There will be a standard APC hike starting at 9am on Saturday Jan 14th. We have There will be folks camping and doing a nonstandard hike the night before.

Event/Date/Time:
Optional Camping / Friday Jan 13th / 4-5pm arrival
Optional Night hike / Friday Jan 13th / TBD
Main Hike / Saturday Jan 14th / 9am
Range Time / Saturday Jan 14th / After the hike

Location:
Lead Mine Conservation Area Main Campground.
https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/places/lead-mine-conservation-area

Reserve These Dates for Events TBD:
Feb 25th
March 18th

HTF Thread with further details for 1/14 Hike

Bump for those not in the MO htf. We are on track to have 10+ for our Saturday hike. If you can't make this one be sure to reserve the dates for our Feb and March hikes listed above.

Feb 25th Event info posted in Missouri HTF courtesy of Flak-Magnet.

https://www.ar15.com/forums/Hometown/Missouri-Statewide-APC-Hike-Saturday-Feb-25th-HTF-Camp-Friday-Night-Next-Hike-is-March-18th-/32-667076/

People will be camping the night before if interested.

We are going to provide an opportunity for people to get experience with radio equipment if interested. Including a raffle for a free VHF roll up slim jim antenna, and adapter for your radio. To qualify, bring a handheld radio with MURS frequencies already programmed.

I will update the thread in the Ham Radio forum with some HF comms windows for people wanting to try and contact our camp.

https://www.ar15.com/forums/outdoors/Field-Comms-More-Dates-/22-704386/

Times are local time (CST);

Friday 2/24/23 Missouri APC will be at K-6528 for a two day camp/hike/training event.

Cell phone service is very limited. I might put out a POTA spot between 1pm and 4pm depending.

Any participation in helping us get some Arfcom contacts would be great.

Frequ listed as primary / secondary / contingent

4pm; 21.361 / 21.413 / 21.443

5pm; 14.261 / 14.283 / 14.343

6pm; 7.213 / 7.285 / 7.295

8pm; 3.861 / 3.961 / 3.971

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Saturday 2/25/23 8am

The Arfcom Tech Net; lets try to gather in the Tech portion of the 10m band. There are folks with Tech licenses that have not got on HF.

(SSB)

28.445 / 28.435 / 28.425

If there are Techs that want to try a 10m contact on Friday, post it in the above Ham Radio forum thread with your available times.

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Any updates or questions should be posted in the Ham Radio thread so I only have to check one place.

An additional note:

Folks with HF Radios or scanners/SDRs capable of SSB modulation can post signal reports from your locations.

As a general practice, dont post call signs.

You can post the name and location of the signal heard, where you are listening from and the quality of your heard signal.

Anyone wanting to provide signal reports should do so in this thread.

Thanks everyone who got on the air.

We logged a good number of contacts.

March 17th/18th Missouri APC will be at the same location as Jan and Feb. Camp Fri night and hike Sat morning.

Details via Flak-Magnet in HTF: https://www.ar15.com/forums/Hometown/Missouri-APC-Hike-Saturday-March-18th-Camping-Night-Hike-March-17th/32-667633/

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Details from Ham Radio section thread concerning HF radio contacts.

Times are local time (CDT); ( - 5 Zulu)

Friday 3/17/23 Missouri APC will be at K-6528 for a two day camp/hike/training event.

Cell phone service is very limited. I might put out a POTA spot between 1pm and 4pm depending.

Any participation in helping us get some Arfcom contacts would be great.

Frequ listed as primary / secondary / contingent. If all frequ are unusable, I will start at the lowest part of the band and start searching to the top of the band until a clear channel is heard.  

4pm; 21.361 / 21.413 / 21.443

5pm; 14.261 / 14.283 / 14.343

6pm; 7.213 / 7.285 / 7.295

6:30pm: 28.425 /28.435 / 28.445

8pm; 14.261 / 14.283 / 14.343

- If anyone wants to setup a different comms window for anything 10-80m anytime on this day, please add it to The Ham Radio - Field Comms Thread and I/we will make it happen.

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The contest;

- All contacts made with our camp, that identify as Arfcom will get one entry into the drawing for each band a contact is made from.

- If you are portable, using an antenna not permanently erected and battery power, you will get two entries per band activated as portable. Please identify as arfcom portable. This can be in your backyard, etc.

- If your info is not current on QRZ and you make contact, please IM or email me your info so that I can mail your QSL card and the prize if you are drawn.

** The prize; 50' of Belden RG-8x Coax and two Amphenol pl259 connectors with reducers. Individual, or built into a length of your choosing by me. If you have an email on QRZ I will ask, if not they will ship as a kit.