Happy Spring!

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It is with a very heavy heart that we announce that at approximately one o'clock this afternoon (February 24th), our much-loved lifelong club member and all-around Good Guy, KC9RP, Hap Holly become a silent key. He died from complications with pneumonia. Please keep his wife Stephanie KA9WKD in your thoughts and prayers.

The memorial for Hap KC9RP will be on May 3rd. Visitation will begin at 10:00 am, and service will follow at 12:00 pm. It will be at:

G.L. Hills Funeral Home

745 Graceland Avenue

Des Plaines, IL 60016

(847) 699-9003

https://www.glhillsfuneralhome.com/

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We are asking for anyone with club pictures featuring Hap to contact Laura Plecki KD9EID at the club email, membership@wm9w.org. We are hoping to post a nice online memorial on the club website, and to collect physical photos to help Stephanie by creating a club picture board for Hap’s memorial.

Calling all Future Net Controllers…

Calling all future net controllers! Hey you! Have you ever wanted to be a net controller? Of course you have. It is an awesome time, loads of fun and easy to do. You can even do it late at night. All you need to do is get a hold of our Net Director, Steve at kb9dsq@yahoo.com. After that, all you need to do is follow the script (and Part 97) and have some fun with a great group of people.

Wanna help? Step up and control a net. Just click below and you will be taken to the appropriate script. (There are currently no scripts for the 220 at 2:20 Net, and on the first Sunday of the month at 2:20 pm, the Elmer’s Net.)

Script for the Nightcrawlers Net

Script for the Preservation Net

Script for the Nameless Net

The 220 MHz Guys Amateur Radio Club, now in its' twelfth year, offers:

• Saturday Morning Breakfast (the first Saturday of the month)

• Summer and Winter Field Days

• Our Nets:

  • Every night - The Nightcrawlers Net (at Midnight) — the Monday nets (only) start at 11:00 pm instead of midnight (in an effort to get our early Nightcrawlers)

  • Every Tuesday and Wednesday night - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm - The 1960s Pop-Rock Music and TV Shows Net (out of Prescott, Arizona) (we hook in through EchoLink to their W7EI-L station (Mingus Mt., AZ))

  • Join The Insomnia Net (linking with us from Grand Rapids, MI) every Wednesday morning at 2:00 am Central.

  • Every Thursday night - The Nameless Net (at 9:30 PM) (currently on hiatus)

  • Saturday - The Original Preservation Net (at 9:00 PM) - It’s where The 220 MHz Good Guys began!

  • Sunday - The 220 at 2:20 Net (at 2:20 PM)

  • the first Sunday of the month @ 2:20 pm - The Elmer’s Net

• VE Testing

  • 1st Saturday of the month, join our VE team in action at P.J. Klems in Lyons, IL (9 am - 12pm)