michael Hendershot know via email mike.k4mikh ‘at’ gmail.com or use the online form.

Follow this link to Tour De Forts Registration Page