Badger Amateur Radio Society

06/11/2024

Photo supplied by David White (W9TX, formerly WD9FCP) in a 2003 email:

This picture is from the roof of Ogg Hall East tower. The time frame is spring of 1982. We were aligning the beams and cross pinning the mast after a wind storm blew the 2 M beam off target. I am up on the ladder (Dave White WD9FCP). My Motorola HT200 can be seen sticking up out of the toolbox. I can't remember who the person was looking over the edge at the sun deck below. If my memory is correct, Scott Gee WB9RRU was taking the picture.

There were a few hams living in the South East area dorms. Scott and I were the only ones in Ogg Hall. We had the radio club pretty much to ourselves. It was a radio room, work room, study room and just an escape from school. I lived in Ogg during the '81/82 and the '82/83 school years. There was one security guard that was a ham that would stop by and visit every now and then.

At that time, I think we had a Kenwood radio for HF and a Yaesu 2M. Some times I was able to hit the 147.72/12 repeater in Green Bay with the 2 M beam antenna.

We had some trouble with the South East Area Dorms Organization. They didn't want to give us any funding with only a few members. They would not allow non South East Dorm residents to be members.

10/28/2019

Congratulations to BARS member, Alex KD8SXE, on being this year's recipient of the Amateur Radio Education Foundation of Southwest Wisconsin (AREFoSW) scholarship!

03/24/2019

Announcing the AREFoSW scholarship: The Amateur Radio Education Fund of Southwest Wisconsin, LLC (AREFoSW), an amateur radio organization, is offering a scholarship for students who will attend a post-high school institution of learning. This year the total grant will be $1000. http://tinyurl.com/arefosw

03/06/2019

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT0BCTUqDVbH9_Ryf2VtcrYZ3U6hEOXxdnDOJlmftzc21PTg/viewform -- N8RMA's State of the Hobby survey -- third year running. If you have a moment, please check it out and consider completing!

This is the third annual State of the Hobby survey, and I'm as excited as ever to once again embark on this journey. In 2017 I had a 688 responses. In 2018 I moved the question base closer to standard survey semantics and started a blog as the launching point. That year also saw 2919 responses, whic...

02/23/2019

Assembly and installation of the original Force 12 beam on 20' of tower.

02/23/2019

11/18/2018

Shortly before today's November HF SS, we had a group of Girl Scouts join us at W9YT. They just finished a program put on by SWE (Society of Women Engineers) about outer space, and made it to the shack. We were fortunate beyond belief to answer a CQ from W5RRR -- the Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club -- and put a few of the girls on the air.

10/03/2017

BARS meeting next Tuesday (10 October 2017) at 11AM in Engineering Hall Rm 1542

08/30/2017

Congratulations to Skyler, KC9UOT, recipient of the Amateur Radio Education Fund of Southwest Wisconsin $1000 scholarship. Skyler has been key in getting W9YT re-energized and in the good graces of the UW Registered Student Organization office. We're looking forward to some great activities and participation this year.

04/08/2017

04/08/2017

Look what just arrived today!

04/01/2017

After getting set up with LoTW and asking the ARRL to import our DXCC records, we've gone through our logs from the last few years and found a few unworked (!) countries -- bringing us from 310 to 317.