Freq AMatuer Radio Team
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Freq Amatuer Radio Team
FART is an amatuer radio club based in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.
We are planning to put a repeater within the next six monthes, we are awaitng
cordination and the arrival of the final peices of equipment. Membership
is free, but donations to club purchases and club events are strongly
recomended.
To join just send an email to Freq_a_r_t@hotmail.com with your email
address so we can send you a membership aplication.
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History of the FART
The Freq Amatuer Radio Team was first
concieved in 1998 as teh R.C.A.R.C. A small, relatively inactive club that
used a simplex frequency of 147.200 with a 233.6 Hz tone to communicate between
nenebers.
All of these amatuers (namely KB9TVZ,
KC9UMR, and KB9TAM) were members of WAFAR, and
participated with them and teh CSRA for feild day activities. In the year
2000 the club had an oppertunity to recieve two repeaters based on Motorola
MICOR FM radios. At this point a more official organization needed to
established. At this point a new acronym had to be established, F.A.R.T.
was chosen partially as a joke, because of the members flagulance problems, and
because of the "frequiness" of the group.
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Freq AMatuer Radio Team
Pictures from feild day
1999
KC9UMR and KB9TVZ constuct a 10 meter
yagi from some aluminum, wood, conduit, and an asortment of nuts and
bolts. They antenna worked well, 100 contacts, even though it radiated 45
degrees off center.
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The antenna and the the feild day 1999
shack up and running
The citronella candles really healped
with the bugs and added to the coolness of the tent. We couldnt find any
pink flamingo's though. the fan helped remove the humidity after the
downpoor, it always rain on feild day in Chicago.
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the 10 meter feild day set-up. An Yaesu ft-840 connected to the
home built Yagi. We made 100 contacts with this set-up.
The three members of fart at Feail day 1999: from left to right, Kan
KC9UMR, Rob, and Lou KB9TVZ. Ken is working on 10 meters with the
FT-840while Rob logs for him. Lou works 2 meters from an IC-2800H.
This is the station on Sunday, after a long night in the tent we decide
to move the station outside for some fresh air. This also let us begin
clean-up a little sooner. Last year was a blast and the we cant wait
for Feild Day 2000. With more time to prepare this should be an even
better one. The pictures will be posted as soon as
possible.
